TAMPA, Fla.-BellSouth International Wireless Services announced five North American carriers, including BellSouth Mobility, converted to the BSI-WS International Settlement and Exchange Service.The BellSouth service provides international wireless roaming date-clearing. It also provides a secure Web-based reporting system, which provides immediate delivery of clearing reports...
MONTREAL-Telesystem International Wireless Inc. announced its subsidiary, Dolphin Telecom plc, closed an offering of $295 million of 14-percent senior discount notes due 2009.The net proceeds were approximately $144 million, and interest payments will begin in 2004. The proceeds will be used to finance the...
MONTREAL-Dolphin Telecom plc said it completed the first trans-Atlantic third-generation wireless call using a wideband-Code Division Multiple Access network in Canada and Dolphin's Trans European Trunked Radio network in the United Kingdom.Sven Borgstrom, chief technology officer of Telesystem International Wireless Inc., Dolphin's parent company,...
AT&T Corp. last week signed a definitive merger agreement with cable company MediaOne Group after cutting a deal with rival bidder Comcast Corp., which agreed not to try to outbid AT&T's offer.Comcast and AT&T agreed to exchange various cable systems, giving Comcast about 750,000...
NEW YORK-Montreal-based Telesystem International Wireless Inc. announced April 29 that Dolphin Telecom plc, its London-based subsidiary, raised $210 million in private equity to help finance the rollout of an enhanced specialized mobile radio network in Europe.The company also began a road show last week...
Motorola Inc. announced Office Depot will begin carrying the PageWriter 2000 two-way pager in more than 600 retail locations nationwide.TSR Wireless L.L.C. said it has built a ReFLEX 25 two-way messaging network on the West Coast, adding coverage in southern California and into Nevada....
BrazilTelemig Celular said it plans to invest R$200 million-R$220 million (US$118 million-US$130 million) during 1999 to expand its services in the state of Minas Gerais, according to the Jornal do Comercio. Telemig is owned by Telesystem International Wireless and local partners, the same group...
The announcement last week that Comcast Corp. and MediaOne Group signed an agreement to merge in a $60 billion deal driven by broadband cable networks could affect the wireless industry halfway around the world.MediaOne's international wireless interests, which cover 4.3 million customers primarily in...
NEW YORK-Montreal-based Telesystem International Wireless Inc. has wandered far from its home base and original paging strategy as it pursues emerging opportunities in developed and developing markets in Europe, Latin America and Asia."We like to say that only crazy people never change their minds,"...
The state of Utah awarded Applied Cellular Technology Inc.'s Communications Infrastructure division a $6.1 million contract to provide infrastructure and construction improvements for the 10 buildings on the University of Utah campus that will be used to house Olympic athletes, said the company. Applied...
MONTREAL-Telesystem International Wireless Inc. announced its affiliate, Telet S.A., launched digital cellular service in Greater Porto Alegre and Greater Caxias do Sul in the state of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil under the brand name "Claro Digital."Telet's network is supplied by Ericsson Inc....
The domestic telecom market is abuzz with mergers, acquisitions and mega-deals. The industry is consolidating again, not so long after AT&T Corp. was broken up into Baby Bells; cellular and then personal communications services licenses were awarded, and carriers of all stripes began competing...
TAMPA, Fla.-BellSouth International Wireless Services announced it selected Cibernet Global Settlement as its international financial settlement provider for its Pan American Roaming Consortium.PARC membership provides cellular carriers services that allow them to provide their customers the ability to roam throughout the Western Hemisphere.Cibernet is...
SINGAPOREMotorola Inc.'s Cellular Infrastructure Group signed a contract valued at $23 million to upgrade M1's digital wireless telephone network in Singapore. In addition to its SC 4852 base transceiver station, Motorola CIG will install two new base station types into M1's network, its SC...
NEW YORK-Denmark-based Bosch Telecom Inc., which introduced the World 718 phone in June, has decided to close its Dallas office for U.S. sales and marketing, although it will continue selling the handsets here.The World 718 phone can operate on Global System for Mobile Communications...
More legal issues have fallen in the way of Venezuela's plans to tender a personal communications services license earlier this month.Conatel, Venezuela's telecom regulatory agency, was set to tender a license by Nov. 4, but protests from three cellular operators have stalled the process...
President Bill Clinton signed into law late last month the federal Identity Theft and Assumption Deterrence Act of 1998, which authorizes prison terms of up to three years and fines of up to $250,000 for such crimes. "The new ... law will make it...
PolandPoland may call tenders for three new mobile phone licenses for Global System for Mobile communications 900 MHz and 1800 MHz systems during the first half of next year. Reuters reported that the country's telecommunications minister Marek Zdrojewski said the tenders would be issued...
Telesystem International Wireless Inc., Montreal, announced its French subsidiary, Regiocom S.A., has acquired S3RP, the trunked-radio operations of Bouygues Telecom marketed under the brand name Orbicom, making it the only national trunked-radio operator in France.The acquisition adds about 6,500 subscribers to Dolphin Telecom plc,...
MONTREAL-Telet S.A., the B-band affiliate of Telesystem International Wireless Inc., said it awarded L.M. Ericsson a three-year contract to supply its cellular network in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, which initially will support 500,000 subscribers, said TIW. The contract is valued at $142.93 million.TIW...
Which signs should a person pay attention to in today's crazy stock market?Wireless companies haven't fared too well from the looks of RCR's StockWatch the last few weeks, although the stocks RCR follows have started to rebound from their low Oct. 7.Several stocks are...
NEW YORK-Paris-based France Telecom Group reported Sept. 17 that its Itineris Global System for Mobile communications customers totaled 4.26 million at the end of August, giving it a 51-percent market share.The carrier said its cellular customer base doubled between June 30, 1997, and June...
MONTREAL-Telesystem International Wireless Inc. announced its French subsidiary, Regiocom SA, has acquired S3RP, the specialized mobile radio operations of Bouyges marketed under the brand name Orbicom, making it the only national SMR operator in France.The acquisition adds about 6,500 subscribers to Dolphin Telecom plc,...
International Wireless Communications Holdings Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection earlier this month, saying its finances and several of its businesses have been adversely affected by the financial and political instability in Asia.IWC owns and operates wireless communications networks in major emerging markets...
