LONDON—Marconi and Somera Communications announced a strategic partnership to deliver configuration of Marconi's power solution combined with Somera's OneSource services for rural carriers across...
WOODBURY, New York, United States—Comverse said Guangdong Mobile Communications selected it to expand its Intelligent Short Message Service Center. The new agreement increases Guangdong...
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia—Aptilo Networks signed an agreement to supply South Korean Internet operator Unitel with mobile access servers for a mobile network.Aptilo has delivered...
ATLANTA—Cingular Wireless rolled out its Wireless Internet Express General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) service in a number of markets in the Southeast and in...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—The Italian government has told its five third-generation (3G) license holders that it has no plans to follow the French government's example...
LONDON—Motorola Inc. says it has revised its view of when it expects third-generation mobile services to attract mass-market acceptance in Europe to 2004 instead...
BURLINGTON, Massachusetts, United States—CTI Squared said Israel's Bezeq has begun a unified messaging trial called OneMail using CTI's unified messaging application. Access to the...
TOKYO—Matsushita Communication Industrial, the leading mobile handset vender in Japan, announced that it is expecting to have a 40 billion yen (US$325 million) operational...
TOKYO—Fujitsu, a leading communications vender in Japan, announced it is expecting to have a 310 billion yen (US$2.5 billion) net loss for fiscal year...
TOKYO—NEC, a leading communications vender in Japan, announced that the firm is expecting its revenues for fiscal year (FY) 2001 ending March 2002 to...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—The grand plans by Royal Philips Electronics to become a worldwide player in the cell-phone market have all but disappeared with the...
SHANGHAI, China—Hewlett-Packard Company and Microsoft have announced plans to expand their software business in China and have decided to hire more staff for that...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Swedish vendor Ericsson posted a loss of US$377 million in its third-quarter earnings reports just as it announced that its chairman, Lars Ramqvist,...
DOVER, N.J.—Casio and Sierra Wireless announced their plans to jointly deliver several wireless solutions. The Sierra Wireless AirCard wireless modems will support the new...
NEW YORK—Millicom International Cellular (MIC) said it will complete the final distribution of its shares to the former shareholders of Millicom Incorporated pursuant to...
BEIJING—Qualcomm signed an agreement to allow KT Freetel to launch its Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless (BREW) to end users in South Korea on...
REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.—Oracle Corp. announced its Oracle 9i Application Server, along with the company's Oracle9i Lite for wireless devices, now allows users to centrally...
BUCHAREST, Romania—According Gulf News, a United Arab Emirates (UAE) newspaper, Thuraya's services will be available in 30 countries, including Pakistan, Sudan, Libya, Egypt, Syria,...
HELSINKI, Finland—Nokia signed a deal of about US$36 million to supply and install Malaysian operator TimeCel with full GSM 1800 MHz infrastructure to expand...
BEIJING—Motorola said it has made its first cdma2000 1x data call successfully in a live demonstration to Chinese telecom operators at the PT Wireless...
TORONTO—Facing tough times, Microcell Telecommunications has laid off 5 percent of its work force. The Montreal-based carrier of the Fido brand wireless service gave...
MURRAY HILL, New Jersey, United States—Lucent Technologies fell below market estimate as it recorded a fourth-quarter net loss of US$8.8 billion, or US$2.59 a...
LONDON—Vodafone Group said its average revenue per user (ARPU) has begun to stabilize based on its end-September financial figures.The operator said its total inactive...
MOSCOW—Sonic Duo, which has the third GSM license in Moscow, will finally start operating in the capital in late November under the Megafon trademark.Besides...
