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...
LONDON—The Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA) published its fourth-quarter mobile portals survey, which includes Latin American mobile portals for the first time. Nine regional...
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...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—As planned, the telephony liberalization process in Bolivia began on 28 November, including a multicarrier system for national and international long-distance calls....
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)...
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....
BLYTHEVILLE, Ark.—United Communications Corp. and Canada's BritePage Technologies Inc. have entered an agreement in which UCC will represent BritePage's People Tracker Plus production in...
BEIJING—China Mobile (HK), listed on the Hong Kong and New York stock exchanges, is negotiating the purchase of eight provincial mobile-phone networks from its...
BUCHAREST, Romania—The Baltic GSM operators said that their recently announced cooperation will lead to decreased call costs for customers. The leading mobile telephone operators...
BEIJING, China—China Mobile has awarded Nortel Networks a contract of about US$78 million to expand its GSM cellular network in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous region,...
REDMOND, Washington, United States—U.S. wireless operator AT&T Wireless launched its Spanish-language Web site, allowing customers to shop online and access company information. The carrier...
RICHARDSON, Texas, United States—Ericsson issued a circular in the company notifying the staff that about 400 workers in the research and development (R&D) division...
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...
MAISONS-LAFFITTE, France—Webraska announced it is going to supply Orange U.K. with upgrades to Orange's existing multimedia location-based services.The upgraded service will allow users to...
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...
TOKYO—Sanyo Electric, a leading electronics manufacturer in Japan, and Eastman Kodak Company, on 4 December announced they will set up a joint venture for...
BETHESDA, Md.—Motorola Inc. and Access Spectrum LLC announced they have agreed Motorola will design, manufacture and market infrastructure and portable and mobile radio products...
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...
LONDON—Logica, a wireless messaging company, said it will conduct a live trial of its Multimedia Messaging Service over United Kingdom wireless carrier Orange's GPRS...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden—The Post and Telecom Agency in Sweden said it awarded wireless broadband licenses to four Swedish-based telecommunications companies, including Telia, Europolitan Holdings, Telenordia...
