Paging is at a crossroads. Consolidation, financial turmoil and generally depressed valuations have surrounded the paging industry worldwide for the last two years. Increased functionality and pricing competition from cellular …
VoiceStream Wireless is becoming the catalyst for GSM carrier consolidation in the United States. VoiceStream and Omnipoint Communications in June announced plans to merge in a deal valued at US$1.7 …
OXFORD, United Kingdom-While the drive to implement Internet e-commerce is being hyped almost on a daily basis, with some justification, as the way forward for almost all future business transactions, …
One of the special sections in this issue includes a large carrier chart listing the cellular and PCS operators of the world. Take a look, and you’ll see the phenomenal …
The European paging industry got up in 1999 to an unpleasant wake-up call: A small consulting firm published in January a report, financed by the European Commission, which prophesied paging …
Alcatel Austria. With Tele.ring for its new GSM 1800 network. Value: US$298 million Ericsson Brazil. With Telecom Italia Mobile to expand its TDMA network. Value: US$100 million China. With China …
BEIJING-China’s telecom scene is in flux. China Telecom is to split into four parts, which will compete in two year’s time. China Unicom took over four experimental CDMA networks from …
MEXICO CITY-Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama. They’re some of the smallest countries in the world, but at the same time, they’re actively participating in the Latin …
There are four main international groups with interests in Central American telecommunications: Telefonica-Spain’s main operator that in recent years has strongly expanded overseas, mainly toward Latin America. Telefonos de Mexico …
TORONTO-You could call it short-term pain for long-term gain. At least that’s what the Canadian wireless carriers must be hoping. They’re rapidly winning new customers, but at a cost to …
The paging industry in North America is making moves that are changing the way the public thinks about paging. It is impacting the way people communicate, and it is opening …
Orbcomm Global, a low-earth-orbit satellite provider specializing in data communications, signed an agreement with European Datacomm Holding to deliver Orbcomm satellite communications services to 60 countries and territories in and …
WASHINGTON-An International Telecommunication Union task group in June in Beijing approved a carrier-crafted plan to harmonize competing U.S. and European CDMA technologies for Internet-friendly third-generation mobile phones, paving the way …
MALVERN, Pa.-Triton PCS Inc. completed the first phase of its buildout by launching digital wireless service in Richmond, Va., and Hickory-Lenoir, N.C. The company also recently initiated service in Roanoke …
NEW YORK-Ericsson Mobile Phones, Research Triangle Park, N.C., introduced a suite of new handsets June 21 at MobileFocus ’99 that the company plans to offer for sale later this year …
WASHINGTON-While 911, encryption and commercial space launch bills advanced in Congress last week, other wireless-related bills remain steeped in controversy and uncertainty. As important as 911, encryption, commercial space launch, …
Geoworks Corp. last week introduced its Discopro.com free mobile information service, which delivers discount and promotional messages to subscribers’ pagers or text-enabled phones. Interested users select which participating retailers they …
CINCINNATI-Convergys Corp. announced it is teaming with IBM Corp. to market and deliver billing and subscriber management solutions for the wireless industry. The alliance provides carriers with billing and subscriber …
NEW YORK-3Com Corp. introduced a wireless modem PC card, called the 3Com Megahertz 56K Global GSM & Cellular Modem PC Card, which connects laptop computers to Global System for Mobile …
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-Phone.com Inc. revealed that Italian Global System for Mobile communications operator Omnitel Spa has licensed Phone.com’s UP.Link Server Suite for its new Omnitel 2000 Internet portal. The Wireless …
