Monthly Archives: September, 1999
WESTERN EUROPE BRIEFS
United KingdomDeutsche Telekom is acquiring U.K. operator One2One from Cable & Wireless and MediaOne Group. Deutsche Telekom Chairman Ron Sommer called the acquisition "key"...
INDIAN CELLULAR PROVIDERS FACING FINANCIAL PROBLEMS
BANGALORE, India-It's a difficult time for some cellular operators in India. The Department of Telecomunications (DoT) has terminated the cellular licenses and radio frequency...
INDIAN PAGING MARKET TROUBLED
BANGALORE, India-Posting a negative growth in its subscriber base, India's paging industry has plunged into a deep crisis. During the last fiscal year the...
JAPANESE CELLULAR MARKET REORGANIZES INTO THREE GROUPS
TOKYO-Nissan Motor Co., a major shareholder in nine Japanese cellular companies, will sell all its stakes to Japan Telecom Co. (JT) and DDI Corp....
LATIN AMERICA BRIEFS
Ericsson signed a US$100 million contract with Diginet Americas to build out Diginet's fixed wireless networks throughout Latin America. The agreement makes Ericsson the...
TENDERS/LICENSES
BoliviaBolivia's GOB Superintendent of Telecommunications is accepting international bids for a 20-year concessionary contract for providing PCS. Bidding documents must be submitted by 23...
NORTH AMERICA BRIEFS
More than 660,000 U.S. and Canadian customers subscribed to GSM wireless service in the second quarter of 1999, according to the North American GSM...
PALTEL WIRELESS OPERATIONS MERIT MENTION IN STORY
Dear Editor: I just received your July-August issue of Global Wireless and read with great interest the article on pages 22-23 titled, "Middle East: Region Sees...
NEW TECHNOLOGY FORCES POLITENESS
MELBOURNE, Australia-Someone is just settling into a film or play, conversing intimately in a restaurant or addressing the ball at the first hole-and a...
FOREIGN INVESTORS LOSE CONFIDENCE IN INDIA
BANGALORE, India-Foreign investors are reconsidering their investments in India, with press reports naming several European and U.S. companies lining up to back out of...
IRIDIUM, ICO DECLARE BANKRUPTCY
The second mobile satellite company in less than a month filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in a U.S. court at the end of August....
LICENSES
United StatesThe Federal Communications Commission (FCC) delayed the paging services auction until 24 February, 2000. The FCC said in June that it would auction...
POLITICS WINNING OUT IN VIETNAM MARKET
SINGAPORE-As Vietnam's mobile phone market tries to recover from the effects of the Asian economic downturn, increasing damage is being caused by regulations and...
ERMES CHARTS FUTURE
BUCHAREST, Romania-Until recently, the dominant system in European paging was POCSAG. POCSAG paging networks, designed and installed 20 years ago, are now significantly overloaded...
EUROPEAN REGULATORS DIFFER IN DEREG ENFORCEMENT
DUBLIN, Ireland-National industry regulators have one of the most difficult jobs in the telecommunications world and face criticism from consumers, network operators and government....
3G LICENSING UPDATE
AustriaThe Austrian telecom control and licensing authority has started consultations with telecom providers on introducing third-generation systems. Austria must license at least one 3G...
MANAGING SPECTRUM TO BE FCC’S CORE GOAL
WASHINGTON-One of the core goals of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in the 21st century is to effectively manage radio-frequency spectrum, the FCC said...
PAGING NUMBERS FALL IN HONG KONG
HONG KONG-Paging subscriber numbers continue to fall in Hong Kong, while the popularity of cellular keeps rising as stiff competition among the six cellular...
HUTCHISON AUSTRALIA OFFERS LOCAL PRICING
MELBOURNE, Australia-New mobile operator Hutchison Telecommunications (Australia) unveiled plans to release next year a CDMA mobile phone that charges users for calls made within...
PRODUCTS
HandsetsNokiaNokia announced a new NMT 450 analog handset, to be available in the third quarter, that features true 3-volt technology and the Nokia NaviKey...