Hewlett-Packard Co., Telefonica Moviles, Ericsson Espana and the Generalitat of Catalonia in Spain announced a joint venture company, called Tempos 21, which will develop and market mobile applications and e-services. The company will focus on mobile phone-related products for current and future network technology,...
SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Motorola said it completed the sale of its investments in four cellular companies in northern Mexico to Telefonica S.A. for more than $1.8 billion in Telefonica shares. The sale was first announced last October.Motorola said the four companies, which began service in 1990,...
The GSM Association-the body behind GSM and GPRS networks, as well as the popular short message service-announced last week another standards effort, one that some industry observers believe will be a major catalyst for the worldwide uptake of the mobile Internet."We view the creation...
As European telecom companies pant under spectrum's debt burden and fret over possible third-generation rewards, a market research firm thinks the future is worthy of the torture."Mobile operators will share in a mobile voice and data market of $1.5 trillion-with cumulative 3G revenues exceeding...
FRANKFURT, Germany-In a win for new entrants in Germany's mobile market, RegTP, the German telecom regulator, said it would allow the country's six Universal Mobile Telecommunications System license holders to share parts of their new 3G networks. The ruling will certainly ease the cost...
Monopoly claims on Microsoft Corp. might go out the window in the wireless space as major vendors, developers and operators expect to leverage both the software giant's .NET and Java 2 Enterprise Edition platforms for third-generation Web services, according to industry watchers."The evolution to...
BRAZILTranscrypt International Inc.'s subsidiary, EFJohnson Co., has been awarded a $2 million contract to supply its LTR-Net communication system to the State of Santa Catarina Police Department in Brazil, linking the majority of Brazil's large metropolitan areas.IRELANDThe offer that UBS Warburg Ltd. made on...
In a dramatic move to bolster its value and trim debt, British Telecom said last week it would spin off its wireless unit, BT Wireless, as a separately traded company, and temporarily suspend dividend payments. The telecom giant said it expects the moves to...
MADRID, Spain-Telefonica and Spanish utility company Iberdrola signed an agreement under which Telefonica will acquire all Iberdrola shareholdings in the Brazilian telecom operators in which both companies have stakes. Iberdrola will receive more than 19 million Telefonica shares, valued at about $313 million.The agreement...
InfowaveThomas U. Koll was appointed Infowave Software Inc.'s new chief executive officer. He previously was vice president of Microsoft's Network Solutions Group and was responsible for the company's worldwide business with telecommunications companies in wireline and wireless markets. Koll also served as general manager...
Telefonica takes control of four Mexican companiesTelefonica Moviles announced it will take management control of Bajacel, Movitel, Norcel and Cedetel, four of Motorola Inc.'s operating companies in Northern Mexico.As a result of this agreement, Telefonica Moviles said it will have a total of 25...
Microsoft Corp. threw its rather large hat in the wireless arena at last week's 3GSM World Congress, announcing plans to launch software aimed at multimedia-enabled phones that leverage its Windows-based software.Microsoft said the smart phone platform, code named "Stinger," is built on a version...
Like the old dog that would not die, digital subscriber line and cable services continue to dwarf wireless in the house of the end user. Yet wireless, the new dog that is at once nimble and naive, must frail aimlessly about for a share...
E-business software provider Oracle Corp. has launched the second coming of the Oracle 9I Application Server Wireless Edition to extend its grip on the location-based and personalization segments of the wireless industry."It is now more mature with standardized location-based service capability," said Jacob Christfort,...
NEW YORK-The pace of mergers and acquisitions slowed considerably during the last quarter of 2000, although the year closed with an all-time high of 9,602 transactions in all industries, Los Angeles-based Mergerstat reported.For the full year, the domestic M&A market posted about $1.4 trillion...
MADRID, Spain-Telefonica and Portugal Telecom have agreed to combine their mobile ventures in Brazil through a $10 billion strategic joint venture. The venture will combine the two companies' existing mobile-phone assets in Brazil, currently representing 9.3 million customers.Brazil is gearing up for an auction...
GENEVA-With the world's first third-generation (3G) mobile systems due to come online in Japan in less than a year, Europe's wireless operators are gearing up for an intense round of bidding for the right to be among the first to offer broadband wireless services...
GERMANYSonera is looking to reduce its stake in Group 3G, the consortium that won a third-generation license in Germany last year. Sonera, which currently holds 42.8 percent of the consortium, would like to reduce its stake to around 20 percent, according to international press...
AirNetUnited States. With MBO for a GPRS system.Value: UndisclosedAlcatelGambia. With Gamtel for a turnkey GSM network to be installed in the greater Banjul area.Value: UndisclosedPortugal. With TMN for a high speed mobile data service on its GPRS commercial network.Value: UndisclosedPortugal. With TMN for UMTS technology in the...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-After a year of strong conflicts between newcomers and established players, the total liberalization of Argentina's telecommunications market is finalized.Early November found 21 companies licensed to offer basic local telephony, as well as international and national long-distance phone calls. Finally, Argentina has...
With a population hungry for services, Latin America is challenging telecom and Internet companies to tap their imaginative resources to provide the devices, killer applications, high-speed networks and customized content, which will be the pathway to a robust wireless Internet industry there in the...
BRAZILADC Telecommunications Inc. announced it signed a $16 million contract to supply GVT Brazil with a broadband access bundled solution for the southern and central regions of Brazil. ADC said the solution is based on the BroadAccess Multiservice Access Platform and delivers narrow and...
NEW YORK-Following similar moves a few weeks earlier by Spain's Telefonica Moviles and Telekom Austria, Telenor ASA of Norway had to discount its initial public offering in order to get the deal sold Dec. 4.In a transaction lead managed by Goldman Sachs & Co.,...
