NEW YORK-Although his company recently completed field trials with Qualcomm Inc., Vodafone Group plc Chief Executive Officer Chris Gent believes next-generation wireless technology, rather than Code Division Multiple Access technology, is the solution to network capacity expansion in areas where high customer use warrants...
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...
DENVER, United States-Determined to penetrate Europe with the Interim Standard-95 (IS-95) protocol, U.S.-based Qualcomm Inc. announced in February its United Kingdom trial of a cdmaOne/GSM hybrid network was a success.The announcement occurred just prior to the CDMA Development Group's early March statement that the...
In the summer of 1989, one of my favorite bands, the B-52s, released an album with the big hit-tune "Roam," in which singer Kate Pierson encouraged listeners to "roam around the world." Well, it took me nine years, Kate, but I finally took you...
The Australian Communications Authority will auction 10 personal communications services licenses totaling 230 megahertz sometime in April, and the Australian Communications Authority is encouraging U.S. companies that currently use digital Advanced Mobile Phone Service and Code Division Multiple Access technologies to apply. Those companies...
While Global System for Mobile communications technology networks currently have more subscribers, technical and competitive advantages will propel Code Division Multiple Access into a market-leading position by early 2003, concludes a recent study by Datacomm Research Co.The 208-page "CDMA Wireless Business Opportunities" challenges the...
NEW YORK-Like Sam Ginn, its chairman and chief executive officer, AirTouch Communications Inc. is on a roll, aided by those two key components of success-good luck and good timing.Ginn arrived in New York Feb. 4 from San Francisco to meet "the Street," just behind...
European Telecommunications Standards Institute members last week reached a consensus agreement for a third-generation mobile phone standard, incorporating two major proposals that were on the table. The agreement came after members failed the day before to reach the 71-percent consensus vote required to approve...
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. announced it has completed a six-month field trial with Vodafone Ltd. demonstrating the compatibility of a Code Division Multiple Access base station in an existing Global System for Mobile communications network.The trial proved the technical feasibility through integrating an unmodified GSM...
NEW YORK-Hong Kong Telecommunications Ltd., the dominant carrier in the Chinese territory, signed a binding agreement Jan. 1 to purchase Pacific Link Communications Ltd. for $623 million. Pacific Link is the fourth-largest mobile telephone operator in Hong Kong.Hongkong Telecom said the acquisition will add...
LONDON-Racal Telecom announced it has signed an agreement with U.K.-based Vodafone Distribution Ltd. to provide the corporate market with an integrated package of mobile and managed fixed voice and data services.Through the alliance, Racal will provide Vodafone with data, voice, messaging, private circuits and...
NEW YORK-Telstra Corp. Ltd. debuted with a bang Nov. 17 on the Australian Stock Exchange, and trading began on the New York Stock Exchange a day later.The hugely oversubscribed initial public offering of 4.3 billion shares of common stock in the country's largest telecommunications...
BETHESDA, Md.-Personal communications services provider American Personal Communications, which operates as Sprint Spectrum in the Washington, D.C., area, announced international roaming agreements covering six new countries in European countries.The agreements are with Mobilkom in Austria, Tele Danmark in Denmark, Telecom Italia in Italy, Telia...
LONDON-Code Division Multiple Access technology is playing a key role in several leading technology contenders for third-generation wireless networks in Europe, but back-to-back industry shows held here last week underlined just how convoluted and contentious Europe's standards process has become.And while CDMA technology seems...
Following intense negotiations with the United Kingdom's mobile phone operators, the country's telecommunications regulator extended to Jan. 1, 1999, its number portability requirement for the mobile phone industry.In August, the Office of Telecommunications (Oftel) announced U.K. mobile phone operators would be required to offer...
NEW YORK-Despite recent volatility in the equities markets and lawsuits against it by six competing carriers, Telstra, Australia's largest telecommunications company, apparently still plans to proceed by mid-November with its initial public stock offering.Besides its wireline business, Telstra operates Telstra Mobilenet, one of three...
AT&T Corp.'s board of directors unanimously elected C. Michael Armstrong chairman and chief executive officer of the company, effective Nov. 1.AT&T was widely viewed to be under pressure to partner with someone after its nearest rival in the long-distance arena, MCI Communications Corp., became...
The Australian Communications Authority has postponed its planned auction of spectrum for personal communications services until early 1998 to clear up key policy issues that may be ambiguous to potential market entrants.The ACA was preparing to auction spectrum in 1.8 GHz and 800 MHz...
SINGAPORE-An air of triumph permeated last week's second annual CDMA World Congress as the supporters of Code Division Multiple Access celebrated the past year's network launches, announced a unified branding plan and prepared to enter the next millennium with a platform for advanced wireless...
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...
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,...
NEWBURY, U.K.-Vodafone Group plc and Qualcomm Inc. said they will conduct a field trial in the United Kingdom starting the fourth quarter to demonstrate how Code Division Multiple Access wireless access technology can be integrated into a Global System for Mobile communications network.The companies...
China will have more than 20 million cellular subscribers by 2000, predicts a report released by International Technology Consultants Inc., titled Wireless Communications Markets: China. By 2000, China's Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications plans to install 150 million switching lines and only 105 million main...
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...
