BELLEVUE, Wash.—Sonera Zed Ltd., the wireless Internet arm of Finnish telecommunications company Sonera Corp., will add a unique mass messaging function to its Wireless...
DALLAS—Siemens Information and Communication Networks has appointed Patricia Hosek as the United States president of its Access Solutions divisions."With over six years of management...
RESTON, Va.—Nextel Communications Inc. has partnered with Major League Baseball Advanced Media L.P., the interactive media and Internet company of MLB, to sponsor Nextel...
PLANO, Texas—Cyneta Networks, a company developing a resource-aware adaptive switch, released information about its executive team, which includes former executives from Taleria Ventures, Nortel...
IRVINE, Calif.—Toshiba Corp. said it has introduced a family of chips it calls Silicon Germanium Heterojunction Bipolar Transistor for cellular phones and other wireless...
HELSINKI, Finland—Nokia Corp. said it plans to team with other wireless industry leaders to found the Liberty Alliance Project to streamline easy single Internet...
KIRKLAND, Wash.—Nextel Partners Inc. launched digital wireless service in the Grand Island, Neb., area. The service combines digital cellular, Nextel Direct Connect two-way radio,...
TORONTO—Non-line-of-sight fixed wireless equipment provider WaveRider Communications Inc. announced a restructuring plan under which the company arranged for new short-term financing, initiated a shareholders...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Telia Mobile announced it is streamlining its mobile portal business by phasing out its various existing platforms and replacing them with one joint...
DALLAS—Nortel Networks has signed a $300 million GSM contract to upgrade VoiceStream Wireless' national networks for deployment in the first quarter of 2002.Under the...
TOKYO—Qualcomm Inc.'s Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless application platform received a boost through the company's deal with video game giant Sega Corp., which announced...
WASHINGTON—The Federal Communications Commission must eliminate the spectrum cap as an interim measure while government and industry representatives attempt to find harmonized spectrum for...
MIAMI—Miami-Dade County is the latest municipality to enact a ban on the use of cellular phones while driving following the county commission's adoption of...
BELLEVUE, Wash.—Cellular One reported it will invest nearly $800 million in four states by the end of the year to upgrade the wireless infrastructure...
BOYNTON BEACH, Fla.—Motorola Inc. has teamed with Outr.Net to launch Overnight Apps, which assists business in launching custom, real-time applications and reduces development time...
MCLEAN, Va.—LCC International Inc., a provider of wireless voice and data turn-key technical consulting services, said it sold all of its approximately 1.6 million...
OWINGS MILLS, Md.—Aether Systems Inc. announced partnerships with Handspring Inc. and EON InfoTech Pte Ltd., moves furthering the company's Fusion software layer.Under its deal...
BRISBANE, Calif.—ViaFone Inc. announced it acquired XML technology provider IdeaCon Software, a move ViaFone said will extend its mobile applications with real-time and off-line...
OTTOWA—Spotwave Wireless unveiled its new SpotCell 100, an in-building coverage product that it said provides "always-on" cell phone coverage. According to Spotwave, the SpotCell...
CAPE TOWN, South Africa—ITWeb users will be able to access the company's news portal wirelessly through a deal with Clickatell."This new wireless service offers...
BEIJING—Beijing Mobile, a unit of China Mobile, said it plans to raise its call forwarding rates because of high interconnection costs.According to Reuters, China...
BANGKOK, Thailand—Thailand's CP Orange said it signed a US$250 million contract with Motorola to install cellular networks in Thailand's provinces.According to a statement by...
TORONTO—Nortel Networks Inc. said it has agreed to outsource its remaining printed circuit board assembly activities to contract electronic manufacturer SCI Systems, Inc.Nortel said...
LONDON—British Telecommunications plc and Deutsche Telekom finalized their third-generation network sharing agreement, first announced in June, for their respective mobile subsidiaries in the United...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—European cell-phone operators have been criticized by the Global Mobile Suppliers Association (GSA) for promoting the technical attributes of their networks rather...
