Fresh off the government's decision to release all participants from the financial responsibility related to the ill-fated auction of NextWave Telecom Inc.'s wireless spectrum, Verizon Wireless Inc. purchased 50 wireless licenses from Long Island, N.Y.-based Northcoast Communications L.L.C.The $750 million cash deal, which is...
MUMBAI-Reliance Infocom announced it launched limited mobility telecom service in 673 towns and cities across India with three schemes including a three-year Dhirubhai Ambani pioneer offer at US$62.50 (Rs 3000). "We will commence demonstrations of the service on January 15 and begin bookings by...
spectrum in Northcoast buyFresh off the government's decision to release all participants from the financial responsibility related to the ill-fated auction of NextWave Telecom Inc.'s wireless spectrum, Verizon Wireless Inc. purchased 50 wireless licenses from Long Island, N.Y.-based Northcoast Communications L.L.C.The $750 million cash...
SAO PAULO, Brazil-Jarbas Valente, Anatel's superintendent of private services, said he was surprised by the auction results for the surplus licenses in bands D and E for personal communications services. Anatel collected $262.2 million in the auction, or 31.31 percent more than the established...
GARDEN GROVE, Calif.-Hop-On, which makes prepaid, recyclable mobile phones, announced it licensed CDMA technology from Qualcomm Inc., a move that will allow the company to build CDMA phones."This agreement is the latest validation of the global opportunity in front of Hop-On as we work...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-Kyocera Wireless entered the Chilean cellular market as a terminal provider for the Smartcom PCS network. Smartcom is the first South American operator outside Brazil to launch a 2.5-generation (2.5G) network using CDMA 1xRTT.At the same time, Kyocera also announced that it...
SAN DIEGO, Calif.-The Economist has named Qualcomm Inc.'s chairman and chief executive officer Irwin Jacobs as an innovation leader in the area of communications for the CDMA technology at its inaugural Awards and Summit at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco."Digital mobile telephony is...
JAKARTA, Indonesia-Indonesia's wireless market faces two opposite trends from the implementation of CDMA technology. Four analog and CDMA operators, Komselindo, Mobisel, Metrosel, and Telesera, counted a 20.06-percent decrease in growth in subscriber numbers from 156,721 as of June last year to 125,280 subscribers as...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-Alltel Corp. said it has completed its $1.9 billion purchase of local telephone properties in Kentucky from Verizon Communications Inc. and its $1.6 billion dollar purchase of CenturyTel Inc.'s wireless assets.The wireless properties include more than 700,000 customers in Arkansas, Louisiana, Michigan,...
DALLAS—Alltel Corp. selected Nortel Networks to supply infrastructure equipment for the planned cdma2000 1x upgrade of its current wireless network and integrate Alltel's recent purchase of CenturyTel's wireless network.The agreement calls for Nortel to supply 1x radio access and switching gear to Alltel to...
NEW YORK—A new alliance with Korea Digital Satellite Broadcasting is part of an overall plan for LG Telecom to compete successfully with South Korea’s two larger wireless operators, said Yong Nam, president and chief executive officer.In late April, Martin Lee, chief financial officer, told...
MOSCOW—The Russian Anti-Monopoly Ministry (MAP) is going to consider on 8 April the legality of the decision of the Communications Ministry to oust U.S.-developed CDMA and AMPS carriers from the 800 MHz band by 2010. The Communications Ministry issued a corresponding order in April...
MOSCOW—Russian authorities proposed restricted CDMA technology based on the IS-95 standard to follow the AMPS/DAMPS carriers and move to the GSM 1800 MHz technology by 2010.The U.S.-developed IS-95 has faced big problems in Russia since it was first introduced in the country. It was...
MOSCOW—Russian carriers operating CDMA technology based on the IS-95 standard called on the Communications Ministry to stop restricting the standard and even asked for new spectrum for further development.IS-95 has faced big problems in Russia since it was first introduced in the country. It...
MOSCOW—A major Russian investment company, Sistema-Telecom Financial Corporation, said it will sell the Personal Communications (SONET) CDMA carrier as the project has no future in the country."We shall sell SONET. But I would not say to whom," said Sistema-Telecom President Alexander Goncharuk. "We consider...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados-Centennial Digital Jamaica has become the third company to bring mobile cellular service to Jamaicans.Chief Operating Officer James Beneda said the company's use of CDMA technology will allow it to eventually offer third-generation (3G) services. It expects to attract 47,000 customers in its...
SAN DIEGO—Qualcomm Inc. says it has licensed its CDMA technology to TCL Holdings Co. Ltd. in China to to develop, manufacture and sell cdmaOne and cdma2000 1x/1xEV subscriber equipment."This agreement will allow us to accelerate the development of CDMA subscriber unit equipment and meet...
Qualcomm Inc. has been looking for a European opening for its CDMA technology for some time. But so far, the technology has been effectively shut out in the region, other than a few CDMA fixed-wireless networks, mainly in Russia and other parts of Eastern...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—Lucent Technologies has invested US$5 million in Argentina for new offices, which include a laboratory where Lucent can monitor the functioning of all infrastructure provided by the company in South America. The lab is equipped for testing, development and repairs of networks...
