MOSCOW—Belarussian red tape is delaying the launch of the second GSM network by the biggest Russian carrier MTS scheduled for 17 April, and now everything depends on President Alexander Lukashenko. …
MOSCOW—The biggest Russian carrier, Mobile TeleSystems (MTS), placed US$50 million of euro bonds. The MFD-InfoCenter reported that the bonds will mature on 21 December, 2004, and the coupon yield is …
LONDON—Vivendi Universal signed a nonbinding memorandum of understanding with a consortium of financial investors led by Citigroup Investments to dispose of its 49-percent stake in Polish company Elektrim Telekomunikacja. Elektrim …
ATLANTA, United States—BellSouth announced it sold its entire stake, or 234.7 million shares, in Dutch telecommunications provider Royal KPN. The sale will give the company an after-tax gain of US$850 …
JAKARTA, Indonesia—Vodafone New Zealand recently announced the purchase of management rights for 5 megahertz of third-generation (3G) spectrum from TelstraClear. TelstraClear, the new name after a merger between TelstraSaturn, a …
MANILA, The Philippines—Mobile and data network provider Alcatel Phils. projects US$200 million in sales this year amid the expected sluggish local cellular phone industry. Last year, the company’s sales amounted …
NEW DELHI, India—Indian cellular operators suffered a severe blow over the weekend when the Telecom Dispute Settlement Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT) finally dismissed their petition challenging the government’s decision to allow …
MELBOURNE, Australia—The mobile-phone operations of Telstra have largely helped the Australian communications giant post a 2-percent lift in sales across the company in the first half of the financial year. …
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa—Zimbabwe is a country on the threshold of total anarchy and economic collapse. With the recent elections, the world is collectively holding its breath to see if the …
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa—Mobile communication applications provider iTouch, founded in Cape Town, South Africa, and listed on the London Stock Exchange, has announced financial results for the year to December 2001, …
BEIJING—China Unicom’s CDMA network registered 448,000 subscribers at the end of February. Only a paltry 9,000 users signed up in February. The vast majority of CDMA users were transferred from …
HELSINKI, Finland—The Danish government has requested a meeting with SBC Communications to discuss the U.S. telecom company’s immediate future plans for its 42-percent equity in the Danish telecom company TDC. …
NEW DELHI, India—The Thai government on 19 March gave formal approval to the state-owned Telephone Organization of Thailand (TOT) to go ahead with a soft launch of its new GSM …
LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, United States—Alltel said it will buy all of CenturyTel’s wireless properties for US$1.65 billion cash. Alltel said the deal will bring it more than 700,000 new customers …
NEW YORK—Cell phone ownership has gone up 29 percent in the past two years, and currently about 62 percent, or two-thirds, of American adults own cell phones, according to a …
ORLANDO, Florida, United States—Lucent Technologies and Verizon Wireless will begin a Washington, D.C., area trial next month of a data-optimized, cdma2000 network. The network, also known as 1xEV-DO, will provide …
ORLANDO, Fla.—Cingular Wireless announced at CTIA’s Wireless 2002 conference and exhibition its plans to roll out its advanced wireless services in California by the end of the second quarter and …
TORONTO—Wireless carriers and other telecommunications service providers could face a permanent slump, according to the investment firm UBS Warburg. In a recent report, it said the industry’s incredible growth during …
ORLANDO, Florida, United States—The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association (CTIA) wrapped up U.S. mobile industry event CTIA Wireless 2002 on Wednesday with a final keynote address by Mikhail Gorbachev, former …
