CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom—More than 20 million Europeans will use public wireless local area networks (WLANs) by 2006, according to a new report from Analysys,...
BUCHAREST, Romania—Albania's newest mobile telephone operator, Vodafone Albania, said it is building out its network at record speed. Vodafone Albania has extended its coverage...
WASHINGTON—The Department of Justice and Black Crow Wireless both signed the NextWave settlement papers on 27 November.Congress is expected to shortly take up implementing...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-Tele2, the holder of a Swedish third-generation (3G) license, has admitted that Ericsson may not be able to deliver the promised base...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Telia announced a new initiative to offer an open interface to content providers for mobile Internet services. The initiative is based on a...
BURNABY, British Columbia, Canada—Telus announced it is currently conducting a trial of a voice portal service that delivers location-based information on businesses, restaurants, events,...
BELLEVUE, Washington, United States—MobileGIS announced the availability of GeoMobilIT, its single platform for development and deployment of location-based services.According to MobileGIS, the new platform...
CARACAS, Venezuela—Venezuelan telecom company Cantv said it received offers for 39.7 percent of the company's outstanding shares in its buyback offer. The company launched...
SOUTH WALES, United Kingdom—Gamma Projects said it was awarded a contract with Czech Republic mobile operator Oskar to supply its Gamma NetOne software for...
MUNICH, Germany—Polish mobile operator PTC-Era has chosen a location-based services platform from Siemens and SignalSoft for delivery via Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) and short...
HELSINKI, Finland—PTS, Sweden's telecom regulatory organization, has warned telecom companies that secured third-generation (3G) network licenses that they risk losing these licenses in the...
PRAGUE, Czech Republic—The Czech government has reduced the price of its third-generation (3G) licenses from 6.7 billion crowns (US$178 million) to 3.5 billion crowns...
HELSINKI, Finland—Nokia has signed an agreement with Omnitel, a Lithuanian GSM operator, for the supply and installation of additional switching capacity to expand Omnitel's...
OSLO, Norway—Norway's Telenor Mobile said it will open its third-generation (3G) network on 1 December according to its license conditions. The Universal Mobile Telecommunications...
TORONTO—Com Dev International announced it is divesting its wireless division. The Cambridge, Ontario-based developer of wireless infrastructure and satellite hardware subsystems said it took...
REDWOOD CITY, California, United States—SkyGo has been chosen to provide Japan Mobile Communications (J-Mobile) with the wireless marketing technology to deliver advertisements across J-Sky,...
BUCHAREST, Romania—Romania's NMT operator, Telemobil, plans to commercially launch Zapp Mobile services on 7 December using cdma2000 technology. The new digital service, estimated at...
SINGAPORE-The number of mobile-phone subscribers in Singapore is finally shrinking following a cleaning by the major mobile-phone operators. SingTel Mobile and MobileOne (M1) have...
BEIJING-Samsung Electronics said it formed a joint venture with Shanghai Bell to develop, produce and market CDMA systems in China. The Chinese government approved...
JAKARTA, Indonesia—Malaysia Communication and Multimedia Commission (MCMC), the country's telecom regulator, announced a program to educate Malaysian consumers on their rights. The objective is...
HELSINKI, Finland—Nokia has allied with companies with banking and financial expertise to produce and market software for mobile and online financial services using open...
