FRANKFURT, Germany—Texas Instruments said it is bidding for German telecom equipment maker Condat in a deal valued at about US$93 million. According to the...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
COSTA MESA, Calif.—Global positioning system technology manufacturer Axiom Navigation Inc. said it acquired Traxsis, which provides software that locates mobile users.Axoim's GPS engine has...
REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.—The market for wireless enterprise services continues to heat up today, with several companies positioning themselves to give mobile workers access to...
HELSINKI, Finland—Sonera said it reached a deal with other shareholders of the Dutch holding company Fintur Holdings B.V. that will allow Sonera to increase...
WASHINGTON—The Federal Trade Commission said it reached a settlement with personal digital assistant maker Palm Inc. concerning FTC charges that Palm misguided customers about...
ATLANTA—Cingular Wireless signed a supply agreement with Nortel Networks for GSM/GPRS infrastructure upgrades in the United States, including Puerto Rico.Under terms of the $500...
NEW YORK—Moody's Investor Services lowered its long-term rating of Qwest Communications International Inc. and fully guaranteed Qwest Capital Funding from Baa2 to Baa3; its...
MURRAY HILL, N.J.—Lucent technologies Inc. said it has introduced two cdma2000 base station systems to enable operators to increase capacity. Verizon Wireless is the...
BELLEVUE, Wash.—Infowave Software reported an agreement with Mobile Planet, a multichannel direct reseller, providing Infowave's Symmetry Pro wireless corporate e-mail software solution to its...
HONG KONG—Indian company Lifetree Convergence Ltd. said it supplied its billing and operations system for Shell, which launched a mobile virtual network operator service...
LAKE CHARLES, La.-US Unwired Inc. reported 41,070 net personal communications services customer additions for the fourth quarter of 2001, ending the year with 277,036...
SAN FRANCISCO—Multimedia mobile delivery company Mazingo Network is offering a subscription service that allows users to access rich-media content from hundreds of channels.Included in...
BOSTON—Market research firm Yankee Group said although Mexican mobile subscriber numbers surpassed fixed-line subscribers in 2000, revenues from mobile services will not overtake switched...
KANSAS CITY, Mo.—Sprint Corp. said it expects its wireless division to add between 700,000 and 750,000 net subscribers during the first quarter of this...
NORTH HOLLYWOOD, Calif.—Qualcomm's BREW platform scored another major developer deal, this time with Walt Disney and its ESPN-branded sports games.Under the deal, Walt Disney...
CHICAGO—Centerpost Corp. said it has been chosen to provide Motorola Inc. with an enterprise alerting solution that will allow Motorola's IT organization employees to...
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.-IBM Corp. introduced the first mobile workstation known as ThinkPad A31p with high-speed graphical performance with wireless technology, security and ease...
