SAINT-QUENTIN, France-Three prominent European companies are forging a partnership that will bid to operate the telecommunications system of the French railway.The Bouygues Group of France will own 51 percent of the unnamed new venture; Bouygues Telecom operates a DCS-1800 mobile phone system in France....
Glenayre Technologies Inc. installed its Modular Voice Processing system for PennSel Communication Services, a division of R.F. Communications. PennSel will offer MVP services to its customers in Pennsylvania and the Northeast, the company said. The MVP system provides paging users with voice and fax...
VIENNA, Va.-Cable & Wireless Inc. announced its chief executive officer, Gabe Battista, has resigned to become CEO of Network Solutions Inc., a provider of enabling utility services for the Internet and intranets.Alan Peyser, who resigned in August 1995 as Cable & Wireless CEO, has...
An association that stresses its "technology-neutral" position has formed to give entrepreneurial-block spectrum licensees a platform for unity and fill the gap left by North American Wireless Inc.NAWI is believed to be defunct, although the company's founder, James Valentine, says the organization "is fine.""We...
Orange plc, one of the United Kingdom's two 1800 MHz personal communications providers, announced it established a roaming agreement with the Swiss Post, Telephone and Telegraph.Concurrently, Colin Tucker, group technical and operations director, said he believes dual band phones, which operate at 900 MHz...
There is a plus side to targeted marketing, where companies and conservative groups have created win/win situations-where nobody gets hurt and nothing is compromised.Case in point: Vienna, Va.-based Cable & Wireless Inc., the U.S. arm of Britain's Cable & Wireless plc, recently struck a deal...
WASHINGTON-Sixty-two banks participated in the syndication of a $750 million interim credit facility for Iridium L.L.C. To date, committed funds raised by Iridium total $2.65 billion, said the company.Chase Securities Inc. and the investment unit of Barclays Bank plc arranged the $750 million loan...
Nexus Telecommunication Systems Ltd. of Givatayim, Israel, announced it has signed an agreement with Academy D.O.O., a Yugoslavian security services company, to deploy Nexus' automatic vehicle location and tracking system in Yugoslavia. Deployment will begin during second quarter 1997, said Nexus. The first stage...
Hong Kong's dominant cellular operator Hongkong Telecom said it deeply regrets that the government failed to award it one of six new wireless licenses, and intends to discuss the matter with Hong Kong officials.Fourteen companies bid for the 10-year personal communications services licenses offered...
Cable & Wireless Inc. has signed a cellular resale agreement with Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobile, one of the first steps in introducing its own branded wireless service package into the United States.CWI said it initially will offer its Business First Cellular service this fall...
AirTouch Communications Inc. announced it has officially opened its European headquarters in the Netherlands. The company said it opened the office because its cellular operations in Europe are becoming an increasingly important part of AirTouch's overall business strategy.L.M. Ericsson announced it has signed a...
The number of cellular subscribers in Africa and the Middle East increased 76 percent between 1990 and 1995, reported Pyramid Research Inc. in a recent study. Cellular subscribers totaled 1.8 million at the end of last year, and are expected to count 11.2 million...
NEW YORK-Rodney J. Olsen said he will step down July 1 as acting chief executive officer of Cable & Wireless plc, the British multinational telecommunications conglomerate.With wireless telecommunications operations covering more than 90 million equity-adjusted population equivalents, the company ranks itself among the top...
LONDON-On and off and on and off again discussions between Cable & Wireless plc and British Telecommunications plc are reminiscent of a high school romance. This week they're broken up."While the concept of merged global business had commercial and industrial merit, there was no...
One answer arrived this week on "the question of Hong Kong" that confirmed China's intention of allowing open competition in wireless, despite a hold-up in the licensing process.Hong Kong reverts back to the authority of China in 1997, following the end of a 99-year...
L.M. Ericsson announced it has signed an agreement with the Guangdong Post and Telecommunications Administration for the installation of intelligent networks in the Guangdong province, China. Ericsson said it will implement its latest IN software and hardware. The agreement also includes an IN service...
Lately Western Europe is a tourney of anticipation and waiting where players are evaluating merging options and calculating the competition's next move.The first domino may fall if Cable & Wireless plc and British Telecommunications plc join forces. Weeks ago the London companies acknowledged the...
If London-based Cable & Wireless plc and British Telecommunications plc merge, the new enterprise could descend upon an auspicious Asian market and create a shake up among globally-footed wireless giants."This whole merger move is based on a wireless view of the world, because East...
LONDON-The board of directors of Cable & Wireless plc said talks are on again with British Telecommunications. The "exploratory discussions ... may or may not lead to a merger of the two companies," reported the United Kingdom-based wireless giant.The news of resumed discussions follows...
LONDON-The board of directors of Cable & Wireless plc said talks are on again with British Telecommunications. The "exploratory discussions ... may or may not lead to a merger of the two companies," reported the United Kingdom-based wireless giant.The news of resumed discussions follows...
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.-Eighty-two percent of business cellular subscribers want a single wireless handset that can be used as an office phone indoors and as a mobile phone outdoors, concludes a two-year study conducted by Alexander Resources Inc.Alexander said the biggest threat to cellular and personal...
L.M. Ericsson said it withdrew a complaint filed in January with the European Commission, which charged that Austria's award of a Global System for Mobile communications license to international consortium Oe-Call, was unfair. Siemens AG Oesterreich of Vienna holds 19.8 percent in Oe-Call. However,...
WASHINGTON-Iridium Inc. announced it has concluded a private financing within its existing investor group, raising an additional $315 million and boosting its total capital base from $1.6 billion to more than $1.9 billion.The additional funds will be applied by Iridium Inc. to the ongoing...
NEW YORK-Premiere Technologies Inc. of Atlanta plans its debut in the public capital markets early next month to finance its expansion as a provider of systems integrating various modes of communications into one device.The company is one player in a larger trend toward communications...
