TAIPEI, Taiwan-Low-tier mobile phone service in Taiwan was opened to competition by the country's Ministry of Transportation and Communications, with a tender announcement expected by December and commercial service rollout by March.The Taiwan Directorate General of Telecommunications under the MOTC has adopted an official...
LUXEMBOURG-SENTELgsm, a company owned 75 percent by Millicom International Cellular S.A., was awarded a 900 MHz Global System for Mobile communications license covering all of The Republic of Senegal.Located in western Africa, the country has a population of about 10 million, with nearly 1.9...
The success of the personal communications services industry has astounded industry analysts, PCS company executives and cellular carriers alike.The PCS industry is about two years old and already has penetrated the market, driven down prices and earned high revenues faster than anyone had expected."It's...
The personal communications services industry emerged almost unscathed in its quest for automatic roaming agreements with analog cellular carriers.Last year's lawsuit, which subsequently was dropped, brought by AT&T Wireless Services Inc. against Southwestco Wireless L.P. over in-market roaming, was thought to be a clash...
Analysts are indicating now is the time to buy some cheap Canadian wireless stocks, as the mobile phone market finally has rebounded from its 1997 growth slump.BT Alex.Brown Inc. expects Canada's mobile phone companies to add a total of 210,000 new subscribers during the...
Global System for Mobile communications operators in Europe soon could face a formidable opponent for commercial business accounts if Canada's Telesystem International Wireless Inc. follows through with its plans.The company has emerged not only as the dominant specialized mobile radio service provider in Europe,...
Irwin Jacobs, chairman of Qualcomm Inc., fought a David and Goliath battle during the 1980s to get Code Division Multiple Access technology accepted by the U.S. wireless establishment. Having accomplished that in a big way, Jacobs now is fighting another war of biblical proportion...
As the digital revolution begins to move at a substantial pace, mobile phone manufacturers have some tough decisions to make.The demand for digital handsets is growing, especially in the CDMA arena, where carriers are screaming for more handsets. More cellular carriers aggressively are pushing...
Though most are based on some form of wideband Code Division Multiple Access technology, the proposals submitted to the International Telecommunication Union last month suggest a tough road toward achieving the family of systems concept to allow for global roaming, let alone convergence of...
MALAYSIA-Tecnomen Malaysia announced it signed a contract to deliver a multimessaging system for an 1800 MHz Global System for Mobile communications network owned by its subsidiary Telekom Cellular.Under the terms of the contract, the system will include centralized voice and fax mail services for...
NEW YORK-Teleglobe Inc., Montreal, has been on the move in a big way lately.The company announced July 6 it has so far provided 100 Global System for Mobile communications network operators with worldwide signaling conversion services, which allow their personal communications services customers to...
WASHINGTON-As U.S. and European wireless firms accuse each other of gaming the standards-setting process for third-generation wireless technology, it turns out the high-powered Qualcomm Inc. lobbyist playing the trade card here represented Sweden's L.M. Ericsson in a separate standards fight two years ago.In the...
SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-With the popularity of Internet Protocol-based wireless networks for voice and data increasing, several vendors have announced products to meet this new demand.MotorolaMotorola Inc.'s Worldwide Data Solutions Division introduced an IP-based solution called Private DataTac 2.0, a dedicated wireless data network that uses...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson announced plans to introduce late next year a phone with roaming capability on Global System for Mobile communications 900 MHz and 1800 MHz, digital Advanced Mobile Phone Service 800 MHz and 1900 MHz, and analog 800 MHz AMPS networks.Those digital modes...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-Investment in the telecommunications sector is an urgent priority for Central and Eastern European countries. Financial management consultant Price Waterhouse examined in a recent report the challenges of such investments for 12 countries in the region, representing a combined population of some...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-The imminent explosion of the mobile data market has been like a constant companion for the past 12 years. The technology driving this supposed market expansion may have changed over time, but the predicted boom has always been present, always just about...
In an article on China, "The Promise Land," page 33, in the May-June issue of Global Wireless, Great Dragon Telecommunications (GDT) of China was listed as having developed a GSM mobile switching sub-module based on technology from U.S.-based General DataComm. It should have said...
L.M. EricssonBelgium. With KPN-Orange Belgium N.V. for a DCS 1800 network.Value: US$269 millionBrazil. With ATL-Algar Telecom Leste S.A. for a TDMA network.Value: up to US$350 millionEcuador. Five-year contract with BellSouth Ecuador to upgrade its AMPS network to TDMA IS-136.Value: more than US$250 millionEgypt. Contract from Misrfone to...
Northern Telecom Ltd. introduced the Nortel CDMA Minicell at June's CDMA World Congress in Singapore. Nortel said the base station allows wireless service operators to tailor their networks to meet the demands of network expansion.Bosch Telecom Inc. unveiled the World 718 phone, calling it...
TOKYO-DDI Cellular Group is set to kick off its cdmaOne IS-95 service in mid-July in western Japan. The service gradually will spread across the nation. Once IDO Corp. kicks off the same service next year, the service will become nationwide. IDO offers cellular in...
The highly competitive wireless market in the Republic of the Philippines-with five carriers serving some 70 million people-is perhaps the most ripe for consolidation compared with all Southeast Asian countries.With cellular companies burdened with the devaluation of the Philippine peso against the dollar, mandatory...
A number of new licenses will be up for grabs early next year in the United States as the majority of C-block Personal Communications Services licensees opted to return their licenses to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The FCC said 175 licenses will be...
BrazilBrazilian B-band operator Americel will deploy Northern Telecom Ltd.'s (Nortel's) Small Wireless Switch to fulfill its concession obligation of serving all state capitals in its coverage area within one year of operation.BCP S/A, Brazilian B-band operator for the metro region of S
OXFORD, United Kingdom-Originally scheduled for fall 1996, Italy's third GSM (Global System for Mobile communications) license finally was awarded in June. The winning WIND consortium is 51-percent owned by the state-controlled electricity utility Enel, together with partners Deutsche Telekom and France Telecom. WIND recently...
