BEIJING-Amiosonic's new range of GSM mobile phones will be able to interoperate with Lucent Technologies Inc.'s GSM network infrastructure under a deal announced by...
DALLAS-Texas Instruments Inc. will port Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Java 2 Platform Micro Edition onto its Open Multimedia Application Platform in an attempt to expand...
Sprint PCS expanded its all-digital network into Huntsville, Ala., and opened two new Sprint PCS Centers for consumers and businesses in the city. The...
NEW YORK-Applied Digital Solutions Inc., Hauppauge, N.Y., hopes its Digital Angel will take commercial flight within 12-18 months, providing an on-body gauge of vital...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Corporate and private investors such as Motorola Inc. and Commtouch invested $19 million in OpenGrid Inc., a wireless transactions provider, the company...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-The Personal Communications Industry Association's GlobalXChange trade show drew more than 18,000 attendees to Chicago in September, according to figures released by the...
LUBBOCK, Texas-Sprint PCS affiliate Alamosa PCS Holdings Inc. posted a 39-percent increase in subscriber revenue for the third quarter ended Sept. 30, to go...
NEW YORK-As viewed through rose-colored glasses, selling over cellular phones presents an enticing opportunity for advertisers and carriers to extend their reach and revenues.Clearly...
Following a trend set recently by rival AT&T Corp., WorldCom Inc. last Wednesday announced plans to realign its businesses with the customer bases they...
AfricaStratos Global completed its Mount Kilimanjaro educational expedition using its remote communications network. Stratos provided the expedition team with an Inmarsat-M4 terminal, allowing the...
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)...
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...
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 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...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-Israel is determined not to be shaken from its pristine position of having one of the highest cellular penetration rates in the...
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...
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...
ChinaZhang Fan, head of mobile communications at China Unicom, said his company would definitely build narrowband networks based on the CDMA standard. In June,...
Mobile satellite services will shortly be available across the Middle East via the Thuraya network. United Arab Emirates-based Thuraya Satellite Telecommunications has announced the...
SINGAPORE-The once sleepy telecommunications market in technology-centric Taiwan is finally stirring from its slumber.Having taken a back seat to the country's more well-known semiconductor...
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...
