AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and GTE Corp. have been awarded nationwide mobile phone licenses in Taiwan, beating competitors such as Sprint Corp. and France Telecom Group out of the prize.Also, a regional license covering southern Taiwan was won by a consortium that includes U.S.-based...
BRUSSELS-Belgacom Mobile said it will appeal a court ruling that requires the operator to suspend a sales promotion for its Proximus cellular service.The Global System for Mobile communications carrier said the ban was issued after Mobistar, its competitor, complained about the fairness of the...
Israel's two cellular operators are working hard to sign up as many customers as possible while the government continues to ponder details for licensing a third cellular operator."The (technology) standard of the third license hasn't been determined yet. The ministry has had a lot...
The government of Taiwan delayed the award of new mobile phone licenses because of misgivings about the foreign ownership of several consortia.Taiwan is offering two nationwide personal communications network licenses and six regional licenses. Consortia applying for the licenses cannot have more than 20...
Poland's Minister of Telecommunications announced plans to issue a tender for a personal communications network license at 1.8 GHz. In separate news, international arbitration between Ameritech International and the government of Poland has ceased since Ameritech sold its shares in cellular operator Centertel to...
The Guangdong Machinery and Export Corp. of China awarded Allen Telecom Group's Decibel Products division a contract to expand its Global System for Mobile communications and Digital Cellular System 1800 networks. Allen Telecom values the contract at more than $9 million. The expansion will...
PARIS-France Telecom Mobiles announced it will activate roaming with American Personal Communications this quarter.The company announced in June its intent to deploy roaming functionality between APC's PCS 1900 network and its own cellular Global System for Mobile communications network.The accord allows France Telecom's Itineris...
Denmark's government has accepted bids for personal communications licenses and is pleased with the amount of interest it received, reported the U.S. Department of Commerce.Five entities filed tender documents for one of perhaps five nationwide Digital Cordless Services 1800 licenses, which were expected to...
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...
The Romanian Ministry of Communications awarded two 900 MHz Global System for Mobile communications licenses to the consortia of Mobil Rom, led by France Telecom International Mobiles, and to MobiFon, led by Montreal-based Telesystem International Wireless Services. AirTouch Communications Inc. is a minority partner...
WASHINGTON-The pending $21 billion merger between MCI Communications Corp. and British Telecommunications plc will turn on a relatively new foreign ownership policy and be shaped by powerful political forces that are conspiring to liberalize telecom markets for heavyweight global competition in the 21st century.The...
Ameritech Corp. is considering selling its 24.5 percent interest in Polish analog operator Centertel because it has "diverging views on what future should look like," said Dennis LaComb, director of international affairs for Ameritech.Telekomunikacja Polska SA, Poland's state-owned telecom company, holds a majority...
Panafon SA, Athens. Global System for Mobile communications cellular system built by L.M. Ericsson. Owned by Vodafone (45 percent), France Telecom (35 percent), Data Bank of Greece (10 percent), Intracom (10 percent). Service began July 1993.STET Hellas, Athens. GSM system with equipment from Ericsson,...
International consortium Polkomtel started Global System for Mobile communications cellular service in Poland just seven months after receiving its license and two weeks after its key competitor, Polska Telefonica Cyfrowa, introduced GSM service.Polkomtel, operating as Plus GSM, launched service in Warsaw and is expected...
NEW YORK-LCC International Inc., an independent provider of radio frequency network design for wireless telecommunications, went public Sept. 25 with a 5.25 million share offering of Class A common stock at $16 each.The new issue was increased from the 5 million share initial public...
Polska Telefonica Cyfrowa of Poland started its "Era GSM" Global System for Mobile communications service, offered at rates lower than those of existing operator Centertel, announced U S West Media Group.Elektrim SA is lead partner in PTC, while U S West holds a 22.5...
PARIS-France Telecom, with its Mobil Rom consortium, announced it will participate in a bid for a license to install and operate a new Global System for Mobile communications digital cellular phone network in Romania. The Mobil Rom consortium includes Computer Land, Media Pro, Tomen...
WASHINGTON-The Senate Judiciary Committee last week scrutinized pending mergers involving four of the seven regional Bell telephone companies, setting the stage for a broader debate on whether the new telecommunications law is fostering competition or limiting it.There are strong views on both sides of...
NEW YORK-LCC International Inc., an independent provider of radio frequency network design for wireless telecommunications, said it plans to go public by early autumn.The road show for the 5-million-share initial public offering of Class A common stock was under way last week, and the...
WASHINGTON-The D-, E- and F-block broadband personal communications services auction not only is the largest competitive bidding venture upon which the Federal Communications Commission has embarked to date, it also has spawned new players, regenerated old hands and created a few strange bedfellows.In this...
A week after Mobistar launched Global System for Mobile communications cellular service in Belgium, sole incumbent Belgacom Mobile cut its cellular rates between 30 percent and 34 percent.However, Mobistar's rates are equally competitive to Belgacom's new rates, said Luca Tassan, analyst at London-based Economic...
Grupo Iusacell S.A. de C.V. announced it will resell long-distance service to its more than 225,000 wireless customers during the first phase of the opening of the Mexican long-distance market. Iusacell, through its long-distance subsidiary, Iusatel, will offer discounts which are from 30 percent...
Competition strategies used by France Telecom may change a little now that the national company has become a private entity, researchers say."As a private company, they have to be more accountable for their operations, and there will be more pressure to be competitive," said...
Laws and fairness in Poland's wireless sector are a hot topic this month, as three separate authorities investigate current business practices.A Polish news publication reported the Anti-Monopoly Office in Poland has its eye on state-owned telephone operator Telecommunickacja Polska S.A., which is suspected of...
