Alcatel.Benin. With Office des Postes et Telecommunications (OPT) for a GSM network, along with fiber-optic and switching equipment.Value: US$32.8 millionKenya. With KenCell for a 50,000-subscriber capacity GSM network.Value: UndisclosedMorocco. With Maroc Telecom for mobile switching centers.Value: UndisclosedPortugal. With Portugal Telecom's TMN for a GPRS network.Value: UndisclosedQatar. With Q-Tel...
KUWAIT-Motorola Inc. and Kuwait Global System for Mobile communications operator Mobile Telecommunications Co. signed an expansion contract valued at $14 million to implement countrywide capacity enhancements at 1800 MHz on the MTCNet GSM network.The upgrade will involve Motorola's Network Solutions Sector integrating its Horizonsystems...
SAN JOSE, Calif. - Digital Microwave Corp. announced it has received $5 million in orders from two companies in the Peoples' Republic of China. The orders, $3.5 million from China Unicom for the company's Altium and Spectrum II radios and $1.5 million from Hebei...
Latin AmericaCellular/personal communications services handset shipments to Latin America showed a significant technology shift from analog Advanced Mobile Phone Service to digital Time Division Multiple Access technology during the first three months of 1999, according to results from The Strategis Group's report, "Strategis dataBank...
LONDON-The main trends in the Middle East wireless industry for the current year were highlighted back in March with calls from senior industry professionals for greater private-sector participation and the introduction of competition in this steadily expanding market.Speaking at the plenary session of the...
LONDON-The Middle East wireless sector continues to show positive signs, with several major contracts awarded and plenty of healthy GSM (Global System for Mobile communications) activity over the past year. In addition, carriers have begun to sign on with new mobile satellite services (MSS)...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s Cellular Infrastructure Group said it signed a $38 million contract to expand the Global System for Mobile communications network in Jahra and Kuwait City, Kuwait.The expansion project for Mobile Telecommunications Co. will improve in-building coverage and increase its network capacity...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s International Cellular Infrastructure Group signed a contract to expand a Global System for Mobile communications network in Kuwait. Motorola values the contract at $7 million.When the expansion is completed, the network will provide service for more than 116,000 subscribers in...
SEOUL, Korea-Korea has made yet another policy reversal over its award of personal communications services franchises, while remaining firm about completing the licensing process by the end of June.Three licenses for nationwide PCS will be given to the government-owned Korea Telecom and two companies-more...
A galaxy of new wireless services may soon beam down on the telephony-poor regions of the world.Mobile satellite systems-just like terrestrial-based wireless networks-are evolving from serving specialized markets to providing consumer pocket telephony as well as plain old telephone service. Right now, many of...
