STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson won two contracts to expand Advanced Mobile Phone Service analog cellular networks in Brazil.The first contract is with Telpe from the state of Pernambuco, and the second contract is with Telesp from the state of Sao Paulo. Both Telpe and Telesp...
NEW YORK-"Why pay for cellular phone service if you only want it for emergency use?"That's the advertising slogan and the business concept for SOS Wireless Communications Inc., an Irvine, Calif., company that began selling its SOS Phone nationwide late last year.The handset, which runs...
Competition began in earnest last week in Singapore when the nation's second operator launched service.To try to ensure even more competition, the government announced it expects to call for tenders later this year for two new 17-year licenses, under which operators could begin offering...
Norway's Ministry of Transport and Communications announced plans to award three national Digital Cellular System 1800 licenses, perhaps by this summer. However, the winners will not be required to build networks nationwide.The new personal communications network operators will be required to provide service in...
KIEV, Ukraine (AP)-Ukraine expressed regret last week that Motorola Inc. dropped plans for a $500 million investment in a Global System for Mobile communications network.Motorola's Network Management Group and its local partner, Ukrainian Radio Systems, was one of three groups awarded licenses earlier this...
Austria's Ministry for Science and Transport announced a tender for a Digital Cellular System 1800 personal communications network license, according to the U.S. Embassy in Vienna.Interested parties that requested tender documents and submitted a $2,200 fee by March 27 were mailed tender documents that...
NEW YORK-With just 0.04 mobile telephones per 100 people today, Russia is fertile ground for an expanding wireless industry, said Alexander Nyago, general director of AO North-West GSM, a St. Petersburg cellular carrier.Of the 200,000 wireless subscribers in the country at the end of...
Motorola Inc. has won what it calls the largest cellular infrastructure contract in the world to date.The company's Cellular Infrastructure Group announced Japanese carriers DDI Corp. and Nippon Idou Tsushin Corp. (IDO), two of Japan's leading cellular service providers, have selected Motorola to provide...
NEW YORK-The National Police Agency of Japan announced March 14 that nine people were killed in the last six months of 1996 as a result of accidents involving drivers using mobile phones.In addition to nine fatalities during the second half of last year, the...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson formed an alliance with Compaq to develop portable personal computers that will allow mobile users to access the Internet and corporate intranets, send faxes and e-mail, and exchange documents via Global System for Mobile communications networks.The companies first product offering will...
TAIPEI, Taiwan-Taiwan's dominant telecommunications carrier has issued an equipment tender for a Digital Cellular System for 1800 MHz.Deadline for bids is April 8. The equipment is valued at $350 million.The operator is Chunghwa Telecom, which operates two island-wide systems: an Advanced Mobile Phone Service network...
MANILA, Philippines-Lucent Technologies Inc. signed a contract with Pilipino Telephone Corp. to supply and install a Code Division Multiple Access network in the Philippines. Lucent values the contract at $23 million.The network, which the company said will be operational in June, will cover the...
Brazil is in the wireless spotlight. Demand is high, penetration is low and growth in all sectors is being fueled by deregulation and a stronger economy.Brazil's current annual cellular growth rate is about 70 percent. The number of subscribers totaled 2.7 million last year,...
Motorola Inc.'s Pan American Wireless Infrastructure Division will install an Advanced Mobile Phone Service cellular network in Brazil. Motorola values the agreement with Telecomunicacoes de Sao Paulo S.A. at $63 million. The network will cover about 50,000 subscribers in the city of Aracatuba, and...
Greece's government telephone provider said it has collected bids from more than 15 equipment manufacturers for mobile phone equipment, and has narrowed its search for non-Greek partners to three companies, which includes a U.S. company.The Hellenic Telecommunications Organization, OTE, continues its push to become...
WASHINGTON-Wireless industry-funded cancer research will last longer and cost millions of dollars more than originally planned and the Food and Drug Administration will assume a bigger role in establishing the remaining scientific agenda, according to key individuals associated with the program.This week two significant...
Siemens Components Inc. introduced its Model CMY210, a GaAs MMIC that can be used for designing cellular or personal communications services handsets based on Time Division Multiple Access or Code Division Multiple Access standards. The company said it functions as an up/down converter for...
SAN FRANCISCO-Nokia Mobile Phones Inc. introduced a small, integrated wireless pay phone for Global System for Mobile communications networks in the United States.The Nokia pay phone allows public pay phone installation in new applications like taxis and limousines and offers flexibility in temporary fixed...
SAN FRANCISCO- In two weeks, Japanese cellular customers will gain the ability to roam internationally for the first time, using their own phone.GTE Telecommunications Services Inc. of Tampa, Fla., and Tokyo-based NTT Mobile Communications Network Inc., known as NTT DoCoMo, last week signed formal...
SAN FRANCISCO-Saying the timing is right to pursue the Code Division Multiple Access technology-based handset market, Nokia Mobile Phones Inc. announced it plans to build phones for the CDMA market.Nokia said it has designed its own chipset to be used in its handsets, the...
SAN FRANCISCO-LGC Wireless announced its distributed in-building antenna system, LGCell, at Wireless '97 last week. Using a system of hubs and active antennas connecting an architecture modeled after an ethernet local area network, LGCell distributes cellular and personal communications services signals through a building's...
ACT Communications Inc. developed two personal communications services and cellular protection products. The ACT 452-120-400L is a two-line, single phase surge arrestor that provides all-mode protection. The company said it is ideal for cabinet and PCS applications. It is rated to withstand up to...
Portugal's telecommunications authority, Instituto das Comunicacoes de Portugal, is expected to issue a mobile phone license at 1800 MHz, for service to begin next year.A Digital Cellular Services 1800 operator will be selected based on technical and financial abilities and the public interest, said...
The clear leader in innovation as honored at the third annual Mobile Insights Mobility Awards dinner was Palm Computing Inc.'s Pilot organizer, a diminutive device that currently has no wireless access.Jeff Hawkins, Palm's chief technical officer, was named industry Person of the Year for...
