TOKYO—J-Phone, a subsidiary of Vodafone Group, announced that it will launch third-generation (3G) service in Japan on 30 June. NTT DoCoMo which launched the...
TOKYO—Sharp, a leading consumer electronics manufacturer in Japan, announced that it will launch a personal digital assistant (PDA) for FOMA, the third-generation (3G) service...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa—MTN Nigeria recently launched its Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) services. This latest development reflects the company's ongoing drive to expand mobile telephony...
WASHINGTON—The re-auction winners of spectrum belonging to bankrupt NextWave Telecom Inc. and Urban Comm-North Carolina Inc. met with staff of the Federal Communications Commission...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.—Spectrian Corp., a designer and manufacturer of power amplifiers for the wireless infrastructure market, announced it formed Spectrian Telecommunications Equipment Co. Ltd., a...
DENVER, United States—Mexico's Grupo Salinas has secured a cellular license in Nicaragua after delays in finalizing the deal. Reuters reported the Mexican company's Nicaraguan...
LONDON—Jordanian operator Fastlink has unveiled its countrywide commercial General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) service. The service will enable post-paid customers to have always-on connections...
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia, United States—The local multipoint distribution services (LMDS) provider formerly known as Advanced Radio Telecom (ART) emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and...
HELSINKI, Finland—Nokia said it has begun what it calls the first volume shipments of commercial GSM/Enhanced Data Rates for Global Evolution (EDGE) hardware by...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa—The South African government has sold its 20-percent stake in mobile operator M-Cell to Ice Finance, a Dutch investor, for US$475 million....
Murray Hill, New Jersey, United States—Lucent Technologies has appointed a returning executive, Patricia Russo, as its chief executive officer (CEO). She replaces Henry Schacht,...
BOSTON, United States—The Yankee Group expects the deployment of new technologies to drive handset sales between 2002 and 2005, with Asia leading the way,...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—The National Telecommunications Council of Ecuador announced that it will auction three wireless local loop (WLL) licenses on 15 April. The companies...
NAPERVILLE, Illinois, United States—SingTel in Asia will use Tellabs' EC Duo 8000 echo canceller and voice-quality enhancement technology in its GSM network, Tellabs announced.The...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—In an effort to stimulate the use of General Packet Radio Service (GPRS)-based services, Telia Mobile has become the first cell-phone operator...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—The U.K. government is calling on cell-phone operators and terminal manufacturers to rapidly improve the security features of handsets to halt a...
MOSCOW—Russian Communications Minister Leonid Reiman said the Arabic Thuraya satellite communications company is likely to get a license in Russia if it fulfills all...
LAS VEGAS, United States—In his keynote at the 2002 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates detailed his...
ROCHESTER, New York, United States—Eastman Kodak Company announced it will spin off its wireless business into a company called Appairent Technologies, which will develop...
RESTON, Virginia, United State—Nextel Communications entered a licensing agreement with Qualcomm for the further development and deployment of Qualcomm's QChat software, which is designed...
