WASHINGTON-Previous Federal Communications Commission auction winners and near winners plus a few new faces were accepted as qualified bidders for the July 3 auction of 18 C-block personal communications services licenses that were taken back from two winners that did not meet their financial...
AirTouch Communications Inc. announced it has officially opened its European headquarters in the Netherlands. The company said it opened the office because its cellular operations in Europe are becoming an increasingly important part of AirTouch's overall business strategy.L.M. Ericsson announced it has signed a...
The Belgium government said it will require Belgacom S.A. to match the $286 million fee its competitor Mobistar will pay to operate its Global System for Mobile communications system in the country. However, Belgacom Mobile objects to the fee, and said it plans to...
LITTLE CHUTE, Wis.-Airadigm Communications, which holds C-block personal communications services licenses in 13 basic trading areas comprising most of Wisconsin and part of Iowa, announced it has selected Global System for Mobile communications technology for its wireless telecommunications services."After a lot of deliberation and...
NEC Corp. of Tokyo has launched its new GSM phone in Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom, with plans to expand sales and sell a million units during the first year.This is the Japanese equipment manufacturer's first product based on Global System for Mobile...
Netherlands-based electronics giant Philips Electronics NV is mounting a new campaign to become one of the top three vendors to the global cellular handset market.Philips Mobile Phones launched a new business group in January called Philips Consumer Communications based in Le Mans, France. The...
A Polish court has rejected complaints filed by Ameritech International and France Telecom concerning a digital cellular license the two companies say the Polish government promised them five years ago and then later denied promising.Ameritech International General Counsel Mark Chudzinski noted the matter is...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-AKM Semiconductor Inc. said it has introduced a third-generation chipset for wireless telephones and other communications devices that is less than half the size of current chipsets.The new chipset delivers up to 100 hours of call-waiting time and adheres to the PCS-1900...
The number of cellular subscribers in Africa and the Middle East increased 76 percent between 1990 and 1995, reported Pyramid Research Inc. in a recent study. Cellular subscribers totaled 1.8 million at the end of last year, and are expected to count 11.2 million...
L.M. Ericsson announced it will deliver a Global System for Mobile communications network, valued at $77 million, to the Indian cellular operator Birla Communications Ltd. Birla Communications is a joint venture between AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and the Indian company A.V. Birla Group. Its...
Six-month-old personal communications services contender Sprint Spectrum is capitalizing on its choice of digital technology to forge international roaming agreements, just as it did to gain time-to-market advantages in its Washington, D.C./Baltimore service area.Sprint Spectrum chose the established Global System for Mobile communications standard-PCS...
WASHINGTON-DCR Communications has changed its name to Pocket Communications Inc.The Washington, D.C.-based firm, which walked away from the C-block spectrum auctions with personal communications services licenses for 43 markets, covering 35 million people, also introduced a new blue logo that includes an illustration of...
ATLANTA- BellSouth Mobility DCS (a subsidiary of BellSouth Corp.), Lucent Technologies Inc. and the Swiss PTT worked together to provide Global System for Mobile communications coverage at the 34th GSM MoU Association meeting in Atlanta last week.The companies said this was the first time...
It has been about seven years since the disintegration of the Soviet empire. During that time, some former Eastern bloc countries have built a thriving telecommunications business despite obstacles.Cellular and wireless local loop services are being implemented as quick, economical alternatives to post-communist wireline...
CHICAGO-Cellular One of Chicago is introducing FreedomPlus one-number service to its cellular customers.Cellular One of Chicago, a subsidiary of Southwestern Bell Mobile Systems, said the phone acts as a cordless phone at home or work, operating on the landline network, and automaticaly becomes a...
Eastern European countries and those of the former Soviet republics launched cellular services in the early 1990s using the Nordic Mobile Telephone-450 standard, an analog technology developed to operate at 450 MHz. Most nations initially selected NMT- 450 instead of Global System for Mobile...
The Nokia Group is expanding an analog system in Indonesia, in the face of the deployment of digital systems by numerous other operators there.Earlier this year, Indonesia's government gave the state-owned operator the nation's first license for personal communications services. Other PCS licenses are...
There is enough room in today's marketplace of specialized products for both traditional paging and the handset messaging offered by new 1800 MHz wireless operators and digital cellular operators, analysts say."Consider the microwave oven," said David Abraham of David Abraham & Co., Westport, Conn.,...
Code Division Multiple Access has been touted as a success story in Seoul, South Korea and in Hong Kong. Many U.S. personal communications services licensees have based their access technology decision on CDMA's reported superior performance, high capacity and low cost. Many analysts put...
NEW YORK-If the trend in communications is bundling services to customers, then the key to exploiting the trend is in combined billing for those multiple services."Most of the research we've looked at and most of what our customers tell us is that local, long...
OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-The national wireless alliance of AirTouch Cellular, Bell Atlantic Corp., Nynex Corp., U S West NewVector Group and PrimeCo Personal Communications L.P. announced they have signed a contract with Independent Telecommunications Network Inc. to provide Signaling System 7 seamless roaming and enhanced...
Depending on who is doing the talking, Code Division Multiple Access technology either is venerated or vilified. While several major A-, B-and C-block personal communications services operators have committed to the nascent technology, others are wondering if CDMA is worth the wait. Part 1...
WASHINGTON-"This is the most exciting day of my life," exclaimed Allen Salmasi, chairman and chief executive officer of NextWave Personal Communications Inc., which by all unofficial accounts was the winner of 56 30 megahertz C-block broadband personal communications services markets (Chart on p. 11).Hedging...
NEW YORK-With the advent of a personal communications services overlay onto the nation's traditional cellular landscape, 1996 also will mark the debut of the dual-mode wireless phone as a consumer product.To Terrence Valeski, vice president of marketing for Pacific Bell Mobile Services, Pleasanton, Calif.,...
