The following list details this week's infrastructure awards for the cellular, Wi-Fi and WiMAX industries. The contracts are broken down by transmission technology, country and vendor. The value of the contract is included when available. Click here for additional infrastructure awards from RCR Wireless...
The following list details this week's infrastructure awards for the cellular, Wi-Fi and WiMAX industries. The contracts are broken down by transmission technology, country and vendor. The value of the contract is included when available. Click here for additional infrastructure awards from RCR Wireless...
The following list details this week's infrastructure awards for the cellular, Wi-Fi and WiMAX industries. The contracts are broken down by transmission technology, country and vendor. The value of the contract is included when available. Click here for additional infrastructure awards from RCR Wireless...
PARIS-Alcatel Corp. signed a multi-million dollar contract with Malaysian mobile operator Celcom to expand Celcom's GSM network and upgrade it with a mobile next-generation network solution, which will increase the company's ability to provide its 5.79 million subscribers with new multimedia services at optimized...
HELSINKI, Finland-Celcom, a mobile operator in Malaysia, has launched the Tecnomen Multimedia Messaging Service Centers. The center enables Celcom to take full advantage of MMS terminals and take a leading role in the market, Tecnomen said.Celcom is the second-largest operator in Malaysia.
SURABAYA, Indonesia-Following last year's shareholding increase to 47.9 percent in Malaysia's Celcom, government-owned telecommunication operator Telekom Malaysia offered US$1 billion to take over the rest of Celcom.Celcom's remaining major stakeholders include the Employees Provident Fund (EPF) and Tabung Haji, which account for a combined...
JAKARTA, Indonesia-In response to the government's call to consolidate the telecommunications industry, Telekom Malaysia increased its shareholding in Celcom from 31.2 percent to 47.9 percent.The total purchase consideration of US$443 million will be fulfilled by the issuance of 635,471,698 new Celcom shares at US$0.697...
KUALA LAMPUR, Malaysia-Malaysia' second largest wireless operator Celcom Bhd. signed an agreement to merge with state-run telecommunications operator Telekom Malaysia Bhd's TM Cellular Sdn. Bhd. wireless division, according to the Associated Press. The deal calls for Celcom to buy the entire equity interest...
MUNICH, Germany—Malaysian operator Celcom selected Siemens to supply its General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) technology.The value of the contract was not disclosed.TTI to supply performance software to MobilComHOBOKEN, New Jersey, United States—TTI Telecom announced it will implement its performance and service management solutions in...
OSLO, Norway—Telenor said its Malaysian subsidiary DiGi.Com entered into three joint venture agreements with Technology Resources Industries (TRI), which owns Malaysian mobile operator Celcom, the country's second-largest operator. The companies will submit a joint bid for third-generation (3G) services in Malaysia.Malaysia is expected to...
EDGE is dead. Long live EDGE.Depending on where they stand on the EDGE debate, some operators want EDGE born alive. Others think it should be left as merely an idea.Andrew Seybold of the Andrew Seybold Group is not amused by the optimism expressed about...
NEW DELHI, India-Several leading GSM operators in the Asian region have announced plans for migration to 2.5-generation (2.5G) services during 2001. Many of them hope to roll out commercial General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) services during the year, but mass expansion of the new...
SWINDON, United Kingdom-Lucent Technologies Inc. announced it completed the integration of its GPRS offering and has begun commercial system testing of its "always-on" Mobile Internet solution.The company said its solution enables existing GSM operators to deliver high-speed Mobile Internet services to subscribers.Lucent is testing...
NEW DELHI, India-The Southeast Asian region is set to enter a new era of wireless data within the next two years. Many operators in the region have already introduced wireless data services, including Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) launches, in preparation for a full-scale transition...
NEW DELHI, India-Countries in Asia and Southeast Asia specifically hit by economic crisis in the late 1990s are on the recovery path, paving the way for exponential growth in the wireless industry in the next two years. Early signs of this fast-track growth are...
AlcatelChina. For GSM network extensions in Jilin, Zhejiang, Ningxia and Shaanxi provinces.Value: US$80 millionGermany. With T-Mobil for a network extension.Value: US$71.2 millionKosovo. With the Kosovo Post Office and Telecommunications for a GSM Network with a 30,000 capacity.Value: UndisclosedSri Lanka. With Celltel Lanka for a GSM network contract...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson signed two deals providing increased capacity to wireless telecommunications providers.A $300 million contract with Mannesmann Mobilfunk will provide Global System for Mobile communications system equipment to optimize infrastructure and to multiply current capacity for the German mobile provider.A major portion of...
Asia-Pacific countries are beginning to emerge from the severe economic problems that have gripped them for two years, and mobile phone carriers are finding they desperately need cash to expand services.Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines took the hardest economic hits after the Thai...
NEW YORK-"One of the humbling things about this business is that, for three out of four years, we are unapproachable and obnoxious, but in the fourth year we have to raise money so we grovel."That is how Ronald White, a partner in Argo Global...
NEW YORK-Microcell Capital Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Microcell Telecommunications Inc., said it created GSM Capital L.P., an international venture-capital fund with more than $137 million committed to private-equity investment in companies developing new Global System for Mobile communications products and services.GSM Capital...
Sprint PCS to announce launchSprint Spectrum L.P. is expected to announce today its personal communications services launch. The company did not note the markets where it expected to launch service. Sprint announced earlier this month it was delaying its PCS launch in several markets,...
NEW YORK-In a very successful initial public offering, Deutsche Telekom AG, the German government's telecommunications monopoly, went public Nov. 18.The IPO consisted of 600 million shares sold to outsiders and another 23 million to Deutsche Telekom employees. The total number of shares offered for...
NEW YORK-In a very successful initial public offering, Deutsche Telekom AG, the German government's telecommunications monopoly, went public Nov. 18.The IPO consisted of 600 million shares sold to outsiders and another 23 million to Deutsche Telekom employees. The total number of shares offered for...
