SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. reported an amendment to Kyocera Corp.'s existing CDMA license agreement with Qualcomm to include the development, manufacture and sale of subscriber...
WARSAW, Poland-The three Polish wireless operators are unhappy with the terms of the government's Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) tender and are reported to...
REDMOND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. announced it has created a new default home page for PocketNet wireless Internet subscribers geared for teen users, with...
While wirelessly enabling various types of applications is generally the one common element among wireless application service providers, most agree that value-added services and...
HACKENSACK, N.J.-GoAmerica Inc. has agreed to acquire Flash Creative Management Inc., a management and technology consulting agency. The deal will add professional services to...
BELFAST, United Kingdom-With a mobile penetration of just 1.4 percent, less than that of many third-world countries, the Russian mobile segment appears to offer...
CanadaBell Mobility began offering two-way wireless data service in October in Ontario and Quebec, with plans to extend service nationwide by the end of...
BUCHAREST, Romania-Although most of the third-generation (3G) licensing attention in Europe is focused on Western Europe, Eastern European countries are also moving forward with...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-Orascom Telecom (OT) is emerging as the winning titan in the conquest of cellular operations in Africa and the Middle East. With...
WASHINGTON-A British consumer group in November said new tests reaffirm earlier findings that hands-free devices can increase RF radiation emitted by mobile phones, but...
HandsetsNeopointThe company released new dual-band and tri-mode smart phones that include increased capacity for personal digital assistant functions, built-in e-mail capabilities and a NeoPad...
CHICAGO, United States-One of the first commercial deployments of Enhanced Data Rates for Global Evolution (EDGE) technology could be in Mexico next year based...
Seven companies set up a TD-SCDMA Technical Forum in Beijing. TD-SCDMA is a third-generation (3G) mobile-phone standard developed by the China Academy of Telecommunications...
TORONTO-Now that the C$6.6 billion (US$4.3 billion) Telus deal to acquire Clearnet Communications has been finalized, engineering issues are starting to surface.The challenge? How...
NigeriaThe Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) released a technical consultative document for the four new national licenses to offer second-generation (2G) cellular systems in Nigeria....
MOSCOW-Russian wireless carriers, which this year considerably expanded their client bases thanks to radically decreased prices, registered a major average revenue per user (ARPU)...
WASHINGTON-The U.S. Supreme Court, confronted with four appeals challenging the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) mobile-phone radiation standard and congressional intervention, in October granted the...
MELBOURNE, Australia-The Australian government has raised just more than A$112 million (US$58.7 million) from the first of its third-generation (3G) spectrum auctions.The auction, conducted...
HONG KONG-The Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) is generally regarded with something between scorn and indifference in Hong Kong among industry sources, and mobile operators...
ChinaZhang Fan, head of mobile communications at China Unicom, said his company would definitely build narrowband networks based on the CDMA standard. In June,...
China Mobile began charging for wireless Internet services beginning 21 October after twice delaying the date due to slack demand for the services, particularly...
WASHINGTON-The chief wireless regulator in the United States has been spreading the message of auctions as a key licensing tool in various overseas trips...
PRAGUE, Czech Republic-Cesky Mobil, the Czech Republic's third mobile telephone operator, is seeking to differentiate itself from its competition by offering low start-up costs...
SAO PAULO, Brazil-Although trunked radio regulations were handed down in May, Brazil's trunking industry is still awaiting detailed definitions before moving forward with their...
