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PARIS-Nortel Networks announced that U.K. operator One 2 One recently signed a series of orders valued at $100 million for expansion of the carrier’s national Global System for Mobile communications …

MANILA, the Philippines-Globe Telecom, the second-largest cellular phone operator in the Philippines, announced a $2.3 billion merger with another Philippine wireless service provider, Isla Communications. The agreement allows Ayala Corp., …

PLANO, Texas-EDS announced it is helping GTE Wireless bring the convenience of online bill payments to its more than 7 million customers by providing interactive online billing as part of …

NEW ORLEANS-Motorola Inc. said it successfully made a voice over Internet Protocol call on top of a third-generation high-speed packet data call at 384 kilobits per second in a laboratory …

NEW YORK-The telecom/wireless sector of U.S. industry stood out last year, riding high on an overall rising tide of venture capital investments, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers’ “MoneyTree Survey.” Taken in aggregate, …

NEW ORLEANS-A standoff over 1XRTT technology enhancements began to brew at last week’s Wireless 2000 show, as Motorola Inc. challenged the business case of Qualcomm’s proprietary High Data Rate technology, …

TOKYO-An NTT laboratory is gearing up its efforts to develop Advanced Wireless Access (AWA), a next-generation wireless system that will enable users to access data at a speed of up …

SEOUL, South Korea-Korean mobile telecom carriers are looking to stake out the biggest share in the fast-growing wireless Internet and data market, shifting from a voice-oriented strategy. The explosion of …

TOKYO-Three Japanese carrier groups are gearing up their efforts to launch IMT-2000 services-earlier than any other wireless carriers in the world. The three players are NTT DoCoMo Group, Japan Telecom …

MANILA, The Philippines-Globe Telecom, the second-largest cellular telephone operator in the Philippines, announced a US$2.3 billion merger with another Philippine wireless service provider, Isla Communications. The agreement allows Ayala Corp., …

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-The Latin American data-transmission industry has been surprised at the unusual technological and financial display of Diginet Americas, which plans to offer fixed-wireless broadband communications in some of …

MONTREAL-The transmission was delayed 20 minutes because the test PC had crashed. And the picture quality, to put it kindly, was choppy. Nevertheless, in February, Rogers AT&T Wireless and Ericsson …

Handsets Philips Philips introduced several new handsets. The Ozeo GSM dual-band mobile phone offers a new user interface and a large LCD display with five text lines. The carousel icon …

TOKYO-The number of Japanese PHS subscribers expanded in the December-January time frame, demonstrating that the long-ailing PHS business is starting to revitalize. The number of PHS users in the country …

PHOENIX-International FiberCom Inc.’s wireless solutions division, AeroComm Inc., was designated by Bell Atlantic Mobile as the cellular/PCS carrier coordinator for New York City’s Queens Midtown and Brooklyn Battery tunnels. AeroComm …

TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo’s iMode Internet service is winning attention around the world as the first success case for mobile Internet. Since the carrier launched the service in February 1999, it has …

HANOVER, Germany-Until demand for Wireless Application Protocol handsets increases, L.M. Ericsson won’t manufacture WAP handsets in volume, the company said at CeBIT 2000. Carriers have criticized manufacturers for being too …

NEW YORK-In a Valentine’s Day announcement, Teligent Inc., a point-to-multipoint carrier based in Vienna, Va., and Mannesmann Arcor AG & Co., said they had partnered to provide fixed wireless voice …

SANTA BARBARA, Calif.-Superconductor Technologies Inc. announced it received a purchase order for 27 of its SuperFilter Systems from an unnamed cellular service provider, increasing its backlog to 56 systems and …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission last week expanded its rules regarding telecommunications relay services to include speech-to-speech services, Spanish language service and quality of service rules. TRS is a telephone transmission …

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-As President Clinton stated in his Economic Forum speech, “The United States is unambiguously committed to open markets and trade as the best engine we know of to …

Mexico Mexican wireless company Unefon launched initial service Feb. 10 in Toluca, a city outside Mexico City. The company plans to begin services in 20 cities during the next year …

VoiceStream Wireless Corp. announced plans to invest in Canadian Global System for Mobile communications operator Microcell Telecommunications Inc., a move that sets the stage for a seamless North American footprint. …

Metrocall Inc. took the latest step in the paging industry’s evolutionary journey last week, unveiling an acquisition, a new joint venture, a recapitalization plan and a strong financial partner tapped …

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.’s Network Solutions Sector announced a successful launch in Japan of its commercial high-speed wireless Internet access for cdmaOne networks. The new service, deployed by DDI Corp. …