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Ukraine Orbcomm 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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

L.M. Ericsson Brazil. With Telet S.A. to construct a TDMA network. Value: US$140 million China. With Chongqing Telecommunications Administration to expand its GSM network. Value: US$138 million China. With Hebei …

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 …

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 …

L.M. Ericsson Belgium. With KPN-Orange Belgium N.V. for a DCS 1800 network. Value: US$269 million Brazil. With ATL-Algar Telecom Leste S.A. for a TDMA network. Value: up to US$350 million …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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. …

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 …

Three Chinese state ministries have created a competitor for China’s monopolistic Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications to expand the nation’s telecommunications system. China United Telecommunications Corp., Unicom, initially intends to …