NEW YORK-All bidders for the United Kingdom's One-2-One have reportedly dropped out, so Cable & Wireless plc and MediaOne Group, which own the personal communications services carrier, will have to go back to the drawing board."We remain interested in the UK market, which is...
PARIS-France Telecom Group said it will sell all of its shares in Deutsche Telekom next year, valued at about $2 billion.Jean-Louis Vinciguerra, France Telecom's executive vice president of finance, said France Telecom would sell its shares and that cooperation between the two companies to...
Deutsche Telekom AG has about $18 billion at its disposal after its $11-billion secondary offering last week, and speculation is running high about what acquisitions it will make in Europe and the United States."I will not name names today," Ron Sommer, chief executive of...
DUBLIN, Ireland-One of the most common complaints from telecommunications companies competing with former monopoly operators is cross-subsidization by the incumbent, particularly in countries where the incumbent also controls a major cellular operator. However, regulators across Europe have been tackling this issue, and it now...
Phone.com Inc., formerly Unwired Planet, has been tied to several announcements in the weeks preceding its impending initial public offering that have served to elevate the company to new levels of recognition.Most recently, Phone.com has been mentioned in conjunction with Sprint PCS and Nextel...
NEW YORK-"We are our own unit, and we do not think our way of running the business will be affected by the merger," Massimo Arciulo, director of strategic and financial analysis for Telecom Italia Mobile, said last week of his company's merger plans.Germany's Deutsche...
GENEVA-Late in the evening of 21 April, fax machines on the desks of night editors at Europe's major dailies suddenly began to hum in unison, roused by a simple, one-page press statement. That single page would, within hours, rock the foundations of the telecom...
SANDTON, South Africa-Telecel International, one of the most active cellular investors in Africa, split into two separate companies as from the end of April. The resulting companies are Telecel One, run by the American Joseph Gatt with headquarters in the United States, and Telecel...
GENEVA-The ferocious competition that has characterized the DM70 billion (US$40 billion) German telecommunications market since the introduction of full telecom competition a year-and-a-half ago shows no signs of abating, with the country's four cellular operators all promising more price cuts and the introduction of...
Just when Telecom Italia Spa seemed to have no defense left to ward off the hostile takeover bid from rival Italian telecom operator Olivetti Spa, its seemingly hopeless plea for a white knight to save the day was answered by Deutsche Telekom.The German operator's...
GENEVA-The ferocious competition that has characterized the $40 billion German telecommunications market since the introduction of full telecom competition a year and a half ago shows no signs of abating, with the country's four cellular operators all promising more price cuts and the introduction...
The announcement last week that Comcast Corp. and MediaOne Group signed an agreement to merge in a $60 billion deal driven by broadband cable networks could affect the wireless industry halfway around the world.MediaOne's international wireless interests, which cover 4.3 million customers primarily in...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-WatchMark Inc. announced it received a telecommunications management network order from German wireless operator Deutsche Telekom MobilNet GmbH to provide its WatchMark Pilot visualization product for T-Mobil's network surveillance system for the D1 Global System for Mobile communications 900 network.WatchMark Pilot visualizes immediate...
WASHINGTON-In potentially a major breakthrough in the gridlocked third generation mobile phone controversy, U.S. and European wireless executives here last week agreed to pursue a framework for an umbrella Code Division Multiple Access standard that combines common elements of competing CDMA technologies and gives...
The State Department late last month urged the European Commission to allow U.S. third-generation wireless equipment and service providers a fair opportunity to compete in Europe.In a letter sent to EC Commissioner Martin Bangemann Dec. 19, the United States expressed concern Europe may be...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-Last July the European Commission identified 14 cases of excessive or discriminatory pricing of interconnect rates between fixed and mobile operators. In-depth investigations were launched, and half of those investigations have been closed or suspended following a flurry of rate-cutting and pressure...
SINGAPORE-Over the last few months, British Telecommunications plc has been on a buying spree that would put any seasoned shopaholic to shame-chalking up a bill of more than US$1 billion in the Asia-Pacific region alone.Having kept a relatively low profile in Asia for the...
Tele Danmark A/S announced the takeover of Millicom East Holding B.V., a Dutch holding company owning shares in the two Lithuanian cellular companies Bite GSM and Comliet. After the transaction, Tele Danmark will control 71.6 percent of Bite and 49 percent of Comliet. In...
NEW YORK-The boundaries between internal and external computer networks are disappearing due to the warp-speed incursion of the Internet, raising security concerns within enterprises that want to exploit this promising opportunity safely."Security is one of the inhibitors. It has been and always will be...
ItalyTelecom Italia Mobile announced it will begin a market trial of Unwired Planet Inc.'s UP.Link Server and software planet for wireless Internet access to mobile phones. Equipped with Unwired Planet's UP.Browser microbrowser software, handheld phones can access Internet sites written in Wireless Markup Language...
L.M. Ericsson signed a software licensing agreement with Lernot & Hauspie Speech Products for the latter's speech recognition, text-to-speech and speech compression technology.L&H in the past has signed licensing agreements with Motorola Inc., Deutsche Telekom AG, Northern Telecom Inc. and Intellivoice Communications Inc.Speech user...
NEW YORK-Even if telecommunications giants seeking to combine with each other clear the myriad hurdles confronting their plans, the success of their bids to merge may depend ultimately on approval by the little guy.Holding what may be the ultimate trump card is the holder...
AustraliaThe Australian Communications Authority said it prepared a recommendation to the Minister for Communications, the Information Economy and the Arts, for a nationwide reallocation of spectrum in the 3.410 GHz to 3.6 GHz band. The intent of the proposal is to support the government's...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-Originally scheduled for fall 1996, Italy's third GSM (Global System for Mobile communications) license finally was awarded in June. The winning WIND consortium is 51-percent owned by the state-controlled electricity utility Enel, together with partners Deutsche Telekom and France Telecom. WIND recently...
