NEW YORK—PayPal Inc., a Palo Alto, Calif. start-up company providing mobile and electronic commerce payment services, saw shares of its initial public offering, priced...
INDIANAPOLIS—Brightpoint Inc. said it has completed the formation of the joint venture with Hong Kong-based Chinatron Group Holdings Ltd. it announced last October.Brightpoint gave...
LUXEMBOURG—SK Telecom has selected Mach for the provision of its roaming and clearing services. Mach said it will support SK Telecom in the implementation...
KIBBUTZ EYAL, Israel—Israeli company Eyal Microwave said it received a new order from a Korean manufacturer for cdma2000 1xEV-DO 1800 MHz power amplifiers. The...
MURRAY HILL, New Jersey—Lucent Technologies introduced its MiLife Intelligent services gateway to enable mobile operators to develop and deliver enhanced voice and data services...
ARLINGTON, Virginia, United States—Iridium Satellite announced the five satellites it launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base on 11 February have ascended into their assigned...
SWINDON, U.K.—Lucent Technologies said it has completed successful tests for Internet Protocol (IP) virtual private networks (VPN) using Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) equipment."The...
LONDON—The Wireless Village standards group released its version 1.0 specifications for wireless instant messaging, prompting a range of new product and service announcements from...
BOSTON, United States—According to a new report from Strategy Analytics, Samsung will fall below Siemens in 2002 global cellular market share results, and Sony...
TAMPERE, Finland—Tahoe Networks said it is helping European operators create mobile data service business models that will reverse the decline in average revenue per...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Ericsson said it plans to lay off about 300 workers in Norway as part of the company's overall cost-cutting strategy.Most of the job...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden—A new Swedish company announced its formation to vie for the fourth GSM license that Sweden's telecom regulator PTS plans to award by...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa—Mobile operator MTN has cited the high interconnection rates imposed by the state-owned operator Nitel as the main reason for its high...
MOSCOW—Siemens has reportedly won the tender for equipment supplies for the construction of the second GSM 900/1800 MHz network in Belarus, which is to...
LONDON—About 23,000 high-end Samsung A300 mobile phones valued at approximately US$6 million disappeared from a warehouse in West London this week.Police believe the handsets...
LONDON—Vodafone Group signed a partner agreement with Finish mobile operator Oy Radiolinja to cooperate in developing, marketing and offering international products and services.Under the...
WASHINGTON—The Federal Communications Commission filed a petition for a writ of certiorari Wednesday afternoon to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of...
SAN DIEGO—Qualcomm Inc. has named Anthony Thornley as its new president and chief operating officer and William E. Keitel as its senior vice president...
PHOENIX, United States—After years of quiet work, Space Data finally officially announced its plan to operate as a carrier's carrier by using weather balloons...
CHICAGO, United States—The Uzan family, owners of Turkish wireless carrier Telsim, warned the lawsuit recently filed against them by Motorola and Nokia could force...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—Having run up debts of US$17 billion, the United Kingdom-based cable operator NTL has denied that money problems are behind its decision...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—The U.K. government has put an effective ban on the use of wireless local area networks (WLAN) within its departments because of...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa—The third network operator in South Africa announced that it will target the youth market with the launch of its latest package...
