DUBLIN, Ireland-Having paid handsomely for their licenses at a time when wireless auctions were the flavor of the month around Europe, wireless local loop (WLL) operators face an uncertain future. …
DENVER, United States-To know what the broadband industry is going to do tomorrow, just look at what the cellular industry is doing today. Year after year, several key cellular carriers …
Dear Editor: Peter Angelos, the U.S. attorney leading several lawsuits against the mobile-phone industry, has helped to effectively outlaw products from asbestos to breast implants, and only the vast deep …
TORONTO-The established Canadian wireless fraternity scooped up most of the available spectrum licenses contested in the February auction. All told, Industry Canada’s auction for wireless spectrum in the 2 GHz …
HONG KONG-Hutchison Whampoa bought Motorola’s 25-percent stake in Hong Kong operator Hutchison Telephone for US$120 million. Hutchison now owns 81 percent of the Hong Kong carrier. If Hutchison sells any …
WASHINGTON-Huawei Technologies is reportedly suspected of violating U.N. sanctions by supplying Iraq with fiber optic cable to improve its air defense capability. The Washington Post, citing Western and Asian sources, …
BEIJING-While China’s mobile-phone subscribers nearly doubled to 85.26 million last year, the country’s paging manufacturers and operators fought a rearguard battle. With continuing price drops in handsets and mobile services, …
BEIJING-Huawei Technologies, based in China’s southern boomtown of Shenzhen, is poised to become a global player in the telecommunications field. Already China’s largest producer of telephone switches, the company is …
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-The many delays that have beset South Africa’s third mobile network license process could be at an end. In February, the Minister of Communications Dr. Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri announced …
What is the future of the TDMA wireless interface? The issue is far from trivial. TDMA serves more than 60 million digital and 15 million analog customers and stands as …
TORONTO-The move was surprising but not totally unexpected. After many denials, U.S. carrier AT&T Wireless finally announced last November it is switching from TDMA wireless technology to the rival European-developed …
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-Mobile Telephone Networks (MTN), the South African mobile network operator, recently secured one of four mobile operator licenses in Nigeria. The network must pay a license fee of …
DUBLIN, Ireland-Having paid so much for their licenses, prospective third-generation (3G) mobile operators in Germany, as in other European countries, have been working hard to convince the financial markets and …
TOKYO-Mobile Internet shopping is no longer a futuristic idea, but a daily practice, at least for early adopters in the browser phone-advanced nation of Japan. The Ministry of Posts and …
SAN JOSE, California, United States-Top executives from several multichannel multipoint distribution services (MMDS) operators throughout Latin America announced the creation of Latin American Networking (LaNet), an alliance formed to advance …
Handsets Sendo European mobile phone manufacturer, Sendo, launched its second product platform, the S200 dual-band GSM mobile phone. Aimed at the young-at-heart prepaid market, features of the small and light …
Belgium Belgium awarded three Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) licenses to each of the country’s three incumbent operators, bringing in about US$419 million for the government. The prices raised were …
BOSTON, United States-As the South African telecommunications industry prepares to map out the legal future of communications in the country, Telecom Namibia said it fears no competition when its own …
GSM Europe, the European arm of the GSM Association, met new proposals from the European Commission (EC) covering how telecom operators will be regulated with hostility. The group claimed the …
Alcatel Egypt. With MobiNil for an extension of its GSM network. Value: US$37.1 million France. With Cegetel for the supply of a UMTS network. Value: Undisclosed Ericsson Canada. With Rogers …
