GSMA

It could have been an isolated path for TDMA operators going forward as they struggled for economies of scale in their businesses, but with a new agreement with the GSM …

Tadiran Tadiran Inc. introduced the Pulses Plus battery, a high-energy lithium thionyl chloride battery designed specifically for global positioning system tracking, radio-frequency interference detection and other high pulse applications. The …

NEW YORK-Landline replacement, the Holy Grail of wireless telephony, received a boost from an array of forces unleashed simultaneously into the communications environment. This is not a high-stakes game of …

NEW YORK-A key component of the IMT-2000 global wireless third-generation standard that the International Telecommunication Union evaluated this month comes from the kind of small, entrepreneurial company whose voice is …

Some confusion exists in the wireless industry over whether mobile-phone-component shortages are affecting the handset supply in the United States. Major handset suppliers say they aren’t struggling with component shortages, …

The first satellite for the Asia Cellular Satellite (ACeS) mobile telephony and data services communication system is scheduled to be launched in November from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, according …

The term “consolidation” is now applied continually to the wireless telecoms industry. Yet it seems inadequate to describe a situation in which European telecom companies are disappearing at a rate …

HONG KONG – China Telecom Hong Kong (CTHK) announced it plans to acquire three mobile networks in the Fujian, Henan and Hainan provinces of China for US$6.4 billion. The acquisition …

The Chinese government announced it will enforce regulations announced last year requiring all foreign-manufactured mobile phones and other telecommunications equipment to carry a government-issued seal indicating authenticity. The government said …

BEIJING-Tough times lie ahead for equipment suppliers and operators with the establishment of China Mobile expected to slow equipment purchases and with China Unicom still struggling to end its China-China-Foreign …

Cameroon Cameroon’s Camtel and Camtel Mobiles are scheduled to be privatized in 2000. Camtel is the incumbent state-owned cellular carrier and operates a GSM 900 network, which had just over …

GENEVA-The International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Nortel Networks and the Acacia Initiative of the International Development Research Center of Canada signed a final agreement to implement two centers of excellence in …

DUBLIN, Ireland-Capacity constraints are an issue for almost every cellular operator, and some have turned to frequency-hopping techniques as an answer. But while these systems have increased capacity, their effect …

Greece Panafon and France Telecom announced recently they are holding discussions regarding a possible offering or an issue of an exchangeable bond by France Telecom of all or part of …

DUBLIN, Ireland-In any international cellular tender, carriers must determine whether the price paid represents true value for the money or a sizable gamble. On the other side of the coin, …

BUCHAREST, Romania-A subsidiary of Canada’s Telesystem International Wireless (TIW) won the third Czech Republic mobile telephone license in September. The price tag for the GSM 1800 license was fixed at …

Alcatel Poland. With Formus Polska to supply and implement its broadband wireless access network in Poland. Value: US$126 million Ericsson Canada. With Rogers Cantel to build a third-generation network as …

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-The four-week license hearings for the third cellular operator in South Africa held in September and October offered some of the best theatrical presentations ever seen on the …

The GSM Association and the Universal Wireless Communications Consortium (UWCC) announced they signed a memorandum of understanding to work toward worldwide interoperability between GSM and TDMA technologies. The nearly 490 …

Phone.com added to its mounting momentum by signing a definitive agreement to buy the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) products and operations of infrastructure software company APiON of Belfast, Northern Ireland. …

Finland. Sonera began offering High Speed Circuit Switched Data services to its data customers 6 September, but without available handsets. Sonera said it wanted to be ready when handsets are …

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-The decision of the South African Regulatory Authority (SATRA) and Department of Communications about whether to support TETRA as a digital standard for professional mobile radio (PMR) in …

As Sprint PCS shuts down its Global System for Mobile communications network in Washington, D.C., at the end of this month, speculation is increasing about what will happen to the …

Powertel Inc.’s stock tumbled nearly $12 last week after VoiceStream Wireless Corp. Chief Executive Officer John Stanton said his company has no immediate plans to acquire any more GSM operators …

MUNICH-Siemens AG announced it won a contract to provide Global System for Mobile communications 900 MHz infrastructure equipment to Medi Telecom, the second GSM operator in Morocco. The contract is …