OTTAWA-The Canadian wireless telecommunications industry is doing some important looking ahead, even though it still is preoccupied with rolling out the four competing national PCS services. Appearing on the horizon …
6th Annual Asia GSM Summit 18-21 May Hong Kong Institute for International Research Tel: (+852) 2586-1777 Fax: (+852) 2507-5666 www.iir.com.hk Canadian Wireless 1998 20-22 May Toronto, Canada Canadian Wireless Telecommunications …
DALLAS, United States-BellSouth Cellular Corp. signed an agreement with PageMart Wireless Inc., which will allow the cellular carrier to add paging to a mix of bundled services it plans to …
WASHINGTON-The Asia-Pacific region represents the largest trunked radio market in the world, according to information gathered by the International Mobile Telecommunications Association for its report on the industry, “Global Digest …
Croatia has announced a tender to construct and operate a nationwide GSM (Global System for Mobile communications) network. Bids were due 15 April. A consortium led by ABN Amro Bank …
MELBOURNE, Australia-Australia’s long-awaited PCS spectrum auctions began at the tail end of April with nine bidders vying for 230 lots in the 800 MHz and 1800 MHz spectrum bands. Marking …
SINGAPORE-What was to have been one of the most glorious moments in Singapore’s telecommunications history turned out to be a major fiasco in April when one of the tenderers for …
LONDON-After years of uncertainty and confusion, the Russian wireless telecommunications market finally seems set to come out of hibernation and deliver what investors and analysts have been expecting for some …
WASHINGTON-Lack of awareness and problems with securing financing have made for a slow start in Russia’s commercial trunked radio industry, but the number of units in service there is expected …
MELBOURNE, Australia-The Australian Communications Authority has released a report on the technical options for implementing Mobile Number Portability (MNP) in Australia. The report recognizes the biggest challenge is choosing the …
TOKYO-The number of Personal Handy Phone System (PHS) subscribers in Japan has decreased for six straight months since last October. Suffering from a total of 590 billion yen (US$4.42 billion) …
DUBLIN, Ireland-Page One has become the first United Kingdom-based paging operator to launch FLEX, with the promise of smaller, more flexible and affordable paging devices for consumers. As Global Wireless …
NORMAN, Oklahoma, United States-Follow-up research examining the interaction between cardiac pacemakers and certain wireless phones found that an adverse interaction only occurred when the devices were less than three inches …
OXFORD, England-More than a million mobile phone users in Switzerland are under surveillance. Swisscom secretly is storing historical data that can track the movements of its subscribers’ mobile terminals. These …
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OXFORD, England-In March, shareholders of the privatized Spanish operator Telefonica approved a new group structure as well as a proposal to raise Pta 600 billion (US$3.97 billion) through the largest-ever …
MOUNTAINVIEW, California, United States-Sun Microsystems Inc. announced it licensed L.M. Ericsson to use and distribute its PersonalJava platform and Java Application Environment. Ericsson said it intends to use Java-based technology …
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-Egypt will work together with South Africa in both the private and public sector to provide telecommunications aid to the African continent, announced Hosni Mubarak, President of the …
MELBOURNE, Australia-Australian Prime Minister John Howard pledged to Australians a large “social bonus” in the form of substantial infrastructure projects from a proposed US$40 billion sale of the remaining two-thirds …
Total: 190 billion pesetas (US$1.26 billion), up 18.6% on 1996 Basic telephony: 127 billion pesetas (US$839 million), up 9.6% on 1996 Mobile: 28 billion pesetas (US$185 million), up 72.4% on …
