LONDON-Global wireless carrier Vodafone Group plc said it reached agreements with Telesystem International Wireless Inc. of Canada to acquire about 79 percent of Romania's MobiFon S.A., increasing its ownership to 99 percent, and 100 percent of Oskar Mobil in the Czech Republic for $3.5...
LONDON-Wireless carriers Vodafone Group plc and Telesystem International Wireless Inc. said they are in discussions regarding the possible sale of TIW's wireless interests in Eastern Europe.Vodafone said any offer it makes would equate to a value per TIW share close to the closing share...
Two international carriers announced plans for a roaming agreement for Wi-Fi hot spots. Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo Inc. signed a public wireless local area network inter-roaming agreement with Swedish mobile operator TeliaSonera AB. The agreement includes more than 570 locations between the two carriers...
FORNEBU, Norway-Norwegian carrier Telenor said it will restructure its organization and management. The restructuring will concentrate Telenor's mobile and fixed activities in the Nordic region under one management.Morten Karlsen Sorby has been named to oversee the carrier's mobile and fixed communications in the Nordic...
Editor's Note: Each year, the RCR Wireless News editorial staff chooses the person who has impacted the wireless industry the most during the past 12 months. By successfully closing the acquisition of AT&T Wireless Services Inc., making Cingular Wireless the nation's largest carrier, as...
SAN FRANCISCO-T-Mobile USA Inc. reported its participation with the Wireless Broadband Alliance in a series of roaming agreements with six international wireless operators. The alliance will expand T-Mobile USA's hot-spot footprint to more than 11,500 locations around the world. The roaming agreement includes the...
SAN FRANCISCO-T-Mobile USA Inc. reported its participation with the Wireless Broadband Alliance in a series of roaming agreements with six international wireless operators. The alliance will expand T-Mobile USA's hot-spot footprint to more than 11,500 locations around the world.The roaming agreement includes the U.K.-based...
DALLAS-JP Mobile said its SureWave Mobile Office product was deployed by two international wireless carriers. First, b2Wireless, a systems integrator and the exclusive supplier of wireless e-mail capabilities to British Telecom, will supply the product to BT for resale under the brand name Mobile...
Vodafone Group plc named a new financial director from a familiar place and announced board changes and a new organizational structure that the international wireless provider said would enable continued improvement in the delivery of its strategic goals.The company reported that Andrew Halford, current...
Verizon Wireless threw its considerable resources into the international roaming business earlier this month by expanding the availability of Samsung Corp.'s SCH-a790 Global Phone to the carrier's non-business customers. The handset, which retails for $350 with a two-year contract, and accompanying Global Phone service,...
While there may be a lack of visual similarities, John Stanton's career in the wireless industry has nearly mirrored John Travolta's stardom in Hollywood. Both came out of nowhere at an early age to make an enormous impact-Travolta with "Saturday Night Fever" in the...
MONTREAL-Canadian carrier Telesystem International Wireless Inc. said its common shares have been approved for trading on the Nasdaq National Market. The company's common shares are currently trading on the Nasdaq SmallCap Market and will be moved up for trading on the national market under...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission last week launched an inquiry to assess the impact of high foreign mobile termination fees on American consumers, dragging the United States further into a controversy that domestic and international wireless carriers would rather see settled by overseas regulators and...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission today launched an inquiry to assess the impact of high foreign mobile termination fees on American consumers, dragging the United States further into a controversy that domestic and international wireless carriers would rather see settled by overseas regulators and the...
MONTREAL, Canada-Telesystem International Wireless Inc. announced it will acquire 13 percent of the equity of ClearWave N.V. from two institutional shareholders in exchange for cash and common shares of TIW, increasing TIW's equity interest in ClearWave to 99.8 percent."With this transaction, not only do...
LONDON-Vodafone Group plc reportedly is set to bid as much as $35 billion for AT&T Wireless Services Inc. in an attempt to gain control of the third-largest wireless operator in the United States, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal citing people...
The rumor mill kicked into high gear last week with published reports claiming a handful of domestic and international wireless carriers are targeting AT&T Wireless Services Inc. as a possible merger partner.The reports began with claims that Cingular Wireless L.L.C. had rekindled its often-rumored...
NEW YORK-Wireless enterprise company Antenna Software Inc. announced it acquired mobile systems integrator RPA Wireless Inc. for an undisclosed sum. Antenna said the move creates a combined company with more than 90 enterprise customers and thousands of users worldwide.Antenna offers its A3 mobile enterprise...
NORTH HAVEN, Conn.-PMI Wireless Inc. has been acquired by International Wireless Inc. in a reverse merger in which shareholders of International Wireless received a 30-to-1 reverse split.The combined company will be known as PMI Wireless, a wireless system installer offering revenue sharing software and...
MONTREAL-Canadian company Telesystem International Wireless and ClearWave said they will acquire a 3.62-percent stake in Czech mobile operator Cesky Mobil from Ceska Konsolidacni Agentura, a Czech state-owned agency. TIW and ClearWave, through their TIW Czech subsidiary, will buy the stake for $17 million, which...
Approaching its 95th birthday, the Radio Club of America continues to be a source of inspiration and education to its members, whose ongoing contributions make this living history of radio communications possible.The club was founded, the story goes, by a group of teenage members...
MONTREAL-Telesystem International Wireless Inc.'s indirect subsidiary MobiFon Holdings B.V., which holds TIW's 57.1-percent equity interest in Romanian GSM service provider MobiFon S.A., has begun the private offering of $230 million of senior notes due 2009.MobiFon Holdings will use the proceeds to repay intercompany loans...
MONTREAL-Canadian company Telesystem International Wireless said it sold its 49-percent stake in Telpart Participacoes, which controls Brazilian operators Telemig Celular Participacoes and Tele Norte Celular Partcicipacoes, to Highlake International Business Company for $70 million.Highlake is an affiliate of Opportunity Fund, and outstanding litigation between...
MONTREAL-Telesystem International Wireless (TIW) and ClearWave said they reached an agreement with Emerging Markets Partnership (WMP) on the sale of the 5.68-percent stake of Romanian operator MobiFon held by ClearWave for US$42.5 million.ClearWave said it will use the proceeds of the sale to repay...
