Just less than a month before the Philippine government plans to hold an auction for new mobile phone licenses, Isla Communications Co. and Globe Telecom Gmcr both launched prepaid Global System for Mobile communications services.The launches represent the first shots of an aggressive nationwide...
AT&T Corp. also told analysts it plans to push a calling party pays program for its wireless customers, as well as a dual-band, dual-mode handset with extended battery time.AT&T said it plans this year to offer its wireless customers the new Nokia 6160, a...
AT&T Corp. is expected to announce to analysts today its operating strategy for the year that will include as many as 19,000 layoffs, management restructuring and the integration of its wireless business with its long-distance, local and Internet service divisions, reported the Wall Street...
NEW YORK-Moody's Investors Service assigned a speculative grade rating of B1 to a $130 million bank credit facility that Centennial Puerto Rico Wireless Corp. obtained to finance operating losses and the rollout of its personal communications services network.At the end of November, the year-old...
MUMBAI, India-Tata Lucent Technologies Ltd., a joint venture between Lucent Technologies International Inc. and the Tata Group of India, announced it has been awarded a $325 million contract to supply advanced telecommunications infrastructure equipment to Tata Teleservices Ltd. of India.Installation of the system will...
Homeowners in California soon will have the capability to run their entire house by remote control-using only a computer, two-way pager, or telephone-thanks to utility deregulation efforts and agreements signed between Enron Energy Services Inc. and Mobile Telecommunication Technologies Inc.Enron, a wholly owned subsidiary...
WASHINGTON-While wireless local loop technology is taking off in such countries as South Africa, Great Britain, India and China, the United States continues to lag behind in deploying what could be the most cost-effective, time-sensitive means of providing everyone in this country with dial...
VERNON HILLS, Ill.-Telular Corp. said it will begin delivering PhoneCell fixed wireless terminals to the West African Republic of Guinea this month, after being award an $8 million contract by Guinea Sotelgui S.A.The award from Guinea Sotelgui is part of a multiyear deployment to...
NEW YORK-Teligent Inc. went public Nov. 21 with a 5.5 million-share initial public offering of common stock priced at $21.50 per share, near the high end of the expected $19-$22 price range.The Vienna, Va., upstart with big-name backing, plans to build a point-to-multipoint wireless...
NEW YORK-Point-to-multipoint equipment should be available in quantity by mid-1998, bringing the bandwidth on demand promise of last-mile wireless "fiber" closer to widespread deployment."Where the heck did this market come from and why is it here today?" David Graves, chief executive officer of Broadband...
CANCUN, Mexico-Northern Telecom Ltd.'s Proximity T-LTX, which allows operators to offer fixed wireless services from a wireline switching system, is now commercially available, announced the company at Mexico's Wireless '97 show.The Proximity T-LTX uses Time Division Multiple Access technology to deploy additional capacity, particularly...
NEW YORK-Telstra Corp. Ltd. debuted with a bang Nov. 17 on the Australian Stock Exchange, and trading began on the New York Stock Exchange a day later.The hugely oversubscribed initial public offering of 4.3 billion shares of common stock in the country's largest telecommunications...
NEW YORK-Teligent Inc. hopes to celebrate Thanksgiving in a major way, assuming its plans to hit the public capital markets big time before month's end are realized.The Vienna, Va., upstart, with big-name backing, plans to build a point-to-multipoint wireless network to compete with local...
Northern Telecom Ltd. won a $780 million contract with Teligent Corp. and offered to purchase all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Broadband Networks Inc. on a fully diluted basis, indicating its desire to become the leading vendor in the emerging fixed...
The National Telecommunications Commission in the Philippines announced it will issue one nationwide and four regional permits for new mobile phone operators there.Kari Roe, analyst for Asia and the Pacific Rim for International Technology Consultants in Bethesda, Md., said the tender is for an...
NEW YORK-Despite recent volatility in the equities markets and lawsuits against it by six competing carriers, Telstra, Australia's largest telecommunications company, apparently still plans to proceed by mid-November with its initial public stock offering.Besides its wireline business, Telstra operates Telstra Mobilenet, one of three...
SYDNEY, Australia-Telstra, an Australian telecom company, announced it selected Northern Telecom Inc. as its preferred digital fixed wireless access network infrastructure equipment and services provider, with plans to deploy 350 of its base stations over the next three years.The carrier already has begun commercial...
Mtel simplifies credit covenantsMobile Telecommunication Technologies Corp. announced it has simplified certain covenants associated with its $250 million credit facility after negotiations with its bank group.Modified items include the elimination of the one-way units in service covenant and the extension of Mtel's exit of...
NEW YORK-Teligent Corp. is the new name for Associated Communications L.L.C., a company established last year as a broadband wireless competitive local exchange carrier, announced Alex J. Mandl, its president.Mandl, formerly president of AT&T Corp., said the new name "reflects our goal of becoming...
GERMANTOWN, Md.-Hughes Network Systems Inc. recently signed contracts with PT Ratelindo, an Indonesian telecom operator, to expand its fixed wireless telephone network in Jakarta.According to HNS, Ratelindo plans to connect more than 150,000 subscribers by the end of the year. The company currently is...
SINGAPORE-Qualcomm Inc. has signed an agreement with Rostov Electrosviaz of Rostov, Russia, to supply $5.8 million in 800 MHz Code Division Multiple Access fixed wireless loop infrastructure equipment and services. Qualcomm's CDMA system will be deployed in the Russian region of Rostov-on-Don and surrounding...
AUSTIN, Texas-Qualcomm Inc. donated 125 Code Division Multiple Access digital phones to aid in relief efforts after tornadoes destroyed neighborhoods in Jarrell, Texas, in a joint effort with Sprint PCS.The donation includes 100 of Qualcomm's QCT-1200 fixed wireless phones and 25 QCP-1900 personal communications...
Globalstar L.P. announced at a signing ceremony it has placed purchase orders by the partners that comprise Globalstar's limited partnership for 35 Globalstar gateways to be installed around the world. The contracts, totaling approximately $275 million, represent a further commitment by the Globalstar partners...
NEW YORK-Barely finished with its acquisition of Pacific Telesis Group, SBC Communications Corp. is widely rumored to be exploring merger possibilities with AT&T Corp.Ruthlyn Newell, a spokesman for AT&T, headquartered in New York, declined to comment, citing company policy on "rumors or speculation about...
