NEW DELHI, India—A price war in prepaid cellular services in Mumbai and New Delhi—India's biggest GSM markets—is in the offing, with the state-owned MTNL...
BEDMINSTER, N.J.—Verizon Wireless acquired the business assets of CDMA operator Alabama Wireless Inc., expanding the carrier's footprint throughout a seven-county area stretching from Birmingham...
KABUL, Afghanistan—Ericsson has set up a mobile telecommunications system to support the World Food Program of the United Nations humanitarian operations for the next...
SAN FRANCISCO—Start-up Mazingo Network is looking to enter the already-crowded market for wireless enterprise products and services by pricing its solution down to only...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.—Proxim Inc. and Western Multiplex Corp. agreed to merge and will operate going forward under the Proxim name.Under terms of the agreement, each...
WASHINGTON—The Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday approved the reorganization of the agency, announced FCC Chairman Michael K. Powell. The FCC is in the process...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—While the U.K. government wants to force the four U.K. cell-phone operators to adopt more rigorous security measures in the hope that...
SUNNYVALE, California, United States—Spectrian, a designer and manufacturer of power amplifiers for the wireless infrastructure market, announced it formed Spectrian Telecommunications Equipment, a wholly...
LOS ANGELES—Oberthur Card Systems said it has successfully connected its SIMphonIC CDMA card to China Unicom's CDMA network.According to Oberthur, the test, which used...
WASHINGTON—A leading public-safety organization today told the Federal Communications Commission it has serious concerns about potential interference from ultra-wideband transmissions to radio systems used...
TOKYO—Showa Denko K.K., a leading electronics device maker, in cooperation with NHK, a Japanese public broadcasting company, jointly developed new materials for organic electroluminescent...
LONDON—Vodafone Group signed a global agreement with Ericsson to supply multimedia messaging software, which Vodafone plans to use to introduce its Multimedia Messaging Service...
NEW YORK—A trio of wireless carriers tapped the deep well of the debt markets last week, collectively raising nearly US$2 billion.Korea Telecom was first...
DULLES, Virginia, United States—America Online (AOL) unveiled a new notification service that will allow its customers to receive news, stock, weather and sports information...
SCARBOROUGH, Maine, United States—Gabriel Electronics is acquiring Endwave's antenna business, the company said."This agreement meets our stated objective to divest this business segment in...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Ericsson said it has signed an agreement to license its mobile technology to Samsung in return for a royalty payment and reciprocal license...
TAIPEI, Taiwan—Taiwan's third-generation (3G) license auction is under way, with the five licenses offered expected to bring just above the minimum bids. The auction...
SINGAPORE—The Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) is seeking comment on a possible change in charging methods between Singapore operators for calls from and to mobile...
AUSTIN, Texas, United States—Motorola said it sold its GSM/General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) handset chip technology to Benq of Taiwan, one of Asia's leading...
KING OF PRUSSIA, Pennsylvania, United States—InterDigital Technology Corporation (ITC), subsidiary of InterDigital Communications, is expanding its patent license that includes CDMA and third-generation (3G)...
WOODBURY, New York, United States—Wireless messaging company Comverse announced several major China Mobile operators have deployed its prepaid short message service (SMS) product."This prepaid...
