In a Feb. 9 letter to Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole (R-Kan.), Personal Communications Industry Association President Jay Kitchen volunteered his group's help as Congress begins to formulate its broadcast analog spectrum-auctioning policy next month, exhorting that "the days of spectrum being given free...
Less than a month after applications were due for two Global System for Mobile communications cellular licenses, the Polish Ministry of Communications announced winners. Both parties are co-piloted by U.S. companies.Polkomtel, an international consortium of which AirTouch International is 19.25 percent owner and the...
Dear Editor: I feel I must respond to Mr. Valentine's response to your Viewpoint column.First of all, I think Mr. Valentine is certainly keeping in line with his comments to several members of the industry Chief General Counsel that his main concern regarding the whole...
Grupo Iusacell S.A. de C.V., a cellular provider in Mexico, announced it has registered an average rate increase of 30 percent with the Secretariat of Communications and Transport. The price increase, which takes effect this month, is a result of rising inflation and is...
In her Jan. 15 "Viewpoint" column, Tracy Anderson Ford presented her views regarding the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association's new certification requirements for personal communications services handsets, which are designed to prevent interference to hearing aids. Ms. Ford discussed her interpretation of my position on...
Taiwan's new telecommunications law will give wireless companies the chance to break into that country's communications market, but a 20 percent ownership limit may disappoint some businesses.Taiwan is making liberalization strides in hopes of becoming an Asia-Pacific regional operations center, as well as fulfilling...
Eight parties responded to Luxembourg's call for interest in operating a second cellular network. The Ministry of Communications, which plans to license an operator later this year, did not comment on interested companies.Separately, AirTouch Communications Inc. and the partners in Belgian cellular operator Mobistar,...
WASHINGTON-In a potential blow to Omnipoint Corp.'s planned initial public offering this week, wireless investor James Valentine has asked federal regulators to investigate whether the small Colorado firm is violating its pioneer's preference for a personal communications services license in New York. Valentine claims...
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BRUSSELS-L.M. Ericsson filed a complaint with the European Union, charging that Austria's award of a GSM license to international consortium Oe-Call is unfair. Oe-Call is lead by Deutsche Telecom AG and Siemens AG Oesterreich, the latter an equipment provider.Ericsson spokeswoman Kathy Egan said that...
Rules. It seems as soon as we enter this world, we're forced to comply with a blanket set of rules that someone else has decided for us.You can't have dessert until you finish your vegetables.Turn off the light when you leave a room.Balance the...
L.M. Ericsson and Telia Mobitel have signed a two-year general purchasing agreement covering delivery and installation of Global System for Mobile communications systems to expand the capacity and radio coverage of Telia Mobitel's digital mobile network in Sweden, Ericsson announced. The agreement includes deliveries...
Wanting to leave no market unserved in the new age of pocket telephony, Pacific Bell Mobile Services said it will introduce a personal communications services telephone that offers a dual mode for roaming on analog cellular networks."We're committed to doing it," said Garrison Macri,...
WASHINGTON-The recently completed summit on hearing aid interference from next-generation pocket telephones was hailed a success by the wireless telecommunications industry and hearing disability advocates, but controversy simmering beneath the surface could thwart further progress.An undercurrent of mistrust between the two sides still exists,...
WASHINGTON-Federal Communications Commission Chairman Reed Hundt, appearing to retreat from recent comments in which he suggested support for a marketplace solution to hearing aid interference from pocket phones, warned that the FCC might intervene if wireless industry and hearing impaired representatives fail to fix...
The Danish government is expected to issue a tender for DCS 1800 licenses this spring, and low service prices are expected to be one of the major criteria in determining which company will win the mobile telephone permits.Minister of Research and Information Technology Frank...
BRUSSELS-With a bid of $2.5 billion, Ameritech Corp. and partners Tele Danmark and Singapore Telecom last month captured the winning vote for a 50 percent-less one share-stake and strategic position in Belgium's state-owned telecommunications operator Belgacom S.A.Ameritech said it perceives great opportunity in Belgacom,...
Three international consortia met the Jan. 3 deadline to apply for one of two Global System for Mobile communications cellular licenses the Polish Communications Ministry plans to award this spring.One bidding party claims telecom giants U S West Inc. and DeTeMobil-the cellular arm of...
Telecommunications experience, a plan to charge low fees and a promise of $400 million won Oe-Call a Global System for Mobile communications digital cellular license in Austria, according to Waltraud Augesky, commercial specialist for the United States Embassy in Vienna, Austria. Oe-Call is a...
WASHINGTON-Hearing disability advocates are privately furious with the wireless telecommunications industry over the agenda for this week's conference on hearing aid interference from next-generation pocket phones and with Federal Communications Commission Chairman Reed Hundt for suggesting the problem can be solved by the marketplace.Publicly,...
As the Polish Communications Ministry advances with plans to license two Global System for Mobile communications cellular networks, Ameritech International is pursuing legal action against the government agency, alleging it breached a letter of intent signed in 1991 that promised Centertel-of which Ameritech owns...
ROME-The government of Italy has agreed to create a level playing field between the two cellular operators competing in Italy's digital phone market.The European Commission late last year noted it was concerned that the government required Omnitel Pronto Italia to pay about $450 million...
STOCKHOLM-Only four parties submitted applications and down payments, due Dec. 11, indicating interest in operating Global System for Mobile communications digital wireless phone service at the 2 GHz frequency in Sweden.The participating parties, including the three current GSM cellular operators, each submitted $15,000 to...
Unless there is court action, a government shutdown or some cataclysmic event, the auction of C-block broadband personal communications services licenses is scheduled to begin today.Thirteen bidders have made double-digit, multimillion dollar upfront payments, indicating the seriousness with which some are approaching the opportunity....
