HELSINKI, Finland—In a deal that marks Playboy's entry into the wireless market, the U.S.-based adult entertainment company, partnered with Finland's Wireless Entertainment Services Finland...
SEATTLE and LOS ANGELES—The amount of wireless Internet content continues to move ahead at Warp speed, as two companies announced major new releases.First, Jamdat...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Tele2 announced a mobile virtual network operator agreement in Germany with Viag Interkom. Tele2 will use Viag's mobile network to provide the air...
MADRID, Spain—Vodafone Group plc completed live international roaming calls using the UMTS 3GPP wireless standard between Vodafone's operations in Madrid, Spain and J-Phone in...
BEDMINSTER, N.J.—Verizon Wireless agreed to purchase Price Communications Wireless for $1.7 billion, including $550 million in net debt to be assumed or redeemed. The...
WOBURN, Mass.—Verizon Communications and Nuvera Fuel Cells launched a fuel-cell powered telecommunications site, representing phase two of a joint effort between the companies to...
ROME—Telecom Italia has agreed to sell its 26.89-percent stake in Spanish telecom operator Auna for $1.8 billion. The other Auna shareholders will each take...
MILWAUKEE—Three technology companies teamed up to announce the U.S. release of a wireless payment acceptance software they said will help merchants capture sales information...
TAIPEI, Taiwan—Taiwan will hold Asia's first third-generation license auction after seven companies showed interest in five licenses. Seven consortia will begin the bidding process...
Israel awards 3G, 2G spectrumROSH HAAYIN, Israel—Israel's Ministry of Communications has awarded third-generation spectrum to the country's three incumbent mobile operators and second-generation spectrum...
RESTON, Va.—Globicom Wireless, which provides wireless data services over a variety of networks, will resell Motient Corp.'s wireless e-mail services, the companies announced."Globicom has...
NEW YORK—Motorola Inc. will port Emblaze Systems Ltd.'s MPEG4 multimedia player into its DragonBall MX1 microprocessor, which is one of the major processors used...
TOKYO—Toshiba Corp. announced it is selling its Virginia-based chip manufacturing plant to Micron Technology, thus exiting the dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chip manufacturing...
BURNABY, British Columbia—PMC-Sierra has released its PM2360-KIT Gandalf reference design kit, a reference platform for third-generation wireless base station designs.PMC-Sierra said the new design...
TOKYO-Mitsubishi Electric Corp. may scale back its French cell phone subsidiary to offset losses and slowing demand, a company official said.In addition, Japan's daily...
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...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—Wireless infrastructure provider MobileSys Inc. announced it integrated its MX software with Siebel Systems Inc.'s Siebel 7 software, which will allow Siebel...
STAMFORD, Conn.—Sunday Communications Ltd. said it will use the SmartServQ wireless short message service system from wireless applications and services provider SmartServ Online.Sunday, which...
MOSCOW—A major Russian investment company, Sistema-Telecom Financial Corporation, said it will sell the Personal Communications (SONET) CDMA carrier as the project has no future...
JAKARTA, Indonesia—Malaysia's TimeCel recently launched an interactive short message service (SMS) quiz promotion. The promotion, called Juara Lagu 2001 SMS Quiz, runs from 1...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—The four Swedish telecom operators that acquired third-generation (3G) licenses last year will face heavy fines if they fail to complete their...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Swedish vendor NCC Telecom said Sweden' third-generation (3G) license holder Hi3G selected it to provide 3G infrastructure. The agreement covers the construction of...
WASHINGTON—Oftel, the U.K. regulatory agency, referred its proposed decrease in the cost of calling mobile phones to the European Competition Commission. The action comes...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Swedish wireless carrier Telia Mobile announced it will offer a wireless Internet service much like NTT DoCoMo's wildly popular i-mode service.Telia's service, dubbed...
WASHINGTON—Both the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and Verizon Wireless warned late 11 December that if Congress does not pass legislation codifying the settlement of...
