NEW YORK-The GSM Congress convened its plenary meeting in Santiago, Chile, April 25 amid anticipation that the number of Global System for Mobile communications...
Gary Hermansen, former senior vice president and general manager of Glenayre Technologies Inc.'s consumer products group, left the company to become chief executive officer...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Intel Corp. is expected to announce the formation of its Intel Wireless Competence Center in Beijing to promote wireless Internet technology in...
InfoSpace Inc., a provider of infrastructure services for Web sites and devices, said wireless Internet opportunities continue to represent the company's biggest opportunity and...
BRAMPTON, Ontario-Nortel Networks Corp. reported company revenue increased during first-quarter 2000,. from $4.2 billion in 1999 to $6.3 billion.Including acquisition-related costs and one-time gains...
STUTTGART, Germany-The Mobile Electronic Signature Consortium announced another 11 organizations have joined its effort to define a worldwide standard for mobile digital signatures, bringing...
Phone.com Inc. fired the first shot against Geoworks' claim that it holds intellectual property rights to Wireless Application Protocol technology by suing the company.Geoworks...
DENVER-U S West Inc. reported first-quarter financial results ending March 31 that showed its wireless services added almost 135,000 new subscribers during the quarter...
SEATTLE-U S West Inc. customers now have wireless access to the company's Internet e-mail and personal information management services due to a joint effort...
WASHINGTON-A divided federal appeals court in Atlanta ruled wireless carriers and Internet firms do not have the same right as other telecom service providers...
CAIRO, Egypt-Orascom Telecom (OT), which owns stakes in Egypt's largest mobile provider, agreed to buy 80 percent of Telecel International, a pan-African telecommunications company...
DUBLIN, Ireland-After decades of tight state control, Eastern European telecommunications markets are waking up to the reality of telecommunications liberalization.But even though many of...
In March 1999, when Ericsson and Qualcomm ended their intellectual-property-rights deadlock over CDMA patents and jointly agreed to support approval in standards bodies of...
BulgariaKPN Telecom and Greece's Ote raised their offer to US$600 million for a 51-percent stake in Bulgarian Telecommunications Co. The companies previously offered US$510...
Throughout the world, wireless providers tend to suffer from a common myopia: Too many carriers see their customer care operations as a simple safety net...
ISTANBUL, Turkey-The International Telecommunication Union said its member countries have reached a treaty agreement for changes to international allocations of radio-frequency spectrum and all...
After eight weeks and 150 rounds, NTL Mobile said enough and dropped out of the U.K. government auction for five Universal Mobile Telecommunications System...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Swisscom Mobile chose L.M. Ericsson as the sole supplier of its packet-based General Packet Radio Service solution, allowing data services and Internet applications...
MADRID, Spain-Telefonica reported reaching an agreement with Orange plc and Sonera Corp. to apply for the Universal Mobile Telecommunications Service license in Germany through...
ANNAPOLIS, Md.-TeleCommunication Systems Inc., a developer of network applications enabling the delivery of Internet content to wireless devices, filed a registration statement with the...
NEW YORK-Sony Corp. has licensed the Texas Instruments Open Multimedia Application processing engine and Symbian's EPOC software platform for Sony's next generation of wireless...
WASHINGTON-A majority of the Telecommunications Resellers Association members have voted in support of changing the group's name to the Association of Communications Enterprises, virtually...
BERWYN, Pa.-Triton PCS Inc., which markets its service under the SunCom brand name, completed the second phase of its network construction by launching digital...
RESTON, Va.-TRW Inc. formed a strategic partnership with Wireless Inc. to develop and market high-speed, broadband wireless Internet access equipment.The partnership includes licensing TRW's...
