BUCHAREST, Romania-The Moldova republic, a former Romanian region, is a small country with a population of 4.3 million and a small economy. The mobile...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-In tone with the wave of competition that has taken Argentina by storm, Nextel has decided to extend its iDEN digital wireless...
SANDTON, South Africa-Nigeria's promising telecommunications environment has been clouded by the government's failure to accelerate the licensing of GSM operators. Nigeria, with one of...
BUCHAREST, Romania-Due to the analog transmission and the lack of value-added services, NMT 400 systems in Eastern Europe-which enjoyed great success during the last...
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...
TOKYO-J-Phone Group, Japan's second-largest mobile phone company, plans to merge its nine member firms into three companies later this year. The announcement follows the...
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...
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...
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...
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...
TOKYO-In early February, some 300 telecom experts from 25 nations in the Asia-Pacific region met in Tokyo to compile their proposals for WRC-2000. Based...
GENEVA-Despite the best efforts of International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Secretary General Yoshio Utsumi, the reform process designed to drag the 135-year-old telecommunications standardization body...
SAN ANTONIO-SBC Communications Inc. reported increased first-quarter growth driven by expansion in its data communications, wireless and international operations.Operating revenue was up 6.5 percent...
