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WASHINGTON-The mobile-phone research pact between the Food and Drug Administration and the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association has come under attack by the former chairman of the leading Canadian wireless association, …

ATLANTA-LHS Inc. will integrate its customer acquisition product ConVerge with Oracle Purchasing under Oracle’s Cooperative Applications Initiative, accelerating customer acquisition and managing the operations of the retail, direct and indirect …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission late Friday approved the transfer of GTE Corp.’s communications licenses to Bell Atlantic Corp. contingent on 25 conditions, including putting some wireless properties into a trust …

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. granted Novatel Wireless Inc., a provider of wireless Internet solutions, a worldwide license under Qualcomm’s Code Division Multiple Access patents to design and market modem card products …

Amid a flurry of speculation it might spin off its microelectronics group, Lucent Technologies Inc. won a contract to be the primary network infrastructure supplier to Verizon Wireless. The deal, …

Xircom Inc. announced it is acquiring Omnipoint Technologies Inc., a subsidiary of VoiceStream Wireless Corp. Xircom also said last week it will provide Bluetooth access products to Ericsson Mobile Communications …

WASHINGTON-Andrew Sukawaty, president and chief operating officer of Sprint PCS and recently installed chairman of the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association, said Friday he is leaving the nationwide mobile-phone carrier to …

Just days before Geoworks Corp. is expected to introduce dramatic changes to the licensing program supporting its patent claim on aspects of Wireless Application Protocol technology, the company escalated its …

MONTE CARLO, Monaco – Socket Communications Inc. and Axis Communications of Sweden have agreed to deliver end-to-end networking solutions incorporating Bluetooth wireless technology, providing mobile computer users with broadband wireless …

HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. unveiled its Totem Vantage network planning tool, designed to enable the fast deployment of third-generation networks. The company said the in-house developed tool is the first to …

UTRECHT, Netherlands-Mobile messaging provider CMG Telecommunications and Mirapoint Inc., an Internet messaging infrastructure provider, are working together to provide mobile operators the ability to offer their subscribers Internet messaging capabilities. …

ATLANTA-Digital Microwave Corp.’s Altium broadband fixed wireless access products passed the European Telecommunications Standards Institute qualification tests and now conform to European telecommunications standards for 155-Megabit per second wireless solutions …

Hong Kong Transcrypt International Inc. signed an agreement with Union Communications of Hong Kong for the exclusive distribution of all of Transcrypt’s voice security and signaling products in Hong Kong, …

BUCHAREST, Romania-Harris Corp. said it completed field trials of its ClearBurst 28 GHz broadband wireless access microwave radio in Bucharest. The system is being used for high-speed data communications by …

HELSINKI, Finland-Singapore wireless operator M1 demonstrated a General Packet Radio Service packet data call over its live network using Nokia Corp.’s GPRS technology. “While other operators are only starting to …

WOODBURY, N.Y.-Comverse Network Systems, a division of Comverse Technology Inc., installed and launched systems enabling prepaid services for more than 1 million subscribers of Chilean mobile operator Telefonica Movil Chile. …

MADRID-Telefonica denied reports that a virus is getting into the mobile phones of its customers and sending rude messages about the company to phone screens. U.S. computer specialists reported a …

HOUSTON-Crown Castle International Corp. said France Telecom agreed to sell approximately 24.9 million shares of Crown Castle common stock through Salomon Smith Barney Inc. and Goldman, Sachs & Co. in …

PARIS-The French government has decided not to auction third-generation licenses later this year and will instead award the licenses through a “beauty contest.” The government still will raise nearly $19 …

HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. and SK Telecom announced extensive planning guidelines for third-generation IMT-2000 networks including coverage design, radio resource management, handover parameter planning and other planning and optimization procedures. Nokia …

LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-Alltel will test a new wireless voice and data technology that is expected to improve how the company deploys competitive local telephone service by bypassing the normal wired …

BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Verizon Wireless said it plans to acquire the cellular service market designated Georgia-RSA 5 from Blackwater Cellular Corp. The acquisition will add 25,000 customers. The 1,900-square-mile market is contiguous …

BOULDER, Colo.-Carrier Access Corp. and Nera Telecommunications announced the field trial of a new wireless broadband network at TechTel, a competitive local exchange carrier in Lubbock, Texas. The trial will …

WASHINGTON-Cellular and third-generation technology subscribers in the Middle East and Africa will increase from approximately 15 million people this year to almost 40 million people in 2007, according to a …

NEW YORK-Motorola Inc. is targeting telematics and personal computers in its product debut this week at the Bluetooth Congress in Monte Carlo, Monaco. Telematics uses wireless and global positioning system …