BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—According to a recent study by Pyramid Research, the price Movicom BellSouth of Argentina might pay for a 3G license would be US$207 million. This way the government might reach its original goal of attaining US$800 million for the auction of four...
PLANO, Texas, United States—L.M. Ericsson has appointed Angel Ruiz as the president of its North American operations, according to a press statement. He replaces Per-Arne Sandstrom, who becomes the company's chief operating officer. Ruiz, who has been executive vice president and general manager of...
NEW DELHI, India—The Bharti group is in talks with shareholders in its Chennai operations to buy out the Skycell stakes to gain 100-percent ownership of the license.Currently, Bharti Televentures, the holding company of the Bharti group, has a 40.5-percent stake in Skycell; the remainder...
ATLANTA-Cingular Wireless signed a five-year deal with BellSouth Long Distance and SBC Long Distance to provide long-distance services to the wireless operator on a national level.Cingular Wireless was formed from the wireless operations of BellSouth and SBC Communications."This arrangement is the result of a...
WASHINGTON-For every three new wireless subscribers there is one less wireline subscriber, said Stephen Pociask, president of TeleNomic Research L.L.C."These phones do the same thing as your wired phone and probably more because I can make a call from down the block and the...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—A year after initiating its operations outside the Buenos Aires metropolitan area (AMBA), Movicom BellSouth announced it has 200,000 new users in 10 cities of Argentina. Using its personal communications services (PCS) at 1900 MHz, the carrier is providing value-added services, such...
AlcatelChina. With China Unicom for CDMA equipment for a national network.Value: US$157 millionChina. With Gansu Mobile, Shanxi Mobile and Ning Xia Mobile for GSM expansion contracts.Value: UndisclosedThailand. With CP Orange for a nationwide GSM 1800 MHz network.Value: US$332 millionDatangChina. With China Unicom for CDMA equipment for a...
BlackstoneBlackstone announced Elaine Moncayo has joined its marketing department as marketing coordinator. In her new position, she will be responsible for internal marketing, including newsletter, brochures, Web site updates and presentations. She will work with both Blackstone employees and distributors in Miami and across...
Deutsche Telekom's recent acquisition of U.S.-based GSM operator VoiceStream Wireless Corp. again showed the ever-shrinking nature of the wireless industry. Including United Kingdom-based Vodafone Group plc's partial ownership stake in Verizon Wireless and Japan's NTT DoCoMo's interest in AT&T Wireless Services Inc., international telecommunications...
WASHINGTON-Cingular Wireless Inc. plans to file a waiver from the enhanced 911 Phase II rules, probably within the next two weeks, said Brian Fontes, Cingular vice president for federal relations, confirming hints made last month by Stephen Carter, Cingular's chief executive officer.Cingular chose the...
Heinz Corp.Heinz Corp., which provides services to wireless carriers, has promoted Rick Vogt to senior project manager. In his new position he will be responsible for Heinz's projects for Cingular Wireless. Vogt has been with Heinz for about a year, and most recently supervised...
If teens remain `talkaholics' and have fun doing it, Voyant Technologies wants to provide the fuel.With an instant voice-messaging solution in a next-generation environment, the company thinks it is ready to bring new spice to voice communications when it launches the product by the...
While many people make a name for themselves by inventing technology that somehow changes the world, James A. Dwyer Jr.'s contribution to the wireless communications industry during the past 40 years is a little more subtle. Instead of earth-shattering technology, Dwyer's contribution involves both...
WASHINGTON-Cellcom Israel is continuing to gain customers and turn profits in a market that has more than a one-in-two wireless penetration rate."We try to find any way to make people talk. ... Israelis like to be connected, like to gossip, like to show they...
WASHINGTON-The Small Business Administration has warned the Federal Communications Commission that the FCC may have violated a law meant to protect small businesses when it removed the requirement that a cost-recovery mechanism be in place before carriers are required to implement enhanced 911 service."Advocacy...
A number of wireless carriers released surprising first-quarter financial results last week showing stronger than expected customer additions despite continued uncertainty in the U.S. economy. "In fact, based on the results in so far, net additions are tracking 5-percent below , better than our...
ATLANTA-BellSouth Corp. reported a first-quarter drop of 11 percent in net income but was redeemed by the success of its joint venture, Cingular Wireless.The company's net income was $891 million, down 11 percent from $1 billion during last year's first quarter. But, BellSouth's first-quarter...
Wideband CDMA and cdma2000 are not only migrating to the future, but also to the battleground.Both technologies will hoist their banners as they deploy their strengths and shield their weaknesses, especially in the two main places where they hope to flex muscles for market...
WASHINGTON-Congress, watching dazzling new technological and marketing advances driven by the Internet and its uncertain migration to wireless devices, has been dragged into high-stakes controversy over whether business methods patents are stifling innovation in the New Economy. The nasty and highly publicized legal fight...
WASHINGTON-The law firm of Baltimore Orioles owner Peter Angelos, which earlier this year took control of an $800 million mobile phone-brain cancer lawsuit, has joined forces with attorneys in a New Orleans class-action case against the wireless industry seeking to force equipment manufacturers to...
NEW YORK-Rural carriers, with operating histories often many decades old, appear poised at the forefront of the strategy for long-term growth based on bundled or converged services.Seeking to be the one-stop-shop location for their customers, these companies have in place or have plans to...
WASHINGTON-A Blue Ribbon panel released a report last week that called for the telecommunications excise tax to be used to fund universal service."A current excise tax on telecommunications services, originally created a century ago to fund the Spanish-American War, now funnels revenue into the...
I've seen the future and it is m-commerce. M is for money, isn't it? Money or mobile, same thing, different pronunciation. At Accenture's Global Communications Forum last week in Miami Beach, the promise of m-commerce was underlined over and over by diverse executives in...
It's all about connecting.The notion that telecommunications exists to connect people is no longer a simple yet catchy idea, but an obvious cliche that does little to sell communications services. Advertising agencies and wireless companies are looking to connect with consumers on a different...
