Cable & Wireless

Carriers choose low-key number portability promotions MELBOURNE, Australia-With the advent of mobile number portability (MNP) in Australia, the forecasted marketing blitz has largely failed to materialize, despite some initial predictions …

DENVER, United States—The Barbados government has agreed with Cable & Wireless for the U.K.-based telecom company to give up its monopoly on telecom services during the next 21 months. International …

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados-Jamaica’s cellular market could be engaged in a fierce competition for the consumer soon. A new provider, Centennial Digital Jamaica Ltd., is set to become the third operator by …

NEW YORK-To celebrate World Environment Day, a group of telecommunications carriers, equipment vendors and industry associations formed the Global e-Sustainability Initiative last week, an alliance billed as the first of …

LONDON-Cable & Wireless plc has offered to acquire all outstanding shares of Digital Island Inc. at $3.40 per share, which would make Digital Island a wholly owned subsidiary of Cable …

Top players in both the vendor and carrier space are pitching in to advance GAIT-GSM ANSI Interoperability Team-a new network standard that fuses TDMA and GSM technologies to enhance roaming, …

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados-As Cable & Wireless positions itself to be the company of choice in wireless, Internet and its traditional bread-and-butter service, long-distance communications, some start-up companies are claiming it might …

Alcatel Brazil. With Telemar for a GSM 1800 network in the area from Piau

Two U.S. companies are taking their respective technologies to the Australian market, following third-generation spectrum purchases in the country last month. Qualcomm Inc. paid $79 million for 10 megahertz of …

SYDNEY, Australia-Singapore Telecommunications Ltd. has won the bidding war for Australian mobile operator Cable & Wireless Optus Ltd. with a cash and share offer for the company of up to …

Vodafone Group plc has contracted with Cable & Wireless “to facilitate a European General Packet Radio Service data roaming trial,” the companies said March 20. Cable & Wireless will provide …

KINGSTON, Jamaica-Five Caribbean governments have agreed with Cable & Wireless plc, the region’s telecom provider, on a phased dismantling of the company’s monopoly that would bring full competition in about …

SYDNEY, Australia-Cable & Wireless Optus confirmed it has received revised proposals from parties interested in buying the Australia-based carrier. Vodafone Group plc, Singapore Telecommunications and Telecom New Zealand are understood …

In a marriage of convenience, carriers are signing temporary dotted lines to outsource their network management to vendors as they migrate to the next generation of wireless technology. The trend, …

BUCHAREST, Romania-Mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) are a new and hopeful concept in the European communications market. The region’s mobile market is growing, with strong potential for new operators. The …

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados-Barbados has identified wireless and the Internet as the first segments of its telecommunications market to be opened to competition. A three-phase timetable announced by the government anticipates full …

MELBOURNE, Australia-Cable & Wireless Optus established a subsidiary, Agility Networks, responsible for rolling out Australia’s first tail-end broadband wireless network using local multipoint distribution system (LMDS) technology. The new company’s …

ADC introduced the Axity Base Transceiver Station, designed for multicell deployments. The product will allow carriers to address capacity issues of super-cell network architectures and fill out coverage areas. It …

MELBOURNE, Australia-Vodafone Pacific said it will transfer at least 1 million mobile-phone customers and distribution assets to Hutchison Telecommunications if it wins regulatory approval for its proposed acquisition of Cable …

PDA technology Blue Impact Blue Impact, a partner of CellPoint, introduced a combined GSM/global positioning system (GPS) module for the Handspring Visor called Tellmen. The Tellmen module is compatible with …

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados-Five countries in the Eastern Caribbean have passed legislation on telecommunications liberalization and set up a regulatory body to oversee competition in the new year. But while this is …

MELBOURNE, Australia-The Australian Communications Authority (ACA) will hold the keenly awaited auction of third-generation (3G) spectrum in the 2 GHz radio-frequency band in early March. The new 3G mobile services …

Band-X Stephen Beynon was hired as Band-X’s new chief executive officer. He was previously in a management position in the data and business services division of Cable & Wireless Optus. …

HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. announced 10 operators around the world now have commercial GPRS services based on Nokia solutions up and running. The company said the next step will be to …

SINGAPORE-Mobile-phone operator M1 might be listed in Singapore as early as the last quarter of 2000, according to Keppel Telecommunications & Transportation Managing Director Ng Eng Ho. The company is …