OXFORD, United Kingdom-The public failure of U.S.-based wireless local area network (WLAN) operator Mobilestar has drawn fresh attention to what could be a successful...
TOKYO—NEC won the largest market share of 29.4 percent, exceeding its rival Matsushita Communication Industrial, in the Japanese mobile handset market in the first...
CARACAS, Venezuela—CANTV's board of directors agreed on a plan to repurchase 15 percent of its stock at US$30 per American Depositary Receipt (ADR) to...
TOKYO—Talks between Korea's SK Telecom and Japan's NTT DoCoMo have stalled without signs of moving forward, according to international press reports. The talks have...
OSLO, Norway—Telenor Mobile said it began several location-based short message service (SMS) services through an agreement with Pocket IT. Positioning data from Telenor Mobile's...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—German manufacturing giant Siemens has announced a further 7,000 job cuts, of which 2,000 will be within its cell-phone division, and has...
HELSINKI, Finland—Nokia and Finnish carrier Sonera have conducted their first wireless local area network (LAN) roaming based on GSM technology, according to Nokia."Operators have...
DENVER, United States, and TORONTO—In the first such announcements from operators for second-generation (2G) networks, two separate network sharing agreements were announced this week—one...
BEIJING—Ericsson has signed an agreement worth nearly US$535 million to supply GSM/General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) equipment, software and services for Guangdong Mobile Communication."Ericsson...
BEDMINSTER, New Jersey, United States-Verizon Wireless said it will begin previewing its high-speed 1x network in select U.S. cities as a precursor to the...
GAITHERSBURG, Maryland, United States—Ace*Comm said Compania Dominicana de Telefonos (Codetel) placed a series of orders to extend its use of the company's mediation technology....
LONDON-European vendor Marconi said its third-quarter results met its projections with an operating profit of US$7.5 million.The company, which announced the resignation of its...
BEIJING—South Korea's Samsung Electronics plans to join Kejian and two other Chinese companies to set up a joint venture in China's southern city of...
TEL AVIV, Israel—Alvarion said Mexico's Alestra is deploying its base stations and terminal equipment in the 10.5 GHz frequency band. The equipment will address...
TOKYO-An international standards body agreed on methods to support the unrestricted movement of third-generation (3G) terminals, called global circulation. The sixth meeting of the...
DENVER, United States—The Barbados government has agreed with Cable & Wireless for the U.K.-based telecom company to give up its monopoly on telecom services...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Illinois, United States—Motorola said it won a US$34.8 million contract from China Unicom to expand the carrier's 800 MHz CDMA networks in...
TOKYO-Sharp and SOMA, a U.S.-based venture, tied-up over the next-generation wireless communications business. Based on the agreement, Sharp will provide "several million" U.S. dollars...
TOKYO—Matsushita Communications Industrial tied up with UTStarcom for third-generation (3G) technology. Based on the bilateral agreement, both firms will jointly develop and provide total...
