BUCHAREST, Romania—According to the Tanzanian newspaper Business Day, the Tanzanian cellular operator Vodacom announced that after one year, 130,000 subscribers have been signed up...
International's roaming clearinghouse unitOLYMPIA, Washington, United States—Illuminet Holdings, a provider of signaling system 7 (SS7) network and database services to telecom carriers, signed a...
WASHINGTON—The prime minister of Australia will propose a free-trade agreement (FTA) with the United States when he meets with President George W. Bush on...
TORONTO—Diversinet announced an initiative aimed at simplifying mobile-commerce services for business, application developers and consumers in Hong Kong.The company's OneWPKI initiative will offer a...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Like rival Motorola, L.M. Ericsson said it has started licensing its GPRS and third-generation handset technologies to other manufacturers of mobile phones and...
KUNGSBACKA, Sweden—Flextronics said it has signed an agreement to make Elanders a preferred supplier of Ericsson mobile phones in Europe."Elanders will set up a...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—Entel Chile will integrate a technological call center platform developed by Genesys Telecommunications, a subsidiary of Alcatel. The solutions will allow Entel's...
DENVER, Colorado, United States—Alltel continued to pressure acquisition target CenturyTel's management last week, releasing another letter from Alltel Chief Operating Officer Scott Ford to...
LOS GATOS, Calif.—Software solution provider Streaming21 Inc. and global services company EDS are partnering to offer next-generation streaming technology solutions for transmitting and playing...
FRAMINGTON, Massachusetts, United States—IDC said phone sales have dropped three percent this year, a reflection of what it described as the ongoing IT recession...
BEIJING—China Unicom, China's second-largest operator, has signed several contracts during the month of August.Fenghuo Telecom clinched a deal with Unicom's subsidiary in Jilin Province...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—Germany's E-Plus, KPN Mobile of the Netherlands and Belgium's KPN Orange have each reached agreements with NTT DoCoMo to adopt the Japanese...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Nokia said it has signed a Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) contract to deliver core network and radio access for Europolitan Vodafone.Nokia will...
MURRAY HILL, N.J.—Lucent Technologies Inc. has named John Kritzmacher as its senior vice president and corporate controller, replacing Mark White, who has decided to...
BEIJING—According to China Mobile's general manager, Zhang Ligui, the company aims for more than 180 million subscribers by the end of China's current five-year...
LONDON—Smart-phone operating-system maker Symbian could run out of money as soon as next year, according to the company's largest stakeholder Psion plc.Psion issued the...
WAYNESBORO, Virginia, United States—VoiceStream Wireless signed a definitive purchase agreement with Ntelos and Conestoga Enterprises to purchase their GSM network in central Pennsylvania. The...
SEOUL, South Korea—Chip maker Toshiba Corp. wants to sell its dynamic random access memory chips to Samsung Electronics, a reflection of the Korean company's...
SAN JOSE, Calif.—Software and services provider Pumatech Inc. today released its fourth-quarter results, showing falling revenues and a 20-percent cut in its work force.Pumatech's...
BUCHAREST, Romania—Last week the Slovakian Minister of Economy approved a tender proposal for new GSM and UMTS licenses. The Slovakian government has set a...
TOKYO—Toshiba announced plans to cut 18,800 jobs in its Japanese operations as part of its strategy to revamp the company by 2004."With this action,...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—The joint cell phone venture between Ericsson and Sony could, according to the executives of the Swedish telecoms giant, see the Ericsson...
TOKYO—Hitachi Ltd. denied reports that it had decided to shut down its plant that makes dynamic random-access memory chips.A news report also had said...
BEIJING, China—China's state Development Planning Commission said it has approved 19 firms to make CDMA handsets to cater to part of its 120.6 million...
