JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-Iridium, the first GMPCS (Global Mobile Personal Communications by Satellite) system is set to become commercial worldwide on 23 September, but will...
The Australian Communications Authority has invited applications for an auction of previously unsold 800 MHz and 1.8 GHz PCS spectrum.Bids closed on 31 August...
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...
LONDON-Vodafone Group plc announced plans to buy the national GSM (Global System for Mobile communications) network in New Zealand for about US$369.1 million.Vodafone Europe...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-Conferences are an integral part of the mobile communications scene, an ideal platform for catching up with the latest developments and a...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-The long-awaited launch of cellular service in Botswana is expected to have a huge impact on the country's communications and business sector.Botswana's...
WASHINGTON-The U.S. Federal Communications Commission plans to re-auction returned C-block PCS (Personal Communications Services) licenses 23 March, 1999.The FCC will use the same eligibility...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-Unseemly and ongoing disputes over intellectual property rights seem to have hijacked the current debate about third-generation (3G) cellular. Posturing by radio...
JERUSALEM, Israel-Afraid of scaring Israeli consumers, wireless carriers operating in this nation of 2 million cellular phone users are awaiting the arrival of a...
WASHINGTON-Almost 500 years after Columbus visited, Portugal and Spain are back on Latin American shores; this time, it isn't sugar cane or gold they...
BEIJING-China Telecom announced it signed up its 20 millionth mobile phone customer, a police officer named Zhang Qinghua in the scenic city of Hangzhou,...
JERUSALEM, Israel-In the southern town of Ashkelon stands a larger-than-life black marble grave stone that is as much a monument to the teenager buried...
Chances are slim to none that U.S. mobile phone operators will agree on one standard for the next generation of mobile phone services.Already fragmented...
Wireless carriers in the United States have been focusing a great deal of attention on a government mandate concerning emergency calls made from wireless...
L.M. EricssonArgentina. With Telecom Personal to expand its D-AMPS/AMPS network.Value: up to US$77 millionArgentina. With Telefonica Comunicaciones Personales to expand its D-AMPS IS-136/AMPS network.Value: US$45 millionBosnia....
What does the acronym MoU mean? MoU stands for Memorandum of Understanding, of course-as in the GSM MoU Association. Any European cellular operator could...
The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association in July released a consensus white paper on wireless number portability stressing the wireless industry should be treated differently...
WASHINGTON-The Mexican government will auction new frequencies for paging, narrowband PCS (two-way paging), trunking and point-to-point microwave. The auctions are scheduled for late 1998...
MEXICO CITY-Grupo Iusacell announced a restructuring and recapitalization plan aimed at increasing liquidity of its public shares, providing proceeds to pay for PCS (Personal...
WANDEL & GOLTERMANNRadMan is a personal safety monitor introduced by German company Wandel & Goltermann that measures electric and magnetic fields in any direction....
If all goes as planned, Iridium L.L.C.'s vision of a global wireless phone network-based on a constellation of 66 low-earth-orbit satellites interconnected to several...
