In the June 2 issue of RCR, the article about Portugal's upcoming license tender should have said AirTouch Communications Inc. owns 51 percent of Portuguese Global System for Mobile communications operator Telecel.
NEW YORK-Incumbent and new carriers in Europe, the world's third- largest telecommunications market, are in reasonably good shape to meet competitive pressures despite uncertainties posed by pending deregulation, according to a report just published by Moody's Investors Service Inc., New York.As the World Trade...
AT&T Wireless Services Inc.'s plan for a digital personal communications services nationwide network has finally kicked off.After receiving its long-awaited shipment of dual-band, dual-mode handsets from Ericsson Inc. last month, AT&T began offering its Digital PCS service at 1900 MHz last week in Phoenix...
MOSCOW-Globalstar L.P. and Rostelecom JSC, Russia's largest telecommunications operator, signed an agreement to form a joint venture company that will provide mobile satellite services in Russia.Globalstar Space Telecommunications (GlobalTel) will act as the exclusive provider of Globalstar services in Russia, said the companies. The...
The Portuguese government said it plans to open a tender for a personal communications services license this month and issue a third mobile phone license by the end of this or early next year."The specification of the bidding is practically concluded and will be...
Poland has opened a tender for a Digital Cellular System 1800 MHz license. Interested companies are expected to submit offers by mid-July.Sources in Poland report that Minister of Telecommunications Andrzej Zielinski expects the DCS 1800 personal communications services operator to start commercial services by...
MILAN-Omnitel Pronto Italia announced it has restructured itself into two divisions, which separately will address the needs of individual and corporate users.Each new division will have commercial, marketing, product development, logistics and purchasing functions. Currently, Omnitel offers 12 rate plans, eight that dedicated to...
MOSCOW-Globalstar L.P. and Rostelecom JSC have reached an agreement that will allow Russians to gain access to advanced telephony services through Globalstar's worldwide mobile satellite system beginning in late 1998.GlobalTel-a joint stock company founded by Rostelecom JSC, the largest Russian telecommunications operator, and Globalstar-will...
NEW YORK-Taxicab, overnight mail delivery and other fleet vehicle drivers may soon be doing double duty as remote monitors of wireless telecommunications networks, according to a plan by LCC International Inc., McLean, Va.The radio-frequency engineering firm recently acquired European Technology Partner, a company based...
Affordable Message Center is introducing Simplicity One today, a prepaid one-number service that offers users protection from over-calls on their cellular phone bill."You are protecting your cellular number," explained Alexander Ott, president of Next Century Communications Inc., AMC's parent. "No other (one-number) service does...
BONN, Germany-The partnership of British Telecommunications plc and Viag AG, called E2 Mobilfunk GmbH, received its license to operate a Digital Cellular System 1800 personal communications services network in Germany.The joint venture company received the concession in February, but the final award was delayed...
After experiencing continual poor financial results, American Paging Inc. announced last month it would halt spending on narrowband personal communications services development to fix its core business. The company also may stop contributing financially to American Messaging Systems Inc., a joint venture between the...
Groups led by AT&T Corp. and Telia of Sweden are among those that recently purchased bidding packages from the Argentine government, which plans to award two 1900 MHz personal communications services licenses this fall.Interested companies must present initial offers, including technology plans, by Aug....
German cellular service provider T-Mobil awarded a contract to Lucent Technologies Inc. to expand T-Mobil's Global System for Mobile communications network. Lucent values the agreement at more than $30 million. T-Mobil's D-1 network currently serves 2.5 million subscribers. According to the contract, Lucent will...
BellSouth Mobility plans to begin consumer trials of Wildfire Communications Inc.'s Network Wildfire in the company's Atlanta cellular market.Network Wildfire is the company's network-based electronic assistant. Earlier this year, Pacific Bell Mobile Services and Orange plc, a PCS operator in the United Kingdom, each...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson said it received an order from Russia's Vimpel Communications for equipment to expand the operator's Digital-Advanced Mobile Phone Service network.Ericsson values the contract at $54 million.The seventh expansion of the VimpelCom network will allow the operator to provide service in regions...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.,-Kenan Systems Corp. has introduced Arbor/OM, the first UNIX-based order entry and management system designed to support service providers in the converging communications industries worldwide, including wireline and wireless telephony, Internet and electronic commerce and cable TV.Kenan supplies billing, customer care and customer...
CEDAR KNOLLS, N.J.-Omnipoint Communications Inc. initiated commercial roaming operations with Portuguese wireless operator Telecel S.A. The launch of roaming with Telecel via Subscriber Identity Module card technology makes a ninth international market available to Omnipoint, which employs Global System for Mobile communications technology.
AT&T Wireless Services Inc. only now is receiving the dual-band handsets necessary to make its vision of a Digital PCS nationwide network a reality."Things will start happening pretty quickly," said AT&T Wireless spokesman Ken Woo. AT&T has not launched any of its 1900 MHz...
This week Southwestern Bell telephone company will be the first company to launch a Time Division Multiple Access network at 1900 MHz when it turns on service in Tulsa, Okla.The nation's other TDMA proponent, AT&T Wireless Services Inc., has not launched its 1900 MHz...
When billionaire John Kluge of Metromedia International Group Inc. sold his company's film and television properties last month, he said the transaction would allow Metromedia to focus on its new mobile phone and paging ventures in Eastern Europe and the Far East.This will be...
Metrica says it holds the sole championship title in its corner of the global telecom industry, network performance management. The United States is especially promising right now for its business, as personal communications services licensees start up their networks.The company is just one of...
A specialized mobile radio operator is making plans to offer a pager that operates at 220 MHz.Angell Communications Inc. announced Wings 220, a single line numeric pager that has the ability to operate within the limitations of 5 kilohertz channel spacing. A Hong Kong-based...
Canada's Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission opened the market for local phone service last week, which has wireless players ecstatic.The CRTC has "issued a strong endorsement of the role wireless carriers will play" in the local market, said Microcell Telecommunications Inc. of Montreal."What you will...
