BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—Colombia and Ecuador took several measures to accelerate the personal communications services (PCS) licenses auction that they plan to hold in the third quarter of 2002. Colombia's Ministry of Communications rejected the complaint appeal presented by BellSouth in October 2001, while Ecuador...
HONG KONG-Not even torrential rains around portions of Hong Kong could dampen the spirits of CDMA supporters at the 3G World Congress. Even with the lack of sunshine outside, to go along with the lack of CDMA coverage for roaming, most attendees seemed bright...
INDONESIALucent Technologies Inc. has signed two contracts with PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia Tbk to build its nationwide intelligent network and multimedia access infrastructure valued at $17.5 million. "We are pleased to have new supply agreements with Lucent Technologies," said Muhammad Nazif, president director, PT Telkom.CANADATelus...
HONG KONG-"This time it's for real," stated Robert Mao, president of Nortel Networks China.But Irwin Jacobs, chairman of Qualcomm, was rather more sanguine. "I've gone from being cautiously optimistic," said Jacobs, "to optimistic."The CDMA Development Group (CDG) fielded representatives from Ericsson, Lucent Technologies, Nortel...
BEIJING-Zhang Fan, head of mobile communications at China Unicom, this week said his company would definitely build narrowband networks based on the CDMA standard.After Qualcomm Chairman Irwin Jacobs recently met Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji and China Unicom Chairman Yang Xianzu in Beijing, China's second...
