Yearly Archives: 1999

U S WEST TO OFFER NOKIA 6185, 5170 PHONES

DENVER-The Nokia 6185 and Nokia 5170 handsets will be available to U S West Inc.'s wireless customers as part of a $40 million agreement...

NOKIA, OMNITEL SIGN DEAL; WILSKA TO HEAD NOKIA AMERICAS

HELSINKI-Nokia Corp. and Omnitel in Italy entered into a $177.6 million agreement for Nokia to add capacity and upgrade the service level of Omnitel's...

FCC WINS RECENT ROUND IN NEXTWAVE BANKRUPTCY ROW

NEW YORK-Chalk one up for the Federal Communications Commission, which received a stay Aug. 31 of several lower-court decisions that affirmed key aspects of...

YEMEN ISSUES GSM TENDER

SANAA, Yemen-The government of Yemen issued a tender for two Global System for Mobile communications licenses. The closing date for receipt of the bid...

TIA PUBLISHES FDMA SYSTEMS BULLETIN

ARLINGTON, Va.-The Telecommunications Industry Association published "Project 25 Frequency Division Multiple Access Common Air Interface Conformance Test Addendum 1," TSB102.BAAB-A-1. The bulletin provides FDMA...

AFGHANISTAN TRADE BAN HURTS WIRELESS COMPANY

WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration's trade ban against the Taliban in Afghanistan is preventing a New Jersey firm from completing construction of a wireless system in...

SBC COMPLETES CCPR BUY

SAN ANTONIO, Texas-SBC Communications Inc. completed its acquisition of Cellular Communications of Puerto Rico Inc. following approval of regulatory agencies, announced SBC.The company will...

STORIES OF CELL PHONES CAUSING EXPLOSIONS REIGNITE IN CANADA

WASHINGTON-A Canadian press report identifying a mobile phone as the cause of a gas-station explosion cannot be confirmed by Canadian authorities, but federal officials...

YAHOO! MOBILE TO FEATURE GOAMERICA

HACKENSACK, N.J.-GoAmerica Communications Corp. said it has formed an agreement with Yahoo! Inc. to display GoAmerica's wireless connectivity solutions on Yahoo! Mobile, a new...

GLOBALSTAR DEFENDS MSS BUSINESS

Besieged by doubts over the very existence of a market for satellite-based voice services, low-earth-orbit carriers are starving for some kind of positive development...

FIXED WIRELESS ACCESS BATTLE BEGINS WITH TOWER OF SQUABBLING

WASHINGTON-The official battle over fixed wireless' access to multi-tenant buildings got started last week as the Federal Communications Commission and industry began to wade...

ERICSSON TO FILL UNICOM ORDER; DIVEST REAL ESTATE

STOCKHOLM-L.M. Ericsson announced it signed a $1.5 million contract to expand China Unicom's Global System for Mobile communications network in the Jilin province.The infrastructure...

IOWA WIRELESS EXPANDS ROAMING

DES MOINES, Iowa-Iowa Wireless Services is expanding its roaming capabilities to nine states in the Southeast, said the company.Roaming services now will be available...

@MOBILE.COM DELIVERS INTERNET TO MOBILES

BELLEVUE, Wash.-@mobile.com Inc. introduced its Wireless IMessenger Internet service, which extends Internet instant messaging to digital wireless phones.The company said the product is compatible...

GSM BREAKS 200M MARK

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-The GSM Association said Global System for Mobile communications just broke through the 200 million customer barrier."The Asia Pacific region continues to grow...

NETHERLANDS’ DUTCHTONE PICKS LCC MEASUREMENT SERVICE

MCLEAN, Va.-LCC International Inc. said Dutchtone NV of the Netherlands chose LCC to conduct its Quality of Service measurement and reporting process.The agreement calls...

SKYTEL OFFERS CUSTOMERS CYBER LOUNGE

JACKSON, Miss.-SkyTel Communications Inc. opened an Internet-based customer service and message retrieval center called the Customer Service Lounge.From its Web site, SkyTel customers may...

PEGASO PCS BEGINS COMMERCIAL SERVICE IN GUADALAJARA

SAN DIEGO-Leap Wireless International Inc.'s Mexican operating company, Pegaso PCS, will begin launching service in Guadalajara, Jilisco, Mexico, according to the company.Guadalajara is the...

BT, AT&T CLOSE JAPAN TELECOM DEALS

LONDON-British Telecommunications plc and AT&T Corp. each acquired a 15-percent stake in Japan Telecom for a total of $1.9 billion, completing BT's strategic and...

SONERA READY WITH HSCSD NETWORK, BUT WAITING ON HANDSETS

HELSINKI-Finnish operator Sonera said its High Speed Circuit Switched Data network would be ready to begin offering services to data customers today.Handsets for the...

POWERTEL ADDS INT’L ROAMING

WEST POINT, Ga.-Powertel Inc. said it has added international roaming to its selection of calling options.The international plan is available in 30 countries outside...

SBC/AMERITECH TO INCLUDE WIRELESS ISSUES AS PART OF MERGER

WASHINGTON-SBC Communications Inc. and Ameritech Corp. agreed to include wireless issues in their proposed conditions for license transfer, said the Personal Communications Industry Association."In...

PENNSYLVANIA TO DEPLOY OPENSKY NETWORK

LOWELL, Mass.-M/A-Com Inc. and AMP Inc. entered into a $95 million contract under which M/A-Com's OpenSky Wireless Internet Protocol network will be deployed for...

TELEPHIA HOPES TO BECOME THE A.C. NIELSEN OF WIRELESS WORLD

Wireless carriers are about to get an education, one that San Francisco-based Telephia Inc. believes is long overdue.Founded in February 1998, by Tom Frangione...

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...
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