BROWSING: Cable & Wireless

The following list details this week’s infrastructure awards for the cellular, Wi-Fi, and WiMAX industries. The contracts are broken down by transmission technology, country and vendor. The value of the contract is included when available. CellularAustria: L.M. Ericsson signed a contract to supply HSDPA hardware...

The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.CarriersStandard & Poor's Ratings Services raised its ratings on UbiquiTel Inc., including its corporate credit rating from CCC+ to B- and its senior unsecured debt...

Cable & WirelessRick Kimsey joined Cable & Wireless as the company's new chief executive officer for the Caribbean. In addition, Leonardo de Barros, the current chief operating officer for the Caribbean, will consolidate his activities into his roles as chairman of Cable & Wireless...

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago-Telecommunications Services of Trinidad and Tobago Ltd. announced plans to launch third-generation mobile broadband services in Trinidad and Tobago to residential and commercial customers via Nortel Networks Ltd.'s CDMA2000 1x and 1x EV-DO wireless technologies. Trinidad and Tobago is a West...

KINGSTON, Jamaica-Cable & Wireless said it will offer exclusive Motorola Inc. handsets pre-loaded with content from Tempo via its Bmobile service in the Caribbean.Tempo is the new MTV network scheduled to launch in the Caribbean next month. C&W will offer the Motorola V186 handset...

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago-Telecommunications Services of Trinidad and Tobago Ltd. announced plans to launch third-generation mobile broadband services in Trinidad and Tobago to residential and commercial customers via Nortel Networks Ltd.'s CDMA2000 1X and 1x EV-DO wireless technology.Trinidad and Tobago is a West Indian...

MobiTVAndy Missan has joined MobiTV as vice president and general counsel. Missan will oversee legal affairs and general corporate matters at the company. Missan brings more than 17 years of legal experience to MobiTV, most recently as vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary...

Following is a list of public wireless companies that have had ratings changes and investment notes from investment-banking and financial firms this week.

LONDON-Cable & Wireless plc awarded a contract to Tellabs to deploy its AssuredEthernet solution as part of the carrier's Next Generation Network rollout."This product enables seamless migration to new Internet Protocol services, consolidating five separate technologies onto one platform," said Frank Mount, director of...

BELLEVUE, Wash.-3G Americas elected Andrew Corp. to its board of governors.The company said it will be represented on the board by JC Huang and Ray Butler.Other board of governors members are Cingular Wireless, Cable & Wireless (West Indies), Ericsson, Gemplus, Hewlett-Packard Co., Lucent Technologies...

Wireless has been mobilized in a variety of critical and innovative ways in reaction to the December tsunami disaster. The wall of water that struck parts of Sri Lanka, India, Thailand and elsewhere served to severely disrupt some telecommunications networks. According to company statements...

SAN JOSE, Calif.-Intellisync Corporation's synchronization software is available for T-Mobile USA subscribers carrying Danger's Sidekick devices, the company announced Tuesday.The software, which can be downloaded from the carrier's Web site, allows users to synchronize calendars, contacts and tasks between handsets and computers using Microsoft...

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission today agreed to investigate mobile termination fees charged by foreign wireless carriers and their impact on American consumers, despite past opposition from domestic and overseas wireless firms and uncertainty about the U.S. legal authority to intervene.FCC officials stressed the inquiry...

SINGAPORE-Mobile carrier Vodafone Group plc has teamed with telecommunications firms Belgacom and Cable & Wireless to cut costs and increase efficiency in cross-network multimedia messaging service trials, the companies said Tuesday.The new, standards-based system enables payment information to be cascaded through various networks across...

Research In Motion Ltd. is trading up more 12 percent at $66.71 per share-surpassing its previous 52-week high by $4-following the release of earnings for first-quarter 2005 that exceeded analyst expectations.Revenue totaled $269.6 million, up 28 percent from the previous quarter and up a...

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission last week launched an inquiry to assess the impact of high foreign mobile termination fees on American consumers, dragging the United States further into a controversy that domestic and international wireless carriers would rather see settled by overseas regulators and...

Pyramid reports that many Caribbean countries have chosen to liberalize their telecommunications sector, opening opportunities for both vendors and operators. Three players currently serve the Jamaican mobile market: Cable & Wireless (C&W), Digicel and Oceanic Digital Communications. Because of difficult competition, operators are engaging...

Following are mobile contracts for December 2003:AlcatelCanada. With Telus Mobility for a cross-Canada communications backbone infrastructure.Value: UndisclosedChina. With China Unicom for multiple expansion contracts.Value: $40 millionHungary. With Westel as the sole supplier of an EDGE system.Value: UndisclosedMalaysia. With Maxis Communications for GSM/GPRS/EDGE/W-CDMA gear.Value: UndisclosedTaiwan....

WASHINGTON-Cable & Wireless Jamaica Ltd. has purchased cellular communications equipment from Nortel Networks Inc. and eight other U.S. exporters as part of a $173 million project. Export-Import Bank of the United States is guaranteeing a $72.3 million seven-year loan to the U.K.-based telecommunications provider.Cable...

WASHINGTON-Cable & Wireless Jamaica Ltd. has purchased cellular communications equipment from Nortel Networks Inc. and eight other U.S. exporters as part of a $173 million project. Export-Import Bank of the United States is guaranteeing a $72.3 million seven-year loan to the U.K.-based telecommunications provider.Cable...

WASHINGTON-Global giant Vodafone Group plc and U.S. mobile-phone operators are aggressively lobbying policy-makers to stay out of a controversy that already has rocked Europe and now is erupting in other regions over fees charged by wireless carriers to connect calls to their subscribers. The...

PALO ALTO, Calif.-Danger Inc. said Cable & Wireless will offer its Hiptop mobile-phone device through its Cayman Islands mobile operation. Cable & Wireless is the first Caribbean operator to launch a GSM/GPRS network, and the carrier will use the Hiptop to differentiate its offerings...

PALO ALTO, Calif.-Danger Inc. said Cable & Wireless will offer its Hiptop mobile-phone device through its Cayman Islands mobile operation. Cable & Wireless is the first Caribbean operator to launch a GSM/GPRS network, and the carrier will use the Hiptop to differentiate its offerings...

WASHINGTON-A day before the civilian administrator of Iraq addressed the National Press Club and the U.S. Department of Commerce released the details of an auction of Iraqi mobile-phone licenses, a mobile-phone network began operations in Baghdad.Batelco Iraq, a new division of Bahrain Telecommunications Inc.,...