TEL AVIV, Israel—BreezeCom and Floware Wireless Systems said they completed their merger and are renaming the newly merged entity Alvarion.The company's shares will trade...
GENEVA, Switzerland—The Swiss telecom regulator said it is not against pushing back its deadline for third-generation (3G) services to launch. The country awarded four...
LONDON—BTopenworld said it will launch a two-way satellite service to deliver broadband access to homes and small and medium-sized businesses in rural areas of...
FRANKFURT, Germany—In preliminary first-half results, Deutsche Telekom revealed it would not list part of its T-Mobile subsidiary this year.The company's results were in line...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—Consumers continue to shun mobile e-commerce because of a lack of confidence in their cell-phone operator to manage secure transactions, claimed a...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, United States—The WAP Forum officially launched the specifications for Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) version 2.0, an upgrade that includes added functionality...
MIAMI, United States—Brightstar announced that its recently released second quarter 2001 revenues show it has captured the market share lead in Latin American wireless...
TORONTO—Primal Technologies, intelligent specialized network applications provider, announced it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to provide Caribbean Telecommunications of Guyana with its PSN450...
SEOUL, Korea—Samsung said Brazilian operator Telesp Celular recently chose Samsung as the best among its handset suppliers. The carrier assessed all its supplier companies,...
LONDON—African mobile operator Orascom Telecom announced it plans to invest US$500 million during the next five years in building its GSM infrastructure in Algeria,...
LONDON—German vendor Siemens has won a contract, worth about US$17.6 million, to design, install and integrate a GSM network and telecommunications services for rural...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—The recent news that T-Motion, the mobile portal division of Deutsche Telekom, will charge Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) users for certain previously...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—Some of the major shareholders of Blu, Italy's fourth-largest mobile operator, have made it clear they no longer want to remain involved...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Illinois, United States—Motorola said it has signed a US$47 million deal with Morocco's leading operator Maroc Telecom to expand GSM network infrastructure...
MUNICH, Germany—Siemens has completed a global purchasing agreement with Orascom Telecom for the construction and extension of GSM mobile networks. The three-year contract includes...
WASHINGTON—A group of 16 House Democrats on 31 July warned the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) not to grant the waiver requests of wireless carriers...
WASHINGTON—Bankrupt PCS carrier NextWave Telecom, in a strongly worded response, on 30 July urged the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to deny a petition filed...
SAN JOSE, California, United States—Metricom announced it will cease operations in all its markets on Wednesday, 8 August, to conduct a wind down of...
NEW DELHI, India—Bharti Cellular has won the maximum number of eight licenses in the bidding for fourth cellular licenses in 17 Indian telecom circles,...
TOKYO—NEC, the leading high-tech enterprise in Japan, and Cybird, a mobile content provider, partnered for a content business in Korea. Under the deal, NEC...
BEIJING—Japan's Hitachi is negotiating with China's Hisense Group to set up a mobile handset manufacturing joint venture in China in the second half of...
BEIJING—China's second-largest mobile operator, China Unicom, launched its Uni-Info wireless data service on 1 August. The carrier will charge customers a connection fee...
SYDNEY, Australia—Telstra Mobile said it launched the first short message service (SMS) game in Australia. The game is based on the television program "Who...
