CARY, N.C.—SpectraSite Communications Inc. announced agreements with The Rouse Company and Westfield America Inc., both real estate development and management companies, whereby SpectraSite has...
RESTON, Va.—Nextel Communications Inc. chief executive officer Tim Donahue picked up 20,000 shares of company stock on Feb. 26 at $4.84 per share, according...
IRVINE, Calif.—Mericom Corp. said it is closing three regional offices and Bill D'Agostino, the company's president and chief executive officer, has elected to leave...
NEW YORK—The Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) plans to hold its next quarterly general meeting in Orlando on March 19 in conjunction with the Cellular...
HONG KONG—Motorola said it signed a US$253 million agreement to supply GSM 1800 MHz network equipment to TA Orange in Thailand.The deal includes radio...
BOSTON, United States—The state fixed-line operator Telecom Egypt has invited bids to build Egypt's third cellular GSM network on the 1800 MHz frequency band....
HELSINKI, Finland—Nordic telecom companies Sonera, Telia and TDC have confirmed their interest in bidding for a 25-percent equity holding in Ukrainian Mobile Communications (UMC),...
TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo and Oracle said they plan to collaborate on the technology and development of advanced mobile enterprise solutions, as well as sales and...
OTTAWA—Sprint PCS and Nortel Networks completed trials using Nortel's CDMA smart antenna technology, which Nortel said is designed to provide double the voice capacity...
WASHINGTON—The government of Honduras plans to assign two new mobile telephony licenses. The licenses are planned for two of five frequency bands—in 800 MHz...
ATLANTA, United States—Cingular Wireless signed a $500 million supply agreement with Nortel Networks for GSM/General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) infrastructure upgrades in the United...
BOSTON, United States—Market research firm Yankee Group said although Mexican mobile subscriber numbers surpassed fixed-line subscribers in 2000, revenues from mobile services will not...
CALGARY—Cell-Loc, a developer of network-based wireless location technology, contracted Brazilian manufacturer PST Industria Eletronica de Amazonia to manufacture Cellocate beacon devices.Under the agreement, PST...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—French and British cell-phone operators would appear to be adopting opposite third-generation (3G) investment strategies. Bouygues, the French telecom company, said it...
OXFORD, United Kingdom, and TOKYO—Hidden within the first cell-phone announcements from Sony Ericsson was the fact that the joint venture's P800 smart phone device...
TOKYO—The number of mobile Internet users in Japan exceeded 50 million riding on the country's i-mode boom. The Telecommunications Carriers Association, an industry association,...
MELBOURNE, Australia—For the first time, there are more mobile phones in Australia than there are fixed telephone lines, the Australian Communications Authority announced in...
MANILA, The Philippines—Short message service (SMS) technology, more popularly known as text messaging among Filipino mobile users, proved to be a substantial source of...
JAKARTA, Indonesia—Heru Prasetyo, Indonesia's Accenture country manager, suggested cellular operators should increase their average revenue per user (ARPU) from its current less than US$20...
NEW DELHI, India—Pak Telecom Mobile Limited, a fully owned subsidiary of Pakistan Telecommunications Corporation offering GSM 900 MHz services under the Ufone brand in...
HONG KONG—Indian company Lifetree Convergence said it supplied its billing and operations system for Shell, which launched a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) service...
HONG KONG—Hong Kong telecom regulator Office of the Telecommunications Authority (OFTA) said it plans to give unused spectrum to mobile operators. The unused spectrum,...