BUCHAREST, Romania—In a press statement, the Czech Telecommunications Office (CTU) said that only mobile operators RadioMobil and EuroTel Praha submitted bids for third-generation (3G)...
TORONTO—Research In Motion (RIM) announced another major European move, this time with Telecom Italia Group in Italy to introduce RIM's BlackBerry wireless e-mail device...
BEIJING—China wants to speed up development of its trunked radio communication system based on Terrestrial Trunked Radio (Tetra) technology for its governmental departments and...
DUBLIN, Ireland—Logica announced a live trial implementation of multimedia messaging service (MMS) over Orange U.K.'s General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) network. The trial is...
DUSSELDORF, Germany—Cisco Systems said it will lead a consortium of industry and academic institutions in building a pan-European Internet Protocol (IP) version 6-research network...
HELSINKI, Finland—German mobile operator Viag Interkom launched its prepaid service for General Packet Radio Service (GPRS), using a Nokia solution for processing charging data...
SHAUMBURG, Ill.—Motorola Inc. said it has unveiled two new handsets, the i90c and i80s, which it says users can customize with downloadable applications.The phones,...
TORONTO—BCE is propping up its mobile-phone subsidiary Bell Canada International by putting in up to C$500 million (US$317 million) to meet financial obligations of...
DENVER, United States—Ericsson, Nokia and Siemens said they signed long-term contracts with U.S. carrier Cingular Wireless to supply significant portions of the carrier's GSM/General...
NEW YORK—Winstar Communications auctioned off its assets 5 December at the offices of Winstar counsel Shearman & Sterling in New York.As previously reported, Winstar...
WASHINGTON—Finkelstein, Thompson & Loughran filed a securities fraud class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia on behalf of...
PITTSBURGH, United States—U.S. operator Alltel will use Marconi's wireless network planning tools to optimize its existing network and to plan for the rollout of...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa—Cell C, the third South African mobile network operator, announced its postpaid offerings and tariffs 15 days after going live with its...
OXFORD, United Kingdom, and TOKYO—An agreement made last year between Siemens and Toshiba to co-develop a wideband-CDMA (W-CDMA) handset has been "deferred." Siemens, which...
BEIJING—Two regulations banning foreign investment in China's telecom carriers will be abolished on 11 December, when China effectively joins the World Trade Organization (WTO).The...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—The newly floated European mobile operator mm02 confirmed its timescale for launching third-generation (3G) services is at least six months behind schedule....
MOSCOW—The biggest Russian carrier Mobile Telesystems (MTS) has reportedly reached a deal to buy a controlling interest in the fourth-biggest regional carrier, Kuban GSM,...
MOSCOW—Two major Russian carriers, Mobile Telesystems (MTS) and Vimpelcom (BeeLine) said they plan to place their first Euro bonds, and market experts commented the...
LONDON—The Isle of Man's third-generation (3G) network is now live after about a six-month delay from the original scheduled launch. Manx Telecom, a subsidiary...
SAN FRANCISCO—Hewlett-Packard Co. says the Packard family foundation is meeting Friday to deliberate on the merits and demerits of supporting the company's merger with...
WASHINGTON—The ComCare Alliance ACN Data Set Working Group announced it published a draft automatic crash test notification data standard in XML.The standard will facilitate...
