LONDON—Vodafone said adoption of the single Vodafone brand by Portugal's Telecel Vodafone and Spain's Airtel Vodafone is complete, ahead of the original early 2002...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa—The South African government postponed the initial public offering (IPO) of Telkom, the state-controlled telecom company that has a stake in mobile...
SAN DIEGO—Verizon Wireless and Lucent Technologies demonstrated an over-the-air data call using CDMA 1xEV-DO technology at the CDMA Americas Congress. The companies noted they...
REDMOND, Washington, United States—Nokia and AT&T Wireless Services reported the completion of the first live Enhanced Data Rates for Global Evolution (EDGE) data call...
BEDMINSTER, New Jersey, United States—Verizon Wireless signed definitive agreements to acquire certain Dobson Communications wireless operations in California, Georgia, Ohio and Tennessee for approximately...
HELSINKI, Finland—Springtoys said SingTel Mobile and Globe Telecom of the Philippines adopted its games, which will reach a potential customer base of more than...
ALLENTOWN, Pennsylvania, United States—Agere Systems announced its wireless platform and semiconductor will be used in Beijing-based PTIC Capitel's new small C76088 and C6288 models,...
MANILA, Philippines—Smart Communications has chosen SchlumbergerSema's Java subscriber identity module (SIM) smart cards as its platform for data services, SchlumbergerSema said.Smart handles about 45...
Bucharest, ROMANIA—HE Shaikh Mohammed bin Khalifa Al Khalifa, Ministry of Transport under-secretary and Batelco board director, signed a nearly 9.8 million dinar (US$26 million)...
LONDON—Tunisia has restarted attempts to launch a second GSM mobile-phone license tender. The new round of bidding will close in January 2002, and the...
AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands—KPN Telecom and British Telecommunications are in talks regarding sharing their third-generation (3G) networks in the Netherlands, international press reports said. KPN...
LUXEMBOURG—Millicom International Cellular (MIC) confirmed it is in talks with Tele2 regarding the possible sale of MIC's Russian cellular assets to Tele2."It is no...
OSLO, Norway—Norway's Telenor Mobile signed a final agreement to acquire 100 percent of Hungarian mobile-phone operator Pannon GSM for about US$905 million. Finland's Sonera...
PRAGUE, Czech Republic—All three incumbent mobile operators in the Czech Republic have refused to pay the minimum US$180 million price set for the country's...
HELSINKI, Finland—Finnish mobile giant Sonera announced it is retreating from two major wireless data areas—data transaction security and wireless Internet portals.Sonera said it will...
FRANKFURT, Germany—Deutsche Telekom's wireless unit T-Mobile added 1.7 million net subscribers during the third quarter, bringing the carrier's worldwide wireless customer base to 45.6...
HELSINKI, Finland—ICE International, a technology development company based in Bergen, Norway, has confirmed plans to enter the international marketplace with new technology that will...
GAITHERSBURG, Maryland, United States—ACE*COMM announced that Mexico's Grupo Iusacell has selected its Convergent Mediation platform to collect and process use records to produce billable...
