JOHANNESBURG-South African companies are poised to play a major role in telecommunications as the privatization and deregulation process, which began in the early 1990s in Africa, moves rapidly ahead.But the march is not likely to be an easy one as top international companies are...
1998 may be the year for introductions of next-generation wireless office systems that allow for seamless handoffs between the office system and a carrier's macrocellular system.Hughes Network Systems Inc. and AT&T Wireless Services Inc. announced a strategic marketing agreement last week calling for AT&T...
In the summer of 1989, one of my favorite bands, the B-52s, released an album with the big hit-tune "Roam," in which singer Kate Pierson encouraged listeners to "roam around the world." Well, it took me nine years, Kate, but I finally took you...
MexicoGrupo Iusacell inaugurated its new Code Division Multiple Access network with a phone call by the company's president, Fulvio del Valle, from its headquarters in Mexico City to a nearby community. The launch marks the first phase of Iusacell's $200-million network modernization plan to...
Tom Wheeler, president of the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association, will have spent two weeks on the road before he returns home to Washington, D.C. Wheeler was scheduled to spend the first week in Cannes, France, at the GSM MOU conference and this week hosting...
Cambridge Positioning Systems, a Cambridge, United Kingdom-based company, last week introduced its Cursor Global System for Mobile communications location system at the GSM World Congress in Cannes, France.The company said Cursor is the first demonstrable system of its kind. Cambridge is demonstrating the system...
WASHINGTON-The war of words between the wireless industry and law enforcement over the time frame and requirements of the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act is becoming more strident as letters between those two entities, Congress and the Justice Department, continue to circulate in...
Bulgaria's Post and Telecommunications Committee announced that the buyer of state-owned Bulgarian Telecommunications Co. will receive a Global System for Mobile communications license.The agency said it hopes to begin negotiations with potential buyers for BTC by the third quarter. Named as interested bidders to...
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. and DeTeMobil of Bonn, Germany, said they are planning to offer Pegasos-QEDesign, a wireless network planning and deployment software suite for multiple technologies, including Code Division Multiple Access, Global System for Mobile communications and various analog standards.The combined software package produces...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson signed a contract to install a 900 MHz Global System for Mobile communications system for Tatarian-American Investment in Finance, a mobile operator in Tatarstan, Russia.Ericsson values the contract at $50 million.When fully operational, the system is expected to support 100,000 subscribers.Ericsson...
PARIS-Alcatel, Schlumberger and Sendit introduced a wireless application, based on the Global System for Mobile communications smart card, for adding Internet e-mail capability to mobile phones, said the companies. The application was launched last week at the GSM World Congress in Cannes, France.The companies...
CANNES, France-Motorola Inc.'s Cellular Infrastructure Group introduced a Global System for Mobile communications base station for in-building networks, the smallest and lightest base transceiver station to date for GSM microcellular applications, said the company.Motorola's M-Cell access base station uses distributed architecture to provide a...
MCLEAN, Va.-LCC International Inc. offered GSM World Congress attendees in Cannes, France, a sneak peek at its next-generation wireless network planning and optimization software, the company said.The pre-commercial version of the product, code-named Golf, will be officially launched at the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association's...
DALLAS-Ivory Coast's Telecel International has deployed its Global System for Mobile communications network using cellular infrastructure from Celcore, a division of DSC Communications Corp., said DSC.Telecel International, based in New Canaan, Conn., operates and manages cellular systems throughout Africa, including Burundi, Central African Republic,...
ALLEN TELECOM INC.Allen Telecom Inc.'s Antenna Specialists Division introduced a springless option to its line of Mosaic LMR vehicular antennas. Allen said the springless option is designed for applications in less rugged operating environments, and is available in both conversion and component forms for...
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. and BellSouth New Zealand signed an agreement for Nokia to provide a mobile intelligent network for the BellSouth Global System for Mobile communications network in New Zealand, said Nokia."The Nokia IN platform will give BellSouth customers the ability to use their...
NEW YORK-A wide and growing array of handset choices has caused some carriers to evaluate whether to winnow down the number of makes and models sold at their own retail stores.Is this a case of product oversupply? No, it's only half the story.Telecommunications equipment...
NEW YORK-Microcell Capital Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Microcell Telecommunications Inc., said it created GSM Capital L.P., an international venture-capital fund with more than $137 million committed to private-equity investment in companies developing new Global System for Mobile communications products and services.GSM Capital...
Canada's mobile phone market rebounded somewhat at the end of 1997 from lagging subscriber additions that plagued carriers throughout the year, but the results showed a slow expansion of the wireless market even with personal communications services entrants."I think the increase in subscriber additions...
The Australian Communications Authority will auction 10 personal communications services licenses totaling 230 megahertz sometime in April, and the Australian Communications Authority is encouraging U.S. companies that currently use digital Advanced Mobile Phone Service and Code Division Multiple Access technologies to apply. Those companies...
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...
ArgentinaBrightpoint Inc. is expanding its international operations with the formation of Brightpoint de Argentina S.A. and plans to establish Brightpoint France, said the company. As part of its Argentine operations, Brightpoint opened a 10,000-square foot leased facility in Buenos Aires for distribution, value-added logistics...
While Global System for Mobile communications technology networks currently have more subscribers, technical and competitive advantages will propel Code Division Multiple Access into a market-leading position by early 2003, concludes a recent study by Datacomm Research Co.The 208-page "CDMA Wireless Business Opportunities" challenges the...
NEW YORK-While Asian troubles may obscure the big picture for awhile, international growth and the integration of wireless and wireline telephony will mean plenty of opportunities for wireless manufacturers, according to one analyst who tracks those stocks."Mobile is great, but it's getting hard to...
