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Brightpoint Inc. announced it extended for three years its agreement with Esat Digifone, a Global System for Mobile communications operator based in Dublin, Ireland. Brightpoint supplies Esat fulfillment and distribution …

ISTANBUL-Motorola Inc.’s Cellular Infrastructure Group announced what it called the world’s single-largest Global System for Mobile communications infrastructure contract to date. The company signed an exclusive $500 million contract with …

NEW YORK-“A lot of what you’re hearing about voice over the Internet, about having actual, real-time conversations, is hype,” said Ralph Tomeoni, president and chief executive officer of TekNow, Phoenix. …

The 220 MHz specialized mobile radio industry, sometimes known as the final frontier of wireless spectrum opportunity, gained a major player when four of its larger operators agreed in principle …

NEW YORK-Orbcomm Corp. of Herndon, Va., filed for a public offering to raise capital to repay Orbcomm Global L.P., which has financed the start-up low-earth-orbit satellite data communications venture so …

A ruling from a federal bankruptcy court in Dallas may have set a dangerous precedent for the Federal Communications Commission and further muddied the waters for C-block personal communications services …

NEW YORK-France Telecom Inc. is putting the finishing touches on elaborate preparations that began three years ago for France 98, the month-long World Cup soccer tournament coming up this summer. …

Paging Network Inc. and Iridium North America are expected to announce a service provider and distribution agreement this week that would allow PageNet to offer global paging services to its …

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HONG KONG Hong Kong’s SmarTone Telecommunications Holdings Ltd. announced agreements with Star Telecom International Holdings Ltd. and Telecom Service Ltd. to acquire P Plus Communications Ltd., a PCS operator, for …

DENMARK Mobilix, a France Telecom subsidiary, has begun offering services on its DCS 1800 network. GERMANY Lucent Technologies Inc.’s Microelectronics Group acquired Optimay GmbH, a privately held software-development company based …

OXFORD, England-Japan’s largest wireless operator, NTT DoCoMo, has allied itself closely with the GSM (Global System for Mobile communications) operator camp. The company signed a cooperation agreement-covering technology developments for …

OTTAWA-Canadian satellite operator Telesat and Northern Telecom Inc. announced an agreement to jointly develop a geostationary satellite system to deliver telephony services to underserved areas of the world. The next-generation …

WASHINGTON-While Calling Party Pays (CPP) has become a huge success in most of Latin America, the CPP concept recently took a new twist in Chile when Startel SA, the wireless …

MACH India Pvt Ltd. entered into a contract with Bharti Cellular of India to offer cellular clearinghouse services for the country. The agreement includes MACH Data, the clearing service for …

China Telecom (Hong Kong) in late April announced the purchase of Jiangsu Mobile Communication for US$2.9 billion. China Telecom said the purchase gives it close to 4.8 million cellular subscribers …

BEIJING-In the wireless world, China no longer is a forgotten backwater, but is rapidly moving to center stage. According to the new Ministry of Information Industry (MII), the country had …

Croatia has announced a tender to construct and operate a nationwide GSM (Global System for Mobile communications) network. Bids were due 15 April. A consortium led by ABN Amro Bank …

SINGAPORE-What was to have been one of the most glorious moments in Singapore’s telecommunications history turned out to be a major fiasco in April when one of the tenderers for …

LONDON-After years of uncertainty and confusion, the Russian wireless telecommunications market finally seems set to come out of hibernation and deliver what investors and analysts have been expecting for some …

WASHINGTON-Lack of awareness and problems with securing financing have made for a slow start in Russia’s commercial trunked radio industry, but the number of units in service there is expected …

DUBLIN, Ireland-Page One has become the first United Kingdom-based paging operator to launch FLEX, with the promise of smaller, more flexible and affordable paging devices for consumers. As Global Wireless …

OXFORD, England-In March, shareholders of the privatized Spanish operator Telefonica approved a new group structure as well as a proposal to raise Pta 600 billion (US$3.97 billion) through the largest-ever …

DENVER, United States-If all goes as planned, the world could have as many as 10 mobile satellite communications (MSS) systems operating in the next five years. By 2002, the MSS …

OXFORD, England-Trunked radio networks are the poor relations of the European mobile community. PMR (Private Mobile Radio) and PAMR (Public Access Mobile Radio) networks are used widely in public-safety and …