Bouygues Telecom chose the partnership of Nokia Telecommunications and Dassault A.T. of France to provide a DCS 1800 cellular system in northern France. Nokia and Dassault will provide base stations, base station controllers, operation systems, cellular transmission equipment and antennas. In addition, the pair...
Companies offering microcellular systems are starting to receive contract orders, and expect more when the D-, E- and F-block auctions are over in the next couple of months.Ericsson Inc. has signed its first U.S. contract for a SuperCordless portable phone network, with ComScape Telecommunications...
L.M. Ericsson on Jan. 1 plans to reorganize its five business areas into three: Telephones & Terminals, Mobile Systems and Infocom Systems. Telephones & Terminals will be responsible for consumer products, including mobile phones and cordless phones. Mobile Systems will be responsible for network solutions,...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson will supply Global System for Mobile communications infrastructure to Telecel Comunicacoes Pessoais S.A. between 1997 and 1999 to expand its network in Portugal. Ericsson values the contract at $98 million. The agreement includes switching, radio base stations and services, Ericsson said."The...
NEW YORK-Compania Anonima Nacional Telefonos de Venezuela, the country's monopoly telecommun-ications conglomerate, was scheduled to become a publicly traded company Nov. 22 with an offering outside the country of 34.2 million American Depository Shares.The IPO, lead managed by Lehman Brothers, New York, was expected...
NEW YORK-Single-number portability, delivery of branded content and the growing similarity between switched voice and data are all trends that are moving in fast, according to participants in a panel Nov. 20 on wireless technology."No intelligent network platform is as reliable as a switch....
WASHINGTON-"That peculiar smell drifting up from Puerto Rico is the odor of burning money. Our money. I'm tired of smelling it," wrote Gary North Nov. 8 to other limited partners whose holdings are in limbo while PCS 2000 Inc. C-block personal communications services licenses...
NEW YORK-Omnipoint Communications Inc. opened for business Nov. 14, but a full-scale promotional campaign for its first personal communications services network-in the New York City metropolitan area-won't start for another week or so.By then, roaming will be possible in portions of Southern California, the...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Dr. Nils Rydbeck, manager of Mobile Telephony research and development at Ericsson in the United States, was awarded the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences' Gold Medal for an outstanding contribution in the development of mobile telephones.The medal committee recognized Rydbeck for "significant...
NEW YORK-As Omnipoint Communications Inc. sprints toward the Nov. 14 commercial launch of its personal communications service in the New York City metropolitan area, two hurdles remain: Nynex and NIMBY.But when Omnipoint opens for business this week, there will be no disclaimers and no fine...
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.-Ericsson Inc. announced it will provide AT&T Wireless Services Inc. with digital wireless phones. The agreement, which is the largest Ericsson has ever signed with any single U.S. customer for wireless phones, is valued at more than $300 million.Ericsson said it...
LITTLE CHUTE, Wis.-Airadigm Communications has chosen Ericsson Inc. as equipment vendor for the company's personal communications services network.Airadigm hopes to deploy service early next year. The Little Chute, Wis.-based company holds 13 C-block licenses to provide 1900 MHz service throughout Wisconsin and in the...
CALABASAS, Calif.- Tekelec signed a global licensing agreement to provide its Protocol Adaptable State Machine technology and Chameleon SoftTest products to all of L.M. Ericsson's divisions."The combination of PASM and Chameleon SoftTest allows Ericsson to create and execute testing in a virtual environment and...
Nextel Communications Inc. charted a new frontier in its acquisition strategy with plans to buy most of Wireless Ventures of Brazil Inc., owner of Brazil's only nationwide specialized mobile radio license.Nextel of McLean, Va., said it reached definitive agreements with Wireless Ventures, of Arlington...
JV Digital Cellular Communications of Ukraine Ltd. placed an order, valued at $30 million, for L.M. Ericsson's fixed Digital Advanced Mobile Phone Service/AMPS cellular network. Under the contract, Ericsson will install the network in Kiev, Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk, Charkiv, Odessa and the peninsular Krim. The...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson reported net sales of $4.28 billion for the third quarter ended Sept. 30, up 19 percent from net sales of $3.59 billion during the third quarter 1995. Net sales for the first three quarters were $11.87 billion, an increase of 17...
When Pacific Bell Mobile Services launches commercial GSM-based personal communications services this Friday in San Diego, it will do so alongside a quiet competitor. AirTouch Communications Inc. said it will launch its Code Division Multiple Access cellular network on the same day and in...
NEW YORK-Fraud fighter Coral Systems Inc. plans to go public in an offering that could raise more than $20 million.Coral, which provides client-server software to help wireless carriers reduce fraud and churn, registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission last week for permission to...
Ericsson Radio Systems said it has transmitted data at a rate of 144 kilobits per second on 5 megahertz of channel bandwidth, using Code Division Multiple Access technology, in a Swedish test lab."We don't think this needs to be designed for voice," said Dr....
FORT WORTH, Texas-Motorola Inc.'s Advanced Messaging Group and Radiomensaje, an Argentina-based national and regional paging service provider, signed an agreement to expand Radiomensaje's FLEX protocol-based infrastructure network.The new channel will be launched this month in Argentina, Motorola said."The current Argentina paging subscriber base is...
Korean telephone service provider Shinsegi Telecomm Inc. awarded Lucent Technologies Inc. a contract to supply and install a Code Division Multiple Access-technology based cellular network in the southern cities of Pusan and Kyungnam. Lucent said it immediately will begin installing its 5ESS-2000 switch-based mobile...
The wireless industry is primed to woo holiday shoppers this season to their stable of products, offering service that is inexpensive and easy to use, with no strings attached.In the past, a shopper trying to decide between a pager and a blouse, or a...
