NEW YORK-Vodafone Group plc introduced international roaming for its prepaid mobile-phone customers on its networks across Europe. The service, already available to Vodafone's postpaid...
ATLANTA-Cingular Wireless introduced its national wireless micropayment billing service, Cingular DirectBill, allowing customers to bill purchases made by wireless phones or from the Internet...
TOKYO-Japanese telecom firm KDDI Corp. has agreed to cooperate with China Unicom Ltd. on mobile-phone and Internet access technologies, according to international press reports.KDDI...
WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association said it supports Nextel Communications Inc.'s waiver application from enhanced 911 Phase II requirements."Nextel has documented the process...
NEW YORK-To help wireless carriers assess the quality of service as it is delivered to their customers via the Internet, Agilent Technologies Inc., Fort...
NEW YORK-ISeg Technologies Inc., McLean, Va., expects to release commercially by mid-June a software package that allows wireless carriers to monitor in real time...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Aeris.net, a Web-to-wireless telemetry network operator, and American Innovations, a supplier of remote monitoring systems, have teamed up to offer what they...
Under an agreement announced last week between messaging carrier Arch Wireless Inc. and entertainment company Gemstar-TV Guide International Inc., TV sets sold next year...
ScoreBoard likes to keep the networking slate clean of errors.The company, which specializes in network management and optimization for the mobile communications industry, helps...
If the debate over third-generation mobile-phone spectrum depended solely on financial lobbying clout, the well-heeled cellular industry would be awash in radio frequencies by...
CHARLOTTE, N.C.-Glenayre Technologies Inc. slapped back at Research In Motion Ltd., which recently filed a patent lawsuit against the company's unified message distribution service.Glenayre...
MEXICO CITY-U.S.-based Williams Communications said it entered an agreement with America Movil, the wireless arm of Mexican telecom giant TelMex, to sell its 19-percent...
BRAMPTON, Ontario-Standard and Poor's has lowered its outlook on Nortel Networks Corp. to "negative" from "stable" as the company warned that the downturn in...
NEW YORK-Motorola Inc. said it has agreed to conduct an eight-week trial of Emblaze Systems' technology using a scaled-down version of a cdma2000 1xRTT...
NEW YORK-To celebrate World Environment Day, a group of telecommunications carriers, equipment vendors and industry associations formed the Global e-Sustainability Initiative last week, an...
MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Lucent Technologies Inc. said it expects its third-quarter sales to be better than during the second quarter.Lucent Chairman Henry Schacht said the...
NEW YORK-Global semiconductor sales dropped 4.7 percent in April to $13.72 billion from $14.4 billion in March, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association.The deepest...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Semotus Solutions, a wireless application service provider and infrastructure architect, recently acquired Greenwood Village, Colo.-based Application Design Associates Inc., a provider of...
ATLANTA-IBM Corp. announced it is now delivering location services over its WebSphere Everyplace Server 2.1 software.IBM has partnered with SignalSoft Corp., a provider of...
BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Verizon Wireless signed an agreement with Rural Cellular Corp. Minnesota Inc. to acquire a 10 MHz personal communications services license covering the southern...
BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Verizon Wireless and Motorola Inc. introduced two new wireless handsets that, with an optional headset, also serves as an FM radio. The FM...
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint PCS and Extensity Inc. reported a marketing and technology integration agreement allowing business customers the ability to wirelessly manage expenses and...
TORONTO-Wireless application service provider Asia MobileNet launched a new financial services application based on technology from 724 Solutions Inc., the companies announced today.The application...
WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association announced election results for the 2001-2002 board of directors and executive committee.Rick Ekstrand of Rural Cellular Corp. will...
