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ATLANTA—BellSouth Corp. closed its previously announced agreement with Dutch telecommunications provider Royal KPN, restructuring the relationship between the two companies. Under the agreement, BellSouth exchanged its 22.51-percent stake in German mobile operator E-Plus for 234.7 million shares of KPN, or …

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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—The Peruvian cellular telephony market grew 20 percent during 2001, reaching 1.6 million users by the end of the year. Despite the arrival of a third operator, Telecom Italia Mobile (TIM), Peru continues to have a low cellular …

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—Colombia and Ecuador took several measures to accelerate the personal communications services (PCS) licenses auction that they plan to hold in the third quarter of 2002. Colombia’s Ministry of Communications rejected the complaint appeal presented by BellSouth in …

AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands—Dutch telecommunications giant KPN will buy the remaining 22.5-percent interest in German mobile-phone operator E-Plus that it does not already own from U.S.-based BellSouth for about US$1.06 billion in KPN stock, giving KPN full control of E-Plus. As …

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—Cellular telephony operator BellSouth attained gains of US$17 million in Latin America during the last quarter of 2001, even though it had less income and lost more than 500,000 clients—mainly prepaid—in the region. BellSouth lost 1.1 percent of …

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—Following the postponement until May of the personal communications services (PCS) and third-generation (3G) licenses auction, Uruguay has added the possibility of a plebiscite to decide on the privatization of 40 percent of the state-owned cellular operator Ancel. …

AMSTERDAM—Dutch telecommunications giant KPN will buy the remaining 22.5-percent interest in German mobile-phone operator E-Plus from U.S.-based BellSouth Corp. for about $1.06 billion in KPN stock, giving KPN full control of E-Plus. As part of the deal, KPN will pay …

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—Despite the strong devaluation of the national Argentine currency—28.6 percent in the official price and almost 100 percent in the free market—cellular telephony tariffs will remain the same as before the devaluation, but in pesos rather than U.S. …

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—The auction of eight sets of frequencies for 2.5-generation (2.5G) and third-generation (3G) licenses in Uruguary, planned for 28 January, was postponed until May due to a request made by Telecom Personal of Argentina. The company stated that …

ATLANTA, United States—BellSouth agreed to pay US$150,000 in fines after a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) complaint alleged that managers at Telcel, BellSouth’s Venezuelan wireless subsidiary, paid nearly US$11 billion to six foreign companies and recorded the money as …

Qualcomm Inc. announced it signed memoranda of understanding to provide its Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless technology to several wireless operators around the world. BellSouth in Guatemala, Telcel-BellSouth in Venezuela and Vesper in Brazil will now receive products and services …

ROSH HAAYIN, Israel-Israel’s Ministry of Communications has awarded third-generation spectrum to the country’s three incumbent mobile operators and second-generation spectrum in the 1800 MHz band to Partner Communications Co. and Cellcom. Israel is the first country in the Middle East …

ATLANTA—BellSouth Corp. said it had advised the Communications Workers of America it would be reducing 1,200 non-management network operations positions early next year. The telecommunications provider said it would offer a voluntary separation package to affected employees and it hopes …

HELSINKI, Finland—Tele2, the Swedish mobile telecom headquartered in Stockholm, has reinforced its mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) strategy in Europe through the launch of MVNO services in the Netherlands. Tele2 is purchasing network capacity from the Dutch mobile operator Telfort, …

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—The telecom regulator of Uruguay, Unidad Reguladora de Servicios de Comunicaciones (URSEC), has decided to postpone the auction of personal communications services (PCS) and third-generation (3G) licenses that was originally going to take place on 26 November until …

DENVER, United States—Venezuela’s leading operator, Telecommunicaciones Movilnet, signed a US$150 million contract that will allow Lucent Technologies to build a nationwide third-generation (3G) cdma2000 wireless network to complement its existing TDMA digital network. Lucent did not announce the timeline for …

NEW YORK-Calling it “the most well-known secret in corporate America,” Stephen Carter, president and chief executive officer of Cingular Wireless, said the nation’s second-largest mobile operator will overlay all its TDMA and analog networks with EDGE, a software enhancement of …

HELSINKI, Finland-For a market with a well-deserved reputation as the most dynamic and innovative of Europe’s telecom sectors, one could easily think that traditional Scandinavian confidence is in a state of early winter hibernation. The customary drone of deals, domestic …

The wireless data industry started as a dream and a nationwide network almost 30 years ago. As the years slowly passed and people began to recognize the value of mobile data, more and more trucking managers jumped on board to …

During the past 20 years, two overriding factors have shaped the wireless carrier landscape: customer growth and carrier consolidation. The number of wireless customers has grown from less than 100,000 subscribers after the first full year of availability in 1984 …

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ATLANTA—Atlanta-based Air2Web, whose Mobile Internet Platform lets companies extend enterprise applications to any wireless device, has closed a $20 million round of venture-capital financing and expects an additional $5 million later this month, the company said Oct. 9. Participants in …

ATLANTA—BellSouth announced it is offering its wireless e-mail service for the Motorola Talkabout T900, a two-way messaging device capable of communicating with any other e-mail equipped device. According to BellSouth, its e-mail service includes installment billing for the T900, a …