TORONTO-Wireless carriers Clearnet Communications and Microcell Telecommunications have won a key regulatory battle to gain competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC) designation in Canada. The change in status will allow the two companies to offer their wireless subscribers free listings in the white pages, a...
TORONTO-Now that the C$6.6 billion (US$4.3 billion) Telus deal to acquire Clearnet Communications has been finalized, engineering issues are starting to surface.The challenge? How to combine the wireless operations of Telus and Clearnet and determine the best path for third-generation (3G) services. The new...
BURNABY, British Columbia-Telus Corp. and Clearnet Communications Inc. reported that all of the conditions of Telus' offer to purchase Clearnet have been satisfied and Telus will take-up and pay for the Clearnet shares that have been deposited in accordance with the terms of the...
The Canadian government delayed its personal communications services spectrum auction for a second time until mid-January, giving officials enough time to respond to concerns about strategic alliances.The auction was supposed to take place some time in November, but Paul Lajoie, technical analyst at Industry...
TORONTO-The consolidation trend in the North American wireless sector is intensifying. The prevailing wisdom is that it is no longer good enough to be merely a regional or national carrier with transborder capabilities. The game plan is to be part of a global presence,...
DENVER, United States-Qualcomm and Ford Motor Co. perpetuated the marriage between wireless communication and mobility, creating a new company called Wingcast, which will develop and deliver wireless mobility and information services to cars and trucks, and give Qualcomm a means to main line new...
Telus Corp. offered to acquire all the shares of Clearnet Communications Inc. for $4.48 billion, creating a daunting competitor in Canada's tight wireless market.Under terms of the offer, Telus will acquire all of the outstanding shares of Clearnet for $47.48 per share. Clearnet shareholders...
PathnetPathnet Telecommunications named Ken Rowen vice president of sales, focusing on competitive local access carriers. Rowen will lead a team responsible for integrating CLECs, regional bell operating companies and independent telephone companies into the Pathnet network in under-served regions of the country. Rowen developed...
Analog DevicesAnalog Devices Inc. introduced the AD9226, a 12-bit, 65 MSPS analog-to-digital converter designed to increase data rates and enable direct intermediate frequency-sampling architectures for communications applications, including next-generation cellular base station and software radio applications. Analog Devices said the key to the AD9226...
Qualcomm Inc. and Ford Motor Co. perpetuated the marriage between wireless communication and mobility last week, creating a new company called Wingcast, which will develop and deliver wireless mobility and information services to cars and trucks, and give Qualcomm a means to main-line new...
The Canadian government is opening up its telecommunications market for new wireless players and giving incumbents a chance to acquire the spectrum they need to offer third-generation and enhanced services.The federal government said it will auction off sometime in November the C- and E-blocks...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-Cuba's government decreed that the new millennium begins on 1 January, 2001, and to mark the event, grand celebrations are being prepared. In tone with the decision, the country's cellular telephony company, Cubacel, is migrating its analog AMPS network to a digital...
TORONTO-The major Canadian carriers are cautiously laying the groundwork for third-generation (3G) wireless networks. But true, full-blown 3G in Canada is at least three to four years away."Canadian mobile operators are unlikely to reach the promised land of mobile data services in one single...
CALGARY, Alberta-Canadian Telecommunications company Telus Mobility and Nortel Networks Corp. announced plans to work together to test cdma2000 third-generation digital radio technology.Nortel said it intends to aggressively roll out fully packetized, end-to-end network solutions for wireless Internet. Trials are expected to take place in...
The Canadian wireless market has seen a run-up in stock prices this year as tremendous growth and recent consolidation activity have driven increased interest in the sector."1998 was not a bad year, but it was a little wishy-washy," said George Karidis, director of research...
TORONTO-You could call it short-term pain for long-term gain. At least that's what the Canadian wireless carriers must be hoping. They're rapidly winning new customers, but at a cost to their bottom line.Bell Mobility announced in May it's shedding 10 percent of its work...
BelgiumBelgacom and Amdocs announced an agreement under which Belgacom will deploy Amdocs' order-management system to handle ordering services for its convergent lines of business, including wireline, data services and paging. Amdocs' order-management system provides a single point of contact for all services and products...
ST. LOUIS-Amdocs announced the successful rollout of its Unix-based Ensemble customer care and billing solution at Telus Mobility, the largest cellular provider in Alberta, Canada.Telus Corp., Canada's third-largest telecommunications carrier, merged Feb. 1 with BC Telecom, the British Columbia-based company, which is the second...
BURNABY, British Columbia-BC Telecom Inc. announced its shareholders voted almost unanimously in favor of a merger between BC Telecom and Telus Corp. Earlier, Telus shareholders also voted in very strong favor of the merger.BC Telecom said the merger was expected to close Jan. 31,...
Ericsson forms office mobility unitATLANTA-Ericsson Inc. announced the formation of the Wireless Services unit in response to the increasing need for wireless communications in the workplace.Ericsson said the new unit will provide a wireless office solution based on the Interim Standard-136 Time Division Multiple...
CALGARY, Alberta, Canada-Telus Mobility-a subsidiary of Canada's Telus Corp.-announced plans to expand its cellular, paging and private radio systems business by offering advanced digital personal communications services in Alberta sometime next year.The Calgary-based company said it will use a cdmaOne Code Division Multiple Access...
Four years ago Systems/Link Corp. introduced RoamEx, which "allowed carriers with fraud problems in big cities access to what was going on," said Diane Sammer, president of Systems/Link.Today RoamEx is rapidly becoming the ticket to global roaming.RoamEx exchanges caller data between different wireless carriers'...
CALGARY, Alberta-Telus Mobility will offer Northern Telecom Ltd.'s Cellular Digital Packet Data services to its customers in Alberta."Telus Mobility's extensive deployment of Nortel's platform throughout Alberta allows us to offer service to remote areas as well as major centers," said David Miles, vice president...
