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Concurrent with the bidding deadline to operate a fourth wireless phone network in Germany, cellular operators DeTeMobil and Mannesmann Mobilfunk GmbH have announced extensive rate cuts. The American Embassy in Bonn, Germany, reported two consortia, a partnership of Viag and …

Korean telephone service provider Shinsegi Telecomm Inc. awarded Lucent Technologies Inc. a contract to supply and install a Code Division Multiple Access-technology based cellular network in the southern cities of Pusan and Kyungnam. Lucent said it immediately will begin installing …

Olivetti SpA is seeking to sell part of its stake in Omnitel Pronto Italia, Italy’s privately owned Global System for Mobile communications cellular carrier that is experiencing rapid subscriber growth rates. Omnitel Pronto Italia said Olivetti has been negotiating with …

FAIRFAX, Va.-American Management Systems has introduced what it says is the first Internet-based customer care and billing tool for telecommunications companies. AMS said its UNIView application links a carrier’s World Wide Web site to its back-end databases to provide key …

Italy plans to issue a tender for a third mobile phone operator this fall, announced the government, which recently passed a bill establishing the guidelines for the tender. A license is expected to be issued by the end of the …

PLANO, Texas-Inet Inc., an international supplier of wireline and wireless telecommunications equipment, announced Telia International Network Services in Sweden will expand its GeoProbe System. The system, a network-wide SS7 monitoring system, non-intrusively captures and processes the data on the SS7 …

PHOENIX-Bobby G. Thompson & Associates, a land mobile radio management consulting services provider, and Internet Direct Inc. are teaming up to create specialized Internet World Wide Web site production services for land mobile radio dealers and servicers. Internet Direct Inc., …

L.M. Ericsson has signed a three-year contract with JT Mobiles Ltd. to supply digital cellular Global System for Mobile communications systems in India. Ericsson said it will supply and install complete GSM systems for JT Mobiles’ cellular operations in Karnataka …

Eastern European countries and those of the former Soviet republics launched cellular services in the early 1990s using the Nordic Mobile Telephone-450 standard, an analog technology developed to operate at 450 MHz. Most nations initially selected NMT- 450 instead of …

Four parties received licenses to provide personal communications services in Sweden. Nordiska Tele8 and current cellular operators Telia Mobitel, Europolitan and Comviq will build nationwide Global System for Mobile communications networks at 1.8 GHz, announced the National Post and Telecom …

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. …

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 …

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 …

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 …

With plans to target the corporate market, Swedish telecommunications operator Telia and Ericsson Inc. are testing a new dual-mode telephone that will allow users to seamlessly switch from private wireless networks to the public cellular network. Telia and Ericsson said …

LEESBURG, Va.-Coherent Communications Systems Corp. has been awarded a joint supply contract for the EC-6000 digital echo cancellers by Sweden’s Telia AB, and Telia’s sister company, Telia Mobitel AB. Coherent manufactures echo canceller and voice quality enhancement hardware and software …

BEDMINISTER, N.J.-Bell Atlantic Mobile customers traveling in the southwest can now dial 411 and reach Bell Atlantic’s new InfoAssist service, which provides regular directory assistance and more. InfoAssist offers a live operator who will do category searches for local events, …