JOHANNESBURG, South Africa—Coinciding with its Telecom Africa 2001 event this week in Johannesburg, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) released a report detailing the state of telecommunications in Africa. The report …
STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Ericsson said it won a US$26 million contract to further expand the GSM network operated by Bahrain Telecommunications Company (Batelco), including an upgrade to General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) …
TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo, the leading mobile carrier in Japan, and Nokia, the world’s largest mobile handset vender, announced they will jointly develop a common middleware platform for third-generation (3G) services. Based …
LONDON—British Telecommunications (BT) received final court approval for its demerger of the mmO2 business. The demerger will create two new holding companies—one for the BT Group businesses and one for …
WHEATON, Maryland, United States—Sales in the telecommunications industry will begin to increase in the first quarter of 2002, a new Shosteck Group study optimistically predicted. “However, this does not mean …
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa—The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) signed agreements with Siemens and Alcatel for its centers of excellence. Siemens will address Eastern and Southern Africa’s center of excellence, followed by …
LONDON—Equipment vendor Marconi posted a US$7.4 billion pre-tax loss in its first-half report, attributing the results to a flagging market and the uncertainties created by the 11 September attacks in …
LAS VEGAS, United States—Nokia and Sony announced they are developing an open and common middleware platform with the intent of achieving interoperability between mobile handsets and consumer devices, and between …
OXFORD, United Kingdom—Having largely ignored the cellular industry until now, IBM Europe has announced its intent to become a major player by supplying services and information technology (IT) infrastructure to …
MOSCOW—Two major Russian GSM carriers—MTS and Vimpelcom (BeeLine)—launched their first third-generation (3G) Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) network trial sections this month, and a third carrier is to follow suit …
OXFORD, United Kingdom—Mounting pressure to find a resolution to its e20 billion (US$17.7 billion) debt problem has forced the Dutch telecom company KPN to cut back on everything other than …
NEW YORK—Millicom International Cellular and Tele2 have agreed on a price of US$80 million for Tele2 to purchase MIC’s Russian cellular telephony assets, plus up to an additional US$30 million, …
HELSINKI, Finland—Nokia won a contract from Vodafone Hungary as its sole supplier for a General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) network. The system is expected to be operational in December. Nokia …
WOODBURY, New York, United States—Comverse has been chosen to provide its unified messaging solution to Portugal’s Vodafone, a mobile operator that has 2.6 million cellular customers and holds a 35-percent …
HELSINKI, Finland—Nokia agreed to supply KPN with its Nokia Gateway products for the operator’s wireless local area network (WLAN) networks. “With the Nokia WLAN ADSL Home Gateway we can provide …
NEW DELHI, India—The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has recommended unlimited competition in international long-distance telephony (ILD) and fixed the entry fee at a relatively low 250 million rupees …
TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo announced it will launch motion picture distribution services for its third-generation (3G) service called FOMA on 19 November. A new handset, which will be equipped with the function …
JOHANNESURG, South Africa—Intelsat is to launch 10 more satellites to improve its services to the Asia-Pacific region. The satellites currently already cover 53 territories in Africa, providing data, video, corporate …
LONDON—British Telecommunications (BT) agreed to sell Clear Communications, its wholly owned New Zealand subsidiary, to TelstraSaturn for US$181 million in cash. Clear Communications purchased third-generation (3G) spectrum in New Zealand …
SEOUL, South Korea—Samsung said it increased its involvement in China Unicom’s CDMA network and will provide a test 1x network for the operator, which plans to launch CDMA services next …
