NEW YORK-The Telecommunications Executive Leadership Council, a group of 18 executives, is working with Deloitte & Touche L.L.P. and The Economist to analyze factors critical to success in the next century.The council has met twice, most recently in February, to identify key issues for...
WASHINGTON-Spain's Telefonica has announced it will partner with United States-based WorldCom and MCI in a partnership for future business ventures in Europe and the Americas. This follows the collapse of Telefonica's planned relationship with British Telecommunications plc.The three companies said the new relationship builds...
ArrayComm Inc. announced its next-generation IntelliCell-enhanced Personal Handyphone System cell stations are operating in Tokyo's PHS network, following months of field trials conducted with DDI Pocket Telephone. DDI holds a nationwide license in Japan to provide mobile PHS service and is the largest PHS...
NEW YORK-Compania de Telecomunicaciones de Chile S.A., a multiservice telecommunications company, announced it will purchase from VTR S.A. the 45-percent stake it doesn't already own in Startel S.A., the leading mobile telecommunications carrier in Chile.CTC, in which Spain's national telephone company, Telefonica de Espana,...
Motorola Inc.'s Cellular Infrastructure Group won a supply agreement from Sweden's Comviq to install a Digital Cellular System at 1800 MHz, which will be used to enhance coverage and capacity on Comviq's Global System for Mobile communications 900 MHz network in Sweden. Motorola CIG...
Sprint Corp. reportedly is intensifying its search for a European partner to construct a possible merger or partnership scheme that could give the long-distance carrier enough cash to buy out its cable partners in the personal communications services business.Analysts close to the situation indicate...
Shortly after the Venezuela telecom regulatory agency Conatel was forced to lift the ban prohibiting the country's two cellular operators from adding new subscribers, sources have said the agency now plans to auction a third cellular phone license in January.But analysts say the political...
The contentious and controversial tender for a pair of much-wanted personal communications services licenses in Argentina became even more rowdy last week when two companies with strong ties to the country's current telecom providers entered the fray.The new bidders for the dual 1800 MHz...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s Cellular Infrastructure Group was awarded a contract to expand the Code Division Multiple Access cellular network in Peru, the company said.Valued by Motorola at $350 million, the contract with Peruvian operator Telefonica del Peru will have Motorola CIG installing its...
Nokia Corp. and MobileOne of Singapore signed an agreement to expand MobileOne's Global System for Mobile communications network capacity to accommodate about 200,000 customers. Nokia values the arrangement at more than $30 million. Nokia agreed to supply its high-capacity DX200 mobile switching equipment, tropicalized...
Roberto Catalan, president of Argentina's communications commission, known as CNC (Comision Nacional de Comunicaciones), recently completed a United States road show designed to attract investor interest for a personal communications services tender.The CNC is looking for foreign companies to operate two 50-megahertz bands in...
Nearly two years after Airtel Movil SA became the second Global System for Mobile communications licensee in Spain, the company and its competitor, Telefonica Moviles, have resolved issues and created a level playing field, said AirTouch International, one Airtel partner.Specifics of the recent resolution...
The privatization of Brazil's cellular telephone industry appears to have moved forward in recent weeks with the announcement of the sale of the country's first B-band concession.But while one Brazilian analyst's reaction to the announcement was: "Everything's on track," a number of other Brazil watchers...
TORONTO-Microcell Telecommunications Inc. signed a handful of new roaming agreements with European operators, and announced its Fido personal communications services network will be active in Toronto starting next week.Microcell Connexions Inc., the network subsidiary of Microcell Telecommunications, signed roaming agreements with Global System for...
Globalstar L.P. announced at a signing ceremony it has placed purchase orders by the partners that comprise Globalstar's limited partnership for 35 Globalstar gateways to be installed around the world. The contracts, totaling approximately $275 million, represent a further commitment by the Globalstar partners...
Groups led by AT&T Corp. and Telia of Sweden are among those that recently purchased bidding packages from the Argentine government, which plans to award two 1900 MHz personal communications services licenses this fall.Interested companies must present initial offers, including technology plans, by Aug....
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil-About 15 companies submitted bids last week for ten B-band cellular licenses in Brazil.One source reported that bids ranged from $200 million for more desolate Amazon basin states to at least $600 million for Sao Paulo city and Sao Paulo state.Foreign...
Brazil is in the wireless spotlight. Demand is high, penetration is low and growth in all sectors is being fueled by deregulation and a stronger economy.Brazil's current annual cellular growth rate is about 70 percent. The number of subscribers totaled 2.7 million last year,...
PALO ALTO, Calif.-Corsair Communications Inc. installed its PhonePrint cellular fraud prevention system in Celulares Telefonica's Puerto Rico network. Corsair said the radio frequency fingerprinting system was installed throughout the island during December and January.Corsair executives noted the deployment is one of the first outside...
The European Commission said it has given the Spanish government three months to inform the EC on the steps it will take to create a level playing field for the Global System for Mobile communications operators in its market.The EC wants to know how...
The Secretary of Communications in Argentina announced concrete plans to award two personal communications services licenses in early to mid-1997.Initially, the two PCS licenses will be granted for 30 megahertz, with an option for an additional 5 megahertz, but a total of 120 megahertz...
LIMA, Peru-Telefonica del Peru has launched Code Division Multiple Access service in the metropolitan city of Lima, saying it is the first in Latin America to have such a commercial system.Motorola Inc. was awarded the contract in May. The system was built by the...
AirTouch Communications Inc. signed a memorandum of understanding with PT Intidaya Sistelindomitra to offer wireless services in Indonesia using the Globalstar satellite-based communications system. The companies will pursue a license and establish operations to sell Globalstar service in Indonesia. AirTouch said it plans to...
NEW YORK-Compania Anonima Nacional Telefonos de Venezuela, the country's monopoly telecommun-ications conglomerate, was scheduled to become a publicly traded company Nov. 22 with an offering outside the country of 34.2 million American Depository Shares.The IPO, lead managed by Lehman Brothers, New York, was expected...
