Microcell Telecommunications Inc.

MONTREAL-Canadian operator Microcell said it will become the latest operator to launch the Sony Ericsson P800 smart phone. The phone first became available in Europe and the Middle East late last year. Microcell, which recently reorganized and is now owned …

MONTREAL-Canada’s smallest wireless operator, Microcell Telecommunications Inc., said it will not make a scheduled $29.3 million interest payment this week as it continues to evaluate possible alternatives to reduce its financing costs and improve its liquidity position. The GSM operator, …

BOSTON—Canadian wireless operator Microcell Telecommunications Inc. launched SpeechWorks International Inc.’s speech-activated customer service application for its Fido brand wireless service. The SpeechWorks service is designed to allow customers to automatically update their account address for billing information in either French …

MONTREAL—Microcell Telecommunications Inc. added 100,349 net subscribers during the fourth quarter, bringing the carrier’s customer base to 1.2 million subscribers. Postpaid net additions totaled 51,814 customers, with the carrier’s postpaid customer base now at 637,698 customers. Customer churn was reported …

MONTREAL-Canadian mobile operator Microcell Telecommunications Inc. launched Project Rainbow, an initiative to bring together companies to develop and market commercial mobile data services. The group will include systems integrators, network access device and content suppliers, application and toolkit developers, and …

MONTREAL-Canadian personal communications services provider Microcell Telecommunications Inc. released fourth-quarter 2000 results showing the company added 134,654 customers to its Fido wireless service, bringing its total customer base to 922,527 subscribers. Of its customers, 51 percent were reported as postpaid …

After nine rounds of bidding, Industry Canada’s auction of 62 individual personal communications services licenses covering 16 markets across Canada garnered $142.3 million in total high bids. Seven companies qualified for the bidding, including the country’s four incumbent operators, Bell …

CHINA China Unicom reported it had more than 12.7 million wireless customers at the end of last year, an increase of more than 300 percent from 1999. China’s second largest wireless operator also said it added more than 1 million …

TORONTO-To the relief of the wireless industry, the Canadian government raised the four-year-old spectrum cap that limits the amount of radio spectrum each PCS provider may operate. Wireless carriers in Canada can now each use 55 megahertz of spectrum, an …

The Canadian government is opening up its telecommunications market for new wireless players and giving incumbents a chance to acquire the spectrum they need to offer third-generation and enhanced services. The federal government said it will auction off sometime in …

TORONTO-Canadian personal communications services provider Microcell Telecommunications Inc. announced it formed a new mobile Internet services development company, Microcell i5 Inc. A wholly owned subsidiary of Microcell, Microcell i5 plans to launch its first service in third-quarter 2000. Microcell i5, …

WASHINGTON-The United States will enter the World Radiocommunication Conference in Istanbul next month without global or even regional support for its multiband proposal on third-generation mobile-phone service. The situation is embarrassing for the Clinton administration because it could lead to …

In a bid to strengthen its position in the wireless industry and expand its influence overseas, Internet infrastructure provider InfoSpace.com announced it signed a definitive agreement to acquire wireless Internet portal Saraide Inc. According to the agreement, InfoSpace.com will issue …

MONTREAL-The GSM Alliance and Nortel Networks announced they completed North America’s first third-generation wireless telephone call using a wideband Code Division Multiple Access trial network under live conditions. The trial is one the GSM Alliance announced last year would take …

NEW YORK-Denmark-based Bosch Telecom Inc., which introduced the World 718 phone in June, has decided to close its Dallas office for U.S. sales and marketing, although it will continue selling the handsets here. The World 718 phone can operate on …

Chances are slim to none that U.S. mobile phone operators will agree on one standard for the next generation of mobile phone services. Already fragmented with three different digital standards-cdmaOne, TDMA (Time Division Multiple Access) and GSM (Global System for …

WASHINGTON-The Canadian wireless industry, which slowed considerably last year because of marketplace confusion about PCS (Personal Communications Services)/cellular technology and pricing, appears to have sorted things out and returned to a fast-growth track in 1998. The two new players, which …

Across most of the world’s regions, carriers and analysts are claiming prepaid cellular a resounding success. Along with calling party pays, it is considered one of the leading contributors to current subscriber growth. Some carriers now are getting more than …

The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association has filed a petition with the Federal Communications Commission asking the agency to move forward with a rulemaking on calling party pays service. While CPP service has been implemented with great success throughout much of …

Canada’s mobile phone market rebounded somewhat at the end of 1997 from lagging subscriber additions that plagued carriers throughout the year, but the results showed a slow expansion of the wireless market even with personal communications services entrants. “I think …

TORONTO- Bell Mobility launched its PCS Plus personal communications services network in Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal and Quebec City. Subscribers can use dual-mode analog/digital phones, by Sony Corp. and Qualcomm Inc. The operator deployed Code Division Multiple Access technology on its …

VANCOUVER, B.C.-Clearnet Communications Inc. said it officially launched Clearnet PCS, its personal communications services network based on Code Division Multiple Access technology operating in the 1.9 GHz range. The company is the second1.9 GHz PCS provider to launch service in …

Canada’s Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission opened the market for local phone service last week, which has wireless players ecstatic. The CRTC has “issued a strong endorsement of the role wireless carriers will play” in the local market, said Microcell Telecommunications …

NEW YORK-Wall Street, once ebullient about wireless stocks, is somewhat gloomy these days about the prospects for new personal communications services carriers to raise public equity. A convergence of global and local factors is at play in a situation that …

NEW YORK-Omnipoint Corp. raised $250 million in gross proceeds in its sale of 10-year senior notes Thursday to help finance the buildout of its personal communications services network in the New York City area. Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Securities Corp., …