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The first thing you need to know about me is that I am a lot like my pet bulldog: When I get ahold of something, I do not let go. Change is hard for me, so my decision to change …

France Telecom and Deutsche Telekom made significant moves to part ways last week with France Telecom agreeing to purchase Deutsche Telekom’s and Sprint Corp.’s stakes in the Global One joint venture for a total equity value of $3.88 billion. The …

BEIJING-China’s two telecom operators-big brother China Telecom and little brother China Unicom-soon will face the competitive onslaught of foreign heavyweights such as AT&T, Deutsche Telekom and WorldCom. After China joins the World Trade Organization (WTO), expected some time during the …

“I now felt for the first time absolutely certain that the day would come when mankind would be able to send messages `round the wires, not only across the Atlantic, but between the furthermost ends of the earth.” Guglielmo Marconi …

I never fully experienced the joy of eating shrimp until I lived in Florida. Being a North Dakota girl, my shrimp choices had been limited to basket-fried, deep-fried, beer-batter fried or broiled in enough butter that it just as well …

BEIJING-Tough times lie ahead for equipment suppliers and operators with the establishment of China Mobile expected to slow equipment purchases and with China Unicom still struggling to end its China-China-Foreign contracts and feverishly trying to secure alternative financing. With China …

HONG KONG-China Unicom is still seeking to end more than 30 China China Foreign (CCF) joint ventures it has formed with foreign companies, including France Telecom, Sprint Corp., Telecom Italia, Bell Canada, Siemens, Deutsche Telekom, Metromedia International, Daewoo Corp., and …

Water and power outages more than violent wind affected wireless networks as Hurricane Floyd skirted the East Coast last week. AT&T Corp. Friday apologized to customers for wireless network outages in parts of metropolitan New York and New Jersey caused …

BOYNTON BEACH, Fla.-In response to the devastation caused last year by Hurricane Georges, Motorola Inc. made available its Hurricane Tracker software application. Developed for Motorola’s PageWriter 2000 two-way pager and PageWriter 2000X two-way wireless communications center, Hurricane Tracker can provide …

Transcrypt Transcrypt International Inc. said its EFJohnson subsidiary launched a new line of mobile and portable radios designed to operate on Motorola Inc.’s Smartnet and SmartZone systems in the 800 MHz frequency band. The portable radio comes with three keys …

When Eric Doggett took the helm of Glenayre Technologies Inc. three months ago, he found himself captain of a ship lost at sea. A slowdown in the global paging infrastructure market took much wind out of the company’s sails, while …

BEIJING-China Unicom has big ambitions. That’s no big news. When it was established in 1994, the company hoped to capture one-third of the mobile phone market and a 10th of the fixed-line market by 2000. However, today it has less …

China Unicom is working to oust foreign investors from its telecommunications projects this fall, and it appears investors may not leave quietly. The Chinese government has ordered China Unicom, the country’s second telecommunications operator, to wind up all China-China-Foreign (CCF) …

Lucent Lucent Technologies Inc. introduced software that will turn down transmitter power levels when the user is not speaking into the handset, effectively increasing talk time by extending battery life up to 30 percent. The discontinuous transmission feature will be …

Coherent The Coherent original equipment manufacturer division of Tellabs launched a complete design verification kit for its CEC-128 Integrated Echo Canceller multichip module. The kit consists of a CEC-128 plug-in module and a CD with full operating software, application notes …

Deutsche Telekom AG has about $18 billion at its disposal after its $11-billion secondary offering last week, and speculation is running high about what acquisitions it will make in Europe and the United States. “I will not name names today,” …

Electofuel Electrofuel Inc. announced the Lithium Ion SuperPolymer battery, which has an energy density of 470 Wh/liter and 183 Wh/kilogram, almost doubling the previous endurance records of rechargeable batteries. With the SuperPolymer battery, laptop computers will run 15 or more …

WASHINGTON-U.S. Digital Communications Inc. announced it has begun curtailing the operations of its International Satellite Group Inc. subsidiary, citing difficulties in selling Iridium L.L.C. goods and services. “Due to the well-documented shortcomings of the Iridium satellite telephone platform, and the …

Just when Telecom Italia Spa seemed to have no defense left to ward off the hostile takeover bid from rival Italian telecom operator Olivetti Spa, its seemingly hopeless plea for a white knight to save the day was answered by …

Crown Castle International Corp. sealed its second deal to manage a large wireless carrier’s tower portfolio with last week’s announcement that BellSouth Corp. is selling 1,850 towers to the company for $610 million in cash and common stock. Crown in …

Italy The Italian government requested a communications ministry committee be formed to oversee the auction of its planned fourth cellular license. The action marks the next step toward awarding that license, the winner of which will join incumbent operators Telecom …

Poland Poland may call tenders for three new mobile phone licenses for Global System for Mobile communications 900 MHz and 1800 MHz systems during the first half of next year. Reuters reported that the country’s telecommunications minister Marek Zdrojewski said …

LAS VEGAS-Microsoft Corp. announced last week at Wireless I.T. in Las Vegas plans to create a microbrowser designed specifically for handheld wireless devices to access Web content. According to Cameron Myhrvold, vice president of the company’s Internet consumer unit, this …

Italy’s Communications Minister Antonio Maccanico was reported in foreign press as saying the country may engage in yet another auction for a fourth mobile phone license, possibly before the end of the year. Maccanico said the growth rate for the …

Nextel Communications Inc. recently offered a farmer in South Coventry, Pa., a new $70,000, 105-foot silo if the wireless phone company could put an antenna inside of it to fill a gap in its coverage. This is just one example …