WASHINGTON-Cable & Wireless Jamaica Ltd. has purchased cellular communications equipment from Nortel Networks Inc. and eight other U.S. exporters as part of a $173 million project. Export-Import Bank of the …
Sprint PCS affiliate UbiquiTel Inc. released updated financial and operating guidance for the fourth quarter of 2003. The company said it expects earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization for …
Nortel Networks Corp. announced last week amended financial reports for full-year 2002 and the first two quarters of 2003, following up on a previously announced plan to restate financial results …
ISTANBUL, Turkey-Turkcell said Turkey’s Telecommunication Authority has fined the mobile operator $64.1 million, claiming Turkcell made inadequate annual frequency usage fee payments. TA has demanded $11.3 million for insufficient payment …
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan-Nortel Networks Ltd. said it will expand Pakistani mobile operator Pak Telecom Mobile Ltd.’s GSM 900 MHz national network under a $56 million contract. Nortel said it is the …
OKLAHOMA CITY-Dobson Communications Corp. has entered an agreement for a private transaction to repurchase approximately $46.1 million of its 12.25-percent senior exchangeable preferred stock for $48.9 million. The company said …
BOCA RATON, Fla.-Airspan Networks Inc. announced last week the completion of its acquisition of Nortel Networks’ fixed wireless access business. The purchase price of $12.9 million was offset against Nortel …
LONDON-Vodafone Group plc said it expanded its partner network agreement with Kuwait mobile operator Mobile Telecommunications Co. to include the Bahraini market. MTC-Vodafone launched services in Bahrain Dec. 28 after …
LAS VEGAS-Hang Gear has released its Universal Phone Thong cell-phone holder. The device consists of an adjustable clear band that wraps around any cell phone and connects to a carabiner …
CALGARY, Alberta-Sanyo Electric Co. Ltd. will use technology from Zi Corp. in its new wireless phones for the Taiwanese PHS market. The phones are expected to reach the market in …
FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J.-Cellebrite said its recently released RealSync/UME 12T, which transfers phonebooks, names and numbers between cellular phones, offers advantages to consumers using new phones as a result of wireless …
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Swedish company Svenska UMTS-nat AB, jointly owned by TeliaSonera and Tele2, has agreed to purchase the fourth third-generation license in Sweden from Orange Sverige. Svenska already owns a UMTS …
CAMARILLO, Calif.-Microwave equipment manufacturer California Amplifier Inc. announced it will acquire hardware and software solutions provider Vytek Corp. “This acquisition will add strong complementary engineering capabilities, a world-class professional services …
BOSTON-American Tower Corp. announced last week its Verestar Inc. subsidiary has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. American Tower had planned to sell the satellite and fiber network communications access …
LONDON-Vodafone Group plc announced it will use search technology from Fast Search & Transfer (FAST), which the companies said will allow users to search across an extensive portfolio of content …
Editor’s Note: Each year, RCR Wireless News chooses the person who has most impacted the wireless industry. Our choice for 2003 is the consumer, the collective 150 million wireless subscribers …
BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Verizon Wireless signed a definitive agreement to acquire 10 megahertz PCS licenses from American Wireless License Group L.L.C. covering 1.1 million potential customers in the Arkansas Basic Trading Areas …
OKLAHOMA CITY-Dobson Communications Corp. said it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the assets of NPI-Omnipoint Wireless L.L.C., which provides GSM service in northern Michigan, for approximately $28 …
NEW YORK-Cingular Wireless L.L.C.’s parent companies SBC Communications Inc. and BellSouth Corp. are reportedly looking at an initial public offering for their wireless division sometime next year to help fund …
LAKE CHARLES, La.-Sprint PCS affiliate US Unwired Inc. reported an agreement to sell up to 97 communications towers to AAT Communications Corp. at an average price of $125,000 per tower. …
