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)...
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...
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...
TOKYO-The third-generation (3G) business plans and service strategies of three Japanese cellular carriers are becoming more concrete. NTT DoCoMo and J-Phone Group, the mobile...
DUBLIN, Ireland-Having spent vast sums on third-generation (3G) mobile licenses, operators are hoping terminals will live up to expectations. Unlike GSM, where handsets are...
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...
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...
DENVER, United States-U.S. paging operator WebLink Wireless is making plans to implement a narrowband PCS (NPCS) network in Central America using a first-ever infrastructure-sharing...
TORONTO-Wireless carriers Clearnet Communications and Microcell Telecommunications have won a key regulatory battle to gain competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC) designation in Canada. The...
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...
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...
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...
The satellite-based telecommunications market made headlines again as Globalstar Telecommunications released disappointing financial results and bankrupt provider Iridium endorsed a US$25 million buyout bid...
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...
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...
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...
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...
NEW YORK-More than any other part of telecommunications, the handset business "will go through the most severe changes in the next several years," said...
ChinaZhang Fan, head of mobile communications at China Unicom, said his company would definitely build narrowband networks based on the CDMA standard. In June,...
MOSCOW-Russia is determined not to lag behind the industrialized world in wireless communications and is planning to issue the country's first third-generation (3G) licenses...
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...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-Unlike the hype that surrounded the launch of Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) services, European mobile operators are taking a conservative approach to...
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...
