The specialized mobile radio industry is quickly becoming a fractured market divided between the traditional small SMR carriers, which are focused on providing dispatch...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-Although Alltel last week announced it will sell 20 of its personal communications services licenses to Verizon Wireless, it will keep another...
Food and atmosphere are generally what attract people to restaurants, but soon wireless Internet connectivity may help restaurant owners draw in the dinner crowd.MobileStar...
SAN DIEGO-Integrated circuits producer Philips Semiconductors formed a strategic alliance with Widcomm Inc. to speed up the development of its Bluetooth wireless technology products...
VIENNA, Austria-Europe's fifth auction of Universal Mobile Telecommunications System licenses ended after less than two days of bidding. All six participants gained licenses to...
Not one operator around the world has rolled out third-generation services yet, but discussion of fourth-generation technology is already under way. An industry that...
NEW YORK-Loral Space & Communications today reported its financial results for the third quarter and nine months ended Sept. 30.Loral's bookings before intercompany and...
TOKYO-Japan's National Police Agency on 1 November started distributing photo files and detailed information about 25 selected wanted suspects through the i-mode service. NTT...
MUNICH, Germany-Blue Impact AG, a partner of CellPoint, introduced a combined GSM/global positioning system module for the Handspring Visor called Tellmen.The Tellmen module is...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-3Com Corp. released two new carrier-class solutions for delivering virtual private network services.The solutions, from the company's Carrier Networks Business, are media...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Sprint PCS awarded a contract to Motorola Inc.'s Global Telecom Solutions Sector to provide the company with CDMA equipment through interoperability specifications...
BUCHAREST, Romania-Russian company RadioTel said it will test a Terrestrial Trunked Radio (TETRA) trunking network in the St. Petersburg area, using Motorola equipment for...
Wal-Mart's 1,000 stores nationwide will begin carrying disposable zinc-air cell phone batteries from Electric Fuel Corp. in time for the holiday shopping season.Each battery...
Arch Wireless Inc. and Paging Network Inc. announced the completion of their merger Friday, creating the largest paging carrier in North America and adding...
The evolution of the Symbian initiative advanced last week as the company held its first developers conference in London, supporting the release of version...
Over the past several weeks, Sprint PCS has rolled out several additions to its Wireless Web service designed to target the consumer market, particularly...
BUCHAREST, Romania-Slovakian operator Globtel prefers a "beauty contest" process of licensing the country's third-generation (3G) licenses. Eva Forraiova-Guttlerova, the company's public relations manager, said...
NEW YORK-Wireless interactive marketing company SkyGo Inc. announced it completed the first phase of its market research study in Boulder, Colo., and has more...
TOKYO-Matsushita Communication Industrial announced a new company in the Czech Republic to manufacture mobile phones and car audio equipment. The company will begin production...
NEW YORK-Transmeta Corp. and its Crusoe line of processors received enthusiastic applause from investors as the San Francisco company went public Nov. 7.The 13...
GIVATAYIM, Israel-Under a signed agreement, Nexus Telocation North America and Xypoint Corp. made their first steps toward creating a working relationship to deploy location-based...
