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...
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...
BEIJING-China agreed in its negotiations with the United States for entry to the World Trade Organization (WTO) that foreign operators would be allowed a...
DENVER, United States-The United States' official position going into the World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC) supports designating three frequency bands-1710 MHz to 1885 MHz, 2500...
SAO PAULO, Brazil-In early January, by starting operations as a "mirror" company of fixed-line carriers Telefonica and Telemar, Vesper faced a challenge in the...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
GENEVA-As WRC-2000 delegates prepare to pack their bags and head off for four grueling weeks of debates and technical deliberations in Istanbul, Turkey, Europe's...
The U.K. auction brought in a resounding 22.5 billion (US$35.45 billion), far exceeding predictions prior to the auction's start. The question now is whether...
A consortium comprised of Telefonica, Orange and Sonera will join U.S.-based MCI WorldCom and 10 other groups in bidding for third-generation (3G) licenses in...
FinlandPriority Wireless, a unit of United Pan-Europe Communications, said it won a license to implement a wireless local loop system in Finland. The 26...
DENVER, United States-The CDMA Development Group said it expects handset makers to introduce commercial CDMA handsets with subscriber identity modules by the end of...
DENVER, United States- BellSouth and SBC Communications finally ended weeks of speculation, announcing plans to create a wireless joint venture that will become the...
MOSCOW-Three nationwide Russian wireless carriers, which control close to 75 percent of the market, have launched a fierce battle for new clients as mobile...
SAO PAULO, Brazil-Anatel, Brazil's telecommunications regulatory agency, will not divulge the frequency band-either 1.8 GHz or 1.9 GHz-that band C cellular telephony operators will...
