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LONDON-The GSM (Global System for Mobile communications) market in Egypt took a positive turn at the beginning of the year with an invitation for bids to build and operate a …

Nippon Ido Tsushin Corp. (IDO) announced it will stop its analog cellular service based on the NTT standard as of the end of March 1999 and instead will use the …

The Argentine government, in an attempt to proceed with the PCS auctions currently in judicial limbo, is considering selling two PCS licenses each for the northern and southern regions of …

OXFORD, United Kingdom-Second-generation cellular has not been an entirely satisfactory experience for the United States. “We pulled up the beaches and said we are Island America,” said Tom Wheeler, chief …

HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam-While other countries in the region continue to liberalize their mobile phone markets, Vietnam will return to a status of near-monopoly by year-end. The merger of …

OXFORD, United Kingdom-The game of musical chairs between telecom operators vying for a stake in the lucrative German market seems to have slowed down. There is now some semblance of …

Telesystem International Wireless Inc., Montreal, announced its French subsidiary, Regiocom S.A., has acquired S3RP, the trunked-radio operations of Bouygues Telecom marketed under the brand name Orbicom, making it the only …

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-Uganda has one of the lowest penetration rates of telephone services in the world. As of July 1995, the Uganda Posts & Telecommunication Corp. (UPTC) had an installed …

Argentina will adopt calling party pays for cellular as of 1 January. Trunking and paging also are expected to adopt the system in an attempt to develop these markets. The …

BANGALORE, India-After almost a year of service, radio trunking in India is starting to look promising. Once a given-up segment, the industry had 4,000 subscribers nationwide as of March. And …

BANGALORE, India-By the end of December 1997, there were close to 800,000 cellular subscribers in the four metros and 15 telecom circles (roughly equivalent to states) where services so far …

The International Telecommunication Union has yet to decide on the air interface for third-generation mobile phone technology, but many vendors are pushing ahead anyway with GSM-based wideband CDMA technology. The …

At a rate of nearly 400,000 new subscriber additions each quarter, U.S.-based Nextel Communications Inc. has been attracting a lot of attention, including from traditional wireless carriers that may try …

Australia Northern Telecom Ltd. announced it will build a turnkey nationwide cdmaOne Code Division Multiple Access wireless network for Telstra Corp., Australia’s primary telecommunications provider, in a buildout project valued …

Germany-based Mannesmann A.G. and Italy’s Olivetti last week announced they will launch a joint-venture company, Mannesmann euro.map, to provide cross-border voice and data services using already-existing infrastructure in individual European …

Microcell Telecommunications Inc. said it completed the final phase of its 1998 expansion in Canada with the launch of Fido personal communications services in London, Ontario. The PCS service, operating …

SAO PAULO-BellSouth Corp. announced late last week that its BCP S.A. cellular operation in Sao Paulo, Brazil, has wiped out its 1.8 million-person waiting list for cellular service, signing on …

MELBOURNE, Fla.-AirNet Communications Corp. said it was awarded a contract valued at about $30 million from Carolina PCS to supply the C-block operator with personal communications services equipment. AirNet also …

While Nextel Communications Inc. remains the darling of the wireless industry these days, other specialized mobile radio operators are beginning to build successful businesses on plain old two-way dispatch voice …

Austria Kyro Corp.’s Tecnomen Group announced Mobilkom Austria selected it to supply a new messaging system for Mobilkom’s Global System for Mobile communications network expansion. The new system will add …

L.M. Ericsson last week spelled out details of its new strategic direction, which includes an increased focus on Internet technologies to piggyback on its established position in the wireless and …

Italy’s Communications Minister Antonio Maccanico was reported in foreign press as saying the country may engage in yet another auction for a fourth mobile phone license, possibly before the end …

Changing times are requiring some infrastructure vendors to reorganize their businesses and better align themselves with their customers. Siemens AG of Germany is the latest vendor to realize this. The …

AT&T Corp.’s announced acquisition of Vanguard Cellular Systems Inc. has raised some questions as to what AT&T plans to do with Vanguard’s paging operations. Many analysts expect AT&T to sell …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission last week said the Justice Department has made initial queries regarding Nextel Communications Inc.’s request to lift a 1994 antitrust consent decree so the nation’s largest …