By tweaking network technology, user behavior, business models and industry structure, Cisco Systems Inc. is flexing its muscles in the wireless Internet space. The company, known for its end-to-end network …
NEW YORK-Without fanfare, Securicor Wireless Inc. continues its quiet and methodical assembly of a nationwide enhanced specialized mobile radio network, which it plans to extend into Canada and Latin and …
After nine rounds of bidding, Industry Canada’s auction of 62 individual personal communications services licenses covering 16 markets across Canada garnered $142.3 million in total high bids. Seven companies qualified …
Location technology and services provider Cell-Loc Inc., which has seen a variety of cash troubles in the past few months, announced a plan to raise about $6.5 million in a …
INDIANAPOLIS-Brightpoint Inc. announced some of its subsidiaries will distribute Novatel Wireless Inc.’s data modems and software in the United States, Mexico and Colombia.
CHINA China Unicom reported it had more than 12.7 million wireless customers at the end of last year, an increase of more than 300 percent from 1999. China’s second largest …
LISBON, Portugal-Portugal Telecom announced its Brazilian cellular subsidiary, Telesp Celular Participacoes S.A., acquired 49 percent of the common shares and 100 percent of the preferred shares of mobile operator Global …
BOSTON-American Tower Corp. has priced the sale of 10 million shares of class A common stock through Goldman, Sachs & Co. in an underwritten public offering. The net proceeds of …
SAN FRANCISCO-With a second-quarter revenue rise of about $100 million from the year-ago period, handheld maker Handspring Inc. surpassed Wall Street estimates and looks to turn its first profit by …
Most analysts expected the Federal Communications Commission’s auction of 422 personal communications services licenses to finish up late last week. Instead, there were 37 eligible bidders placing 27 new high …
TOKYO-The millennium bug was squashed in most industries around the world, with one exception in wireless. Due to a Y2K glitch, short message service (SMS) messages on some types of …
GENEVA-With just a few months to go until the next ITU World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-2000) on 8 May-2 June in Istanbul, Turkey, tensions are already running high as rival national …
GENEVA-With the world’s first third-generation (3G) mobile systems due to come online in Japan in less than a year, Europe’s wireless operators are gearing up for an intense round of …
Dear Editor: Just like the countries quoted in “Report says mobile to dominate within five years,” on page 1 of the November-December 1999 issue, Uganda’s telephony is dominated by mobile …
Twenty million mobile phones in use in the United Kingdom early last December. Soaring to almost 25 million after all the Christmas presents had been opened. What an industry! Mobile …
TORONTO-To the relief of the wireless industry, the Canadian government raised the four-year-old spectrum cap that limits the amount of radio spectrum each PCS provider may operate. Wireless carriers in …
North American GSM operators finally are presenting a united front to the rest of the world when it comes to roaming into the United States and Canada. European and other …
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-The Regional African Satellite Communications Organization (RASCOM) project to build a dedicated satellite system for Africa is close to becoming a reality. The first of the system’s two …
SINGAPORE-Four years after it was first introduced in Japan, PHS technology finally has made some headway in the international telecommunications arena. Taiwanese paging operator First International Telecom (Fitel) recently was …
BUCHAREST, Romania-In the early 1990s in Romania, paging terminals came to be well-known. Since then, the market has gone through a period of quick penetration, followed by market uncertainty and …
