ALEXANDRIA, Va.—The Personal Communications Industry Association's (PCIA) Site Owners and Managers Alliance (SOMA) announced it has formed the SOMA Technology Committee, which will promote...
WASHINGTON—The Department of Justice and Black Crow Wireless LP both signed the NextWave settlement papers on Tuesday.Congress is expected to shortly take up implementing...
CAMBRIDGE, U.K.—Antenova and ip.access have announced a partnership to develop directional antennas for GSM picobasestations, small, easy-to-install base stations that can complete network coverage,...
JACKSON, Miss.—Air2Lan has named Osmo Hautanen, former Nokia Corp. executive, to its board of directors."Working with Air2Lan's board of directors presents an opportunity to...
SAN JOSE, Calif.—In a move to redirect Motorola Inc.'s two-way pager devices toward the business market and against Research In Motion Ltd.'s BlackBerry device,...
SINGAPORE—SchlumbergerSema announced that its Hong Kong smart card manufacturing facility has been certified by the GSM Association's Security Accreditation Scheme (SAS).SchlumbergerSema is the first...
ATLANTA-AirGate PCS Inc.'s stockholders approved a proposal to merge the company with fellow Sprint PCS affiliate iPCS Inc. at a special stockholders meeting.Under the...
ATLANTA—Cingular Wireless unveiled Voice Connect, the carrier's first voice portal product, allowing customers to speak a name or phone number to make a phone...
TREVOSE, Pa.—Verizon Wireless and Wawa Food Markets announced an agreement allowing Wawa to operate an Air Link Raven II CDPD radio-modem on the Verizon...
SAN DIEGO—Leap Wireless International Inc. launched its Cricket wireless service in the combined markets of Merced and Modesto, Calif. Leap now offers service in...
LUBBOCK, Texas—Alamosa Holdings Inc. applied for listing of its common stock to begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol...
BOISE, Idaho—Verizon Wireless said its has upgraded its Idaho network to handle more calls and offer enhanced services, including Mobile Web, Mobile Messenger and...
BEIJING—Motorola is expected to supply China with Terrestrial Trunked Radio (TETRA) and iDEN digital dispatch systems in preparation for the organization of the 2008...
BEIJING—There is some controversy over which foreign vendor has sold the most handsets in China so far this year. According to International Data Corporation,...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—The telecom regulator of Uruguay, Unidad Reguladora de Servicios de Comunicaciones (URSEC), has decided to postpone the auction of personal communications services...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—Three Spanish mobile operators are expected to make an appeal before Spain's National Court over a government-imposed fee for using cell-phone spectrum....
NEW DELHI, India—Nortelpa, a "mini-mirror" telecom service provider in Brazil, has selected the CorDECT wireless local loop (WLL) system of Midas Communication Technologies of...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—The much troubled German e-commerce developer Brokat Technologies has agreed to sell its mobile business unit to EOne Global, a U.S. company...
HELSINKI, Finland—A sectoral report by Nordea, the largest commercial bank in the Nordic countries and Baltic-rim region, has concluded that Swedish investment in third-generation...
