SYDNEY, Australia-The Australian Communications Authority completed its personal communications services spectrum auction May 25, netting the government about $216.3 million for 211 of the 230 lots offered in the 800 MHz and 1800 MHz bands.Auction winners included four new licensees: Hutchison Telephone Pty Ltd., AAPT...
MELBOURNE, Australia-The Australian government has called an urgent review to end speculation about the future of analog mobile phone coverage in regional and remote areas of the country. The analog system, based on the AMPS (Advanced Mobile Phone Service) standard, was earmarked for closure...
MELBOURNE, Australia-Australia's long-awaited PCS spectrum auctions began at the tail end of April with nine bidders vying for 230 lots in the 800 MHz and 1800 MHz spectrum bands.Marking a key stage in Australia's long-term plans to establish a fully competitive market, the PCS...
Nine companies are set to bid in the Australian personal communications services spectrum auction April 14, amid uncertainties surrounding the auction process and an economic crisis gripping many nations in the Asia-Pacific region.The Australian Communications Authority will auction 10 PCS licenses in the 1800...
The Australian Communications Authority will auction 10 personal communications services licenses totaling 230 megahertz sometime in April, and the Australian Communications Authority is encouraging U.S. companies that currently use digital Advanced Mobile Phone Service and Code Division Multiple Access technologies to apply. Those companies...
ArgentinaBrightpoint Inc. is expanding its international operations with the formation of Brightpoint de Argentina S.A. and plans to establish Brightpoint France, said the company. As part of its Argentine operations, Brightpoint opened a 10,000-square foot leased facility in Buenos Aires for distribution, value-added logistics...
NEW YORK-Telstra Corp. Ltd. debuted with a bang Nov. 17 on the Australian Stock Exchange, and trading began on the New York Stock Exchange a day later.The hugely oversubscribed initial public offering of 4.3 billion shares of common stock in the country's largest telecommunications...
NEW YORK-Despite recent volatility in the equities markets and lawsuits against it by six competing carriers, Telstra, Australia's largest telecommunications company, apparently still plans to proceed by mid-November with its initial public stock offering.Besides its wireline business, Telstra operates Telstra Mobilenet, one of three...
The Australian Communications Authority has postponed its planned auction of spectrum for personal communications services until early 1998 to clear up key policy issues that may be ambiguous to potential market entrants.The ACA was preparing to auction spectrum in 1.8 GHz and 800 MHz...
