HELSINKI, Finland-Siemens Information and Communications Mobile Group joined the MeT initiative, formed earlier this year by Ericsson Inc., Motorola Inc. and Nokia Corp. to...
NEW DELHI, India-Total Access Communications (TAC), Thailand's second-largest mobile operator, has announced an expansion and financial restructuring with the help of its Norwegian partner...
SYDNEY, Australia-Telstra Corporation Ltd. and Hong Kong Internet company Pacific Century CyberWorks Ltd. announced completion of revised terms of their alliance, first announced in...
Aether Systems Inc. announced USAToday.com as the first customer for the recently introduced AirLoom service, which adapts Web content for wireless distribution.In addition, Aether...
CARACAS, Venezuela-Venezuelan telecom regulator Conatel said bidding rules for the auction of 20 wireless local loop (WLL) licenses in the 3.4 GHz to 3.6...
Palo Alto, Calif.-based Gravitate Inc., a new mobile location services software provider, launched its Gravitate Platform and closed a $3.7 million round of funding,...
Wireless messaging services are looked upon by many wireless service providers and Internet service providers as the "killer app" that will fuel both future...
NEW YORK-Verizon Communications has unveiled its first bundled offering allowing the residential customer of many of its local telephone companies who purchase any Verizon...
WASHINGTON-With Congress stuck in town at least another week and prospects growing that pending legislation will be rolled into one or two catch-all spending...
Congress approved legislation that will increase to 600,000 the number of visas issued to skilled foreign workers during the next three years. The measure...
Ireland's telecom regulator launched a comparative tender for a national 15-year TETRA license. The result of the competition will be announced in January 2001.Licenses...
RCR Wireless News announced that Dan Meyer, formerly editorial assistant, has been promoted to reporter. Meyer has been with RCR since December 1999."Dan came...
FORT WORTH, Texas-Motorola Inc., the H.L. Yoh Co. L.L.C. and TAC Worldwide Companies announced an agreement to manage the procurement and administration of contract...
VANCOUVER, British Columbia-Voice Mobility International Inc. signed an agreement with Taiwan's Logtech Info-Net Inc. to jointly provide Voice Mobility's Unified Communications software suite to...
WASHINGTON-The Industrial Telecommunications Association put Nextel Communications Inc. and Pegasus Guard Band L.L.C. on notice Friday that the private wireless association will "watch very...
NEW YORK-As wireless and wireline carriers and Internet content providers seek to drive revenues through value-added services, the concept of presence has taken on...
MONROE, La.-CenturyTel Inc. completed its purchase of approximately 133,000 telephone lines from Verizon Communications in Wisconsin for $364 million in cash in two separate...
TOKYO-Matsushita Electric Industrial, which manufactures cell phones under the Panasonic brand name, is discussing an alliance on third-generation mobile phones with European mobile carriers,...
MADRID, Spain-Spain's Telefonica has finally added Mexico to its Latin American footprint with the acquisition of Motorola's Mexican mobile-phone assets. The $2.5 billion acquisition...
A new report from Ovum warns new entrants planning to deploy broadband technologies such as digital subscriber line may find the cost and complexity...
WASHINGTON-The mobile phone industry is expected shortly to unveil a privacy policy to guide carriers as they reinvent business plans to capitalize on the...
SAN ANTONIO-SBC Communications Inc. and Lucent Technologies Inc. entered a five-year, $1 billion agreement for Lucent to be the primary provider of data, voice...
