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Merger, acquisition frenzy continues

Mergers and acquisitions are proliferating worldwide, with the strongest mark being made in Western Europe. Carriers are scrambling to maintain their footholds, while looking to the next potential market investment.Vodafone/MannesmannThe battle between Vodafone AirTouch and Mannesmann continues, as Vodafone AirTouch revealed its wireless data...

Infrastructure deals

AlcatelCameroon. With Societe Camerounaise de Mobiles (SCM) for a GSM network for the area between the cities of Yaounde, Douala and Bafoussam.Value: US$21.15 millionChina. With Post and Telecommunications Administration of Hubei province for DECT wireless local loop systems.Value: US$20 millionMozambique. With Telecomunicacoes Moeis de Mocambique for...

RCR’s Top 20 wireless news events of 1999

At the end of each year, the RCR editorial staff looks back on the news events that made RCR headlines and decides which were the most significant, industry-impacting stories of the past 12 months. Here are our picks for 1999 in chronological order.1. Jan....

Vodafone UK, Nortel plan network trial

NEWBURY, United Kingdom-Vodafone UK and Nortel Networks said they are planning a trial early next year in London of wideband Code Division Multiple Access third-generation wireless radio and Internet Protocol network technologies."Through this trial with Nortel Networks, we hope to gain a clearer understanding...

D.C. NOTES: 12 themes of wireless

At the recent Practicing Law Institute's Telecommunications Conference, Thomas Sugrue, chief of the FCC's Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, gave a humorous presentation describing the wireless industry. Here is how the wireless industry's chief regulator sees the industry: 1. Why can't we be more European? or ......

InfoSpace gets into wireless IP space

In a bid to strengthen its position in the wireless industry and expand its influence overseas, Internet infrastructure provider InfoSpace.com announced it signed a definitive agreement to acquire wireless Internet portal Saraide Inc.According to the agreement, InfoSpace.com will issue about 2.4 million shares of...

Ericsson gets GPRS contract

LONDON-Vodafone AirTouch plc said it awarded Ericsson a contract to supply General Packet Radio Service in Britain, the Netherlands and Greece. Vodafone UK, Libertel in the Netherlands and Panafon in Greece will be the first Vodafone wireless networks to integrate GPRS into their Global...

BellSouth traverses into European wireless landscape

ATLANTA-BellSouth Corp. became the first U.S. operator to enter the European wireless industry's recent merger and acquisition frenzy by exercising its right of first refusal to acquire 100 percent of E-Plus, Germany's third-largest mobile operator. As part of the deal, The Netherlands' KPN Telecom...

Prime properties on sale block

Several important wireless markets will be up for grabs during the next year-a result of overlapping wireless markets created by the merger of Bell Atlantic Corp. with GTE Corp. as well as Bell Atlantic's agreement to merge its wireless assets with those of Vodafone...

Shareholders raise stakes in Polkomtel

WARSAW, Poland-KGHM Polska Miedz, Poland's copper and silver concern, and Polski Koncern Naftowy, the country's oil group, raised their stakes in the country's mobile phone firm Polkomtel, according to a Reuters report.Both firms exercised their first refusal rights, as major shareholders, over part of...

Fraud more difficult to detect as industry advances

WASHINGTON-The wireless industry will enter the third millennium A.D. as the envy of the telecommunications industry. It is arguably the most competitive sector. It is innovative, with three different digital standards and third-generation wireless becoming reality. And it has conquered a huge nemesis: cloning."Cloning is...

Vodafone AirTouch, Mannesmann compete for shareholder support

Vodafone AirTouch plc last week continued its efforts to win support for its hostile takeover bid for Germany's Mannesmann AG. At the same time, Mannesmann executives began a road show aimed at convincing shareholders to reject the bid.Mannesmann has been bolstering its defenses since...

Carriers debate making OHG official

The Operators Harmonization Group began work more than a year ago as a loosely tied group of four operators trying to end the world's heated battle over third-generation technology standards. Today this ad hoc group, which now numbers 40 operators from around the world,...

Mannesmann prepares defensive strategy

LONDON-Vodafone AirTouch plc is pushing forward with details to secure its takeover efforts of Mannesmann AG, while Mannesmann is making its own preparations to ward off the bid. Vodafone launched a $128 billion hostile takeover bid-the largest takeover bid in history-for Mannesmann Nov. 19...

Vodafone launches hostile takeover of Mannesmann

Vodafone AirTouch plc Friday launched a hostile takeover bid for Mannesmann AG after the German company flatly rejected an earlier all-stock bid of about $106 billion."We made a friendly approach to Mannesmann last Sunday," said Chris Gent, Vodafone AirTouch's chief executive officer. "That proposal...

Long-distance, Baby Bells are profit, revenue leaders

NEW YORK-Not unexpectedly, the multiservice telecommunications giants led the way in revenues and profits for the first half of this year.Profit leadersBell Atlantic Corp. led in profits for the period, posting $2.315 billion, a 19.5-percent increase from the same period of 1998. It traded...

Vodafone AirTouch acknowledges Mannesmann interest

LONDON-Vodafone AirTouch plc acknowledged speculation circulating last week that it was interested in making a bid for Germany's Mannesmann AG and hinted that a future tie-up of the two could occur."Vodafone AirTouch and Mannesmann are long-standing partners in three of Europe's largest wireless markets...

Gaining foothold in the UK, Cambridge sets its sights on the U.S. market

After scoring an agreement with Vodafone AirTouch plc to deploy its location-based technology in the carrier's U.K. network, Cambridge Positioning Systems is ready to push its product in the United States."We have not done a lot of marketing in the United States on purpose,"...

U.S. may be shifting 3G spectrum stance

WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration, bowing to industry pressure here and across the Atlantic, last week signaled for the first time a willingness to consider supporting global harmonization of third-generation mobile spectrum at next year's World Radiocommunication Conference in Turkey."We've started a process to reopen discussions...

N.A. GSM operators celebrate roaming progress

SAN FRANCISCO-North American Global System for Mobile communications operators had an upbeat story to tell international GSM carriers this year at the GSM in North America conference last week.Last year's conference saw frustrated European and other international GSM operators that had hoped GSM technology...

Wireless access to the Internet yields big returns for carriers

NEW YORK-The astounding success of NTT DoCoMo's mobile Internet access service is a resounding note of affirmation to proponents of wireless Web services, said Crispin K. Vicars at the Yankee Group's conference Nov. 8.By the end of September, DoCoMo's wireless Internet service had 1.7...

DDI CLOSES ON TU-KA STAKE

TOKYO-DDI Corp. announced it acquired the stakes held by Nissan Motor Co. in three Tu-Ka cellular phone firms, completing a deal that was announced in August, according to The Nihon Keizai Shimbun.Japan Telecom Co. and a member of the Vodafone AirTouch plc group also...

NTT PLANS STOCK SALE IN LONG-TERM PRIVATIZATION PLAN

NEW YORK-Through an underwriting syndicate led by Salomon Smith Barney, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. plans to sell up to 982,000 shares of stock, the Japan Ministry of Finance announced late last month.The sale, which is to include 131,000 shares sold in the United...

HE WHO HOLDS THE SPECTRUM ATTRACTS INVESTORS, BUYERS

NEW YORK-For strategic and financial investors, many domestic wireless carriers possess a strong desirability quotient because they own scarce spectrum in a huge and growing market.Lehman Brothers Inc. projects that wireless penetration in the United States will reach 50 percent by 2002 and 70...