L.M. Ericsson announced it will deliver a Global System for Mobile communications network, valued at $77 million, to the Indian cellular operator Birla Communications Ltd. Birla Communications is a joint venture between AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and the Indian company A.V. Birla Group. Its...
Deutsche Telekom AG has expanded its presence in Asia through a strategic alliance in Malaysia.Deutsche Telekom will buy 21 percent equity interest in Technology Resources Industries Berhad, which operates Malaysia's largest cellular network, Celcom. The purchase will be in the form of newly issued...
WASHINGTON-California specialized mobile radio operator James A. Kay Jr. has lost his 18-month battle against the Federal Communications Commission, at least for the time being. According to a May 31 summary decision handed down by the FCC's Administrative Law Judge Richard L. Sippel, Kay...
Digital TU-KA Chugoku Co. Ltd. launched commercial service in the Chugoku area of Japan, serving the capital city, major highways and the railway line. AirTouch Communications Inc. owns 4.5 percent of the Chugoku operator, as well as five other Digital TU-KA cellular companies offering...
ATLANTA- BellSouth Mobility DCS (a subsidiary of BellSouth Corp.), Lucent Technologies Inc. and the Swiss PTT worked together to provide Global System for Mobile communications coverage at the 34th GSM MoU Association meeting in Atlanta last week.The companies said this was the first time...
CHICAGO-Cellular One of Chicago is introducing FreedomPlus one-number service to its cellular customers.Cellular One of Chicago, a subsidiary of Southwestern Bell Mobile Systems, said the phone acts as a cordless phone at home or work, operating on the landline network, and automaticaly becomes a...
Eastern European countries and those of the former Soviet republics launched cellular services in the early 1990s using the Nordic Mobile Telephone-450 standard, an analog technology developed to operate at 450 MHz. Most nations initially selected NMT- 450 instead of Global System for Mobile...
The Nokia Group is expanding an analog system in Indonesia, in the face of the deployment of digital systems by numerous other operators there.Earlier this year, Indonesia's government gave the state-owned operator the nation's first license for personal communications services. Other PCS licenses are...
There is enough room in today's marketplace of specialized products for both traditional paging and the handset messaging offered by new 1800 MHz wireless operators and digital cellular operators, analysts say."Consider the microwave oven," said David Abraham of David Abraham & Co., Westport, Conn.,...
RICHARDSON, Texas-UniSite Inc. and the United States Postal Service announced they have finalized agreements to market wireless sites on more than 35,000 postal service properties nationwide.Under the terms of the agreements, UniSite and the USPS will develop new sites to meet the present and...
Samsung Electronics Co. has committed $25.8 million to manufacture prototype Code Division Multiple Access equipment for PCS, illustrating confidence that its PCS partnership will win a license for personal communications services spectrum.The Korean government is expected to award three PCS licenses in mid-June. One...
Motorola Inc. has been contracted to build a Global System for Mobile communications network in the Czech Republic for operator Radiomobil. The deal is valued at $100 million. The network is scheduled to be launched in September to initially cover 65 percent of the...
SINGAPORE-Numerous announcements about Code Division Multiple Access technology came out of last week's CDMA World Congress in Singapore. The event was attended by about 600 people from 40 countries.Motorola Inc. has formed a joint venture with two Chinese entities to manufacture CDMA infrastructure products...
Code Division Multiple Access has been touted as a success story in Seoul, South Korea and in Hong Kong. Many U.S. personal communications services licensees have based their access technology decision on CDMA's reported superior performance, high capacity and low cost. Many analysts put...
You may never need, or want, to leave your car once it is equipped with an in-vehicle navigation and communications system. Hitting the market this year are a handful of sophisticated systems that use global positioning system technology for vehicle route guidance and emergency...
Qualcomm Inc. announced the availability of a single-chip vocodor that utilizes PureVoice, the latest version of the 13 kilobit Qualcomm Code Excited Linear Predictive speech coding algorithm. PureVoice was developed for use in Qualcomm's cellular and personal communications services products featuring the company's Code...
OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-The national wireless alliance of AirTouch Cellular, Bell Atlantic Corp., Nynex Corp., U S West NewVector Group and PrimeCo Personal Communications L.P. announced they have signed a contract with Independent Telecommunications Network Inc. to provide Signaling System 7 seamless roaming and enhanced...
One mission of the CTIA Foundation for Wireless Communications is to undertake innovative wireless projects, like the one beginning today in Minnesota.The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association Foundation is giving 40 phones to a task force for battered women that covers nine counties in the...
WASHINGTON-"This is the most exciting day of my life," exclaimed Allen Salmasi, chairman and chief executive officer of NextWave Personal Communications Inc., which by all unofficial accounts was the winner of 56 30 megahertz C-block broadband personal communications services markets (Chart on p. 11).Hedging...
VIENNA, Va.-Cable & Wireless Inc. has reached an agreement with MobileComm that will allow CWI to introduce CWI-branded paging service to its long-distance customers during this second quarter.CWI focuses on business customers in the United States, offering a combined portfolio of domestic and international...
WASHINGTON-Incumbent microwave operators who have been less than forthcoming in their relocation negotiations with A- and B-block personal communications services licensees will be subject to third-party inspections of their facilities to assess true relocation costs.In action taken April Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission adopted...
NEW YORK-International telephone operator Millicom International Cellular S.A. announced Cambodia GSM Ltd., a joint venture between the Cambodian Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications and MIC's partner, the Royal Group of Companies Ltd., has been awarded the first Global System for Mobile communications cellular license...
WASHINGTON-Interconnection with the local exchange carrier represents a significant expenditure for the wireless industry, nearly $936 million in 1995, according to a new study from MTA-EMCI Inc.In "Interconnection: Wireless Industry Rates and Trends," the company notes that the burgeoning growth of the cellular industry as...
Wireless users are the perfect customers for directory assistance service because they often are separated from written lists when they need a phone number, said InfoNXX, a provider of directory assistance service.Landline customers commonly can choose whether to use a telephone directory or a...
