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PORT-LOUIS, Mauritius-Mauritius Telecom said France Telecom will take a 40-percent stake in the currently state-owned operator for $261 million. The Mauritian government will retain 40 percent, and the state Bank …

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.’s Global Telecom Solutions Sector won another large stake in China’s mobile phone market with a $29 million GSM communications award covering about 370,000 people in the …

Last mile is ReFlex Communications Inc.’s breath of life. Thanks to the Seattle-based company, multifamily communities have been enjoying high-speed broadband wireless Internet services in their apartments and condominiums across …

RICHARDSON, Texas-Intelect Communications Inc. announced it will sell its private networking business operated by its Intelect Network Technologies subsidiary. The announcement is part of the company’s new corporate strategy, which …

HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. introduced its CityHopper Broadband Wireless Access range of products, which the company said will bring high bandwidth services to businesses and other multidwelling buildings. Successful trials of …

The hunt for spectrum by wireless carriers continued last week as Verizon Wireless, the country’s largest operator, offered more than $2 billion for Price Communications Wireless, a wholly owned subsidiary …

Now that Arch Wireless Inc.’s acquisition of Paging Network Inc. is complete, former PageNet subsidiary Vast Solutions Inc. is free of the dead weight its former parent company represented and …

MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Lucent Technologies Inc. today pledged $10 million to academic and industry researchers in hopes they could develop a business model that would make third-generation wireless networks more profitable. …

DENVER-Sprint Corp.’s Broadband Direct fixed-wireless service is available in the Denver metro and Boulder areas, the company announced. A pizza box-sized antenna is professionally installed on a user’s roof in …

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Just as content on the wireless Web is not at the same point as the wired Web, wireless Web security is not at the same level either. But if …

LONDON-After 14 rounds of bidding in the U.K. auction of 42 broadband fixed wireless access licenses, bids totaled more than $123.7 million last week, with two companies withdrawing. FirstMark Communications …

ARLINGTON, Va.-The Telecommunications Industry Association announced it would fully integrate its subsidiary, MultiMedia Telecommunications Association, and continue to offer the combined 1,000 members the benefits of both associations. “Together, the …

SAN JOSE, Calif.-Sprint Corp. will use Hybrid Networks Inc.’s two-way system to deploy its Sprint Broadband Direct in Denver and Boulder, Colo. Hybrid will provide head-end equipment to manage data …

HELSINKI, Finland-In a move the companies hope will lead to wide usage of mobile services, Hewlett-Packard Co. and Nokia Corp. announced an agreement to develop solutions built on an Internet-based …

BELLEVUE, Wash.-The Universal Wireless Communications Consortium announced there were 53 million TDMA-EDGE subscribers worldwide by the end of the third quarter, which is a 78-percent increase since the same time …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Swedish operator Telia partnered with ForeningsSparbanken, a Swedish banking group, to develop secure solutions for payment, bank and e-commerce services using mobile phones. Telia said a series of applications, …

CHICAGO-WatchMark Corp. announced it joined a group of industry businesses in supporting Sun Microsystems’ hardware, operating system and enterprise management software platform. WatchMark will deliver software for next-generation, Internet-Protocol-based wireless …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Trade Commission, appearing to be staking out regulatory jurisdiction over the nascent mobile Internet industry, said it will examine a wide range of wireless consumer protection issues next …

Starting Jan. 1, several cities in Utah, including Salt Lake City, Cedar City and South Salt Lake, will levy a $1-per-month tax on cellular phones to tap what city officials …

VIENNA, Va.-SkyTel will soon be able to offer its customers personal financial, news and weather reports through a deal announced with Strategy.com, a MicroStrategy Inc. subsidiary. “Strategy.com’s services are appealing …

Cell phones have never been just phones. They’ve always been communicators, but they’ve also had the ability to be deal-makers, marriage-savers, calculators, address books, weapons (Someone somewhere had to use …

NASHUA, N.H.-Spike Broadband Systems Inc. said it received $47 million in financing, led by Canada-based CDP Sofinov. Other investors include CDP Capital Communications, Sandler Capital Management Inc., Cabletron Systems Inc., …

Subscription fraud is as old as the wireless industry itself, and responsible for the creation of numerous companies and products that exist solely to develop new ways to combat this …

NEW YORK-The telecommunications environment has become so dynamic that it is forcing rapid and radical change in the way internal information technology departments and external middleware providers operate. Carriers’ legacy …

DALLAS-South Central Communications announced it plans to introduce NTC’s SmartPay Wireless and iRoam prepaid wireless services to its customers in the St. George basic trading area in southwest Utah. The …