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...
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...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—Despite losing a legal appeal over the timing of its third-generation (3G) license payments, British Telecommunications (BT) said it will instigate a...
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—The Barbados government has agreed with Cable & Wireless for the U.K.-based telecom company to give up its monopoly on telecom services...
ATHENS, Greece—Greece's Ote Telecom is negotiating with the government of Macedonia to acquire a mobile license in the country. The operator has submitted a...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Skanova, a Swedish developer of telephony, Internet and broadband services, has signed an agreement on the delivery of network capacity to the Universal...
BARCELONA, Spain-Logica said it demonstrated a mobile multimedia messaging system with Ezos at the UMTS 2001 Forum. Logica offers the Multimedia Messaging Service Center...
CALGARY-Zi said it will provide expertise in text entry standards to China's Datang Telecom Technology, which is developing its own line of CDMA handsets....
SINGAPORE—Virgin Mobile, which launched its service in Singapore on 12 October, has found itself caught in a disagreement between incumbents SingTel Mobile and StarHub....
TOKYO—Toshiba and KDDI will jointly launch a field test for communications between digital consumer electronics and mobile handsets next March. About 500 households in...
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...
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...
BANGKOK, Thailand—Hutchison CAT Wireless Multimedia plans to upgrade its CDMA network to offer third-generation (3G) service, according to international press reports. The company will...
SINGAPORE—Singapore's telecom regular Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) has selected four consortia to trial mobile payment solutions through a US$11 million initiative.The trials will run...
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...
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...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Ericsson signed a cooperation agreement with Vytel Asia to build out next-generation networks in the Asia-Pacific region."The two companies are combining their expertise...
MOSCOW—The CDMA Association, uniting Russian carriers operating CDMA technology, reported a record growth in the number of subscribers this year, clearly aiming to convince...
PARIS—The French government has dramatically reduced its upfront cost of third-generation (3G) licenses and extended the license terms to 20 years from 15 years.The...
