LONDON—Hutchison 3G UK, which purchased a license to offer third-generation (3G) services in the United Kingdom last year, signed an agreement with U.K.-based electric...
SAN SALVADOR, EL SALVADOR—Wireless carrier Digicel signed an agreement with Velocitel to develop its GSM network in El Salvador.The "build-to-suit" lease arrangement will allow...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—Five companies have applied to participate in the privatization of the Paraguayan National Telecommunications Administration (Administraci
TORONTO—Canadian Internet infrastructure software company 724 Solutions is reacting to the tepid wireless environment by laying off an estimated 350 employees. Third fiscal quarter...
BEIJING—China's Datang Technology, China Electronics Corporation Wireless (CECW) and the Dutch firm Philips Semiconductors have agreed to form a joint venture to design and...
BEIJING—China Unicom has published an advertisement in China's English-language newspaper China Daily seeking candidates for 16 managerial posts from general manager of the general...
BEIJING—Sixteen foreign mobile-phone suppliers spent 196.47 million yuan (US$23.77 million) on advertisements in China during the first half of the year, accounting for 89...
TOKYO—NEC said it will supply a mobile Internet platform to Taiwan's KG Telecom, which will begin its i-mode-like mobile Internet service in mid-2002. The...
CEDAR KNOLLS, N.J.—Two new studies show a huge market potential around the world for messaging services, and, according to Probe Research, U.S. wireless carriers...
BEIJING, China—Ericsson AB says it has signed a deal to deliver Mobitex system to Chinese operator Sky Networks Communication Group Co. Ltd. here and...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Using PipeBeach's VoiceXML platform, Europolitan Vodafone's customers are now able to download and listen to ring tones simply by using their voice.Europolitan Vodafone...
SAN DIEGO—Qualcomm Inc. says it has developed the first Bluetooth version 1.1-compliant cdma2000 1x commercial chipset with baseband Link Manager Protocol, Logic Link Control...
HELSINKI, Finland—Nokia Corp. says it has begun supplying its GPRS solution as part of a nationwide project for China Mobile Communications Co.'s network.The network...
VANCOUVER, British Columbia—Electronics manufacturing service provider Solectron Corp. has set plans to offer Sierra Wireless design support, prototype, pilot and volume manufacturing services for...
HELSINKI, Finland—Nokia Corp. rolled out a new category of handset with a music player, FM radio, messaging machine and games platform in the phone.The...
SAN FRANCISCO—Communication and messaging company Critical Path Inc. said its restructuring plan, initially announced in April, has been substantially completed and is successful."The progress...
OSLO, Norway—Tandberg, a video conferencing solution provider, introduced the Tandberg 1000, a video conferencing system capable of running on a wireless local area network.The...
SAN DIEGO—Qualcomm Inc. says it has begun production shipment of its MSM5100 third-generation cdma2000 1x chipset and system software."The MSM5100 chipset and system software...
BOULDER, Colo.—SignalSoft Corp. announced VoiceStream Wireless Corp. licensed SignalSoft's Location Centre product, as well as its W911 product for GSM networks, to comply with...
SAN JOSE, Calif.—LGC Wireless announced it has been awarded $19.3 million in venture capital funding.The investment was led by Allegis Capital, who will now...
ATLANTA—BellSouth announced it is offering its wireless e-mail service for the Motorola Talkabout T900, a two-way messaging device capable of communicating with any other...
MURRAY HILL, N.J.—Lucent Technologies Inc. has announced a multiservice switch to enable service providers to deliver converged voice, data and video applications to businesses...
