TOKYO—NEC Corp. and Matsushita Electric Industrial are discussing a broad alliance to jointly develop mobile video phones and other handheld devices, according to a...
MELBOURNE, Australia—Australian wireless carrier Telstra Corp. quickly backtracked on a plan to push advertisements to its subscribers after Australia's communications minister harshly criticized the...
ISTANBUL, Turkey—Turkish mobile carrier Turkcell today said it will launch its new mobile Internet service, SurfCell for WAP and General Packet Radio Service (GPRS)...
NORTH HOLLYWOOD, California, United States—Walt Disney Internet Group today said the company's wireless content will be distributed to Taiwanese mobile users under an agreement...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Ericsson said it has decided to acquire the remaining 19 percent of its joint venture EHPT from Hewlett-Packard in order to enhance its...
BUCHAREST, Romania—Vodafone Albania launched its GSM mobile telephone service less than six months after it secured the license. Vodafone Albania, 49-percent owned by Panafon-Vodafone,...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Ericsson said it has licensed its technology for smart card transactions over the mobile Internet to France-based Xiring, which designs and markets personal...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Illinois, United States—Motorola said it might sell off its chip unit if it does not generate sufficient profit within an unspecified time...
BELLEVUE, Washington, United States—Teledesic said it has selected Alenia Spazio and Lockheed Martin Commercial Space Systems as the two finalists to build Teledesic's satellite...
TOKYO—On Aug. 21, NEC Corp., Matsushita Electric Industrial and Matsushita Communication Industrial, announced plans to combine forces in the third-generation (3G) mobile handset business....
BEIJING—Chinese mobile telecom equipment supplier Eastern Communications reported a 28-percent fall in profits to CNY131.21 million (US$15.87 million) in the first half of the...
DUESSELDORF, Germany—German prosecutors are investigating whether executives of Vodafone Group plc and Mannesmann received illegal compensation from the companies' US$180 billion merger, according to...
PALO ALTO, California, United States—Agilent Technologies said it would slash about 4,000 workers just as it posted a third-quarter pro forma loss of $109...
DURHAM, North Carolina, United States—Pinpoint Networks released the newest version of its mobile applications platform, Fuel, which the company said will allow carriers to...
BUCHAREST, Romania—GSM Kazakhstan announced that it has the largest mobile communications subscriber base in Kazakhstan with 330.000 subscribers. The company, operating under the brand...
PHOENIX—Under a strategic partnership, Yaahteh Communications L.L.C., a majority Navajo-owned company, and North/South Communications Corp. will work to provide a telecommunications network to the...
PLANO, Texas, United States—Switching Solutions provider Santera Systems said it has secured US$110 million in its third round of funding, raising its total amount...
BEIJING—The China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) is planning to give the go-ahead to China Mobile to become the first issuer of China Depositary Receipts...
BEIJING—Nortel Networks signed a US$250 million contract with Taiwan's Chunghwa Telecom to expand the carrier's GSM 900 MHz and GSM 1800 MHz dual-mode network...
ATLANTA, United States—A new personal communications services (PCS) antenna was introduced to the wireless world by EMS Wireless, a division of EMS Technologies Inc.The...
