ESPOO, Finland-Nokia Corp. said it was selected to continue as the sole equipment supplier for the expansion of North-West GSM's 900 MHz Global System for Mobile communications network in St. Petersburg, Russia, which was built by Nokia and launched in 1995.Nokia plans to deliver...
BANGLADORE, India-Bangladesh is one of the world's least-developed countries, and most of the rural heartland lacks roads and electricity, as well as telephones. For its 140 million people, Bangladesh has just 500,000 phones, nearly all in the urban centers of Dhaka and Chittagong.Grameen Telecom...
Conxus Communications Inc. said it completed a $100 million convertible senior subordinated note offering. Conxus plans to use proceeds from the private placement to fund network buildout, operating expenses, working capital requirements and general corporate purposes. Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette Inc. was the sole...
Motorola Inc. announced it has reached an agreement with Latin American paging provider Alfa-Bip of Mexico to provide infrastructure for a nationwide expansion of its paging services. Under the terms of the agreement, Alfa-Bip agreed to buy Motorola's Nucleus one-way paging transmitters. Alfa-Bip is...
ATHENS-According to sources at OTE, the Greek telephone company's subsidiary Cosmote will begin activating personal communications services customers this week as scheduled, becoming the country's third mobile phone operator.OTE, which was awarded the third license in 1996, owns the majority stake in Cosmote, the...
Although the Italian government awarded fixed telephony licenses last week to two companies, confusion and frustration continue to surround the decision to bestow a much-delayed third mobile phone license.The Italian Senate is said to have set a May 31 deadline for the Ministry of...
NEW YORK-Until it goes public in a partial privatization planned for late this year, Telecom Finland Ltd. will not take part in merger talks with Telenor AS of Norway or Telia AB of Sweden, said Ausis Salin, chief executive officer of Telecom Finland.Salin's remarks...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson announced it has signed a framework agreement with Telenor Mobile AS of Norway to expand its Global System for Mobile communications 1800 MHz network, valued at about $30 million for the first three years.The agreement is an expansion of Ericsson's existing...
Today is the deadline to submit bids for a Digital Cellular System 1800 MHz license in Austria.A winner could be announced next month.The tender was announced about two months ago, at which time Waltraud Augesky, a commercial specialist with the U.S. Embassy in Vienna,...
NEC Corp. won contracts for two transmission projects in Costa Rica in conjunction with Intituto Costarricense de Electricidad. One project calls for NEC to supply a 2 GHz/8 Mbps digital microwave radio system for rural districts of Costa Rica. The other calls for NEC...
Qualcomm Inc. signed a royalty bearing license agreement giving Kokusai Electric Co. Ltd. of Japan a patent and technical license to manufacture and sell Code Division Multiple Access subscriber equipment. "Kokusai will help meet the demand for CDMA products that will result from Japan's...
Ireland's second mobile phone operator has launched service with two compact packages and a goal of acquiring 50,000 customers by the end of the year.Dublin-based Esat Digifone had hoped to be online by the end of 1996 with its Global System for Mobile communications...
Norway's Ministry of Transport and Communications announced plans to award three national Digital Cellular System 1800 licenses, perhaps by this summer. However, the winners will not be required to build networks nationwide.The new personal communications network operators will be required to provide service in...
Hongkong Telecom selected Tellabs' Martis DXX managed access and transport network system for use in its digital data network in Hong Kong. The Martis DXX system combines intelligent hardware with centralized management software, enabling rapid deployment and reconfiguration of telecommunications transport and access networks....
Greece's government telephone provider said it has collected bids from more than 15 equipment manufacturers for mobile phone equipment, and has narrowed its search for non-Greek partners to three companies, which includes a U.S. company.The Hellenic Telecommunications Organization, OTE, continues its push to become...
Teklogix International Inc. received a contract from Samson Transport A/S, a third-party warehouse and transport company with worldwide locations. Under the agreement, Teklogix will provide Samson with a narrowband wireless data communications network with Ethernet TCP/IP connectivity to an IBM AS/400 host platform, the...
NEW YORK-British Telecommunications plc and Telenor of Norway have launched a satellite phone as small and light as a notebook personal computer. It's called Mobiq.The phone, which weighs just over five pounds, provides voice, fax and data communications including e-mail and comes as a...
NEW YORK-Esat Holdings Ltd., Dublin, plans to sell privately about $85 million in debt securities, partly to help finance buildout of a Global System for Mobile communications system that will provide Ireland's second cellular service.Esat Holdings owns a 40 percent stake in Esat Digifone,...
Bell Atlantic Corp. has increased its ownership in Italian carrier Omnitel Pronto Italia, nullifying Mannesmann AG's agreement with Olivetti SpA to purchase an additional 5.8 percent stake in the operator.Germany-based Mannesmann, which holds a 5.9 percent interest in Omnitel Pronto Italia, announced in November...
The Romanian Ministry of Communications awarded two 900 MHz Global System for Mobile communications licenses to the consortia of Mobil Rom, led by France Telecom International Mobiles, and to MobiFon, led by Montreal-based Telesystem International Wireless Services. AirTouch Communications Inc. is a minority partner...
Sixteen wireless operators have made the cut to be considered possible partners for Greece's government telephone company.Watching the success of the country's two private cellular providers, the government has awarded a third mobile license to its own landline entity, OTE. OTE will compete with...
The Romanian government received applications from four consortia for two Global System for Mobile communications licenses, reported MobiFon, one bidding group. The deadline for applications was last Thursday.The 900 MHz digital cellular licenses are expected to be awarded by Oct. 25. Winners will be...
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...
DUBLIN, Ireland-Three American companies are working through the U.S. Embassy in Ireland to determine how an Irish long-distance company won the country's second cellular wireless telephone license last fall.Motorola Inc., AT&T Wireless Services and Southwestern Bell Corp. want the Irish government to explain why...
