Even in this new era of commoditized wireless competition, sometimes it pays to enter the market by trying to set the bar a little higher.Irvine, Calif.-based Comarco Wireless Technologies Inc. is attempting to do just that with its line of field measurement test equipment."We...
NEW YORK-Millicom International Cellular S.A. has reached an agreement in principle to exchange its option to acquire 20 percent of Comviq GSM AB, the Swedish cellular telephone operator, in return for shares in NetCom Systems AB, Comviq's publicly traded parent.The value of the transaction...
Yet another European-based company is entering the U.S. digital handset market, trumpeting its communications and manufacturing expertise, particularly in Global System for Mobile communications technology.A U.S. division of Siemens A.G. hopes to eventually grab a double-digit slice of market share when it begins selling...
While FLEX has paraded across the globe, gaining recognition as the new global paging standard throughout the Americas, Asia and Middle East, the Motorola Inc. technology has met resistance in Europe, where members of the European Union and other nations-by virtue of certain political...
Telesp Celular, the cellular division of the telephone operating company for the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil, announced plans to install a digital network by December 1997 to eliminate capacity problems of its current analog network.Telesp said it has not chosen which digital standard...
A week after Mobistar launched Global System for Mobile communications cellular service in Belgium, sole incumbent Belgacom Mobile cut its cellular rates between 30 percent and 34 percent.However, Mobistar's rates are equally competitive to Belgacom's new rates, said Luca Tassan, analyst at London-based Economic...
Independent cellular operators say they are poised for strong growth in coming years, despite the rising aspirations of mammoth telecommunications operators bent on controlling large market share."Most people just assume don't have the size to compete moving to the future," said Arnold Pohs,...
Alexandria, Minn.-based Rural Cellular Corp. said it plans to offer personal communications services and cellular service to customers in portions of Minnesota, North Dakota and Wisconsin through a joint venture with American Portable Telecom Inc.The two companies have signed a letter of intent to...
LEWISTON, N.Y.-New York Power Authority trustees have approved an agreement with Sprint Spectrum L.P. to allow the personal communications services operator to install antennas on NYPA transmission towers.NYPA said the 10-year agreement authorizes Sprint to install the first antenna at a site on the...
Metro One Telecommunications Inc. opened trading on the Nasdaq National Market at $8.50 per share in its initial public offering of 2.4 million shares of common stock, of which the company is selling about 1.68 million shares and existing shareholders are selling 725,000 shares.The...
MOUNTAIN LAKES, N.J.-Personal communications services operator Omnipoint Communications Inc. has chosen Paoli, Penn.-based Orga Card Systems to supply subscriber identity modules, or smart cards.Under the terms of the agreement between the two companies, Orga will supply OCI, a wholly owned subsidiary of Omnipoint Corp.,...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission apparently has come up with a winning plan to expand its current rules regarding partitioning and spectrum disaggregation by commercial mobile services licensees.Many current personal communications services licensees are looking forward to increasing their service areas not by auction but...
Competition strategies used by France Telecom may change a little now that the national company has become a private entity, researchers say."As a private company, they have to be more accountable for their operations, and there will be more pressure to be competitive," said...
Laws and fairness in Poland's wireless sector are a hot topic this month, as three separate authorities investigate current business practices.A Polish news publication reported the Anti-Monopoly Office in Poland has its eye on state-owned telephone operator Telecommunickacja Polska S.A., which is suspected of...
Triden Telecom Inc. has signed a letter of intent to acquire Communitronics Inc., a paging company based in Mobile, Ala. Communitronics has 3,000 pagers in service and is expanding its coverage area by acquiring and building out more paging terminals, said Triden.Denver-based ComTec International...
WASHINGTON-A lengthy notice of proposed rulemaking adopted July 25 by the Federal Communications Commission but not released until Aug. 13, "initiates a comprehensive review of our existing regulatory framework of structural and nonstructural safeguards for local exchange carrier provision of commercial mobile radio services."Taking...
U.S. partners in a Slovakian phone venture are confident they can restructure their company to meet new license qualifications unexpectedly created by the Slovakian government.Slovakia is scheduled to issue two new Global System for Mobile communications licenses Aug. 27. One license was promised six...
France Telecom Mobiles International has signed two digital cellular phone contracts with Chinese operator China United Telecommunications Corp. (China Unicom). The contracts call for the expansion of a 1995 system to add an additional 41,000 subscribers in the city of Guangzhou in Canton and...
Germany, one of Western Europe's most developed mobile telephone markets, is preparing to license a fourth operator to further stimulate competition.Parties interested in the E-2 nationwide 1800 MHz digital personal communications network license must submit bids by Oct. 15, said Volker Wirsdorf, commercial specialist...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.-Western Wireless Corp. has turned on a personal communications services network in the Albuquerque, N.M.-El Paso, Texas, major trading area.The company's service is branded VoiceStream Wireless and is available from the town of Espanola, north of Santa Fe, to Socorro, south of Albuquerque.By...
Wireless analysts say cellular carriers have two distinct goals in releasing a barrage of pricing plans at this time. Get as many customers on contract as possible, and confuse the consumer to avoid price comparisons."Now is the time for cellular operators to lock customers...
Hong Kong's dominant cellular operator Hongkong Telecom said it deeply regrets that the government failed to award it one of six new wireless licenses, and intends to discuss the matter with Hong Kong officials.Fourteen companies bid for the 10-year personal communications services licenses offered...
The telecommunications landscape has been changing so fast lately that it has been hard to keep up with all the new technologies, the new regulations and the new spectrum allocations. That was before Congress added the Telecommunications Act of 1996 to the picture.Underlying all...
SAN FRANCISCO-AirTouch Paging, a subsidiary of AirTouch Communications Inc., is offering Internet paging access to its 2.6 million customers nationwide.All AirTouch Paging customers now can receive e-mail messages sent to their pagers from anywhere in the world. AirTouch said Internet users can send a...
