TORONTO-Ericsson Communications Canada has arranged financing for Microcell Connexions Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Microcell Telecommunications Inc., to purchase personal communications services equipment.The arrangement, valued at $200 million, will allow Microcell to purchase network switching systems, base station systems and related services during the...
Digital wireless technologies were designed to answer issues of quality, capacity and cost. But by releasing huge swaths of new spectrum, the Federal Communications Commission has changed the rules, and capacity is now much less important than cost-but not everybody in the industry has...
NEW YORK-Millicom International Cellular S.A. has reached an agreement in principle to exchange its option to acquire 20 percent of Comviq GSM AB, the Swedish cellular telephone operator, in return for shares in NetCom Systems AB, Comviq's publicly traded parent.The value of the transaction...
Some Personal Communications Services contenders are looking to differentiate themselves in the new age of wireless competition with data services based on the established Global System for Mobile communications standard."We see this as a strong differentiator for us and plan to offer it very...
Yet another European-based company is entering the U.S. digital handset market, trumpeting its communications and manufacturing expertise, particularly in Global System for Mobile communications technology.A U.S. division of Siemens A.G. hopes to eventually grab a double-digit slice of market share when it begins selling...
ATLANTA-LHS Communications Systems Inc. announced it has licensed its Business Support and Control System to Powertel Inc. of West Point, Ga.The agreement follows recent licensing agreements with American Portable Telecom Inc. for personal communication services in major trading areas covering 27.3 million people, and...
TUNIS, Tunisia-Tunisia is expected to issue an international tender for a nationwide cellular network using Global System for Mobile communications technology.In 1985, L.M. Ericsson built a Nordic Mobile Telephone system there.More recently, Northern Telecom Inc. has constructed a GSM system in the capital city...
While FLEX has paraded across the globe, gaining recognition as the new global paging standard throughout the Americas, Asia and Middle East, the Motorola Inc. technology has met resistance in Europe, where members of the European Union and other nations-by virtue of certain political...
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...
Alexandria, Minn.-based Rural Cellular Corp. said it plans to offer personal communications services and cellular service to customers in portions of Minnesota, North Dakota and Wisconsin through a joint venture with American Portable Telecom Inc.The two companies have signed a letter of intent to...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-Alltel Information Services Inc. has named Jeffrey Fox president and William Cravens chairman.Fox most recently served as senior vice president of business development and Cravens previously served as vice chairman and chief operating officer. Prior to joining Alltel, Fox worked in investment...
NEW YORK-Omnipoint Corp. raised $250 million in gross proceeds in its sale of 10-year senior notes Thursday to help finance the buildout of its personal communications services network in the New York City area.Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Securities Corp., New York, lead managed the...
MOUNTAIN LAKES, N.J.-Personal communications services operator Omnipoint Communications Inc. has chosen Paoli, Penn.-based Orga Card Systems to supply subscriber identity modules, or smart cards.Under the terms of the agreement between the two companies, Orga will supply OCI, a wholly owned subsidiary of Omnipoint Corp.,...
If you look at a list of nations supporting commercial Global System for Mobile communications networks, Japan is conspicuously absent from the list.Its neighbor, China, has numerous GSM systems, as do several countries in Southeast Asia. Korea is valiantly testing the U.S.-developed standard, Code...
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...
Using cellular and intelligent satellite technologies, Telecel International Ltd. of New Canaan, Conn., is on track to rehaul communications in Africa.The company was first to introduce cellular service in Africa 10 years ago, said Justin Dudley, Telecel's vice president of engineering and research development....
U.S. partners in a Slovakian phone venture are confident they can restructure their company to meet new license qualifications unexpectedly created by the Slovakian government.Slovakia is scheduled to issue two new Global System for Mobile communications licenses Aug. 27. One license was promised six...
LUXEMBOURG-Millicom International Cellular S.A. said it received approval from the council for the Development of Cambodia to commercially launch cellular service in that country.Cambodia GSM Ltd., a 61.5 percent-owned operation with the Cambodian Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications and MIC's local partner, the Royal...
Germany, one of Western Europe's most developed mobile telephone markets, is preparing to license a fourth operator to further stimulate competition.Parties interested in the E-2 nationwide 1800 MHz digital personal communications network license must submit bids by Oct. 15, said Volker Wirsdorf, commercial specialist...
Nexus Telecommunication Systems Ltd. of Givatayim, Israel, announced it has signed an agreement with Academy D.O.O., a Yugoslavian security services company, to deploy Nexus' automatic vehicle location and tracking system in Yugoslavia. Deployment will begin during second quarter 1997, said Nexus. The first stage...
While naysayers doubted that personal communications services networks could be built out in record time, the five systems now up and running prove them wrong.Western Wireless Corp. last week turned on a PCS network in New Mexico, its third PCS launch in five months....
NUREMBERG, Germany-Lucent Technologies Inc. has received a contract from Deutsche Telekom Mobilnet GmbH to provide the German phone operator with base stations for one of the largest nationwide German mobile networks.The deal is valued at more than $20 million. Deutsche Telekom's wireless arm, DeTeMobil,...
The government of Romania pushed the tender deadline for two Global System for Mobile communications licenses back by two months, doubled the price for the licenses and formed a special commission to recommend any additional changes to the bid documents, reported the U.S. Embassy...
PARIS-France Telecom announced it has obtained the first Global System for Mobile communications license for a cellular network in Slovakia.The license was awarded to the SlovTel consortium, led by France Telecom Mobiles International which holds a 35 percent stake in the venture.Other members of...
