BRUSSELS-Belgacom Mobile said it will appeal a court ruling that requires the operator to suspend a sales promotion for its Proximus cellular service.The Global System for Mobile communications carrier said the ban was issued after Mobistar, its competitor, complained about the fairness of the...
A young Sarasota, Fla., marketing company is hoping Bart will have a large influence on all age groups. In this case it is not Bart Simpson, but a new cellular telephone and global positioning system for automobiles.Bart is an after-market monitoring system that is...
Israel's two cellular operators are working hard to sign up as many customers as possible while the government continues to ponder details for licensing a third cellular operator."The (technology) standard of the third license hasn't been determined yet. The ministry has had a lot...
The government of Taiwan delayed the award of new mobile phone licenses because of misgivings about the foreign ownership of several consortia.Taiwan is offering two nationwide personal communications network licenses and six regional licenses. Consortia applying for the licenses cannot have more than 20...
IRVINE, Calif.-SOS Wireless Communications Inc. will begin retailing its SOS Phone during the first quarter through Amway Corp., Sears' Automotive Catalog and selected Sears stores and Montgomery Ward's Signature Group Catalog. SOS also will distribute the phone through existing retail partners.The SOS Phone is...
InterCel Inc. wants to learn if cellular customers who are familiar with rate plans will behave differently when let loose on a 1900 MHz system for a flat $50 a month."We'll be able to analyze usage in an unlimited threshold," said Ed Horner, chief...
rederick M. Joyce, Esq. It is a time-worn political axiom that no candidate ever lost a vote by speaking in favor of Mom, apple pie, and the American flag. In 1996, politicians discovered something equally safe to advocate: Universal telephone service. For evidence of the...
New York paging reseller Public Paging and operator ProNet Inc. are suing each other over a reseller agreement designed to give Public stock shares if it meets certain sales goals.Public filed its complaint in U.S. District Court, the Eastern District of New York. The...
Poland's Minister of Telecommunications announced plans to issue a tender for a personal communications network license at 1.8 GHz. In separate news, international arbitration between Ameritech International and the government of Poland has ceased since Ameritech sold its shares in cellular operator Centertel to...
Wireless industry growth has created new opportunities for engineering firms like V-Comm, which boasts a staff of experienced telecommunications engineers. V-Comm said its approach to business combines bottom-line operations logistics with the company's core engineering strengths.To date, one-year-old V-Comm has garnered engineering contracts from...
OTTAWA-TMI Communications agreed to provide mobile satellite communications services to Cable & Wireless Caribbean Cellular, a marine cellular network operator in the Caribbean.The service, CellSat, allows users to switch from cellular to satellite services and provides one number seamless roaming in a 12-island service...
To the cynic, walking away from AT&T Corp. and the prospect of being chairman of the world's biggest telecommunications company to head a wireless start-up with unproven technology was no big gamble for Alex J. Mandl.Start with a $20 million signing bonus to launch...
The Secretary of Communications in Argentina announced concrete plans to award two personal communications services licenses in early to mid-1997.Initially, the two PCS licenses will be granted for 30 megahertz, with an option for an additional 5 megahertz, but a total of 120 megahertz...
Cellular operators need to "get their heads together" if they want to offer cellular as a primary solution for telemetry, said a Houston-based company that manages that service for large U.S. pipeline companies."If cellular wants to play heavily in this market, they're going to...
Bell Atlantic Corp. has increased its ownership in Italian carrier Omnitel Pronto Italia, nullifying Mannesmann AG's agreement with Olivetti SpA to purchase an additional 5.8 percent stake in the operator.Germany-based Mannesmann, which holds a 5.9 percent interest in Omnitel Pronto Italia, announced in November...
Sprint PCS service is available in six cities, and just two days remain for Sprint Spectrum L.P. to meet its goal of launching 1900 MHz personal comm-unications services in two more of its 29 A- and B-block markets.Sprint's Code Division Multiple Access service is...
Pocket Communications Inc. has completed $646 million in financing agreements with three equipment vendors to build network clusters that will make Pocket the nation's sixth largest personal communications services operator in terms of population.Washington, D.C.-based Pocket received its 43 C-block licenses last month after...
WASHINGTON-Business executives rate long-distance carriers as being more innovative in their customized telecom solutions than are local exchange carriers, an opinion wireless carriers should heed when considering a venture into the local loop, according to an updated survey."The Third Annual Telecommunications Survey-Business User Perspectives...
NEW YORK-CIBC Wood Gundy Securities Corp. "is on the threshold of making announcements" about deals to help some vendors finance the purchase of their wireless equipment by cash-poor, start-up American personal communications services providers, said Robert W. Stuart, managing director of the global telecommunications...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-CTI Movil, a cellular network operator in Argentina, selected Lucent Technologies Inc. to expand its Advanced Mobile Phone Service network and install an online billing platform. Lucent values the contract at $35 million.The expansion calls for Lucent to install its 5ESS(R)-2000 switch-based...
The end of the Cold War six years ago signaled the end of defense as a driver of technology creation. Engineers have since sought ways to apply defense designs to commercial services."There's a lot of novelty going on around wireless base stations," said Dr....
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-With the delivery of 3,000 base stations to Japanese cellular operator NTT DoCoMo, L.M. Ericsson's base stations support more than 2 million subscribers in Japan. NTT DoCoMo has more than 6 million subscribers in its Personal Digital Cellular network.Ericsson supplies its MDE base...
DALLAS-Northern Telecom Inc. said it is syndicating about $1.1 billion of its $1.3 billion vendor credit facility with Sprint Spectrum L.P. through a group of major financial institutions.The syndication of participation rights and loan assignments is expected to be completed early next year, the...
SAN FRANCISCO-AirTouch Communications Inc. increased its ownership in Portuguese cellular operator Telecel-Comunicacoes Pessoais from 39 percent to 51 percent, making it the majority shareholder.Telecel recently completed an initial public offering of more than 7.6 million shares. Price per share was about $51."We've been actively...
