In response to wireless customers’ demands that they be able to use their cellular phones outside their home calling area, the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association in the United States decided …
DUBLIN, Ireland-The phenomenal growth of cellular services around the world has created problems for operators as their networks become increasingly congested, encouraging companies to develop technologies and systems to increase …
DENVER, United States-A new battery-system invention coming on the market can boost customer satisfaction, make mobile phones more powerful and create higher revenue for carriers, the system’s creator company believes. …
Australia Australian telecommunications provider Telstra Corp. welcomed the Australian parliament’s decision to pass the Telstra Sale Bill and the government’s announcement it will sell an additional 16.6 percent of the …
AUSTRALIA Telstra will extend its CDMA network in Australia to include country locations currently covered by its GSM network but lacking in analog coverage, said the company. Hutchison Telecoms in …
Cambodia: NTT International Corp. (NTTI) promoted the telecom network upgrade plan in Phnom Penh between August 1995 and March 1998, using grant assistance from the Japanese government. The grant money …
TOKYO-NTT International Corp. (NTTI), a subsidiary of NTT Corp., promotes overseas telecommunications projects in developing countries using Japan’s Official Development Assistance (ODA) funding. Since it was founded in 1985 as …
TOKYO-Tokyo Telemessages Inc. (TTM), a paging company suffering from huge debts due to a sharp drop in customers because of strong competition from mobile phone operators, went bankrupt at the …
Qwest Communications International is pursuing an acquisition of U S West in competition with another bidder, Global Crossing. Microsoft announced in mid-May a US$600 million investment in Nextel Communications, the …
The government of Yemen has announced it will issue a tender later this year for a second mobile telephone service provider to run a GSM system. The incumbent cellular provider, …
DENVER, United States-After several months of fruitlessly chasing the horizontal market of international roaming business users, Iridium announced a refocused marketing plan aimed at the vertical industrial segments and a …
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-British Telecom, in its first venture of any magnitude in Latin America, earlier in the year invested US$150 million to buy a 20-percent stake in Impsat Corp. The …
Olivetti ultimately prevailed in the takeover attempt of Telecom Italia, with 52 percent of Telecom Italia shareholders voting to accept Olivetti’s offer instead of Telecom Italia’s defense plan centered around …
WASHINGTON-The United States and South Korea posted the strongest gains in cellular and PCS net subscribers during the first three months of 1999, according to quarterly results from “Strategis dataBank: …
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-The technology standard TETRA has come up trumps in a feasibility study conducted by Finnish company Omnitele. The consultancy had been appointed by the South African Regulatory Authority …
Nine global wireless companies formed a focus group, called 3G.IP, to promote an Internet Protocol-based wireless system for third-generation technology. The group comprises AT&T, British Telecom, Rogers Cantel, Ericsson, Lucent, …
MONTE CARLO, Monaco-Seemingly lost in the breakneck expansion of the cellular industry is a largely forgotten fact-it was cellular operators wanting a common digital voice standard that drove the rapid …
MIAMI-The market opportunity for international roaming is clear, present and growing, but domestic U.S. carriers so far have been focused on tapping the large and more immediate potential posed by …
Handsets Kyocera Kyocera plans to begin marketing at the end of July in Japan its VP-210 VisualPhone, a PHS phone with a built-in camera that can transmit and receive images …
MEXICO CITY-One year after becoming a winner in Mexico’s PCS auction, Unefon has finally paid for its spectrum. Fellow auction winner Miditel, on the other hand, defaulted on its payments …
