Globe Telecom selected Nokia Corp. to supply infrastructure equipment and wireless local loop subscriber terminals for a fixed telephone project in the Philippines. Nokia's Global System for Mobile communications infrastructure and PremiCell WLL equipment will be used in the initial phase of trial applications...
DENVER-While presidents from eight countries discussed pertinent topics such as arms control, peace in Bosnia and the global economy, Denver-area wireless carriers worked behind the scenes to provide handsets and equipment to some 5,000 reporters and scores of others associated with the Denver Summit...
BEIJING-Northern Telecom Ltd. was awarded a contract from the Tianjin Posts and Telecommunications Administration to increase the capacity of its existing Global System for Mobile Communications network.The expansion will increase the switching capacity of Tianjin's GSM network to 360,000 subscribers by third quarter, said...
L.M. Ericsson signed a contract to supply a Digital Cellular System 1800 network in Denmark for Telia Mobile AB. Ericsson values the first phase of the project at $49 million, with options for deliveries totaling $152 million, said the company. Bo Stokholm, vice president...
SINGAPORE-An air of triumph permeated last week's second annual CDMA World Congress as the supporters of Code Division Multiple Access celebrated the past year's network launches, announced a unified branding plan and prepared to enter the next millennium with a platform for advanced wireless...
NEW YORK-After more than two years of effort, standards for interoperability of smart cards for U.S.-based personal communications services received approval May 30."It represents a breakthrough. This is one step forward in the same direction of a universal phone that the ITU (International Telecommunications...
NEW YORK-Competition from personal communications services companies in the United States is proving to be good news for wireless carriers and their stocks, David A. Freedman, managing director of Bear Stearns & Co. Inc., New York, said June 4."If you look at a graph...
The Portuguese government said it plans to open a tender for a personal communications services license this month and issue a third mobile phone license by the end of this or early next year."The specification of the bidding is practically concluded and will be...
Poland has opened a tender for a Digital Cellular System 1800 MHz license. Interested companies are expected to submit offers by mid-July.Sources in Poland report that Minister of Telecommunications Andrzej Zielinski expects the DCS 1800 personal communications services operator to start commercial services by...
NEW YORK-Surfing the Internet from a wireless Global System for Mobile communications handset is about to get easier and smarter, according to Nokia Inc. and TeamWare, a unit of Fujitsu Ltd.The Finnish handset manufacturer and the Japanese software developer have teamed up to enhance...
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...
Cook Inlet Region Inc. will roll out personal communications services this week in Tulsa, Okla.,-just the second C-block player to launch commercial PCS operations. Airadigm Communications Inc., another C-block licensee, launched its PCS service in March in Appleton, Wis.Cook Inlet, an Alaskan Native American...
Today is the deadline to submit bids for a Digital Cellular System 1800 MHz license in Austria.A winner could be announced next month.The tender was announced about two months ago, at which time Waltraud Augesky, a commercial specialist with the U.S. Embassy in Vienna,...
MORRISVILLE, N.C.-Tekelec introduced an international roaming verification system for Global System for Mobile communications networks.Tekelec's product enables GSM operators to comply with the GSM memorandum of understanding recommendation to periodically test the integrity of their networks. The recommended test serves as proof of conformance...
NEW YORK-Millicom International Cellular S.A. launched cellular service in Estonia.Ritabell Co. Ltd., the company that holds the cellular license, is owned 48 percent by Millicom. Ritabell began service under the Q GSM brand name in four major cities including Tallinn.
NEWBURY, U.K.-Vodafone Group plc and Qualcomm Inc. said they will conduct a field trial in the United Kingdom starting the fourth quarter to demonstrate how Code Division Multiple Access wireless access technology can be integrated into a Global System for Mobile communications network.The companies...
DALLAS-Conestoga Wireless, winner of four D-, E-and F-block personal communications services licenses in central and eastern Pennsylvania, selected Northern Telecom Ltd. to supply Global System for Mobile communications infrastructure equipment and services. The agreement is valued at $20 million.Nortel agreed to supply, install and...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Nokia Telecommunications selected Cisco Systems Inc.'s Cisco AS5200 universal access server, which routes digital cellular phone calls directly to data networks and the Internet.Nokia's decision was based in part on Cisco's addition of support of the V.110 rate adaption protocol, which enables...
After three years in Motorola Inc.'s Information Systems Group and 23 years with the company, Frank Lloyd has returned to paging, his mind set on growing international markets and advancing voice paging and two-way messaging.Lloyd is senior vice president and general manager of Motorola's...
RICHARDSON, Texas-Pacific Bell Mobile Services launched its personal communications services network in San Francisco using Global System for Mobile communications technology. Ericsson Inc. supplied the GSM equipment and phones.Bo Hedfors, president and chief executive officer of Ericsson Inc., said the launch is Pac Bell's...
CEDAR KNOLLS, N.J.-New Jersey-based personal communications services carrier Omnipoint Communications Inc. has entered into a partnership agreement with France Telecom that will allow Omnipoint customers to begin operational roaming while traveling in France.Omnipoint said France Telecom is its eighth international partner.Omnipoint and France Telecom...
When billionaire John Kluge of Metromedia International Group Inc. sold his company's film and television properties last month, he said the transaction would allow Metromedia to focus on its new mobile phone and paging ventures in Eastern Europe and the Far East.This will be...
"The market for universal phones may prove more limited than trade hyperbole suggests," argues one analyst in response to industry buzz about satellite-based global telephone service-fueled by the successful launch May 5 of the first group of Iridium Inc. satellites."Extolled by the Iridium satellite...
Swedish telecommunications giant L.M. Ericsson is promoting the application of wideband Code Division Multiple Access technology, and recently announced a partnership with Nippon Telephone and Telegraph Corp. of Japan to develop commercial uses for W-CDMA.The announcement has raised a few eyebrows for a number...
