NEW ORLEANS-Nortel Networks announced its wireless Internet Protocol evolution plan at Wireless '99 and said it aims to reduce a wireless operator's total cost per megabit for data transmissions from 37 cents currently to 4 cents within five years."Nortel Networks has set a goal...
I guess there is no use longing for yesterdays when wireless trade shows were somewhat sane.Today's conventions are full of new twists as last-minute press conferences are called to announce deals signed at 3 a.m. the previous day, and phones that were supposed to...
CEDAR KNOLLS, N.J.-The North American GSM Alliance announced Omnipoint Communications Inc. will supply a temporary Global System for Mobile communications digital network to serve GSM customers attending the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association's Wireless '99 convention in New Orleans.Omnipoint has installed equipment at three primary...
ChinaMetawave Communications Corp. announced it entered into an agreement with Shanghai Post & Telecommunications Administration and Shanghai New Globe Co. to develop and test a Metawave smart-antenna system for Global System for Mobile communication networks, and for the trial of the system in Shanghai...
AfricaTelecel said it has selected Nortel Networks to supply Global System for Mobile communication systems for its emerging markets in Zambia, the Central African Republic, Burundi and a fourth country to be announced later this year. The $24 million agreement calls for delivery of...
JACKSON, Miss.-Cellular South said it launched a digital wireless network in Jackson, Miss., to complement its existing wireless system serving other areas in Mississippi.Cellular South said it is leveraging its existing Nortel Networks DMS-MTX digital switch in Jackson, which supports its 800 MHz Time...
WASHINGTON-The telecommunications industry forum studying whether the telephone network will work when the new century arrives needs better participation from the wireless industry, said Peter Spring of the Network Reliability and Interoperability Council.NRIC is a Federal Communications Commission advisory committee chartered to examine network...
TORONTO-Nortel Networks said about 10 percent of its work force, or 8,000 employees, will be affected in a restructuring that calls for plant divestitures, manufacturing rationalization, a greater reliance on outsourcing and redeployment of employees, said the company.Divestitures, retraining and attrition will help minimize...
LISLE, Ill.-Tellabs announced its echo cancellation original equipment manufacturer division, Coherent, won a $3 million, three-year global contract with Nortel Networks to provide its echo canceller technology."With technology from Tellabs' Coherent OEM division integrated into our Digital Multiple Switch Spectrum Peripheral Module, we can...
Following months of negotiations, Omnipoint Corp. secured much-needed financing from two of its vendors and one unnamed investor.Some analysts had speculated Omnipoint could run out of money sometime this year in the absence of additional financing, and the company has been named as a...
Advanced Radio Telecom Corp. is offering high-speed Internet services to businesses in the Phoenix metropolitan area. More than 25 companies in the Phoenix area have signed contracts with ART. The offering combines a high-speed connection to the Internet or company intranet with enhanced services...
Cellcom Israel completed a trial using Nortel Networks' multi-beam antenna and array processing technology aimed at reducing the per-subscriber cost of mobile radio access infrastructure by increasing base station capacity. The carrier, which operates a TDMA IS-136 network from Nortel, conducted the trial in...
LONDON-The Baltic region covers an area of 174,000 square kilometers, with approximately 8 million people generating US$13 billion in gross domestic product (GDP). But while Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania may seem similar countries to an outside eye, in reality they boast quite different cultures,...
DALLAS-Formus Communications reported it selected Nortel Networks to supply solutions to deliver high-speed, broadband wireless services to Poland."There is tremendous growth potential for voice, data, video and Internet services, especially in markets where wireline infrastructure is inadequate or virtually nonexistent," said Osmo Hautanen, chief...
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...
Slovenia, RomaniaOmnipoint Communications Inc. said it signed roaming agreements in Slovenia and Romania, with Mobitel d.d. Slovenia and Mobilrom S.A., respectively. Both countries are new territory for Omnipoint's roaming footprint. The company has roaming agreements throughout Europe and parts of the Middle East, Africa,...
PREFERRED NETWORKSPreferred Networks Inc. announced its founder, president and director, Michael Saner, will retire Dec. 31. Saner previously held upper-management positions at several paging companies, such as Paging Services Inc., a paging repair, maintenance, installation and sales company he founded, which was acquired by...
MELVILLE, N.Y.-Northeast Digital Networks Inc., and its wholly owned subsidiary, Personal Communications Networks, announced it has received an equipment supply and vendor-financing offer from Nortel Networks.The offer is subject to, among other things, the company securing an irrevocable commitment for equity, subordinated debt or...
NEW YORK-The recent privatization of Telecomunicaciones de Guatemala S.A., doing business as Telgua, was the largest such transaction in Central America to date and offers encouragement for similar plans contemplated in nearby Nicaragua and Honduras."Obviously, Telgua would be interested in reviewing these as opportunities...
Some analysts are expecting Code Division Multiple Access infrastructure spending to taper off in 1999 as cdmaOne infrastructure deployments in China remain questionable."I think China is the lynch pin for CDMA infrastructure going into next year and to a certain extent greater Asia," said...
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...
SpainThe government of Spain reportedly may award its fourth mobile phone license to a consortium made up of two formerly separate consortia-Lince and Uni2. Both companies submitted failed bids during Spain's third tender for a Global System for Mobile communications 1800 MHz license earlier...
LOS ANGELES-Nortel Networks said it is conducting live trials of cdmaOne circuit-switched data services with Bell Mobility and other selected customers and in the Nortel Networks Wireless Internet Lab in Dallas.The announcement was made in conjunction with the 1998 CDMA Americas Congress this week...
Cellular carriers have made significant progress in their efforts to upgrade their 800 MHz analog networks to digital technology.Consumers' appetite for digital features is demonstrated by the success of digital pricing plans such as AT&T Wireless Services Inc.'s Digital One Rate plan, said industry...
