GTE Telecommunications Services Inc. last week introduced FraudForce, a service aimed at blasting today's most threatening cellular phone fraud, roaming fraud.Initial deployment of FraudForce will include FraudInterceptor, a tool that recognizes customers who are roaming in a high-fraud market, and FraudChallenger, an interactive voice...
Discord among potential bidding parties and the government's plan to refashion telecommunications regulations resulted in Chile postponing the March 1 deadline for personal communications services bids, reported Isabel Valenzuela, a telecommunications specialist at the U.S. Embassy in Santiago, Chile.The government has not set a...
The president of a Colorado-based rural cellular operator "emphatically refutes" claims by analog handset manufacturers that cellular growth is slowing, suggesting instead that low phone prices and the battle for market share are responsible for unwelcome pressure on manufacturing revenue."The number of subscribers continues...
WASHINGTON-The number of bidders participating in the C-block broadband personal communications services auction who are flying by the seats of their pants is staggering. The thought of committing millions of dollars to build a network that is expected to directly compete with numerous established...
L.M. Ericsson said it withdrew a complaint filed in January with the European Commission, which charged that Austria's award of a Global System for Mobile communications license to international consortium Oe-Call, was unfair. Siemens AG Oesterreich of Vienna holds 19.8 percent in Oe-Call. However,...
Proponents of calling party pays believe the service will both generate more airtime and increase the number of incoming calls, but they don't agree on how such a system should be introduced in the U.S. market."We need some movement along these lines and there...
Motorola Inc.'s Paging Products Group signed a licensing agreement with Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute to manufacture and sell Motorola FLEX chip sets. Motorola said it plans to license key semiconductor houses worldwide to manufacture and distribute FLEX chip sets. ITRI is the first...
At least one quarter of U.K. wireless telecom operator Orange plc will be floated next month through a global offering of common shares, announced Dewe Rogerson, which manages Orange's account.Hong Kong-based Hutchison Whampoa Ltd. currently owns about 68.5 percent of Orange, while British Aerospace...
To borrow an adage from the real estate business, the most important rule in the wireless communications industry is going to be brand name, brand name, brand name.In the quick aftermath of President Clinton's signing the Telecommunications Act of 1996, telecommunications giants are moving...
L.M. Ericsson said it has received an order to supply switches and base stations to Westel 900 GSM to expand the carrier's Global System for Mobile communications network in Hungary. The new contract continues the relationship the two companies began in 1990 when Ericsson...
The Harris NovAtel Division of Harris Canada Inc. and Glenayre Technologies Inc. have signed an original equipment manufacturing agreement that will enable Harris NovAtel to incorporate Glenayre's Modular Voice Processing System platform in its cellular equipment networks worldwide, Glenayre announced. The platform will provide...
Less than a month after applications were due for two Global System for Mobile communications cellular licenses, the Polish Ministry of Communications announced winners. Both parties are co-piloted by U.S. companies.Polkomtel, an international consortium of which AirTouch International is 19.25 percent owner and the...
The impending liberalization of Brazil's cellular services sector has attracted interest from a host of global carriers clamoring to position themselves in the region's fastest growing telecom services sector.The lucky few that win private cellular operating licenses in Brazil may be jockeying, as well,...
Despite strong initial efforts on the part of Chilean, Argentine and Mexican regulators, implementing personal communications services in Latin America will fall a little short of earlier bullish expectations. At the same time, PCS already has taken off in a sense, with cellular increasingly...
Although paging has existed for decades in major Latin American and Caribbean countries, developments during the past few years have placed these markets on an unprecedented growth path.If paging service prices decline-widening the market beyond business customers-and marketing and distribution improve, the region is...
Colombia continues to be a top performer in the Latin American cellular arena, with the highest digital growth and high overall cellular penetration.As part of its licensing process, the Colombian government mandated that cellular carriers deploy a certain amount of digital technology in their...
Just as Cellular Digital Packet Data has been slow to take off in the United States, it looks like it will take a little pushing and shoving for the technology to thrive in Latin America as well.So far only a few hundred CDPD terminals...
Central America's cellular market, although smaller and representing somewhat riskier investment than other parts of Latin America, remains largely untapped and is expected to present a bundle of cellular opportunities in the near future.Cellular subscribers numbered less than 50,000 for the whole region at...
A cellular network using Code Division Multiple Access technology is live in South Korea, but so far enduring only a lukewarm reception. Current analog operator Korea Mobile Telecommunications Corp. introduced CDMA service Jan. 1 in Inchon, a port city west of Seoul, and plans...
Although cellular penetration remains low in Peru, the government may license at least one additional operator in 1996.Peru currently has two cellular operators, Tele 2000 and Compania Peruana de Telefonos, with a combined subscriber base of about 73,000. Tele 2000 is the B-band carrier,...
Authentix Inc., a new Calif.-based company, said it developed a fraud detection method aimed at stopping bandits who clone phones and then roam.Current fraud fighting tools detect invalid mobile identification number-electronic serial number combinations or identify unusual calling patterns.Authentix detects cloners who roam by...
WASHINGTON-Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Louis Freeh is expected this week to release key data on digital wiretap implementation that Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) requested three months ago and that wireless carriers have been denied while trying to comply with the new law.Meanwhile, the...
Taiwan's new telecommunications law will give wireless companies the chance to break into that country's communications market, but a 20 percent ownership limit may disappoint some businesses.Taiwan is making liberalization strides in hopes of becoming an Asia-Pacific regional operations center, as well as fulfilling...
Sprint Cellular Co. may not have completed its anticipated spinoff from Sprint Corp., but it is confident enough of its future to choose a new name.The Chicago-based company will become Three-sixty Communications Co. if the spinoff is successful. The deal is expected to close...
