BUCHAREST, Romania-Throughout the 1990s, NMT analog wireless systems became somewhat obsolete, particularly with the advent of GSM technology. Digital GSM systems, which offer users services such as short message service, caller ID, group calls and data transmissions, are widespread throughout Europe and have outperformed...
DENVER, United States-Bolivian personal communications services operator Nuevatel will likely be the first operator in the Americas to launch General Packet Radio Service.The Andean nation of Bolivia, which usually takes a backseat to markets such as Argentina, Brazil and Mexico in terms of wireless...
AWRApplied Wave Research appointed Ronald Patston as vice president of marketing. Prior to joining AWR, Patston held several positions in various companies in the wireless and EDA industry including Agilent Technologies, Verticom Inc. and Hewlett Packard. As VP of marketing, Patston will lead AWR's...
MELBOURNE, Fla.-AirNet Communication Corp. has deployed and received customer acceptance for what it said is one of the first U.S. wireless GPRS systems.AirNet's AdaptaCell base stations and its AirSite Backhaul Free base stations are included in the GPRS system AirNet is supplying to MBO...
The path to third-generation services for many wireless operators appears to be anything but smooth. While Asian carriers seem to be taking the high-speed approach, European carriers recently have seen their paths clogged by uncertainty. For U.S. carriers, 3G plans are being dictated by...
When Verizon Wireless introduced the Kyocera 6035 smart phone last week, many were surprised by how quickly the country's largest wireless operator brought the new phone to market."Time to market is very important, and Verizon did a good job of getting the phone to...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-BT Cellnet and its wireless services arm Genie are to launch a data service to allow mobile users and field workers wireless access to corporate networks. The two BT divisions have agreed to team up with the U.S. infrastructure developer Seven to...
ST. LOUIS-Amdocs, provider of customer care, billing and order management solutions to the communications industry, announced its e-care and prepaid solutions will be implemented for Esat Digifone, an Irish mobile operator with more than 1 million subscribers. The e-care solution includes self-care and remote...
BUCHAREST, Romania-At the end of February, ONE began offering GPRS service throughout Austria. Billing is based on the data volume transferred. The handsets for the network are the GPRS-enabled Motorola Inc. Timeport 260 handsets."Our customers merely have to pay for the data volumes actually...
BUCHAREST, Romania-Schlumberger Test & Transactions announced this week Slovakia's leading mobile operator EuroTel Bratislava has chosen Schlumberger as its partner in delivering a new, highly secure mobile banking service to multiple banks, based on Schlumberger Simera Java subscriber identity modules.Using this new, menu-driven service,...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-The arrival of a third cellular telephony operator will provide the conditions for the Bolivian market to acquire more cellular than fixed telephony users during the first half of this year. Currently, there are 500,000 cellular telephony and 570,000 fixed telephony clients.New...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-New proposals from the European Commission covering how telecom operators will be regulated have been met with hostility by GSM Europe, the European arm of the GSM Association. The group claimed the proposals will significantly increase the chances of EC intervention in...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-Complying with an agreement signed between the two major political parties, the Uruguayan Congress approved the sale of up to 40 percent of Ancel, the state cellular telephony operator.It is the first step toward the entrance of new companies to a market...
MUNICH, Germany-Cellplus, a wholly owned subsidiary and mobile operator of Mauritius Telecom, has awarded Siemens Telecommunications a turnkey contract to design and implement a full WAP-enabled solution.This solution, which will take the form of a phased approach, is intended to see Cellplus become the...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Telia AB said it will sell its financial interests in Brazilian mobile operator Tess to Telecom Americas for $950 million. Telia has a 62-percent stake in Tess, which has about 940,000 wireless subscribers.Telia and Telia Overseas are selling all their preferred shares in...
TOKYO-Citing a delay in hardware development, Japan Telecom Co. Ltd. said it would delay the deployment of third generation services from this December until summer 2002. The delay will place Japan's third-largest operator more than a year behind market leader NTT DoCoMo Inc.'s 3G...
LJUBLJANA, Slovenia-Mobilkom Austria acquired a 49-percent stake in Si.mobile, a GSM operator in Slovenia, according to international press reports. An additional 26 percent plus one share will be acquired by Teleimpuls, a Slovenian company in which Mobilkom owns 49 percent.The remaining shares in Si.mobile...
NONTHABURI, Thailand-Shin Satellite of Thailand and BayCom of Malaysia announced they signed a national service operator agreement for Malaysia in advance of the launch of iPSTAR-1 in 2003. The agreement is valued at US$60 million for two-way bandwidth capacity over the entire 12-year lifespan...
In a marriage of convenience, carriers are signing temporary dotted lines to outsource their network management to vendors as they migrate to the next generation of wireless technology.The trend, which concedes to vendors a pivotal role in positioning carriers for the new technologies, moves...
LITCHFIELD PARK, Ariz.-Amid the scorched desert ground abutting the lush greens of golf courses, the future of the wireless Internet was the topic of discussion in the small community of Litchfield Park, Ariz., where industry consultant Andrew Seybold held his 2001 Summit 4Mobility. And...
WASHINGTON-TV broadcasters said they plan to fight any proposal that would force them to pay fees for 700 MHz spectrum they have not vacated by 2007. Further, during a Senate panel hearing on the transition to high-definition television, bickering between cable operators and TV...
AT&T Wireless Group jumped into the very active debt capital market last week selling off $6.5 billion worth of senior unsecured notes, the largest private bond sale ever by a U.S. company.The bond sale followed Qwest Communications International Inc., Sprint Corp. and Verizon Communications,...
TAIWANChunghwa Telecom Labs (CHTTL), the technology development group of Taiwan's state-owned telecommunication operator, has selected Nokia to conduct its third-generation trials. Nokia will provide CHTTL with the core and radio network, network management system and technical consultancy services. Then based on the trial results,...
Weary of playing second fiddle, L.M. Ericsson trumped all the competition by soaring to the top of equipment makers, dislodging premier Lucent Technologies Inc., which dropped to the No. 4 spot for 2000, according to a survey by Gartner Inc.'s Dataquest.The survey is a...
