Motorola Inc.'s Cellular Infrastructure Group is struggling to keep PrimeCo Personal Communications L.P. from giving future contracts to another vendor for more personal communications services equipment.PrimeCo reportedly is dissatisfied with the performance of Motorola's Code Division Multiple Access equipment currently installed, but contrary to...
Although the Italian government awarded fixed telephony licenses last week to two companies, confusion and frustration continue to surround the decision to bestow a much-delayed third mobile phone license.The Italian Senate is said to have set a May 31 deadline for the Ministry of...
DUBLIN, Ireland-The challenges faced by radio-access network providers have been underlined by the experiences of Ionica, a company established in June 1996 to provide a new wireless telephone service to households and small businesses in the United Kingdom.While its coverage now extends to more...
DUBLIN, Ireland-Esat Digifone has built a substantial market share since it launched Ireland's second Global System for Mobile communications (GSM) phone service last March. Global Wireless spoke to Marketing Director Derek Handley to find out about the company's market strategy for growth.Ireland has a...
The transformation of Russia's paging industry took a major step in late January when modest operator Multi-Page merged into industry giant Segol RadioPage Inc.According to the terms of the agreement, RadioPage will create a holding company called EnergoNet, which will be responsible for all...
DENVER, United States-Market strategy has taken on a new meaning for wireless carriers in the Asia-Pacific, which are picking themselves up, dusting themselves off and looking around to see if the region's economic storm has left them shipwrecked or simply thrown off course a...
Further developments in the B-band auction for cellular licenses in Brazil continue to be stymied, while the June privatization auction date set for government-owned Telebr
Telesystem International Wireless Inc., Canada, signed a letter of intent with SOGERA to acquire, for approximately US$13 million, the French trunked radio operations of France Telecom that were marketed under the brand names Praxiphone, Heliophone and Armoricom, announced TIW. With this acquisition, TIW's French...
JOHANNESBURG-The International Telecommunication Union's (ITU's) formal approval of Motorola Inc.'s FLEX paging protocol as an international standard will give the green light to expand FLEX operations in Africa. This will be particularly so in South Africa, the hub of the paging industry.One operator in...
JOHANNESBURG-South African companies are poised to play a major role in telecommunications as the privatization and deregulation process, which began in the early 1990s in Africa, moves rapidly ahead.But the march is not likely to be an easy one as top international companies are...
Dutch PTT using Glenayre's MVPCHARLOTTE, N.C.-Glenayre Technologies Inc. announced that Dutch telecom operator PTT Telecom is using the company's modular voice processing system to provide a voice-activated dialing service on its Global System for Mobile communications network.Called VoiceDialing, the PTT service allows subscribers to...
WASHINGTON, D.C.-The commercial trunked radio industry in the Czech Republic is showing significant signs of growth and is on pace to reach more than 22,000 subscribers by 2000, according to the International Mobile Telecommunications Association.Mobilkom, a joint venture between Motorola Inc. (49 percent) and...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission late last week was close to approving a new plan to relax conservative parts of its C-block personal communications services debt-restructuring rules and to extend the election date for financing options by as much as 90 days beyond the current...
Bulgaria's Post and Telecommunications Committee announced that the buyer of state-owned Bulgarian Telecommunications Co. will receive a Global System for Mobile communications license.The agency said it hopes to begin negotiations with potential buyers for BTC by the third quarter. Named as interested bidders to...
In 1983, there were about 40 cellular cell sites in the Los Angeles area, with just a few hundred countrywide. Early subscribers lined up to pay whatever the price was for a cellular phone-$2,000 to $3,500 was typical-and the question was not, "How much...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson signed a $200 million framework agreement with Telecommunicaciones Movilnet in Venezuela to expand its wireless network using Time Division Multiple Access Interim-136 technology. Movilnet is the only operator in the country offering digital wireless services. The carrier already has introduced digital...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson signed a contract to install a 900 MHz Global System for Mobile communications system for Tatarian-American Investment in Finance, a mobile operator in Tatarstan, Russia.Ericsson values the contract at $50 million.When fully operational, the system is expected to support 100,000 subscribers.Ericsson...
ALEXANDRIA, Minn.-Rural Cellular Corp. announced a definitive agreement to acquire the operations and related assets of Atlantic Cellular's Vermont, New Hampshire, New York and Massachusetts cellular telephone licenses.The cellular properties include all of Vermont, western New Hampshire, the northeast corner of New York and...
MELVILLE, N.Y.-Interantenna-AMC, based in Moscow, has selected and installed the In-Touch II paging billing and management system from In-Touch Management Systems Inc., said the company.The installation, In-Touch's first in Russia, includes the company's Operator Dispatch System, which will help reduce Interantenna's equipment and operating...
LONDON-Cable & Wireless plc said brisk sales during the holiday season helped its mobile telecommunications subscriber base surpass the 2 million mark.The total number of customers among companies in which Cable & Wireless has shareholdings, is 9.6 million. When adjusted to reflect the size...
ALLEN TELECOM INC.Allen Telecom Inc.'s Antenna Specialists Division introduced a springless option to its line of Mosaic LMR vehicular antennas. Allen said the springless option is designed for applications in less rugged operating environments, and is available in both conversion and component forms for...
Aiming to attract alphanumeric paging subscribers wary of dictating messages to a dispatch operator, GoComm Wireless Corp. created a device called the MessageSender, currently being shipped to distributors.The MessageSender is a portable Qwerty keyboard about the size of a checkbook on which users can...
Canada's mobile phone market rebounded somewhat at the end of 1997 from lagging subscriber additions that plagued carriers throughout the year, but the results showed a slow expansion of the wireless market even with personal communications services entrants."I think the increase in subscriber additions...
MOSCOW-Russian paging operator Multi-Page and Seattle-based Segol RadioPAGE Inc., which operates a network in Russia, merged at the end of January in a move seen as heralding the impending consolidation of the country's fragmented paging industry.Multi-Page will merge into RadioPAGE, which combined will command...
