NEW YORK-Ubiquitous connectivity, driven by consumer demand rather than carrier plan, could well develop into a completely new kind of convergent telecommunications, said Joan...
WASHINGTON-NextWave Telecom Inc. at RCR press time was expected to file papers with the bankruptcy court asking Judge Adlai S. Hardin Jr. to explicitly...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-In a recent survey by Cellmania.com, an online information resource for wireless products, 53.7 percent of respondents said any legislative prohibition of...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Digital Microwave Corp. announced it entered into a strategic partnership sales agreement with a major global telecommunications infrastructure provider.The agreement with the...
HELSINKI, Finland-Hoping to make e-commerce a little safer, Sonera SmartTrust Ltd. announced a deal with Gemplus to market a Global System for Mobile communications...
MELBOURNE, Fla.-Hoping to lower operating costs, Harris Corp. announced it will outsource its printed circuit board assembly to Sanmina Corp. The deal calls for...
Thirteen groups have applied to bid in the United Kingdom's auction of third-generation mobile-phone licenses.The U.K. government by March plans to auction five licenses,...
MADRID, Spain-Six groups submitted bids to the Spanish government for four Universal Mobile Telecommunications System licenses in Spain to be awarded in March.Telefonica Moviles,...
DUBLIN, Ireland, and BELLEVUE, Wash.-Building on their recent interoperability agreement, the GSM Association and the Universal Wireless Communications Consortium agreed to work together for...
LONDON-The mobile commerce market could reach $200 billion by 2004, according to a study released by Strategy Analytics.The report predicts an explosion in demand...
SINGAPORE-Residents of Singapore can now surf the Internet without getting caught in those annoying wires.Motorola Inc. announced an agreement with SingTel Mobile to provide...
ATLANTA-LHS Group Inc., an Atlanta-based provider of operations support systems, and Alcatel, a Paris-based network infrastructure supplier, have signed a memorandum of understanding to...
Brightpoint Inc. will continue as the exclusive distributor of Ericsson Mobile Phones in the United States, according to the company. The agreement extends Brightpoint's...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Swedish airline SAS announced it has developed a flight reservation solution for Wireless Application Protocol phones.The service also provides access to the SAS...
LONDON-The Radicchio initiative announced 16 new companies have joined the group, which hopes to set a Public Key Infrastructure standard for secure e-commerce transactions...
The Operators Harmonization Group maintains its informal status as members continue to discuss the possibility of becoming an official group.OHG, which began work more...
Willard (Will) K. Shaw, who recently retired from the telecommunications industry, died Dec. 31, in Laguna Niguel, Calif., at the age of 72.Raised in...
Expectations among industry financial analysts that Motorola Inc.'s fourth quarter earnings will exceed consensus estimates of 81 cents per share caused the company's stock...
SAN DIEGO-Leap Wireless Communications International Inc. announced it reached definitive agreements to acquire personal communications service licenses in Denver and Pittsburgh for its domestic...
In what has been called primarily a preening gesture for Mannesmann AG shareholders, Vodafone AirTouch plc announced plans last week to launch an Internet...
NEW YORK-i3 Mobile Inc., which distributes customized information to wireless devices, and NeoPoint Inc., which does double duty as a handset maker and Internet...
SAN ANTONIO-Telecommunications will look more colorful in the 21st century, according to a recently released report. "U.S. Consumer Telecommunications Demographic Markets: Strategic Analysis," shows that...
