BEIJING—In more than 200 cities throughout China, China Telecom has launched its Xiaolingtong PHS service, putting pressure on mobile carriers China Mobile and China...
NEW DELHI, India—The U.S.-based CDMA developer Qualcomm finalized a deal with Mumbai-based Reliance Group to buy a minority stake in its basic service operations...
KIRKLAND, Wash.—Nextel Partners Inc. released limited fourth-quarter financial information showing net customer additions for the quarter of 81,700 subscribers, bringing its total customer base...
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...
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...
LONDON—Hutchison 3G UK partnered with BBC Technology to manage the production of Hutchison's audio-visual content to be available in its third-generation (3G) service.BBC will...
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...
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...
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...
HELSINKI, Finland—Nokia said it has signed a shared network agreement to deliver its TETRA digital professional mobile network for shared use by Beijing authorities."Nokia...
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia—Malaysia plans to award third-generation (3G) licenses to incumbent operators Telekom Malaysia, DiGi.com and Maxis Communications. The government may also waive a...
MANILA, Philippines—The adoption of wireless data applications and services among Asian mobile-phone users has to rise in order for the wireless industry to fully...
NEW DELHI, India—The two leading GSM operators in Thailand, Advanced Info Service (AIS) and DTAC, announced new investments in network expansion and marketing, anticipating...
BEIJING—In a rare and exclusive interview for the English language newspaper China Daily, the Minister of Information Industry, Wu Jichuan, discussed his country's telecom...
MENLO PARK, California, United States—Interwave Communications, which sells compact wireless voice communications systems and broadband wireless data networks, announced a US$4.4 million contract with...
REDMOND, Washington, United States—Metawave Communications said the results of its GSM smart antenna cluster deployment in Guangzhou, China, were successful.Metawave was employed by Guangzhou...
TAMPERE, Finland—Wireless data infrastructure company Tahoe Networks Inc. announced it scored an additional $10 million in funding, bringing its total funding to more than...
SAN FRANCISCO—CMP Media's Game Developer's Conference announced it will offer an expanded wireless and mobile games curriculum, including a Wireless Game Summit hosted by...
NEW YORK—Flextronics International Ltd. announced its 20 million-share offering is complete.Flextronics sold the shares for $25.96 each, bringing in gross proceeds of $519.2 million,...
DALLAS—Samsung Telecommunications America said it has unveiled a branding campaign to make it a top three wireless phone manufacturer by 2003."STA's brand positioning centers...
SAN FRANCISCO—Wireless application and software infrastructure provider vVault announced it will integrate its products with those of Genient, which provides a Web services integration...