AlcatelEurope. With Orange as a strategic supplier for its third-generation networks throughout Europe.Value: UndisclosedItaly. With Wind Telecomunicazioni as a preferred third-generation network supplier.Value: UndisclosedEricssonChina. With China Telecom and Guangdong Mobile Communications to build a fixed network and expand Guangdong mobile networks.Value: US$550 millionChina. With China Mobile for...
PARIS-Nortel Networks announced it won business from Airtel Movil SA, Spain's second-largest wireless carrier.Nortel will build the initial phase of Airtel's UMTS network. The deal, subject to a definitive agreement, is valued at $100 million, according to Nortel.Airtel said it plans to become the...
DUBLIN, Ireland-High license costs and fierce competition have further increased the pressure on European third-generation (3G) operators to quickly roll out their networks. But while this rush to market will create opportunities for companies other than the current dominant cellular infrastructure vendors Nokia and...
DUBLIN, Ireland-The myth that prepaid cellular users are by definition low-value customers has been firmly discredited, and prepaid services did much to increase GSM penetration among the young and cost conscious at a time, around 1997, when European growth rates were slack.Now European operators...
LONDON-British carrier One 2 One has chosen Phone.com Inc.'s UP.Link Server Suite to launch WAP-based wireless Internet services in the United Kingdom. This is the second U.K.-based carrier to launch WAP services using the Phone.com platform. BT Cellnet was the first in March.
The realm of wireless data is uncharted territory for most consumers, but carriers also are feeling their way through the darkness, searching for the best way to market data and Internet services to an audience with little or no knowledge of wireless outside voice.Everyone-from...
The speculation started in late June. Analysts began questioning whether the mobile-handset market was going soft.Their suspicions appeared justified when the world's largest handset vendor, Nokia Corp., said third-quarter results would be lower because of the Finnish company's timing of new product introductions. Investors...
LONDON-British mobile provider BT Cellnet reported a 34- percent increase in new mobile- phone customers for the second quarter of this year compared with the same time frame last year.According to the company, 670,000 new customers signed up for wireless service during the second...
NEW YORK-Developers of devices and applications for wireless communications strutted their stuff, offering new, nearly new and soon-to-debut products and services at this year's MobileFocus.Giving more gumption to handheld computers is the design of at least five of the companies at this bite-sized trade...
Alcatel.Benin. With Office des Postes et Telecommunications (OPT) for a GSM network, along with fiber-optic and switching equipment.Value: US$32.8 millionKenya. With KenCell for a 50,000-subscriber capacity GSM network.Value: UndisclosedMorocco. With Maroc Telecom for mobile switching centers.Value: UndisclosedPortugal. With Portugal Telecom's TMN for a GPRS network.Value: UndisclosedQatar. With Q-Tel...
PARIS-Nortel Networks introduced a wireless data initiative and noted its commitment to the European market here last week. Included in the announcements was a partnership with Hewlett-Packard Co. to integrate Nortel's wireless data technology into HP's wireless hardware.Nortel is looking to capitalize on the...
PARIS-Lloyd Carney knows U.S. carriers hate him for saying it, but the facts speak for themselves."Europe is the dominant player in the wireless data space," he said last week in Paris. "The U.S. lags behind."As Nortel Networks' president, wireless Internet, Carney used his company's...
LONDON-U.K. mobile carrier BT Cellnet said it launched commercial service on the world's first General Packet Radio Service network. The "always on" service will increase the speeds at which users can access data.BT Cellnet, the second-largest operator in the United Kingdom, initially is making...
Compaq Computer Corp. revealed new capabilities for its IN PrePay network-based solution and said BT Cellnet in the United Kingdom has selected and deployed the solution to serve its prepaid customers.Compaq IN PrePay consists of a NonStop Himalaya Service Control Point Intelligent Network Server...
Nortel Networks increased its presence in the European mobile-phone market last week, garnering a $700 million third-generation equipment contract with BT Cellnet in the United Kingdom and displacing several of the carrier's traditional European manufacturers.Nortel will provide an end-to-end Universal Mobile Telecommunications System network,...
LONDON-British Telecommunications announced a major restructuring that creates four businesses in high-growth areas, including wireless. BT Wireless is the newly formed international mobile business emphasizing mobile data and next-generation services.The company also created Ignite, a data-centric broadband Internet Protocol business focused on corporate and...
NEW YORK-The Consumers' Association of the United Kingdom is advising readers of its "Which?" report not to "waste your money" on radio-frequency shields or certain kinds of hands-free kits for cell phones.The Association reported last week that it had tested on a "dummy head"...
British Telecom plc unveiled its mobile Internet strategy last week, setting up a new unit to offer global mobile Internet services by extending its existing Genie Internet services to Wireless Application Protocol-enabled phones.BT said it will invest $250 million in WAP technology and form...
CANNES, France and HANNOVER, Germany-Visitors at the ever-expanding GSM World Congress, held in February in Cannes, France, could have mistaken the huge exhibition as focusing exclusively on Wireless Application Protocol (WAP). For the second year running, it appeared almost every exhibitor had a WAP...
JERUSALEM-Bezeq Israel Telecom Ltd., the state-owned telecommunications company, announced a plan to allow cellular telephone users to route incoming calls through either their mobile phones or the nearest fixed-line phones. The proposed One Phone service requires government approval.The company said it hopes to reach...
JERUSALEM-Bezeq Israel Telecom Ltd., the state-owned telecommunications company, announced a plan to allow cellular telephone users to route incoming calls through either their mobile phones or the nearest fixed-line phone.The proposed One Phone service requires government approval.The company said it hopes to reach an...
LONDON-London-based telecommunication companies are riding the wave of increased demand for wireless communications with three companies reporting strong growth in new mobile phone customers during the fourth quarter of 1999.Vodafone AirTouch plc announced it received a record 3.98 million new customers in the fourth...
The two major developers of high-speed cellular data technology, Nokia and Ericsson, have opened a public argument over which has achieved the most success in terms of contract awards. The number of cellular operators that have placed orders for high-speed data infrastructure now amounts...
DUBLIN, Ireland-Service providers and mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) are viewed by many network operators as parasites feeding off their infrastructure investment. At the same time, many consumers view them as developers of value-added services that drive down costs in the market.Service providers do...
