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 …
WASHINGTON-The Brazilian government is moving ahead with the privatization of Telebr
The annual growth rate of worldwide subscribers using Time Division Multiple Access Technology is expected to increase more than 100 percent this year, according to figures released recently by the …
OXFORD, England-Tele-communications development boosts economic growth. Or is it the other way around? Economists have argued for decades about the exact nature of the relationship. What is not in dispute …
PRINCETON, New Jersey, United States-United States-based Intek Global Corp. announced its Linear Modulation Technology subsidiary entered into a five-year technology, development and supply agreement from Nokia Telecommunications, a unit of …
ESPOO, Finland-Nokia Tele-communications and Computer Sciences Corp. formed an alliance to offer value-added services to Nokia’s infrastructure clients, including mobile and fixed wireless carriers, announced Nokia. The companies intend to …
BEIJING-The Chinese Ministry of Information Industry 22 April announced the first domestically designed and manufactured digital mobile telecommunications equipment has been connected to the local network in Shanghai. The ministry …
TOKYO-NEC Corp. and United Kingdom-based ERA Technology Ltd. signed a joint-venture agreement to design and develop next-generation wireless network infrastructure based on the UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) standard, said …
The Inmarsat Council reached an agreement to privatize Inmarsat with a target date of 1 January 1999. According to Inmarsat, its signatories, parties and management have worked together for three …
CASABLANCA, Morocco-For Morocco, 29 June 1997 marked a point of no return for the country’s telecommunications industry-a turning point that changed forever the way telephony is looked at in the …
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-Africa was in danger of failing to provide basic telecommunications services by the beginning of the millennium if it did not receive the help of foreign investors and …
WASHINGTON-The heat is up again in Latin America, and it has nothing to do with El Nino. The region’s unmet demand for services and high potential for growth have called …
ARGENTINA U.S.-based DSC Communications Corp. announced it signed an agreement with Movicom to deliver and deploy its CTC421 Intelligent Digital Trunk Optimizer for expanding the carrier’s network capacity. BOLIVIA SR …
BALTIMORE, United States-Millions of hearing-aid wearers in Europe and throughout the world could benefit from work underway in the United States on a national standard intended to eliminate interference from …
Nokia GSM phones Nokia Corp. introduced three new GSM (Global System for Mobile communications) phones operating on the 900 MHz frequency band. The Nokia 8810 has a protective slide cover …
DENVER, United States-If all goes as planned, the world could have as many as 10 mobile satellite communications (MSS) systems operating in the next five years. By 2002, the MSS …
DENVER, Colorado, United States-A ruling from a U.S. federal bankruptcy court may have set a dangerous precedent for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and further muddied the waters for C-block …
