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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...

A total of 36 companies have declared interest in bidding for 49 percent of a wireless license offered by the Czech Republic, confirming the economic ministry's belief that participation would be high in the market.Bidders include Southwestern Bell Corp., Deutsche Telekom AG, France Telecom...

JAKARTA, Indonesia-The government of Indonesia could issue several new personal communications services licenses next year in the 1.8-1.9 GHz frequency band, according to international news reports.Three new cellular operators were licensed in the last two years to build Global System for Mobile cellular communications...

WASHINGTON-The future is here.Vice President Al Gore, father of the information superhighway, christened the broadband personal communications services industry with a call to Baltimore Mayor Kurt Schmoke Nov. 15 on the Sprint Spectrum system operated by American Personal Communications."I'm proud to speak to you...

Short forms are due today for designated entities, marking a giant and-finally-tangible step toward the Federal Communications Commission's C-block auction of nearly 500 personal communications services licenses set for Dec. 11.About 25 DEs will actually make it to auction, and only a handful will...

Tender documents for two new cellular licenses in Poland should hit the table this week, unlocking the door to telecom competition, but an American company is protesting the government's decision.Ameritech Corp. is urging the Polish Communications Ministry to uphold a letter of intent signed...

Motorola Inc.'s North Asia Cellular Infrastructure Division has signed an agreement with the China Directorate General of Telecommunications and L.M. Ericsson to interconnect the nationwide cellular network in China. Motorola and Ericsson will provide more than 3 million Chinese subscribers with automatic roaming services...

BRUSSELS, Belgium-The European Commission has asked the government of Italy to create a level playing field between two cellular operators competing in Italy's digital phone market. The commission has expressed concern with the licensing procedure in other states as well."In the selection procedures screened...

Datum Inc.'s Timing Division announced the release of a small high-performance Global Positioning Satellite system receiver. Datum said the StarTime GPS Clock is designed for applications that require not only high performance but small physical size and low price. The clock consists of an...

American Portable Telecom Inc. has selected PCS-1900-the 1900 MHz version of the Global System for Mobile communications digital technology standard-for its personal communications services network.The company's choice of GSM boosts that technology standard to potential coverage of half of the nation's population, APT said,...

Nynex Corp., in its largest-ever international cellular venture, said it will become a 23 percent owner and the strategic operating partner in Excelcomindo, an international joint venture planning to provide Global System for Mobile communications cellular service in Indonesia starting next year.Nynex spokeswoman Betsy...

Standard Telecom America Inc. introduced a line-up of Nixxo pagers including Nixxo Tutti, Nixxo AirFly and the alphanumeric Nixxo, to American and Latin American markets. The company is a new player in the U.S. paging market but is a leading manufacturer in South Korea...

As the entrepreneurial block auctions for broadband personal communications services get underway this December, the first broadband PCS services also are scheduled to become reality. But a later rollout schedule is par for the course among major PCS license holders, resulting in part from...

While the personal communications services industry in general remains locked in a three-way split over an airlink standard for systems deployment, cable TV operators in the PCS business so far have pitched their tents in the Code Division Multiple Access camp.CDMA got a large...

VIENNA, Austria-The licensing process for Austria's second digital wireless phone system has been put on hold temporarily due to the government crisis in that country.Six bidders met the Oct. 13 application deadline for the Global System for Mobile communications license. However, that day also...

WASHINGTON-The wireless telecommunications industry told the Federal Communications Commission it will work with the hearing-impaired community, hearing aid manufacturers and audiologists during the next six months to develop short-term and long-term solutions to hearing aid interference and compatibility problems posed by digital pocket telephones."We...

Telemac Cellular Corp. agreed to license its patent-pending debit technology to Trimax Inc. of Taiwan. Trimax will use the technology to manufacture a switch independent cellular debit phone. The license is expected to result in the distribution of 500,000 phones into China during a...

ORLANDO, Fla.-A young Florida company is manufacturing a broadband base station system for cellular and PCS markets that it says has fewer components, uses less energy and can be programmed to be protocol independent.Melbourne, Fla.-based AirNet Communications Corp. was founded January of 1994 and...

The success of wireless communications presents a double-edged blade for mobile satellite service. On one hand, the continued acceptance of wireless communications and the development of wider applications represents large potential demand. On the other hand, the growth of terrestrial cellular systems reduces the...

WASHINGTON-Federal Communications Commission Chairman Reed Hundt directed the wireless telecommunications industry to develop a plan by next week to address interference from European-designed digital pocket telephones to hearing aids.Hundt, according to sources, met last Monday with representatives from the Personal Communications Industry Association, the...

ATLANTA-GTE Telecommunications Services and IBM Corp. have introduced a service for managing usage and billing information generated by cellular roaming users.The number of roamers has grown, said GTE, and so it has become increasingly difficult to track usage and manage the distribution of operator...

Before 1995, people with a moderate to total hearing loss couldn't carry on an ordinary phone conversation, according to Jo Waldron, co-inventor of the Hearing Aid Telephone Interconnect System. Today, using the HATIS device, it is possible for people with up to 99 percent...

Nearly half of the 20 companies holding licenses for broadband personal communications services have made firm technology decisions, but others continue the difficult task of weighing options."It is like building 10 years of cellular all at once," said Jack Finlayson, vice president and general...

Mobistar, a partnership of Belgian telecommunications manufacturer Telinfo and France Telecom Mobile International, won the second license to operate a Global System for Mobile communications network in Belgium. Mobistar will pay $296 million for the license.Mobistar will compete against current cellular operator Belgacom Mobile,...