COPENHAGEN, Denmark-The discussion surrounding m-commerce includes questions such as whether m-commerce will be a success and what kind of services will be purchased via...
MADRID, Spain-As many European mobile-phone markets inch closer to saturation levels and as voice calls become more commoditized, European mobile providers are seeking other...
BosniaFive companies bid for the third GSM license in Bosnia. The companies include Croatia's Hrvatski Telekom, in which Deutsche Telekom has a 35-percent stake;...
TOYKO-Usen, the largest music cable caster in Japan, launched a six-month field test for high-speed wireless services in Tokyo in mid-June in cooperation with...
SINGAPORE-Singapore network operators will not make General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) widely available to consumers here before the end of this year, executives from...
SEOUL, South Korea-South Korea is confronting a row over awarding a third license for third-generation (3G) mobile services, as the government has called for...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-After all the publicity, time and money spent obtaining third-generation (3G) licenses, European mobile operators are keeping plans strictly to themselves about...
TOKYO- NTT DoCoMo, in cooperation with KPN Mobile and E-Plus, is scheduled to launch i-mode-like services in the Netherlands and Germany in the fourth...
MELBOURNE, Australia-Melbourne wireless telecom developer Advanced Communications Technologies (ACT) is on track to be the first company in the world to commercially launch a...
Handsets/ devicesMitsubishiMitsubishi released three new handsets. The Eclipse is a General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) phone with a color display. The dual-band phone offers...
WASHINGTON-NextWave Telecom, a one-time poster child for everything that went wrong with the U.S. government's C-block auction for PCS licenses, said it stands ready...
OSLO, Norway-Telenor said it is looking to increase its shareholding in Malaysian mobile operator DiGi.Com. The Norwegian company currently has a 32.9-percent stake in...
MELBOURNE, Australia-Most of the major telecommunications carriers to have successfully bid at the recent Australian 2 GHz spectrum auctions plan to adopt wideband-CDMA (W-CDMA)...
JAKARTA, Indonesia-Amid an unpredictable economic crisis, Indonesia's telecommunication sector is moving forward, with new regulation in effect since 8 September, 2000. The new regulation,...
Explaining logic behind 3GSMDear Editor: Regarding the opinion article "Happy Families" in the May-June 2001 issue, no one should leave Stuart Sharrock "disturbed" for too...
Wireless giants CMG, Comverse, Ericsson, Logica, Motorola, Nokia and Siemens are partnering to raise awareness of Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) and to promote the...
