NEW DELHI, India-The Indian mobile subscriber base has doubled in a year-from 1.59 million subscribers at the beginning of 2000 to 3.1 million users...
OSLO, Norway-Telenor said it would exercise its option to sell its 10-percent stake in German operator Viag Interkom GmbH to British Telecommunications plc. The...
TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co. announced a joint research effort aimed at improving multimedia delivery and network applications over fourth-generation wireless broadband networks....
NEW YORK-Extent Technologies is beta testing a new generation of software designed to help wireless carriers rate and bill multiple kinds of wireless services...
Almost a month after the apparent demise of TSR Wireless L.L.C., which was the nation's fourth-largest paging carrier before it suddenly closed its doors...
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. announced a nonexclusive agreement with e-business solutions company Unisys, which Nokia said will help it better support network operations.The move will...
SOUTHFIELD, Mich.-Sprint PCS announced it will deliver wireless voice and data communications solutions to all 2001 Jaguar vehicles in North America, according to an...
SAN DIEGO-Leap Wireless International Inc. announced a $250 million line of credit from Acqua Wellington North American Equities Fund Ltd., which the company said...
BEDMINSTER, N.J.-TruePosition Inc. and Verizon Wireless have successfully completed testing TruePosition's Wireless Location System in Manhattan, New York.The testing demonstrated sub-100 meter location results...
Freedom Wireless Inc., Las Vegas, has been granted an additional patent, entitled "Security Cellular Telecommunication System," covering 59 claims directed at methods for completing...
DURHAM, N.C.-Pinpoint Inc., founded last year by then high-school students Jud Bowman and Taylor Brockman, unleashed its Search Anywhere unified search and navigation platform,...
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. announced it will license its CDMA technology to Research In Motion Ltd., which will develop CDMA and 1xEV data-centric wireless devices.RIM...
AirNetUnited States. With MBO for a GPRS system.Value: UndisclosedAlcatelGambia. With Gamtel for a turnkey GSM network to be installed in the greater Banjul area.Value: UndisclosedPortugal. With...
Dear Editor: I have found your Global Wireless news to be quite edifying. I, however, must correct you on the "First Caribbean CPP provider emerges"...
HONG KONG-"This time it's for real," stated Robert Mao, president of Nortel Networks China.But Irwin Jacobs, chairman of Qualcomm, was rather more sanguine. "I've...
GENEVA-Europe is set to witness an explosion in the number of mobile base stations, as operators gear up for the imminent launch of third-generation...
LONDON-State regulators in Europe are gearing up to promote the 40 GHz-43.5 GHz band for fixed-wireless telecom services, which will enable new entrants to...
HONG KONG-"Third-generation services are here," proclaimed the advertisements from Qualcomm at International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Telecom Asia 2000. "The wait is over." Korea's SK...
DENVER, United States-Like the harmony of opposites, caution and adventure characterize the journey to the wide-scale rollout of General Packet Radio Service (GPRS). Vendors...
PRAGUE, Czech Republic-During the 11 years since the fall of communism in Central Europe, the region's countries have rapidly embraced mobile telephony, including the...
TOKYO-KDDI, the second-largest carrier in Japan, has decided to launch its third-generation (3G) services based on High Data Rate (HDR) technology. KDDI will launch...
HONG KONG-Hong Kong's usually efficient telecom regulators are struggling in their efforts to license third-generation (3G) spectrum, while avoiding the damaging costs of European-style...
NEW DELHI, India-The Indonesian cellular phone market, which witnessed strong growth during 2000 despite political turmoil, is set for further expansion in 2001 when...
TOKYO-KDDI, the sole cdmaOne operator in Japan, has been expanding its international roaming services, fully using its universally standardized cdmaOne technology.In January, KDDI launched...
