Dolphin

Birch Communications, IP-based telecommunications and managed services provider, announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the U.S. CLEC assets of Cordia Communications Corp., My Tel Co Inc., …

SEATTLE-Although the economy continues to struggle along, funding seems to be persisting as two wireless data companies announced new financing. First, NetMotion Wireless Inc. said it closed its Series B …

NEW DELHI, India-Idea Cellular said it will launch its services in the Indian capital next month, taking the total number of GSM players to four. The company has already invested …

Qualcomm Inc. has been looking for a European opening for its CDMA technology for some time. But so far, the technology has been effectively shut out in the region, other …

NEW DELHI, India—Government-owned fixed-line and GSM operator in New Delhi and Mumbai, MTNL, has launched its wireless local loop (WLL) “limited mobility” service in Delhi. The service has been named …

OXFORD, United Kingdom—The likelihood of Qualcomm’s cdma2000 technology being deployed in Europe has encountered a fresh hurdle after the U.K. Radiocommunications Agency (RA) claimed that a consultation paper concerning any …

Qualcomm has been looking for a European opening for its CDMA technology for some time. But so far, the technology has been effectively shut out in the region, other than …

OXFORD, United Kingdom—The bankrupt Dolphin Telecom is being positioned as a vehicle for Qualcomm to enter the European market. The U.S.-based equipment developer is the major backer of U.K.-based Inquam …

NEW YORK-Calling completion of an exchange offer launched by Montreal-based Telesystem International Wireless Inc. July 6 “tantamount to default,” Standard & Poor’s Corp. said July 9 it had downgraded the …

NEW DELHI, India-State-owned Mahanagar Telephone Nigam (MTNL) announced it has reduced the tariffs for its cellular service, known as Dolphin, and come up with a special package for corporate mobile …

MONTREAL-TIW added 878,300 net subscriber during the fourth quarter to reach a total of more than 4.4 million cellular subscribers, an increase of 97 percent from 1999. ClearWave N.V., a …

NEW DELHI, India-The state-owned fixed-line provider MTNL has launched its GSM cellular phone service in Mumbai, India’s commercial capital, leading to a tariff war. The two incumbent private providers-BPL Mobile …

HOUSTON-Crown Castle International Corp. announced its subsidiary Crown Castle UK Ltd. will open its TETRA mobile communications network in the United Kingdom. The plan calls for Crown Castle to identify …

Underwater wireless communication is not a new concept, but until recently, it was nothing more than pings, dots and dashes, that only a trained ear could decipher. Acoustic modems now …

DUBLIN, Ireland-Trunked radio may be dismissed by some as the poor relation of GSM and an irrelevance in the world of multibillion pound Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) license bids, …

NEW YORK-Moody’s Investors Service Ltd., London, has downgraded the speculative grade ratings of $775 million in debt owed by Dolphin Telecom plc, the largest European provider of specialized mobile radio …

BASINGSTOKE, United Kingdom-Dolphin Telecommunications Ltd. launched ResponseNet, the first of its Industry Net products, and confirmed that beta trials of the service have been successfully concluded. The new service allows …

MONTREAL-Telesystem International Wireless Inc. announced it closed a private placement of $300 million in 7.75-percent equity subordinated debentures convertible into TIW subordinate voting shares. Hutchison Whampoa Ltd. and Chase Capital …

BASINGSTOKE, United Kingdom-Dolphin Telecom plc, a subsidiary of Telesystem International Wireless Inc., reported its financial results for the fourth quarter and year ended Dec. 31, 1999. Company revenue increased for …

After one week and 16 rounds of bidding, incumbent operator Orange plc led all third-generation license bids in the United Kingdom with a $632.9 million bid for License B. The …

OXFORD, United Kingdom-The guys at the European Commission must be delighted. They battled for more than a decade to liberalize the telecommunications sector and create a single European market. Benefits …

BASINGSTOKE, U.K.-Telesystem International Wireless, through its subsidiary Dolphin Telecom plc, announced Motorola Inc. has arranged financing commitments for credit facilities totaling $342 million for Dolphin’s German subsidiary. Motorola arranged a …

BASINGTOKES, England-Dolphin Telecom, Basingstokes, England, has launched commercially its enhanced specialized mobile radio service in the United Kingdom. A subsidiary of Montreal-based Telesystem International Wireless Inc., Dolphin said it started …

NEW YORK-Heading into a scorcher of an Independence Day holiday, American stock markets closed in record-setting territory, thereby heating up the prospects for wireless sector companies seeking financing during the …

MONTREAL-Telesystem International Wireless Inc. announced its subsidiary, Dolphin Telecom plc, closed an offering of $295 million of 14-percent senior discount notes due 2009. The net proceeds were approximately $144 million, …