TOKYO—Vodafone Group announced that its Spanish and Japanese subsidiaries completed what it called the world's first third-generation (3G) roaming call.The call was made between...
A new organization is being created to represent the views of American GSM and TDMA wireless carriers as they convert to third-generation wireless technologies...
TORONTO—Com Dev International Ltd. said it plans to sell parts of its wireless division to Mitec Telecom Inc. for about $14.6 million.The exact cash...
PARIS—Alcatel will supply a GSM network to Tanzanian Telecommunications Company Limited (TTCL) under a e25 million (US$22.4 million) contract. The first phase of the...
LONDON—NEC announced it will close a semiconductor plant in Scotland, eliminating 1,260 jobs.The Livingston, West Lothian, plant closure is blamed on the widespread downturn...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—Personal launched its GSM/General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) 1900 MHz service, provided by Ericsson, in parts of Buenos Aires, becoming the first...
OTTAWA—Industry Canada signed a memorandum of understand with the Russian Minister of Communication and Information Leonid Reiman for cooperation in communication and information technologies....
TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo, the leading mobile carrier in Japan, announced it will purchase additional shares of AT&T Wireless Inc. to maintain its current stake in...
LOS ANGELES—Purchasers of Brightpoint Inc. common stock have filed a class action lawsuit against the company, alleging false and misleading statements were made regarding...
BEIJING—Nokia officially inaugurated its largest production base in China on 20 December. Beijing Nokia Mobile Telecommunications and 15 of Nokia's component suppliers are located...
TOKYO—Mitsubishi Electric may scale back its French cell-phone subsidiary to offset losses and slowing demand, a company official said.In addition, Japan's daily business newspaper,...
HELSINKI, Finland—Finnish wireless carrier Sonera Corp. hopes to be the first carrier to offer multimedia messaging services in the first half of next year...
HELSINKI, Finland—Nokia announced it has upgraded its third-generation (3G) wideband-CDMA (W-CDMA) network to meet 3GPP's Release 99, June 2001 version standards. "The milestone of...
LONDON—Satellite communications provider Inmarsat said the Asia-Pacific region will be the major driver of demand for satellite services in 2002, following significant market growth...
BEDMINSTER, New Jersey, United States—Verizon Wireless agreed to purchase Price Communications Wireless for US$1.7 billion, including US$550 million in net debt to be assumed...
SAN DIEGO, United States—Qualcomm announced it signed memoranda of understanding to provide its Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless (BREW) technology to several wireless operators...
TORONTO—Telus Mobility, a unit of Telus Corporation, is targeting revenue of between C$2.1 billion (US$1.3 billion) and C$2.15 billion (US$1.4 billion) in 2002, up...
HELSINKI, Finland—Finnish vendor Tecnomen said it will supply a messaging solution to Brazilian operator Algar Telecom Leste (ATL). The deal, worth around US$1.6 million,...
LONDON—Vodafone Group announced changes to its regional structure effective 1 January. The changes include placing the wireless operator's interests in Japan, China and India...
PALO ALTO, California, United States—In an effort to debunk criticism of the move and rally stakeholders, Hewlett-Packard and Compaq Computer released a detailed, 50-page...
DALLAS, United States—Nokia continued its massive push for its open mobile architecture initiative by signing some of the world's largest information and technology infrastructure...
TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo, the leading mobile carrier in Japan, announced it will purchase additional shares of AT&T Wireless to maintain its current stake in the...
WASHINGTON—The association representing U.S. wireless carriers, Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association (CTIA), has made Radio Frequency Investigation (RFI) a CTIA Approved Testing Laboratory (CATL),...
