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...
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...
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...
WALL, N.J.-Centennial Communications Corp. added 11,300 wireless customers in its U.S. operations during its second quarter ended Nov. 30, compared with a loss of...
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...
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...
RESTON, Va.—Nextel Communications Inc. entered into a co-marketing relationship with Aleph Inc., a provider of traditional and Internet-based solution for ground transportation services, allowing...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic—Centennial Dominicana and Lucent Technologies said they made a 1x wireless data call on Centennial's network in the Dominican Republic. Lucent...
BEIJING and TOKYO — China's fixed-line operator China Telecom has started offering a CDMA service in Shenzhen, a prosperous city adjacent to Hong Kong.The...
LONDON—The Tunisian Telecommunications Ministry postponed the issue of its second GSM license. The tender process has been pushed back to 9 February from 10...
WASHINGTON—The Ecuadorian government plans to sell three wireless local loop (WLL) licenses next year. Rules will be available in January, with the spectrum to...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa—Econet Wireless intends to become the dominant African telecommunications provider within the next five years. According to Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Strive...
