INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, United States—Brightpoint announced its Brightpoint Australia subsidiary has signed an agreement to sell and distribute Motorola mobile-phone accessories in Australia.
PARIS—Alcatel has signed a memorandum of understanding with Intrinsic Technology to set up a complete end-to-end mobile infrastructure in China for advanced data services."The...
BEIJING—Motorola (China) and China Unicom recently signed a long-term cooperation agreement. Both companies want to cooperate on data communications, network optimization and unified management...
TOKYO—Nokia has signed a contract to supply a wideband-CDMA (W-CDMA) mobile packet switching system and radio-access network to Japanese carrier J-Phone Group.The J-Phone group,...
PARIS—Alcatel has signed a contract to expand Tibet's GSM network for Mobile Communications Co. of Tibet, a subsidiary of China Mobile. It targets 280,000...
BEIJING—China's computer vendor Legend Holdings has entered a deal with Siemens AG to roll out GPRS-enabled wireless devices in China.According to the terms of...
HELSINKI, Finland—Nokia has signed a US$200 million contract with Smart Communications Inc. to expand GSM networks in the Philippines.Under the deal, Nokia will supply...
BEIJING—At the end of last year, Shanghai Mobile, China Mobile's subsidiary in the East-China metropolis of Shanghai, had 2.83 million subscribers and a network...
BEIJING—Xu Xiaotian, director of the department of electronics and information product administration at China's Ministry of Information Industry told a technology fair in Shanghai...
NEW DELHI, India—The continuing consolidation trend in India's cellular industry is now spilling over to basic service providers as well. Tata Teleservices—provider of CDMA-based...
BUCHAREST, Romania—The Jordanian GSM operator Jordan M.T.S. launched a new service for its prepaid customers.The new service, called Mobile Internet (WAP), allows customers to...
MCLEAN, Virginia, United States—Cramer Systems, a provider of provisioning software, announced a partnership with Evolving Systems that it said will help North American wireless...
MARKHAM, Ontario—Telus Mobility said it has agreed to use Lucent Technologies' SurePay Prepaid Service for Mobile Networks to standardize its prepaid calling management platform."Standardizing...
BANJUL, Gambia—Siemens has signed a US$6.6 million contract to build a GSM network for carrier Africell in the 900 MHz band.Africell expects between 15,000...
WOODBURY, New York, United States—Wireless technology is entering the home, as evidenced in Comverse's announcement that its interactive TV platform, which provides messaging and...
BUCHAREST, Romania—Thuraya Satellite Telecommunications concluded a service provider agreement with Mobile Telecommunications Company of Kuwait, a telecommunications operator in the region.As part of the...
LONDON—Standard and Poor's has downgraded U.K. telecom equipment maker Marconi to "BBB-" from "BBB+", just on the edge of junk bond status.The credit ratings...
FRANKFURT, Germany—As the company grapples with a slackening economy, Siemens may slash 3,000 more jobs to save money in its telecommunications divisions, according to...
BUCHAREST, Romania—Romanian GSM operator CONNEX announce that it has set the record high number of 1.5 million GSM customers and 100,000 XNET users."These milestones...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Illinois, United States—Motorola has agreed to supply the equipment for the BT Wireless network initiative called Expidas to launch applications for present...
BUCHAREST, Romania—Joseph C. Grioli, managing director of Vodafone Malta, officially launched the General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) pilot project, which is available to all...
MINSK, Belarus—Russian carriers for the first time participated in a foreign wireless communications tender and three of them qualified for the final stage of...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—In what appears to have been a politically motivated decision, the France Telecom-owned mobile operator Orange has dropped handsets developed by Ericsson...
