France Telecom Group, Sonofon, Tele Danmark AS and Telia AG were awarded licenses to operate nationwide Digital Cellular System 1800 networks in Denmark.Denmark's National Telecom Agency reported it expects the personal communications network licensees to offer services "at prices which have never here been...
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,...
LISLE, Ill.-Swedish telecommunications operator Telia AG deployed its synchronous digital hierarchy GMU interface in its DXX managed networks to increase service capacity. The company has DXX systems in Europe, the Middle East, Latin America and Asia/Pacific.The interface was added to Telia Mobile's Global System...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson, Swedish mobile telephone operator Telia AB and truck manufacturer Scania began a project to demonstrate the viability of secure intranet access using Global System for Mobile communications technology.The project, which is scheduled to last one month, involves users at the information...
VimpelCommunications said shares of its common stock are authorized to trade on the Russian Trading System market, an online, screen-based trading system used by brokers in Moscow and throughout the Russian Federation. Dmitri Zimin, president and chief executive officer of VimpelCom, said the company...
WICHITA, Kan.-Brite Voice Systems will provide voice-activated dialing for customers of Sweden's Telia Mobitel AB. Brite values the contract at $2.3 million.Voice dialing allows users to initiate a mobile phone call by speaking the name or number of the person they want to reach....
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...
Denmark's government has accepted bids for personal communications licenses and is pleased with the amount of interest it received, reported the U.S. Department of Commerce.Five entities filed tender documents for one of perhaps five nationwide Digital Cordless Services 1800 licenses, which were expected to...
Two companies have increased their ownership in Italy's second Global System for Mobile communications operator, Omnitel Pronto Italia.AirTouch Communications Inc. announced it purchased additional interests in Omnitel from Banca di Roma and two smaller partners, increasing its ownership by 3.8 percent. The company now...
Arch Communications Group Inc. named Carol E. Burns vice president of human resources. Burns has been director of human resources since she started with the company in July 1995. Before joining Arch, Burns was director of human resources at the Au Bon Pain restaurant...
Korean telephone service provider Shinsegi Telecomm Inc. awarded Lucent Technologies Inc. a contract to supply and install a Code Division Multiple Access-technology based cellular network in the southern cities of Pusan and Kyungnam. Lucent said it immediately will begin installing its 5ESS-2000 switch-based mobile...
Concurrent with the bidding deadline to operate a fourth wireless phone network in Germany, cellular operators DeTeMobil and Mannesmann Mobilfunk GmbH have announced extensive rate cuts.The American Embassy in Bonn, Germany, reported two consortia, a partnership of Viag and British Telecommunications plc, and a...
Olivetti SpA is seeking to sell part of its stake in Omnitel Pronto Italia, Italy's privately owned Global System for Mobile communications cellular carrier that is experiencing rapid subscriber growth rates.Omnitel Pronto Italia said Olivetti has been negotiating with Mannesmann AG of Germany to...
FAIRFAX, Va.-American Management Systems has introduced what it says is the first Internet-based customer care and billing tool for telecommunications companies.AMS said its UNIView application links a carrier's World Wide Web site to its back-end databases to provide key account and service information to...
Italy plans to issue a tender for a third mobile phone operator this fall, announced the government, which recently passed a bill establishing the guidelines for the tender.A license is expected to be issued by the end of the year to a company or...
PLANO, Texas-Inet Inc., an international supplier of wireline and wireless telecommunications equipment, announced Telia International Network Services in Sweden will expand its GeoProbe System.The system, a network-wide SS7 monitoring system, non-intrusively captures and processes the data on the SS7 network for surveillance and performance...
PHOENIX-Bobby G. Thompson & Associates, a land mobile radio management consulting services provider, and Internet Direct Inc. are teaming up to create specialized Internet World Wide Web site production services for land mobile radio dealers and servicers.Internet Direct Inc., an international graphic design and...
L.M. Ericsson has signed a three-year contract with JT Mobiles Ltd. to supply digital cellular Global System for Mobile communications systems in India. Ericsson said it will supply and install complete GSM systems for JT Mobiles' cellular operations in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh. Three...
Eastern European countries and those of the former Soviet republics launched cellular services in the early 1990s using the Nordic Mobile Telephone-450 standard, an analog technology developed to operate at 450 MHz. Most nations initially selected NMT- 450 instead of Global System for Mobile...
Four parties received licenses to provide personal communications services in Sweden. Nordiska Tele8 and current cellular operators Telia Mobitel, Europolitan and Comviq will build nationwide Global System for Mobile communications networks at 1.8 GHz, announced the National Post and Telecom Agency in Sweden.Cellular penetration...
L.M. Ericsson and Telia Mobitel have signed a two-year general purchasing agreement covering delivery and installation of Global System for Mobile communications systems to expand the capacity and radio coverage of Telia Mobitel's digital mobile network in Sweden, Ericsson announced. The agreement includes deliveries...
STOCKHOLM-Only four parties submitted applications and down payments, due Dec. 11, indicating interest in operating Global System for Mobile communications digital wireless phone service at the 2 GHz frequency in Sweden.The participating parties, including the three current GSM cellular operators, each submitted $15,000 to...
Sweden's Post and Telestyrelsen, the national telecom agency, said it expects to license up to four operators for nationwide personal communications networks early next year.Cellular penetration is at about 25 percent of Sweden's nearly 9 million people, so while the country is home to...
Telemac Cellular Corp. agreed to license its patent-pending debit technology to Trimax Inc. of Taiwan. Trimax will use the technology to manufacture a switch independent cellular debit phone. The license is expected to result in the distribution of 500,000 phones into China during a...
