LONDON—Although European awareness of application service providers (ASPs) is growing, enterprises still seem cautious to implement the services, according to a recent Frost &...
FRANKFURT, Germany—Nortel Networks said it has a contract with T-Mobil to supply it with its high-performance frame relay core network consisting of Passport 7480...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—Five companies have applied to participate in the privatization of the Paraguayan National Telecommunications Administration (Administraci
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...
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...
NEW YORK—Bell Labs researchers said they have developed a software architecture, called Common Operations, that will enable global roaming across all wireless network types,...
BOCA RATON, Fla.-SBA Communications Corp. said it increased its portfolio by 210 towers in the third quarter ended Sept. 30, bringing the company's total...
LONDON—According to the GSM Association, about three-quarters of a billion short message service (SMS) messages are sent out every day, a soaring number for...
NEW YORK—Millicom International Cellular (MIC) announced its worldwide operations added 190,792 net new cellular subscribers in the third quarter, increasing its subscriber base by...
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...
GLOUCESTERSHIRE, United Kingdom—Chronos Technology began offering Globalstar's packet data satellite service in Europe, with the main applications being remote measurement and telemetry in remote...
WASHINGTON—The Bush administration pledged to accelerate efforts to give national security and emergency response personnel priority access on mobile-phone networks, a capability previously shunned...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Illinois, United States—Motorola signed an approximately US$30 million deal to upgrade and expand Horizon PCS' CDMA system to 1x networks in the...
SYDNEY, Australia—Cable & Wireless Optus, Australia's second-largest mobile operator owned 52.8 percent by Singapore Telecommunications, said it would cut 250 staff and 100 contractors...
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...
TOKYO—NTT East and NTT Corporation announced that they will launch a high-speed wireless local area network (LAN) service with a data transmission speed of...
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...
HELSINKI, Finland—Nokia said it will expand its General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) solution as part of a nationwide project for China Mobile Communications' network.The...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—Cell-phone operator BT Viag, the German subsidiary of BT's MmO2 mobile division, said it plans to launch Microsoft's combined Pocket PC and...
KIEV, Ukraine—The Supreme Ukrainian Arbitration Court backed the South Korean Daewoo Corporation in its conflict with the Ukrainian RadioSystems (Wellcom) carrier, in which Daewoo...
LONDON—Diederik Karsten, chief executive of KPN's mobile-phone division, intends to leave the company next month, according to a report by The Financial Times.Board director...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Illinois, United States—Motorola said it will lay off 7,000 more workers as it announced a third-quarter loss of US$1.4 billion, its third...
