In telecommunications, the GPS is used at some places to synchronize the timing or the frequency of systems. So just in the same way that we look at the year 2000 problem, each user should check if their GPS-based system will be working correctly on 22 August 1999, the first day that the GPS week number will roll over from 1023 to 0. The reason is the limited number of bits (10) used in the GPS navigation message. If the software in the GPS receiver is not corrected, then the receiver will internally interpret the new week 0 as 6 January 1980. It might then stop tracking any satellite and the systems might perform worse or even loose synchronization. Working Party 7A, Study Group 7 (Science services), Radiocommunication Sector.
The contract includes the complete EVOLIUM radio solutions (GSM base station subsystems and microwave transmission), the comprehensive GPRS (general packet radio service) system for high-speed data transmission over GSM, the intelligent network platform and project management. Alcatel.
The new site (www.newentrants.com), which is updated quarterly, features profiles of over 300 new entrants across 16 countries and contains contact details for more than 500 companies. The former monopoly operators are also profiled, enabling users to track the performance of all the key players in the business.
In addition, the site includes operator benchmarks providing the ability to compare and contrast key financial and operational statistics for the major new network operators and the incumbent operators, and a share indices service, updated daily, which enables users to compare the individual share performance of the major listed network operators. Analysys.
In the framework of the deal, both parties also entered into a patent cross-licensing agreement according to which the parties will license to one another their respective patents. In particular, Tellabs will benefit over the next four years of the patent licences of Alcatel's extensive range of SDH, SONET and WDM technologies.
Alcatel acquired DSC Communications Corporation in 1998 and has integrated its American activities within Alcatel USA. Alcatel.
CNN Mobile is the first worldwide added value service that is based on the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP). WAP is an open standard that enables the offering of so-called value-added services via digital wireless mobile phone networks. In addition to news services, value-added services include weather reports, stock prices, electronic mail, flight schedules and banking services. Finnfacts.
The network will use the latest Internet Protocol (IP) technology from Nortel Networks and will form part of a multi-million pound investment by BT in Spain.
The company has already invested more than GBP 400 million in its various fixed, mobile and Internet interests, and plans to spend at least an additional GBP 600 million over the next ten years.
The IP network will provide national coverage from 12 main nodes this year, with plans to expand the network by 27 main nodes within three years. BT.
Aid from NTT is focused on the provision of essential telecommunications equipment. Transmission cables donated by the corporation include 10 km of optical fibre cable, 9 km of aerial cable, 265 km of jumper wire, 7 km of lead-in wire and 3 km of inside wire. The total value of NTT's aid is about JPY 9 million.
NTT is providing the aid through the Basic Human Needs Telecom Committee, a non-governmental organization based in Japan that offers humanitarian aid focusing on telecommunications.
Cables and other equipment from NTT were to arrive in Honduras in May 1999. NTT.
Ascom will be installing 7000 Proxim card payphones in El Salvador and Guatemala together with their supervision system, both orders having been placed by the national telecommunication operator.
In Guatemala, 500 payphones had been installed by January 1999 and the remaining units will be supplied at a rate of 1000 per month. In El Salvador, 4000 payphones will be installed during 1999 for CTE Antel, a company in which France T้l้com recently took a controlling interest. Ascom.
Eurodata's report Competition and tariffs in the USA challenges the perception that all calls in America are markedly cheaper than those made by Europeans. The report explains in detail, with supporting basket analysis, the structure of tariffs for PSTN services, private lines, ISDN, ATM and frame relay services. It is an essential guide for anyone who wishes to understand and analyse the cost of service in this most complex of markets.
Traditionally, United States local loop operators include an element to cover costs of local calls within the "flat rate" element of their monthly bill. The effect is that United States residential users do not see the true cost of the local calls they make. In short, Americans perceive their local calls to be free.
This perception influences their views of the charges they pay for non-local calls, creating an assumption that all calls in the United States are exceptionally good value. Eurodata Foundation.
The new Dreamcast games console, to be launched in September 1999, will provide users subscription-free Internet access through their televisions on a pay-as-you-go basis via BT's network of European partners. This is the first time that subscription-free Internet access has been made available across Europe in this way.
The dial IP service will be available from BT in the United Kingdom and its European partners in France, Germany, Italy and Spain. BT and Sega expect to roll-out the service to other European countries later in the year.
The new Dreamcast console will include a 33.6 k modem and a browser, and will also enable customers to access E-mail, chat and on-line gaming services. Future plans include the offer of on-line shopping facilities. Dreamcast is expected to retail at around GBP 199. BT.
This means that OTE will be able to launch Siemens services on its network at the same time as developing new services which can also be tested and operated in heterogeneous network architectures with components from various manufacturers of telecommunication devices.
Once the intelligent network has been fully set up, OTE customers will be able to make use of services such as universal access number, premium rate, televoting, universal personal telecommunications, virtual private network and prepaid card. Siemens.
The Internet II is an initiative by a number of universities worldwide, in conjunction with government and industry partners, to accelerate the next stage of Internet development in academia. This private network will operate at speeds several times faster than today's Internet.
The duplex service will be carried over the Intelsat-801 satellite at 328.5ฐ E and will initially operate at 45 Mbit/s using two 36 MHz transponders. This is expected to be upgraded to a duplex 155 Mbit/s service. INTELSAT.
An agreement to transfer business from NTT to NTT Communications was also signed by the two companies.
The new company was to commence operations on 1 July 1999. NTT.
The lease will support voice and data, using the Internet protocol between the United States and several sites in Latin America. Columbia.
This new service is activated automatically, as soon as the subscriber connects to the Internet. When a call comes in to the designated phone, a message pops up on the computer screen with the name and number of the caller. The subscriber can then decide whether to accept the call, route the caller to voice mail, redirect the call to another number, play a message for the caller, or simply ignore the call. Comverse.
The multi-frequency, time-division multiple-access (MF-TDMA) architecture of the ARCS programme is a major advancement in satellite communications technology. Traditionally, satellites have received uplink signals from a limited number of earth stations. Under this new architecture, small terminals in hundreds of thousands of homes and offices will be able to communicate directly with a central hub via the Ka/Ku band satellite. The satellite access units will efficiently share satellite bandwidth through software developed by EMS, especially for the multimedia traffic environment. EMS.
This ceremony will be held on 9 October, from 14h00 to 16h30 and will launch the event on the theme "Join the world" and start off the programme of speakers.
About 200 000 visitors and 3500 official participants are expected from 150 countries.
The TELECOM exhibition and Forum are held every four years. They are regarded as the world's most important event in the field of telecommunications.
Ericsson, NEC and Hughes Network Systems are ICO's partners in sponsoring the opening ceremony. ICO.
WorldTel is planning to install 150 000 lines in Mashonaland and Victoria provinces including Harare. Both the project and its business plan were developed with the assistance of the International Telecommunication Union that had earlier drawn up the national master development plan. The estimated investment is over USD 115 million. The project, which will expand existing capacity by 75 per cent, aims to meet the present enormous pent-up demand in the country and seeks to reduce the waiting list for additional lines to zero over the next few years.
WTZ positions itself as a friendly complementary service provider to PTC and not as its competitor. The company intends to use existing national and international network system capacity, wherever possible.
In return for the in-kind contribution that PTC makes and for the operating opportunity given to WTZ, the former will obtain equity interest and share part of the revenue to be collected from subscribers.
WorldTel has undertaken to give priority to Zimbabwean institutional investors to place funds in WTZ in the form of debt and equity. The balance of the required investment will be raised from WorldTel's own shareholders and other international institutional investors and banks. WorldTel.
Increased supplies are driving dramatic reductions in price. But as prices fall, what happens to the commercial viability of the networks? Will increased supply stimulate enough extra demand to fill the networks at commercially sustainable prices?
Ovum points out in its report The bandwidth explosion that many new networks are built on the premise of "if you build it, they will come" i.e. increases in supply of capacity will always be filled up by growth in demand. But Ovum believes that the key issue is not simply whether or not demand will continue to grow rapidly it evidently will. Rather, the success of many new and existing bandwidth providers will be determined by how quickly this will happen and whether or not some operators will be left with a capacity "glut", i.e. large amounts of capacity that they cannot sell. Ovum.
According to the company, 96.7 per cent of the votes submitted were in favour of the transaction.
The United States Department of Justice cleared the merger after an exhaustive review, finding no competitive issues in the company's vast combined wireline businesses. GTE.
In a statement issued following a board meeting, the joint venture said its LMI-1 spacecraft is completing production at Lockheed Martin Commercial Space Systems in Sunnyvale (California), and has successfully completed thermal vacuum testing.
The satellite will be ready for shipment to the Baikonur Cosmodrome launch site before the end of July 1999 and is manifested for launch by International Launch Services aboard a Proton launch vehicle in late August/early September 1999.
LMI-1 will provide communication services to Eastern Europe, South and South-East Asia, parts of Africa and the Middle East, and the Commonwealth of Independent States. The spacecraft is the first of four planned advanced- technology satellites that are to provide comprehensive coverage and connectivity to business and residential customers throughout the world. Lockheed Martin Global Telecommunications/INTERSPUTNIK.
The expansive C-band coverage of Columbia's TDRS-6 satellite, combined with its competitive pricing, makes the Columbia satellite system the ideal choice for C-band maritime services. A single TDRS-6 transponder delivers simultaneous full coverage to the Caribbean and Mediterranean regions, providing the most efficient space segment service for cruise ships and maritime service providers operating in these areas. Columbia.
While time-critical pressures to improve efficiency drive service providers to look for turnkey solutions, issues of interoperability are preventing the industry from realizing the goal of fully automated and integrated systems. For a sufficient number of products to emerge, the industry must rally around a few key agreements that will enable common reusable off-the-shelf solutions and software components to be built. Ascom SA.
in Kenya
Kenya Posts and Telecommunications Corporation has ceased to be the signatory of Kenya. The Communications Commission of Kenya is the current designated signatory to the ITU on all telecommunications regulatory matters.
in Monaco
A Directorate for Licensing and Telecommunications Control was established by Decree No. 13.633 of 25 September 1998. This Directorate is placed under the authority of the Government Counsellor for Public Works and Social Affairs.
in Bangladesh
Mr Md. Ashraful Alim has been appointed Director (International), Bangladesh Telegraph and Telephone Board.
in Brazil
Mr Joใo Pimenta da Veiga Filho has been appointed Minister of Communications.
in Burkina Faso
Mr Justin T. Thiombiano has been appointed State Secretary for Telecommunications, Ministry of Communication and Culture.
in Finland
Mr Olli-Pekka Heinonen has been appointed Minister of Transport and Communications.
in Ghana
Mr John D. Mahama has been appointed Minister of Communications.
in Kenya
Mr William Ole Ntimama has been appointed Minister of Transport and Communications. Messrs Karanja Kabage and Samuel Kiprono Chepkong'a have been appointed Chairman and Director-General, Communications Commission of Kenya, respectively.
in Lebanon
Mr Issam Naaman has been appointed Minister of Post and Telecommunications.
in Monaco
Mr Michel Lev๊que has been appointed State Minister and Director of the External Relations Service. Messrs Raoul Viora and Christian Palmaro have been appointed Director and Chief of the Telecommunication Division, Directorate for Licensing and Telecommunications Control, respectively.
in the Netherlands
Ms T. Netelenbos has been appointed Minister of Transport, Public Works and Water Management. Ms Monique de Vries has been appointed Secretary of State, Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management. Mr J. W. Weck has been appointed Director-General, Telecommunications and Posts Department.
in Poland
Mr Maciej Srebro has been appointed Minister of Posts and Telecommunications. Messrs Miroslaw Marcinkiewicz and Wladyslaw Wilkans have been appointed Director-General and Director, Department of European Integration, Negotiations and International Relations, Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, respectively.
in Saudi Arabia
Mr Fareed Y. Khashoggi has been appointed Director-General, International Affairs, Ministry of Post, Telegraph and Telephone. ITU Notification No. 1378.