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 a 92-percent growth rate last year, bringing total mobile users to 13 million, and...
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 N.V. and N.M. Rothschild & Sons has been appointed to advise the Estonian government in...
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 a new Singapore mobile phone license, United States-based GTE Corp., said it wanted no...
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 time.There's certainly possibilities for growth following a slow start. At the end of 1997,...
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 to more than double by 2000, according to the International Mobile Telecommunications Association (IMTA).Operators...
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 went to press, BT (British Telecommunications plc) Mobile was the only other U.K. operator...
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 rights issue by a Spanish company. Approval was granted at the shortest-ever meeting in...
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 industry could be an US$8.5 billion market.The various service providers will comprise four different...
ESPOO, Finland-Tecnomen announced it signed a contract valued at about $2 million with Chinese operator Tianjin Toll Telecommunications Bureau to expand the capacity of its Global System for Mobile communications messaging system to 135,000 subscribers.The expansion will allow TTTB to offer value-added services such...
Signaling the beginning of a global partnership, Telecom Italia said it will pay $2 billion for minority interests in Cable & Wireless plc's international businesses."I am pleased to welcome Telecom Italia as our global partner in building scale in our international operations," said Richard...
PETAH TIKVA, Israel-Team Telecom International and its Brazilian representative, Construtel Projetos e Contrucoes Ltda., have been selected to provide a B-band operator in Brazil with its network management solution for wireless networks.TTI's Netrac suite of applications, which includes advanced fault, configuration and performance management,...
IRVINE, Calif.-Subscriber Computing Inc. installed a fraud detection system for Canadian personal communications services provider Microcell Telecommunications Inc., announced the company.Subscriber Computing said Microcell is the first North American operator to implement its new FraudWatch Pro system, which combats a variety of fraudulent activity...
A California software company has introduced an object-based server that captures, processes and manages distributed events and transactions across disparate computer and network systems.Softwire Corp. of Larkspur, Calif., already has installed the server, called ObjectSwitch, into Caribbean operator France Caraibe Mobile's network, CS Telco...
DUSSELDORF, Germany-Mannesmann AG, Olivetti and Bell Atlantic International have acquired Swedish telecom operator Telia's 9.66 percent ownership in Monitel Sistemi Radiocellulari, which owns 6.8 percent of Italian mobile operator Omnitel Pronto Italia.Mannesmann and Olivetti, through their joint venture company, OliMan, will buy two-thirds of...
BOCA RATON, Fla.-Norway's mobile communications network operator NetCom GSM of Oslo awarded Siemens AG a contract valued at $21.8 million to expand and modernize its base stations in southern Norway.Siemens Public Communication Networks Group plans to upgrade the base stations in NetCom's Global System...
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. announced it will provide Tele Danmark a full turnkey solution for a Global System for Mobile communications 1800 MHz network in The Netherlands.Tele Danmark currently is working to form a partnership to create a new nationwide wireless operator in that country....
Nextel Communications Inc. dealers have filed a putative class-action lawsuit against the enhanced specialized mobile radio operator in a San Diego court, claiming Nextel failed to properly pay commissions and other money the dealers say is due them.The class includes all Nextel dealers in...
MCLEAN, Va.-Nextel Communications Inc. reported revenues during the first quarter of $327 million, a 196-percent increase compared with revenues of $110.7 million for the first quarter of 1997.However, net loss for the quarter increased to $386.9 million, or $1.53 per share, compared with a...
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 to more than double by 2000, according to the International Mobile Telecommunications Association.Operators now...
As the popularity and penetration of wireless communications spreads throughout North America, wireless carriers increasingly will use mass-market retail outlets and their own direct channels to distribute handsets and services. Wireless consumers might put a cellular phone on their shopping list along with a...
WASHINGTON-The U.S. Postal Service and UniSite Inc. are planning a major rollout of huge flagpole antennas in the East and Midwest, a development representing a technological breakthrough in antenna co-location technology and aesthetics that will test the willingness of communities to embrace 150-foot structures...
WASHINGTON-Despite all the hoopla surrounding antenna siting legislation, wireless anti-fraud, privacy and tax-repeal bills stand a far better chance of being passed by Congress and enacted into law this year.President Clinton is expected shortly to sign legislation that will outlaw unauthorized mobile phone cloning...
LONFON-Orange plc, through its wholly owned subsidiary, Orange Communications Ltd., said it submitted a bid for the third mobile phone license in the Republic of Ireland.The United Kingdom-based operator is not in partnership with any other companies at this stage in its pursuit of...
Bell Canada International Inc. said it will acquire 29 percent of South Korean personal communications services operator Hansol PCS Co. Ltd. for $180 million.Hansol is one of three PCS operators in South Korea that launched service in October. The consortium is led by the...
