NEW YORK-Nuance of Menlo Park, Calif., announced Oct. 5 it is in preliminary testing stages with 25 telecommunications and Internet companies for Voyager, its new speech interface software.Company officials said they see Voyager, which uses open standards, as heralding the arrival of the "Voice...
MELBOURNE, Australia-The Australian government said the second public offer of shares in Telstra Corp. Ltd. would list Oct. 18. With this 16.6-percent sale, the government's stake in Telstra will be reduced to 50.1 percent.
Phone.com Inc.'s Unwired Universe conference attracted about 1,100 attendees from 29 countries, twice the number expected by conference planners.The conference was designed to act as a meeting point for vendors, carriers and application developers interested in Wireless Application Protocol technology. Several WAP-related announcements were...
AustraliaAustralian telecommunications provider Telstra Corp. welcomed the Australian parliament's decision to pass the Telstra Sale Bill and the government's announcement it will sell an additional 16.6 percent of the company. Telstra's Chief Executive Officer Dr. Ziggy Switkowski said the board of directors and senior...
SAN FRANCISCO-Australian telecommunications provider Telstra Corp. Ltd. welcomed the Australian parliament's decision to pass the Telstra Sale Bill and the government's announcement it will sell down an additional 16.6 percent of the company.Telstra's Chief Executive Officer Dr. Ziggy Switkowski said the board of directors...
The Argentine government, in an attempt to proceed with the PCS auctions currently in judicial limbo, is considering selling two PCS licenses each for the northern and southern regions of the country, excluding the greater Buenos Aires area. This maneuvering would speed up the...
ORLANDO, United States-Both the TDMA and CDMA camps released their most recent subscriber numbers at the PCS '98 show in September in the United States.The CDMA Development Group (CDG) announced that cdmaOne subscribers now number 16 million globally as of 30 September, with Asia...
ORLANDO, Fla.-Carriers in the Asia-Pacific are beginning to re-evaluate their choice of digital technology, opening a new door for Interim Standard-136 Time Division Multiple Access in the region, said officials and members of the Universal Wireless Communications Consortium last week.The group held a press...
MELBOURNE, Australia-The Australian Liberal government has been forced to abandon plans to fully privatize Telstra Corp. in the face of a threatened revolt by members of its coalition partner, the National Party, and a voter backlash.In a major policy backdown, the government said it...
MELBOURNE, Australia-The Australian government has been forced to abandon plans to fully privatize Telstra Corp. in the face of a threatened revolt by members of its coalition partner, the National Party, and a voter backlash.In a major policy backdown, the government said it would...
The quest for international partnerships continued last week as AT&T Corp. announced a $10 billion joint-venture plan with British Telecommunications plc to more strongly position itself in the global market.AT&T and BT July 26 said they have agreed to pool their international operations and...
NEW YORK-Legislation to privatize the remaining two-thirds of Telstra Corp. Ltd. in what would be the world's largest single stock sale could be introduced in the Australian Parliament as early as March 23, said Prime Minister John Howard.Although financial institutions praised potential benefits of...
NEW YORK-Australian telecommunications giant Telstra Corp. Ltd. announced Feb. 18 that its net profits for the six months ended Dec. 31 rose by 117 percent from the same period a year ago. Net profits totaled $1.08 billion, about $67 million ahead of median market...
U.S. telecom companies have the chance to buy into one of Indonesia's cellular operators, PT Telkomsel, which is seeking a strategic partner to help combat the $586 million investment Deutsche Telekom AG has made in competitor Satelindo.Telkomsel turned on the country's second nationwide Global...
