MELBOURNE, Australia-The Australian Communications Authority (ACA) will hold the keenly awaited auction of third-generation (3G) spectrum in the 2 GHz radio-frequency band in early March.The new 3G mobile services are expected to combine popular communications forms, such as mobile phones, the Internet and computers,...
Band-XStephen Beynon was hired as Band-X's new chief executive officer. He was previously in a management position in the data and business services division of Cable & Wireless Optus.ElectrofuelPatrick R. McCool was appointed the vice president of sales for Electrofuel Inc. He was previously...
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. announced 10 operators around the world now have commercial GPRS services based on Nokia solutions up and running.The company said the next step will be to optimize GPRS networks for transporting WAP and other content.The companies launching GPRS services are Fujian...
SINGAPORE-Mobile-phone operator M1 might be listed in Singapore as early as the last quarter of 2000, according to Keppel Telecommunications & Transportation Managing Director Ng Eng Ho. The company is in the process of choosing among six merchant banks, including Merrill Lynch, UBS Warburg,...
SYDNEY, Australia-Telstra Corporation Ltd. and Hong Kong Internet company Pacific Century CyberWorks Ltd. announced completion of revised terms of their alliance, first announced in April.Telstra will grab control of PCCW's recently acquired Hong Kong mobile company and reduce its cash commitment by $532 million...
BEIJING-Vodafone, the world's largest mobile-phone operator by total subscriber numbers, is set to take a 2-percent stake in China Mobile (Hong Kong), the listed subsidiary of parent China Mobile Telecommunications in Beijing. Vodafone agreed to purchase shares valued at $2.5 billion in China Mobile...
NEW YORK-Some 27 years after he placed the first "public portable cellular call," from Midtown Manhattan to Bell Laboratories in New Jersey, Martin Cooper said he is unsure "if we, as an industry, have grown up yet."Introduced at "Wireless World 2000" as the inventor...
NEW YORK-The full-time profession of Henry J. Ritter, an attorney and accountant, is to put himself out of a job.Ritter & Associates, headquartered in North Bethesda, Md., steps in to fill management voids within established and new telecommunications companies. The 10-year-old firm maintains a...
ANDOVER, Mass.-In accordance with a previously announced agreement, CMGI Inc. completed a share exchange of $500 million in shares of CMGI common stock for $500 million in shares of Pacific Century CyberWorks with Cable & Wireless plc.The transaction involved CMGI issuing to Cable &...
LONDON-Cable & Wireless is reported to be in talks regarding the sale of its controlling stake in Australian mobile carrier Cable & Wireless Optus, according to international press reports.The sale of the 52.5-percent stake in Australia's second-largest wireless operator would be in line with...
SYDNEY, Australia-Australia's Telstra Corp. and Hong Kong's Pacific Century CyberWorks released details regarding their previously announced alliance to establish a mobile company and an Asian Internet Protocol network.The announcement follows the completion of PCCW's merger with Cable & Wireless HKT, the Hong Kong mobile...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados-With Ireland-based Mossel Jamaica preparing to offer mobile communications competition to Cable & Wireless Jamaica early in the new year, negotiations on an interconnection agreement between the two networks appear stalled. Mossel Jamaica reported the fee proposed by the incumbent carrier is poles...
After a month-long review, the Chinese government said in June that PHS will continue to be allowed in China's county-level cities and counties. However, new PHS deployments will not be allowed in large and medium-sized cities. Hong Lu, president and chief executive officer of...
HONG KONG-Hong Kong may become the Asian leader in mobile e-commerce, as network operators rush to embrace next-generation smart cards, said Claus Hansen, GSM marketing director at smart card vendor Schlumberger."Wireless Internet and mobile e-commerce will boom in Hong Kong next year, as network...
DENVER, United States-One of the world's most savvy and chic brand names is coming to the U.S. mobile-phone market next year.Virtual network operator (VNO) Virgin Mobile USA said it plans to ink an agreement with a carrier here and offer nationwide service by the...
EricssonCanada. With Microcell Connexions for a GPRS network.Value: UndisclosedChina. With China Unicom for GSM expansions in Jilin, Sichuan, Jiangsu, Anhui and Hubei provinces.Value: US$176 millionLaos. With Lao Telecommunications Co. for GSM switching.Value: US$1.2 millionMexico. With Pegaso forCDMA equipment for its PCS network.Value: US$200 millionTurkey. With Turkcell for a...
SINGAPORE-What do you do when you have loads of cash? You go shopping.That is precisely what Singapore Telecom has done. Flushed with cash reserves of some S$6.3 billion (US$3.7 billion), the phone operator has been on an aggressive expansion trail outside Singapore during the...
Pinnacle Holdings reversed itself last week on an announcement it made earlier this month that it planned to pursue opportunities in the colocation facility business.Long a renter of space on towers, the Sarasota, Fla.-based company had said it wanted to branch out to host...
BSWDBellSouth Wireless Data L.P. has named cellular industry veteran Donald Kovalevich as its new president and chief executive officer. Former BSWD President and CEO William Lenahan left the company in May to take a position at another telecom firm. Since then, J.D. Gardner has...
SYDNEY, Australia-Cable & Wireless Optus, which operates a mobile-phone network in Australia, said it is in discussions with other telecom companies about forming a partnership in mobile telephony outside Australia. In addition, the company announced alliances for offering mobile data services to businesses.The alliances,...
The Australian government has banned Telstra, Australia's dominant telecommunications provider, from bidding on 165 megahertz of spectrum in the 3.4 GHz auction in September, citing Telstra's existing foothold in the delivery of high-speed wireless voice and data services."Telstra has a number of existing and...
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. and Cable & Wireless introduced a global wireless Internet platform.Cable & Wireless is supplying the data center infrastructure and connectivity to its global Internet Protocol backbone, while Nokia provides the services platform, applications and systems integration services.The two expect Cable &...
The Netherlands opened its auction for five third-generation Universal Mobile Telecommunications Services mobile-phone licenses Thursday, and immediately two of the eight bidding companies bowed out. Hutchison 3G Netherlands and Nogenta Swedish Acquisitions withdrew from the auction just as it was getting under way. The...
LONDON-Global telecommunications group Cable & Wireless announced it is investing $20 million in European Internet business accelerator GorillaPark.C&W said the investment reflects its commitment to delivering innovative Internet Protocol and data services to business customers, and will reinforce GorillaPark's ability to incubate and accelerate...
