fixed wireless

JAKARTA, Indonesia—Operator PT Radio Telepon, also known as Ratelindo, has selected Nortel Networks to build the country’s first cdma2000 1x fixed wireless local loop network in Jakarta. The companies expect …

BEIJING—Cambridge Broadband signed a multimillion dollar agreement with the Beijing D&G Telecommunications Equipment Company to deliver its fixed wireless broadband system for the Chinese market. The multiyear deal is worth …

WASHINGTON—Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ernest Hollings (D-S.C.) is expected today to introduce legislation to foster broadband Internet deployment in rural and unserved areas. On Tuesday, Sens. John Breaux (D-La.) and …

SUNNYVALE, Calif.—Proxim Corp. said it has signed a memorandum of understanding to sell $8 million of its fixed wireless communications equipment to Chinese vendor Eastcom. “Our agreement with Eastcom will …

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa—In the wake of recent tariff cuts by the competing GSM mobile operators, analog fixed wireless operator Intercellular announced that it will cut rates due to the development …

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TEL AVIV, Israel—Ceragon Networks Ltd. has added a fixed wireless SONET/SDH system with a built-in add-drop-multiplexer for cellular metropolitan infrastructure networks to its FibeAir product family. According to Ceragon, SONET/SDH …

NEW DELHI, India—The Indian government has reduced the import duty on wireless local loop (WLL) infrastructure equipment from 15 percent to 5 percent. The move is expected to help basic …

PETAH TIKVA, Israel—Israeli vendor InnoWave ECI Wireless Systems announced two contract wins in Africa. The first contract, with Swaziland Posts and Telecommunications Corporation, will provide fixed wireless access in the …

WHITE PLAINS, New York, United States—NextWave Telecom and bankrupt fixed wireless company Teligent were given approval by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court to transfer approximately US$1 million in telecommunications assets, including …

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.—NextWave Telecom Inc. and bankrupt fixed wireless company Teligent were given approval by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court to transfer approximately $1 million in telecommunications assets, including transmission equipment …

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—The major cellular operator in Paraguay, Telecel (Millicom International), has launched its prepaid fixed wireless telephony service called Tele2. The new service uses an 800 MHz cellular network …

NEW DELHI, India—Lanka Bell, a fixed wireless local loop (WLL) telecommunications service provider in Sri Lanka, decided to install a new broadband wireless access system, ClearBurst MB, from U.S.-based Harris …

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WASHINGTON-2002 offers the wayward wireless industry a chance to begin to redeem and redefine itself. But it won’t be easy, and survival skills will be essential. Indeed, with economic sluggishness …

JAKARTA,Indonesia—PT Telkom, Indonesia’s dominant telecommunication operator, is carrying out an auction for the development of CDMA-based fixed wireless network networks worth US$1 billion in January 2002. Eddy Praptono, Telkom’s vice …

NEW DELHI, India—U.S.-based vendor UTStarCom will soon begin trials of its wireless local loop (WLL) technology called PHS in the Indian capital. The government-controlled telecom company, MTNL, operating in the …

NEW YORK-Fraud is following the course of least resistance, trending largely but not exclusively toward subscriber identity theft and away from the use of wireless networks as a means to …

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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa—Coinciding with its Telecom Africa 2001 event this week in Johannesburg, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) released a report detailing the state of telecommunications in Africa. The report …

MOSCOW—The CDMA technology, which must abandon the 470 MHz to 872 MHz band in Russia by 2010, began to move down to the 450 MHz band, and a second carrier …

BEIJING—New York’s CI Wave and Beijing’s Taiji Computer are jointly planning, developing and building a nationwide 3.5 GHz broadband fixed wireless access (BFWA) data network. CI Wave is also offering …

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REDMOND, Washington, United States—AT&T Wireless Services said in its third-quarter earnings report that it has decided to exit the fixed wireless business during the next several months. AT&T Wireless said …

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—AT&T Latin America agreed on a strategic alliance with PRIMA of the Clar