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....
It's the morning after.The reporter arrives at 10: 15 a.m. at the historic Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C., (conveniently across 14th Street from the National Press Building) to interview the co-recipient of RCR's 1995 Person of the Year: American Personal Communications Chairman Wayne Schelle.Schelle, 61, greets...
Zues Phonstuff has introduced its Always-in-Touch unit, a device that plugs into a home or office phone line and notifies a pager of a call when the phone user is away. The pager displays the caller's phone number and indicates when there is a...
It's hard to tell whether the first session of the 104th Congress is winding down or whether Washington is just all wound up.The GOP-led Congress was scrambling to pass the remaining appropriations bills, arguing with itself and the Clinton administration about approving another stop-gap...
Omnitel Pronto Italia announced it has launched its Global System for Mobile communications cellular network in Italy, competing with government-controlled Telecom Italia Mobile SpA for the first time.In March 1994, the Italian government awarded a contract for its second nationwide cellular license to Omnitel,...
JAKARTA, Indonesia-The government of Indonesia could issue several new personal communications services licenses next year in the 1.8-1.9 GHz frequency band, according to international news reports.Three new cellular operators were licensed in the last two years to build Global System for Mobile cellular communications...
A total of 36 companies have declared interest in bidding for 49 percent of a wireless license offered by the Czech Republic, confirming the economic ministry's belief that participation would be high in the market.Bidders include Southwestern Bell Corp., Deutsche Telekom AG, France Telecom...
Sweden's Post and Telestyrelsen, the national telecom agency, said it expects to license up to four operators for nationwide personal communications networks early next year.Cellular penetration is at about 25 percent of Sweden's nearly 9 million people, so while the country is home to...
The upcoming chairwoman of the GSM MoU Association is confident that Global System for Mobile communications technology will figure prominently in the U.S. personal communications services market.Gretel Holcomb Hoffman is currently the group's deputy chair, but is scheduled to assume the top job on...
WASHINGTON-The future is here.Vice President Al Gore, father of the information superhighway, christened the broadband personal communications services industry with a call to Baltimore Mayor Kurt Schmoke Nov. 15 on the Sprint Spectrum system operated by American Personal Communications."I'm proud to speak to you...
American Portable Telecom Inc. has selected PCS-1900-the 1900 MHz version of the Global System for Mobile communications digital technology standard-for its personal communications services network.The company's choice of GSM boosts that technology standard to potential coverage of half of the nation's population, APT said,...
Datum Inc.'s Timing Division announced the release of a small high-performance Global Positioning Satellite system receiver. Datum said the StarTime GPS Clock is designed for applications that require not only high performance but small physical size and low price. The clock consists of an...
BRUSSELS, Belgium-The European Commission has asked the government of Italy to create a level playing field between two cellular operators competing in Italy's digital phone market. The commission has expressed concern with the licensing procedure in other states as well."In the selection procedures screened...
Motorola Inc.'s North Asia Cellular Infrastructure Division has signed an agreement with the China Directorate General of Telecommunications and L.M. Ericsson to interconnect the nationwide cellular network in China. Motorola and Ericsson will provide more than 3 million Chinese subscribers with automatic roaming services...
Tender documents for two new cellular licenses in Poland should hit the table this week, unlocking the door to telecom competition, but an American company is protesting the government's decision.Ameritech Corp. is urging the Polish Communications Ministry to uphold a letter of intent signed...
Short forms are due today for designated entities, marking a giant and-finally-tangible step toward the Federal Communications Commission's C-block auction of nearly 500 personal communications services licenses set for Dec. 11.About 25 DEs will actually make it to auction, and only a handful will...
