BEIJING-China's telecom scene is in flux. China Telecom is to split into four parts, which will compete in two year's time. China Unicom took over four experimental CDMA networks from China Telecom Great Wall and is making aggressive plans to roll out a 10-million-subscriber...
China Unicom, which received the go-ahead from the Chinese government earlier this year to deploy cdmaOne technology, will gain control of four experimental Code Division Multiple Access networks operated by China Telecom Great Wall.Great Wall was a source of concern for the Chinese government...
NEW YORK-AmTec Inc. has its home base in the Big Apple, where the money is, and its heart in the People's Republic of China, where it believes telecommunications has the greatest growth opportunity.Several years ago, AmTec became one of 46 foreign companies to forge...
EricssonBrazil. With Tele Norte Celular for upgrade and new TDMA.Value: US$50 millionChile. With Entel PCS for GSM 1900 equipment.Value: UndisclosedChina. With Liaoning Post & Telecommunications Administration for its GSM network.Value: US$150 millionCroatia. With VIP-Net to supply base station subsystems for its new GSM network.Value: UndisclosedUkraine. With Digital Cellular...
BEIJING-In early February, China's Minister of Information Industry (MII) was apologetic about the prospects for CDMA in his country. The customers couldn't care less which technology is used-as long as it works, said Wu Jichuan. And with the world's largest GSM network, there seemed...
GermanyInterDigital Communications Corp., through its subsidiary InterDigital Technology Corp., entered a worldwide, royalty-bearing Time Division Multiple Access patent license agreement with Robert Bosch GmbH of Germany. According to the agreement, InterDigital granted Bosch the license under its TDMA patent portfolio to sell telecommunications equipment...
BEIJING (AP)-China announced the breakup last week of the government's telecommunications monopoly into four specialized companies, a move that comes as U.S. and Chinese negotiators hold down-to-the-wire talks on China's bid to join the World Trade Organization.The long-awaited decision on the dismemberment of China...
GUANGZHOU, China-Motorola Inc.'s Network Solutions Sector announced it won two contracts valued at a total of $100 million to expand the digital Global System for Mobile communications 900 and 1800 cellular networks for China's Hunan Posts and Telecommunications Administration. China Unicom also awarded Motorola...
CdmaOne vendors in China anxiously are awaiting official government word on whether China Unicom is allowed to deploy Interim Standard-95 technology."It appears China Unicom has been told that they can proceed with their plans to deploy a CDMA network using the spectrum they already...
UkraineOrbcomm Global L.P. announced it has signed a service license agreement with Transexpo Corp. to provide its satellite data services to the Ukraine. According to the agreement, Transexpo will take delivery of an Orbcomm gateway, which includes a gateway earth station and a gateway...
BEIJING-"The investigation into China Unicom's unprincipled and wrong foreign fund-raising practices has been completed," Wang Jianzhou, director of the planning department of the Chinese Ministry of Information Industry (MII), announced at a press conference in Beijing on 1 December. That's pretty close to saying...
A move by the Chinese government is sure to develop a new wireless telecommunications landscape in China but also may create an uncertain future for foreign wireless infrastructure and handset vendors selling equipment there.The Chinese government is urging the country's wireless operators to purchase...
China has been considered a mountain of opportunity for mobile phone infrastructure vendors, but signs today indicate a bleaker outlook as Chinese officials seem to have soured on cdmaOne technology and have banned certain foreign joint ventures in telecommunications projects.Vendors say China presents a...
L.M. EricssonBrazil. With Telet S.A. to construct a TDMA network.Value: US$140 millionChina. With Chongqing Telecommunications Administration to expand its GSM network.Value: US$138 millionChina. With Hebei Post & Telecommunications Administration to expand its GSM and TACS networks.Value: US$110 millionMexico. With Telcel to build a 1900 MHz TDMA network...
BEIJING-In its latest proposal to gain entry to the World Trade Organization (WTO), China offered on 24 July to open gradually its paging and mobile phone operating services to foreign competition. Currently, foreign companies only are allowed to engage in manufacturing of telecommunications equipment,...
BEIJING-China Telecom announced it signed up its 20 millionth mobile phone customer, a police officer named Zhang Qinghua in the scenic city of Hangzhou, at precisely 8: 45 a.m. on 18 August. In the first half of the year, China Telecom signed up 5.45 million...
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...
BEIJING-Singapore Telecom has pulled out of the US$650 million Asia-Pacific Mobile Telecommunications (AMPT) satellite project it set up in December 1995 together with ST Telemedia, a subsidiary of the Singapore Technologies Group, and four Chinese partners: China Satellite Launch and Tracking Control, China Aero-Space Corp.,...
Western Wireless International announced it began Global System for Mobile communications cellular service in Iceland through its TAL Ltd. partnership. The initial network covers about 70 percent of the Icelandic population.Nexus Telocation Systems Ltd. said it was selected by a South American communications services...
Since paging became available in 1983, the number of paging operators in China has mushroomed to more than 2,800, with more than 40 million customers. According to the Chinese language China Reform Daily, 70 million pager users are expected by 2000.China Unicom Paging Corp....
BEIJING-In the wireless world, China no longer is a forgotten backwater, but is rapidly moving to center stage. According to the new Ministry of Information Industry (MII), the country had a 92-percent growth rate last year, bringing total mobile users to 13 million, and...
Motorola Inc.'s announcement that its overall sales in China slowed during the first quarter doesn't indicate this market is in any trouble, say analysts.China is still seen as one of the largest markets for telecom equipment and service providers with its large pent-up demand...
MONTREAL-More than 1,000 customers signed up on the first day of Bell Canada International's launch of a new mobile cellular network Jinan, the capital of the Chinese province of Shandong.The new network uses Global System for Mobile communications technology and builds on the existing...
Startel, a wireless network operator in Chile, launched digital service on its network using Interim Standard 136 Digital Advanced Mobile Phone Service technology provided by L.M. Ericsson. The new digital services are being introduced initially in Santiago and later will be expanded to cover...
