The worldwide wireless industry is expected to pass a significant milestone sometime during 2000.With total mobile subscribers at the end of last year of...
NEW YORK-Cellular terminals have come a long way in the quarter century since Motorola introduced its handheld DynaTAC mobile phone, a clunky device that...
TOKYO-While operators and venders successfully found a way to interconnect two different systems for third-generation services, NTT DoCoMo and its vendors are now gearing...
TOKYO-At the International 3G Mobile Systems Japan '99 conference in early September in Tokyo, Japanese carriers and vendors disclosed their strategies for third-generation (3G)...
SANDTON, South Africa-Telkom is selling its wholly owned trunking operator, Q-Trunk. Telkom maintains this is part of a move to deliver more efficiency and...
Contrary to what many equipment developers proclaim, Hans Snook, chief executive officer of U.K.-based cell phone operator Orange, says that things were not simpler...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-Most cellular operators now recognize that to ensure their businesses continue to experience breakneck growth, they must compete more directly with fixed...
DUBLIN, Ireland-There has been much debate over the future of satellite-based communications. Indeed, regular readers of the financial press might wonder if it has...
TOKYO-Softbank, Microsoft and Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) announced they will establish a joint company to provide wireless access line services.According to the announcement,...
The biggest challenge for wireless operators during the next four years most likely will be obtaining additional spectrum, according to Keith Radousky, director of...
Talk about mega-mergers! Vodafone AirTouch secluded in talks with Bell Atlantic. BT and AT&T pushing back the boundaries of their courtship. All quoting figures...
FREMONT, California, United States-ePhone Telecom announced it secured an initial agreement with Saigon Postel Corp. (SPC) to develop a fixed wireless local loop network...
Competitive pricing strategies have contributed significantly to a steep increase in the average number of minutes used per month by wireless consumers, according to...
SHENZHEN, China-Konka Group Co. Ltd. of China and Lucent Technologies Inc.'s Microelectronics Group announced a five-year agreement under which Konka will use Lucent's Global...
NEW ORLEANS-IPeria Inc., a provider of Internet Protocol-based enhanced services platforms and applications, announced its BroadReach marketing support program that teams IPeria marketing personnel...
NEW ORLEANS-Standards bodies met with the International Telecommunication Union last week to prepare the detailed specifications of third-generation mobile-phone technology.The ITU is trying to...
ATLANTA-LHS InfoCell Inc., a subsidiary of LHS Group Inc. said Cellular One of San Francisco Bay Area is implementing its InfoCell ConVerge product.InfoCell ConVerge...
