NEW YORK-To enhance the capabilities of existing infrastructure, Schema Ltd. has developed a network optimization tool that Yuval Davidor, company founder and president, said can increase capacity by as much as 30 percent."You cannot manufacture more spectrum, and we will always want more of...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-Israel is determined not to be shaken from its pristine position of having one of the highest cellular penetration rates in the Middle East by the current unrest in the region."Penetration in Israel is growing steadily at a double-digit rate for next...
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...
TEL AVIV, Israel-Just as the cellular fight in Israel intensified with the latest marketing campaigns, the Ministry of Communications announced it may license a fourth and maybe a fifth provider by the end of next year.Deputy Prime Minister and Communications Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer recently...
JERUSALEM-Hutchison Whampoa is considering listing its Israeli mobile phone unit, Partner Communications Co. Ltd., in London or on the Nasdaq National Market to secure financing to expand its network, according to a report in the Financial Times.GSM 900 operator Partner operates under the Orange...
ATLANTA-Nortel Networks and BellSouth Corp. signed a memorandum of understanding regarding a long-term global supply agreement that makes Nortel Networks' communications equipment, software and services available to BellSouth at competitive prices, said the companies."By being able to bring to the market wireless Internet, Internet...
Northeast Communications of Wisconsin Inc. announced it acquired U.S. Cellular's Marathon County operations. Cellcom, the company's wireless subsidiary, will provide cellular and paging services. Marathon County will be the fifth Wisconsin county served by Cellcom and the second metropolitan service area for the company....
NABLUS, West Bank-Many who conduct business in this often-troubled region say peace would come much more quickly if they took over the responsibility from politicians. Cooperation in the wireless telecommunications sector appears to support that testimony.When Palestine Telecommunications Co. P.L.C., or Paltel, launches its...
JERUSALEM, Israel-In the southern town of Ashkelon stands a larger-than-life black marble grave stone that is as much a monument to the teenager buried in the plot as it is to the cell phone he loved to cradle: the stone, in fact, is a replica...
JERUSALEM, Israel-Afraid of scaring Israeli consumers, wireless carriers operating in this nation of 2 million cellular phone users are awaiting the arrival of a third player, Partner Communications Co. Ltd., before tackling head-on the thorny issue of possible health risks associated with prolonged cell...
L.M. EricssonBelgium. With KPN-Orange Belgium N.V. for a DCS 1800 network.Value: US$269 millionBrazil. With ATL-Algar Telecom Leste S.A. for a TDMA network.Value: up to US$350 millionEcuador. Five-year contract with BellSouth Ecuador to upgrade its AMPS network to TDMA IS-136.Value: more than US$250 millionEgypt. Contract from Misrfone to...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson was selected by Srinivas Cellcom Ltd., a Global System for Mobile communications operator in India, to build the largest mobile network ever to be rolled out in India, Ericsson said. The value of the contract was not disclosed.The new GSM network...
WASHINGTON-Brad Clark, a Cedar Rapids, Iowa, resident used his cellular phone three times to help people in emergency situations. His actions won him the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association's 1997 VITA Wireless Samaritan Award for the state of Iowa.Driving to work last December in icy...
DE PERE, Wis.-Cellcom announced it has activated two new towers in the Green Bay, Wis., area. One is located on the west side near Austin Straubel Airport, and the other is located on the east side near the University of Wisconsin's Weidner Center for...
Lucent Technologies announced it promoted Richard McGinn, current president and chief operating officer, to chief executive officer, effective immediately. McGinn, 51, will replace Henry Schacht, 63, who will remain as chairman. McGinn has been with the company for two years and has a combined...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Cellcom, which operates a cellular network in Wisconsin and Iowa, will purchase four beta units of Conductus Inc.'s ClearSite receiver subsystem following a successful trial of the system, Conductus said.Cellcom is evaluating how many additional sites should be upgraded with the system.Data from...
Metawave Communications Corp. named Vito Palermo senior vice president and chief financial officer, with responsibility for the company's financial and administrative operations including accounting, treasury, financial planning, investor relations and human resources. Most recently, Palermo served as vice president and corporate controller for Bay...
California Microwave Inc.'s Microwave Network Systems division won a contract from Cellcom Israel Ltd. to expand its Time Division Multiple Access cellular network. California Microwave said it values the contract at $2 million. Cellcom previously purchased 300 links of 34 Mbit/s, 8 GHz, 18...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Conductus Inc. said it installed its ClearSite receiver subsystems in a field trial in three sites in Wisconsin. The trial will run through the end of January to cover two full subscriber billing cycles.ClearSite allows weak signals to be received more clearly, potentially...
NEW YORK-TTI Team Telecom International Ltd., an Israeli developer of operations support and network management systems for telecommunications providers, was slated to go public Nov. 22.The initial public offering was expected to comprise 2.5 million shares of common stock priced between $7 and $9...
Triden Telecom Inc. has signed a letter of intent to acquire Communitronics Inc., a paging company based in Mobile, Ala. Communitronics has 3,000 pagers in service and is expanding its coverage area by acquiring and building out more paging terminals, said Triden.Denver-based ComTec International...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Conductus Inc. announced it has completed a beta deployment agreement with Cellcom, a rural cellular company based in DePere, Wis.Under the agreement, Cellcom will install three Conductus ultra-low-noise receiver subsystems in its Wisconsin network this fall, said Conductus.In field tests conducted earlier this...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Conductus Inc. announced it has successfully completed two additional rural field tests of its ultra-low-noise receiver subsystem for cellular base stations.The Conductus subsystem is designed to provide enhanced range, improved coverage and improved signal quality in rural cellular sites by combining a superconductive...
