STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson announced plans to introduce late next year a phone with roaming capability on Global System for Mobile communications 900 MHz and 1800 MHz, digital Advanced Mobile Phone …
Strategy Analytics debated the future of data transmission over cellular networks in a conference call last week, and found that while current usage levels are low in both Europe and …
CEDAR KNOLLS, N.J.-Personal communications services provider Omnipoint Communications Inc. announced its 56th international roaming agreement in Chile with Entel PCS Telecomunicaciones. “Today’s activation is particularly noteworthy since it is our …
Dear Editor, In recent months, editorial and feature pages of publications around the nation have focused on the theme that Americans are in for a sour summer surprise: telephone rate …
INDIANAPOLIS-Brightpoint Inc. completed the previously announced acquisition of Eurocom Systems S.A., thereby establishing logistics services and distribution operations in France. Eurocom reported net sales of about $10.7 million during 1997, …
PALO ALTO, Calif.-BT Mobile, a paging service provider based in Leeds, United Kingdom, awarded Corsair Communications Inc. a three-year contract valued at nearly $5 million to provide it with an …
SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Motorola Inc.’s Land Mobile Products Sector signed a multiyear contract to manage wireless communications equipment facilities located on Waste Management of North America Inc.’s property at sites across the …
OXFORD, United Kingdom-Following a long series of regulatory battles, Telecom Italia (TI) finally closed down after just a few months of operation its FIDO cordless terminal mobility service. Designed to …
NEW YORK-The United States, where high-yield bond issuance originated, for many years has been the hotbed of this important kind of financing, even for telecommunications and other corporate issuers outside …
WASHINGTON-The European Commission in early July gave conditional approval to the proposed merger between MCI Communications Corp. and WorldCom Inc. The approval is subject to the divestiture of MCI’s Internet …
WASHINGTON-Wireline provider Grupo CentroAmericano de Telecomunicaciones (GCA Telecom) has become the first private-sector company to provide basic telephony services in El Salvador. To help deploy services faster and easier in …
OXFORD, United Kingdom-Investment in the telecommunications sector is an urgent priority for Central and Eastern European countries. Financial management consultant Price Waterhouse examined in a recent report the challenges of …
OXFORD, United Kingdom-The imminent explosion of the mobile data market has been like a constant companion for the past 12 years. The technology driving this supposed market expansion may have …
WASHINGTON-After a three-day delay due to legal challenges, the government of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, sold a controlling 50.1-percent voting stake in the Companhia Riograndense de …
WASHINGTON-The American novelist Edith Wharton once noted the only thing that distinguishes vice from virtue is point of view. Some might say her comment is an apt description of the …
In an article on China, “The Promise Land,” page 33, in the May-June issue of Global Wireless, Great Dragon Telecommunications (GDT) of China was listed as having developed a GSM …
L.M. Ericsson Belgium. With KPN-Orange Belgium N.V. for a DCS 1800 network. Value: US$269 million Brazil. With ATL-Algar Telecom Leste S.A. for a TDMA network. Value: up to US$350 million …
SINGAPORE-If there’s one good thing that has come out of the current economic crisis in Southeast Asia, it’s the added push it has given to the long-talked-about and much-needed shakeout …
Northern Telecom Ltd. introduced the Nortel CDMA Minicell at June’s CDMA World Congress in Singapore. Nortel said the base station allows wireless service operators to tailor their networks to meet …
