HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. said it conducted a demonstration of its High Speed Circuit Switched Data technology on a Global System for Mobile communications test network.The test included applications such as video-on-demand, music-on-demand, information services, large e-mail downloads, network games, re-broadcasting of television programs, and...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s Cellular Infrastructure Group was awarded two contracts valued at $38.8 million to replace another vendor's existing cellular Global System for Mobile communications networks and to expand Motorola CIG's GSM and analog cellular systems in China's Jilin province.The contracts, awarded through...
While the short-term forecast for wireless operators in financially troubled parts of the world could be turbulent, carriers remain optimistic the wireless industry will weather the current financial crisis without many lasting repercussions.Stock markets around the globe-in Europe, Japan, Latin America and the United...
WASHINGTON-A powerful Senate resolution that was to promote third-generation wireless harmonization was thoroughly diluted by U.S. backers of European-based mobile phone technology last week, a bizarre turnabout that drew a mix of new faces into the escalating controversy and further muddied the waters for...
Sweden-based L.M. Ericsson said it has found no reason to believe the current W-CDMA 3G standard chosen by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute would infringe on any valid intellectual property rights claimed by Qualcomm Inc.In fact, CEO Sven-Christer Nilsson's comments to the Japanese press...
An old Chinese saying may be relevant to the commercialization of CDMA mobile phone networks in China-"Those who know don't talk, and those who talk don't know"-at least on the record.When will Code Division Multiple Access networks be launched commercially in China? No one...
WANDEL & GOLTERMANNRadMan is a personal safety monitor introduced by German company Wandel & Goltermann that measures electric and magnetic fields in any direction. RadMan monitors the limit values established by control boards and gives an alarm if the levels are exceeded. The monitor...
If all goes as planned, Iridium L.L.C.'s vision of a global wireless phone network-based on a constellation of 66 low-earth-orbit satellites interconnected to several terrestrial-based networks-will begin commercial service on 23 September.While the company continues to put the finishing touches on the satellite network,...
Chances are slim to none that U.S. mobile phone operators will agree on one standard for the next generation of mobile phone services.Already fragmented with three different digital standards-cdmaOne, TDMA (Time Division Multiple Access) and GSM (Global System for Mobile communications)-the United States is...
L.M. EricssonArgentina. With Telecom Personal to expand its D-AMPS/AMPS network.Value: up to US$77 millionArgentina. With Telefonica Comunicaciones Personales to expand its D-AMPS IS-136/AMPS network.Value: US$45 millionBosnia. With PTT Bosnia and Herzegovina for 30,000 GSM mobile lines (and fixed equipment).Value: US$59 millionChile. With CTC-Startel for expanding its D-AMPS...
BEIJING-In its latest proposal to gain entry to the World Trade Organization (WTO), China offered on 24 July to open gradually its paging and mobile phone operating services to foreign competition. Currently, foreign companies only are allowed to engage in manufacturing of telecommunications equipment,...
BEIJING-China Telecom announced it signed up its 20 millionth mobile phone customer, a police officer named Zhang Qinghua in the scenic city of Hangzhou, at precisely 8: 45 a.m. on 18 August. In the first half of the year, China Telecom signed up 5.45 million...
What does the acronym MoU mean? MoU stands for Memorandum of Understanding, of course-as in the GSM MoU Association. Any European cellular operator could tell you that. Except today, some cellular operators may give a different explanation. MoU stands for Minutes of Use, they...
JERUSALEM, Israel-In the southern town of Ashkelon stands a larger-than-life black marble grave stone that is as much a monument to the teenager buried in the plot as it is to the cell phone he loved to cradle: the stone, in fact, is a replica...
JERUSALEM, Israel-Afraid of scaring Israeli consumers, wireless carriers operating in this nation of 2 million cellular phone users are awaiting the arrival of a third player, Partner Communications Co. Ltd., before tackling head-on the thorny issue of possible health risks associated with prolonged cell...
The first GSM (Global System for Mobile communications) network in Zambia is scheduled to be commercial at the end of October. At its launch, Zambia will join more than 20 African countries that have GSM networks.The new operator, Zamcell, is a joint venture of...
LONDON-Vodafone Group plc announced plans to buy the national GSM (Global System for Mobile communications) network in New Zealand for about US$369.1 million.Vodafone Europe Holdings BV reached an agreement to buy the network and related assets operated by BellSouth New Zealand Ltd. as well...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-The United Kingdom likes to portray itself as a pioneer in cellular. Certainly it was early on the scene, with two analog TACS (Total Access Communications System) networks entering commercial service in January 1985.In mid-1992, the United Kingdom was at the front...
The Australian Communications Authority has invited applications for an auction of previously unsold 800 MHz and 1.8 GHz PCS spectrum.Bids closed on 31 August for the partial privatization of Telekom Austria. The Austrian government is looking to sell a 25-percent stake in the company,...
COPENHAGEN, Denmark-Danish telecommunications services group Tele Danmark A/S announced it sold for about US$160 million approximately 70 percent of its 23.2-percent interest in Hungarian cellular operator Pannon GSM Tavkozlesi Rt.The Pannon shares were acquired by three co-owners of the company: PTT Telecom of the Netherlands;...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-The licensing of two additional cellular carriers in South Africa will represent the biggest opportunity for black empowerment in Africa-and for some, the last chance to become involved in the vibrant telecommunications market here.When the Department of Communications issues tender invitations later...
Wireless operators, especially those in emerging markets, will have to operate leaner to survive the second stage of a financial crisis that originated in Asia a year ago, spread to Russia more recently-and within a matter of days fanned out like wildfire to markets...
WASHINGTON-The Canadian wireless industry, which slowed considerably last year because of marketplace confusion about PCS (Personal Communications Services)/cellular technology and pricing, appears to have sorted things out and returned to a fast-growth track in 1998.The two new players, which offer PCS, and the two...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-Unseemly and ongoing disputes over intellectual property rights seem to have hijacked the current debate about third-generation (3G) cellular. Posturing by radio manufacturers continues to dominate the news in the air-interface standards-selection process. But the real issues lie elsewhere.The real issues are...
