DENVER, United States—Aerie Networks, a privately held broadband services company, acquired Metricom's Ricochet wireless broadband network for US$8.25 million in cash.The deal was awarded...
KIRKLAND, Washington, United States—ICO Global announced it has reached final agreement on its merger with New ICO Global Communications.ICO Global, previously known as ICO-Teledesic...
SAN DIEGO, United States—Qualcomm announced a fourth-quarter earnings report that fell short of market estimates. The company attributed it to lower interest on loans...
WAKEFIELD, Massachusetts, United States—In an effort to spur mobile commerce, four credit card giants joined forces to create the Mobile Payment Forum, which will...
RALEIGH, North Carolina, United States—Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications and MobileAria announced a partnership to promote in-vehicle Bluetooth adoption.MobileAria said it will support and market...
NEW DELHI, India—The Indian government has decided to award licenses for Global Mobile Personal Communication by Satellite (GMPCS) services for a period of 20...
BEIJING—Australia's Telstra and China Unicom have signed a memorandum of understanding to further explore business opportunities covering fixed and wireless services, including voice and...
KUALA LUPUR, Malaysia—Malaysia will award three third-generation (3G) licenses through a "beauty contest" process, with licenses priced at about US$13 million. The number of...
BEIJING—By the end of the year, China will set up a new telecom carrier, the China Telecommunications Satellite Group Corporation, by merging the satellite...
WHITE PLAINS, New York, United States—NextWave Telecom reached an agreement with the federal government to relinquish its personal communications services (PCS) licenses to the...
TORONTO—In a major joint announcement, four of Canada's wireless carriers said they are joining forces in an effort to stimulate short messaging service (SMS)...
WOODBURY, New York, United States—Comverse, a unit of Comverse Technology, announced T-Mobile International's wireless German subsidiary, T-Mobil, selected the company's voice portal to deliver...
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia—Ericsson announced a contract of an unspecified amount to supply wireless broadband equipment to Russian operator Combellga."The contract includes base station hubs...
LONDON—The WAP Forum and the GSM Association announced they will formalize and strengthen their cooperative alliance, collaborating on projects such as the GSM Association's...
HELSINKI, Finland—Nokia signed a US$20 million agreement with Jiangxi Mobile Communications to extend the supply of radio-access equipment to rural areas in China.The contract...
BEIJING—New York's CI Wave and Beijing's Taiji Computer are jointly planning, developing and building a nationwide 3.5 GHz broadband fixed wireless access (BFWA) data...
BEDMINSTER, N.J.—Verizon Wireless Inc. filed an updated registration statement relating to its potential initial public offering of common stock with the Securities and Exchange...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa—Mobile network operators MTN, Vodacom and Cell C recently signed a new interconnect agreement with fixed-line operator Telkom. Perceived as creating a...
DENVER, United States—Venezuela's leading operator, Telecommunicaciones Movilnet, signed a US$150 million contract that will allow Lucent Technologies to build a nationwide third-generation (3G) cdma2000...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—Lucent Technologies has invested US$5 million in Argentina for new offices, which include a laboratory where Lucent can monitor the functioning of...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—Swedish cell-phone operator Telia plans to offer consumers a free three-month trial of General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) in an attempt to...
LONDON—Cable & Wireless said Denmark's Sonofon has purchased its mobile data roaming service, Cable & Wireless GRX. The service will allow Sonofon to further...
NORTH HOLLYWOOD, California, United States—Disney content is moving onto European mobile phones for the first time through a deal between T-Mobile International's mobile online...
