MINSK, Belarus—The Belarussian Communications ministry has determined the winner of the second GSM license tender, but delayed the official announcement for several days until...
WOODBURY, New York, United States—Comverse announced Swedish mobile carrier Europolitan Vodafone will trial Comverse's multimedia messaging service over its General Packet Radio Service (GPRS)...
LONDON—Vodafone Group plc launched its first global advertising campaign, featuring television, movie, print and outdoor media. Each version of the campaign will feature the...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—Despite evidence that cell-phone users are two-and-a-half times more likely to suffer from a temporal brain tumor, medical researchers in Sweden claim...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—While it's been generally accepted within the industry for some time, Vodafone's public admission that its third-generation (3G) network would provide much...
SCHAUMBURG, Illinois, United States—Motorola revised its third-quarter forecast for this year, saying that sales will be flat compared with the second quarter, rather than...
SEOUL, Korea—Personal digital assistant (PDA) maker Handspring scored a major deal with GrandTech Korea and LG TeleCom to distribute Handspring PDAs working on LG's...
PARIS—Alcatel says it has won a contract to build mobile networks for Philippines operator Digitel to support 500,000 subscribers who will be able to...
NEW DELHI, India—Motorola said it has won a US$178 million contract to supply GSM mobile equipment to India's state-owned carrier BSNL for 1.4 million...
SUNNYVALE, California, United States—Repeater Technologies was granted a Network Industry License by China's Ministry of Information Industry, allowing its OA850C network repeater to be...
Japan's second-largest telecom company, KDDI Corp., has hired Goldman Sachs Group Inc. as an adviser on the possible sale of the company's wireless unit...
PLANO, Texas, United States—A new study shows short message service (SMS) chatting, embraced by European youth as the new cool way to communicate, is...
HERZELIA, Israel—Israel-based Formula Telecom Solutions, a developer and provider of end-to-end telecommunications management solutions, announced it was awarded a contract valued at US$10.5 million...
NEW YORK—A new study shows a surprisingly small number of consumers prefer to use speech-recognition technology; results that possibly dampen recent pushes by wireless...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—Kurt Hellstrom, Ericsson CEO, has given a downbeat view on the cell-phone market claiming there are no clear signs of a recovery....
MACCLESFIELD, England—Mobile Internet infrastructure provider Geoworks Corp. said BT Cellnet launched its developer program on BT's Expidas Web site, a move Geoworks said will...
BUCHAREST, Romania—Czech GSM operator Oskar announce that its customers can make all payment transactions at ATMs in the Czech Republic. The number of ATMs...
MOSCOW—The Rostelecom Company plans to sell its 23.5-percent stake in Moscow Cellular Communications (MCC) due to the financial losses the operator has incurred, announced...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—In a new chapter of the judicial battle taking place in Argentina to implement calling party pays (CPP) between cellular callers, companies...
LONDON—Moody's Investor Services has cut the ratings of European vendor Marconi plc to Ba1 from Baa2, the second ratings agency to relegate the firm...
SHERMAN, Texas-Texas Instruments Inc. said it has developed the fastest family chip that can enhance the overall speed of all networking systems including broadband,...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Software and services provider Pumatech Inc. announced all officers and corporate vice presidents of the company will forego 10 percent of their...
