Motorola and SkyTel announced they have signed a memorandum of understanding to expand two-way wireless communications solutions to Latin America. In particular, SkyTel said it will make Motorola's PageWriter 2000X two-way pager available in Latin American markets. The pagers previously were available only in...
HONG KONG-In January, the Hong Kong government awarded five licenses for wireless fixed telecommunications network services (FTNS), signaling a major advance in Internet access.The licensees will use base stations to transmit voice, data and video signals via microwave links to rooftop antenna dishes on...
SINGAPORE-Singapore has fast-forwarded its liberalization plans for the telecommunications sector by a staggering two years, effectively throwing the industry wide open almost immediately.The move, which comes into effect on 1 April this year, is the island state's boldest move in the communications arena thus...
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) expects to hold an auction for the remaining narrowband PCS licenses as early as mid-2000. In preparation for the auction, the FCC plans to issue auction rules during first-quarter 2000. The FCC released proposed rules on what should be...
NEW YORK-Aided by a federal regulatory regime that has leveled the playing field for newcomers, broadband telecommunications competitors are coming on strong in their efforts to wrest business customers from incumbents."There are significant opportunities, a $100 billion business marketplace that broadband is targeting with...
NEW YORK-In a Valentine's Day announcement, Teligent Inc., a point-to-multipoint carrier based in Vienna, Va., and Mannesmann Arcor AG & Co., said they had partnered to provide fixed wireless voice and data communications in Germany.Mannesmann AG, which recently agreed to merge with Vodafone AirTouch...
WASHINGTON-The `consensus' reached by a government-industry panel on a third-generation mobile phone position that the Clinton administration can take to the World Radiocommunication Conference this spring underscores the complexities faced by the United States in trying to craft a strategy that advances international business...
Crown Castle InternationalCrown Castle International Corp. announced Michael G. Ramke has been named vice president of business development for the United States and Philip M. Kelley has been named vice president of business development internationally. Ramke served as vice president since April 1998 and...
Qualcomm Inc. on Friday officially asked the Federal Communications Commission to grant it spectrum in the upcoming channel 60-69 auctions.Qualcomm wants the commission to quickly award it spectrum to make up for the pioneer's preference license it repeatedly denied Qualcomm in the last decade...
WASHINGTON-Policy-makers need to address the issue of building access if competition is to fully develop, said William Kennard, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, as he laid out his vision for the year 2000."I personally believe policy-makers, be it Congress or the FCC, ,"...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Adaptive Broadband Corp. signed a $225 million contract to provide its AB-Access fixed wireless equipment to Telecom Wireless Corp., a Colorado-based broadband wireless access provider.AB-Access is a last-mile network that offers data transmission rates of up to 20 Mbps, which supports real-time video...
Nextlink Communications Inc. and Concentric Network Corp. entered into a $2.9 billion merger agreement to create a new broadband communications company providing a variety of voice, data and Internet services, the companies announced."The capabilities of the two companies will result in a differentiated service...
Brazil's spectrum choice in auctioning new personal communications services licenses could be an important decision for the GSM community as it struggles to gain inroads into Latin America.The Brazilian telecom regulatory authority, Anatel, plans to auction new PCS licenses as early as this year,...
NEW YORK-As 1999 drew to a close, two mutual fund managers, one overseeing a diverse investment portfolio, the other specializing in telecommunications, offered contrasting views of the year-2000 stock market outlook.Peter M. Donovan, president of Wright Investors' Service Inc., Bridgeport, Conn., sees the big...
As pocket telephone companies cater to the mobile society and make tiny inroads into the monopolized residential sector, a new breed of wireless carriers are emerging to challenge Baby Bells for the highly lucrative high-speed business communications market.2000 could be their year. If not...
Hong Kong mobile telephone operator SmarTone Communications said it is looking to secure a wireless fixed network license in Hong Kong. SmarTone is among 14 companies that have applied to the Hong Kong government for wireless local fixed telephone network licenses. SmarTone is beginning...
AlcatelCameroon. With Societe Camerounaise de Mobiles (SCM) for a GSM network for the area between the cities of Yaounde, Douala and Bafoussam.Value: US$21.15 millionChina. With Post and Telecommunications Administration of Hubei province for DECT wireless local loop systems.Value: US$20 millionMozambique. With Telecomunicacoes Moeis de Mocambique for...
NEW YORK-Winstar Communications Inc., New York, will receive $900 million from its sale of a 13-percent stake to a group of investors, including Microsoft Corp., the fixed wireless access carrier announced Dec. 15.Others participating in the purchase include Credit Suisse First Boston Equity Partners...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Ericsson said it signed a $200 million contract with Diginet Americas to further build out Diginet's fixed wireless broadband network throughout Latin America. The agreement expands Ericsson's previous agreement with Diginet from $100 million to $300 million.Since the two companies signed an initial...
At the recent Practicing Law Institute's Telecommunications Conference, Thomas Sugrue, chief of the FCC's Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, gave a humorous presentation describing the wireless industry. Here is how the wireless industry's chief regulator sees the industry: 1. Why can't we be more European? or ......
AT&T Wireless Services Inc. is considering using some of its reserved personal communications services spectrum to solve capacity problems in high-density cellular markets.The Time Division Multiple Access carrier owns hundreds of 10-megahertz PCS licenses that surround its existing markets. AT&T Corp. is expected to...
It appears that since Dan Hesse's appointment as president and chief executive officer of AT&T Corp.'s wireless business three years ago, AT&T has had a tenuous relationship with the man.Financial analysts last week were wondering why the man who had brought AT&T Wireless Services...
NEW YORK - Shortly after announcing divestiture plans for its telecommunications equipment operations Dec. 9, World Access Inc., Atlanta, said it agreed to sell Galaxy Engineering Services, one unit within that business.An investor group, led by Galaxy's founder and president, Joseph Forbes, took the...
Wireless stocks became the darling of Wall Street this year.Just a year ago analysts were predicting the death of stand-alone wireless stocks as landline companies planned to fold their wireless assets in with the rest of their companies to reflect their desires to be...
