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BRUSSELS-L.M. Ericsson filed a complaint with the European Union, charging that Austria's award of a GSM license to international consortium Oe-Call is unfair. Oe-Call is lead by Deutsche Telecom AG and Siemens AG Oesterreich, the latter an equipment provider.Ericsson spokeswoman Kathy Egan said that...

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WASHINGTON-In a potential blow to Omnipoint Corp.'s planned initial public offering this week, wireless investor James Valentine has asked federal regulators to investigate whether the small Colorado firm is violating its pioneer's preference for a personal communications services license in New York. Valentine claims...

Eight parties responded to Luxembourg's call for interest in operating a second cellular network. The Ministry of Communications, which plans to license an operator later this year, did not comment on interested companies.Separately, AirTouch Communications Inc. and the partners in Belgian cellular operator Mobistar,...

WASHINGTON-The recently completed summit on hearing aid interference from next-generation pocket telephones was hailed a success by the wireless telecommunications industry and hearing disability advocates, but controversy simmering beneath the surface could thwart further progress.An undercurrent of mistrust between the two sides still exists,...

Wanting to leave no market unserved in the new age of pocket telephony, Pacific Bell Mobile Services said it will introduce a personal communications services telephone that offers a dual mode for roaming on analog cellular networks."We're committed to doing it," said Garrison Macri,...

L.M. Ericsson and Telia Mobitel have signed a two-year general purchasing agreement covering delivery and installation of Global System for Mobile communications systems to expand the capacity and radio coverage of Telia Mobitel's digital mobile network in Sweden, Ericsson announced. The agreement includes deliveries...

Rules. It seems as soon as we enter this world, we're forced to comply with a blanket set of rules that someone else has decided for us.You can't have dessert until you finish your vegetables.Turn off the light when you leave a room.Balance the...

Telecommunications experience, a plan to charge low fees and a promise of $400 million won Oe-Call a Global System for Mobile communications digital cellular license in Austria, according to Waltraud Augesky, commercial specialist for the United States Embassy in Vienna, Austria. Oe-Call is a...

Three international consortia met the Jan. 3 deadline to apply for one of two Global System for Mobile communications cellular licenses the Polish Communications Ministry plans to award this spring.One bidding party claims telecom giants U S West Inc. and DeTeMobil-the cellular arm of...

BRUSSELS-With a bid of $2.5 billion, Ameritech Corp. and partners Tele Danmark and Singapore Telecom last month captured the winning vote for a 50 percent-less one share-stake and strategic position in Belgium's state-owned telecommunications operator Belgacom S.A.Ameritech said it perceives great opportunity in Belgacom,...

The Danish government is expected to issue a tender for DCS 1800 licenses this spring, and low service prices are expected to be one of the major criteria in determining which company will win the mobile telephone permits.Minister of Research and Information Technology Frank...

WASHINGTON-Federal Communications Commission Chairman Reed Hundt, appearing to retreat from recent comments in which he suggested support for a marketplace solution to hearing aid interference from pocket phones, warned that the FCC might intervene if wireless industry and hearing impaired representatives fail to fix...

ROME-The government of Italy has agreed to create a level playing field between the two cellular operators competing in Italy's digital phone market.The European Commission late last year noted it was concerned that the government required Omnitel Pronto Italia to pay about $450 million...

As the Polish Communications Ministry advances with plans to license two Global System for Mobile communications cellular networks, Ameritech International is pursuing legal action against the government agency, alleging it breached a letter of intent signed in 1991 that promised Centertel-of which Ameritech owns...

WASHINGTON-Hearing disability advocates are privately furious with the wireless telecommunications industry over the agenda for this week's conference on hearing aid interference from next-generation pocket phones and with Federal Communications Commission Chairman Reed Hundt for suggesting the problem can be solved by the marketplace.Publicly,...

Omnitel Pronto Italia announced it has launched its Global System for Mobile communications cellular network in Italy, competing with government-controlled Telecom Italia Mobile SpA for the first time.In March 1994, the Italian government awarded a contract for its second nationwide cellular license to Omnitel,...

It's hard to tell whether the first session of the 104th Congress is winding down or whether Washington is just all wound up.The GOP-led Congress was scrambling to pass the remaining appropriations bills, arguing with itself and the Clinton administration about approving another stop-gap...

Zues Phonstuff has introduced its Always-in-Touch unit, a device that plugs into a home or office phone line and notifies a pager of a call when the phone user is away. The pager displays the caller's phone number and indicates when there is a...

It's the morning after.The reporter arrives at 10: 15 a.m. at the historic Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C., (conveniently across 14th Street from the National Press Building) to interview the co-recipient of RCR's 1995 Person of the Year: American Personal Communications Chairman Wayne Schelle.Schelle, 61, greets...

Unless there is court action, a government shutdown or some cataclysmic event, the auction of C-block broadband personal communications services licenses is scheduled to begin today.Thirteen bidders have made double-digit, multimillion dollar upfront payments, indicating the seriousness with which some are approaching the opportunity....

STOCKHOLM-Only four parties submitted applications and down payments, due Dec. 11, indicating interest in operating Global System for Mobile communications digital wireless phone service at the 2 GHz frequency in Sweden.The participating parties, including the three current GSM cellular operators, each submitted $15,000 to...

The upcoming chairwoman of the GSM MoU Association is confident that Global System for Mobile communications technology will figure prominently in the U.S. personal communications services market.Gretel Holcomb Hoffman is currently the group's deputy chair, but is scheduled to assume the top job on...

Sweden's Post and Telestyrelsen, the national telecom agency, said it expects to license up to four operators for nationwide personal communications networks early next year.Cellular penetration is at about 25 percent of Sweden's nearly 9 million people, so while the country is home to...