WASHINGTON-Several prominent wireless industry figures attended White House coffees, which along with telecom-related trade missions are tied to an escalating Democratic fund-raising scandal that last week prompted a flood of congressional subpoenas and threatened to sidetrack Senate confirmation of two Clinton cabinet nominees.The Senate...
California Microwave Inc.'s Microwave Network Systems division won a contract from Cellcom Israel Ltd. to expand its Time Division Multiple Access cellular network. California Microwave said it values the contract at $2 million. Cellcom previously purchased 300 links of 34 Mbit/s, 8 GHz, 18...
Motorola Inc.'s Messaging Systems Products Group licensed its FLEX technology to paging infrastructure manufacturers EcoSoft GTCO and Tecnomen Oy. EcoSoft said it will use the technology to make inexpensive paging terminal equipment for Russian and Commonwealth of Independent States markets. Tecnomen Oy plans to...
JV Digital Cellular Communications of Ukraine Ltd. placed an order, valued at $30 million, for L.M. Ericsson's fixed Digital Advanced Mobile Phone Service/AMPS cellular network. Under the contract, Ericsson will install the network in Kiev, Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk, Charkiv, Odessa and the peninsular Krim. The...
Sagem SA, a French manufacturer, plans to supply Global System for Mobile communications handsets to Omnipoint Communications Inc., a personal communications services operator. According to the contract, valued at $10 million, Omnipoint will offer two models of Sagem SA's GSM phone: the CS610 and the...
NEW YORK-Millicom International Cellular S.A. has reached an agreement in principle to exchange its option to acquire 20 percent of Comviq GSM AB, the Swedish cellular telephone operator, in return for shares in NetCom Systems AB, Comviq's publicly traded parent.The value of the transaction...
NEW YORK-After many delays, Brazil's B-band cellular license auctions, which will be open to foreign bidders, are likely to begin early next year.The Brazil Senate last month ratified telecommunications deregulation legislation already approved by the House, thereby opening satellite and cellular services to outside...
E.F. Johnson Co. has signed a $3.6 million contract to build a trunked radio system for Campanhia Energetica de Minas Gerias (CEMIG), an electrical power generation and distribution company in Brazil. The 900 MHz Multi-Net trunking system will cover the metropolitan area of Belo...
From Wall Street to Main Street, the outlook for the cellular industry remains positive, especially for major players abroad and minor players at home that exploit markets with lower competition and penetration levels.The new Telecommunications Act has unleashed forces that could transform the entire...
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...
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...
Millicom International Cellular S.A. signed a seven-year $200 million credit facility agreement arranged by ABN-AMRO Bank and ING Bank. Millicom said the facility will be used to refinance $125 million of existing short term credit facilities at the parent level and the balance of...
NEW YORK-International telephone operator Millicom International Cellular S.A. announced Cambodia GSM Ltd., a joint venture between the Cambodian Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications and MIC's partner, the Royal Group of Companies Ltd., has been awarded the first Global System for Mobile communications cellular license...
STAMFORD, Conn.-GTE Corp. has announced it intends to get a foothold in the Brazilian cellular phone market through an alliance with a Brazilian investment group and a Brazilian equipment manufacturer.The trio has its eyes on one of the B-band cellular licenses the Brazilian government...
A coalition of local and regional paging companies and an equipment manufacturer plan to file an emergency petition with the Federal Communications Commission this week requesting that the paging application freeze be lifted.The commission announced Feb. 9 it will not accept new paging applications...
Central America's cellular market, although smaller and representing somewhat riskier investment than other parts of Latin America, remains largely untapped and is expected to present a bundle of cellular opportunities in the near future.Cellular subscribers numbered less than 50,000 for the whole region at...
A Canadian company said it has won approval to build a personal communications services network in Vietnam."We have a signed contract with Saigon PTS, and we believe we have authorization for a concession in Vietnam," said Douglas MacLellan, recently nominated as president and chief...
LUXEMBOURG-Millicom International Cellular S.A. showed second quarter revenues of $29 million, a 58 percent increase compared with earnings of $18.4 million a year earlier.For the three-month period ended June 30, Millicom reported a net loss of $4.2 million, or 9 cents per share, compared...
Six consortia met the August deadline to apply for Ireland's second mobile phone license, which could be awarded by the Irish Department of Transport, Energy and Communications by the end of the year.Scattered among the groups hoping to capture the 15-year license to operate...
AirTouch Communications, a partner in Globalstar L.P. - one of three low-earth-orbit statellites recently licensed by the government is pursuing satellite-based mobile communications in Japan through a joint venture with Japanese trading company, Itochu Corp. AirTouch has globalstar service provider rights in several countries...
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While some U.S. cellular operators are teaming up to offer customers nationwide seamless coverage, one cellular operator with roots here in America is trying to make its mark in faraway, developing countries.Luxembourg-based Millicom International Cellular, or MIC, was formed in 1990 out of a...
