WASHINGTON-Legislation designed to revolutionize the U.S. telecom industry was signed into law by President Clinton on Thursday, updating the Communications Act of 1934. The event was followed by a spew …
“We’re not opposed to moving. We just don’t want to move with a gun to our head. We are not against PCS. We can share and, when we can’t, we …
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. announced it will supply Northern Telecom Inc. with 1900 MHz digital infrastructure equipment and radio frequency services as part of Nortel’s $1 billion award from Sprint Telecommunications …
Less than a month after applications were due for two Global System for Mobile communications cellular licenses, the Polish Ministry of Communications announced winners. Both parties are co-piloted by U.S. …
WASHINGTON-The fence between common-carrier and private-carrier paging will come down with the approval of a notice of proposed rulemaking that streamlines the regulation and licensing of Part 22 and Part …
RICHARDSON, Texas-Ericsson Inc. announced it will market turnkey systems based on the new personal air communications technology standard for the narrowband personal communications services market. The company said it signed …
Editor’s note: Following are five charts ranking major players in the wireless telecommunications industry according to revenues, net incomes, percent change in revenue from 1994 to 1995, percent change in …
I’ve been kind of a wired wireless guy lately. My wife, Liz, just gave birth to Graham Robert, who weighed in at 9 lbs. 8 oz. and now joins our …
RIDGEFIELD PARK, N.J.-MobileMedia Corp. announced it has reached an agreement with Shaw MobileComm Inc., a Canadian paging company, to coordinate and integrate network building activities. The agreement will allow the …
The MultiMedia Telecommunications Association released its annual market review and forecast, examining technology developments, growth and trends in telecommunications and computing. MMTA of Washington, D.C., is the second-generation of the …
AT&T Corp.’s systems and technology division received a fresh face last week when it was reintroduced as Lucent Technologies Inc. Concurrently, AT&T announced it began the process to take Lucent …
As part of AT&T Corp.’s plan to spin off its system and technology business, newly named Lucent Technologies Inc. filed last week for an initial public stock offering, aiming to …
This year promises to be a transition period for the Latin American wireless market, a year hosting key events necessary to drive the subscriber growth that is projected by the …
The impending liberalization of Brazil’s cellular services sector has attracted interest from a host of global carriers clamoring to position themselves in the region’s fastest growing telecom services sector. The …
Despite overall slow growth in the Mexican cellular market due to the economic crisis in 1995, Telcel posted a 30.6 percent increase in subscribers for the year. As the largest …
Despite strong initial efforts on the part of Chilean, Argentine and Mexican regulators, implementing personal communications services in Latin America will fall a little short of earlier bullish expectations. At …
“Calling party pays” cellular, already a reality in Europe, Japan and Australia, is a growing trend throughout Latin America. In most places in Latin America, the cellular subscriber still pays …
Although paging has existed for decades in major Latin American and Caribbean countries, developments during the past few years have placed these markets on an unprecedented growth path. If paging …
Colombia continues to be a top performer in the Latin American cellular arena, with the highest digital growth and high overall cellular penetration. As part of its licensing process, the …
