MCI offers 700 access for Vnet cellular service – MCI Telecommunications Corp., Vnet Cellular Service’s virtual private network service MCI Telecommunications Corp. is offering Vnet Cellular Service users 700 access to its virtual private network who make remote calls from cellular mobile phones. Using the new service, individuals calling within their own cellular service area […]
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TARIFICA – licensing agreements for Orange PLC; Sonera introduces a data subscription service This is MPN’s European update as compiled by Tarifica, Phillips Business Information’s U.K.-based sister publication (http://www.tarifica.com). For further information, contact Margrit Sessions, +44 171 440 6505, or e-mail: consult@tarifica.com. England Orange PLC [ORNGY] is capitalixing on its brand name with the launch […]
SONY EXITS MOBILE PHONE PRODUCTION AMID INTENSE COMPETITION Closing Doors At San Diego Handset Plant Wireless carriers struggling to get handsets to subscribers have even more worries following Sony Corp.’s [SNE] decision to stop making mobile phones at its San Diego facility. The move by the Tokyo-based electronics maker will likely boost market share for […]
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Mpn People Have any news about your firm’s staff? Contact Malcolm Spicer, 301/340-7788, ext. 4170; fax, 301/424-2058; e-mail, mspicer@phillips.com. * The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association’s Wireless Foundation has added Mark Howell, president of Brightpoint Inc. [CELL], to its board. Brightpoint will serve as the primary logistics services provider for the foundation’s signature programs, Communities On […]
CAP brings benefits of ADSL to users today – carrierless amplitude phase modulation; asymmetric digital subscriber line – Digital Subscriber Line Technologies: Exploring the Promise of ADSL, SDSL & HDSL Gabe Torok With the implementation of digital subscriber line technologies (known collectively as DSL or xDSL), remote access to the Internet, corporate Intranets, central databases […]
Nokia wins Greek GSM phone contract – Nokia Mobile Phones, global system for mobile communication Finland-based Nokia Mobile Phones reached sales agreements with a pair of importers who will distribute the Nokia global system for mobile (GSM) phones in Greece. During the agreement’s first phase, Alpha Copy S.A. will import and sell Nokia brand phones […]
NovAtel, IDM to distribute wireless communications in rural Mexico Canada-based NovAtel Communications, Ltd. signed a one-year agreement with IDM Satellite Division of Chula Vista, Calif. to distribute NovAtel’s SCS-Libra and wireless access communications products to Mexico’s non-wireline rural cellular areas. NovAtel’s products are designed to provide instant wireless loop or stand-alone communications capabilities in areas […]
BRIEFS – includes multiple briefs on various companies Sabre, IBM, Nokia Create Traveler Service The Sabre Group [TSG], IBM Corp. [IBM] and Nokia Corp. [NOK/A] are developing a real-time, interactive service-delivered via mobile phone utilizing the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP)-that will allow travelers to initiate flight reservation changes and receive updates from airlines at any […]
Billing Customers Allowed For Lnp Cost Recovery The FCC’s order on local number portability (LNP) cost recovery answers the wireless industry’s question about how it may recover its costs for implementing the service, but it doesn’t address the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association’s (CTIA’s) two petitions seeking to defer carriers’ obligations to make wireless numbers portable. […]
Russia joins International Finance Corp Russia recently joined the International Finance Corp. (IFC). Russia is the fourth of the Newly Independent States to join IFC and brings the corporation’s membership to 154. With Russian membership, IFC will focus on attracting foreign investment in the energy and tourism sectors, working closely with the European Bank for […]