MOSCOW—Russian company Accord-Tel announced plans to create the fifth pan-Russian wireless network with the use of cdma2000 technology based on the International Mobile Telecommunications-Multi...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—With Bluetooth chipset manufacturers forecasting shipments of more than 90 million devices this year, the technology looks, eventually, like it is coming...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—Five Italian cell-phone operators have agreed, somewhat reluctantly, to a ruling from the country's telecom regulator to a revised number portability fee....
OXFORD, United Kingdom—Latvia and the Czech Republic have both indicated their readiness to deploy third-generation (3G) networks, albeit within different timescales. Operators in Latvia...
DUBLIN, Ireland—Germany's finance minister has won an important victory in the country's courts with the ruling that the government is not obliged to divide...
BOGOTA, Colombia—3G Americas, the recently announced trade organization that will advocate TDMA, GSM, GPRS, EDGE and UMTS technologies, launched Spanish and Portuguese Web sites...
WOODBURY, N.Y.—Comverse Technology Inc. announced market research results of its Voice Controlled Voice Mail (VCVM) service deployed by Italy's Blu S.p.A. mobile operator.Satisfaction level...
DENVER—Qwest Communications International Inc. reported it would potentially reduce the carrying value of goodwill by an estimated $20 billion to $30 billion as a...
OWINGS MILLS, Md.—Wireless data services provider Aether Systems Inc. announced it will buy back $15 million in convertible debt, a move that comes about...
CAMBRIDGE, England—Mitsubishi Electric says it has agreed to license the ARM926EJ-S core processor to run wireless applications on mobile phones and personal digital assistants."The...
LONDON—Vodafone Group plc acquired an additional 2.2-percent stake in Spanish wireless partner Airtel Movil S.A. following the exercise of a put option held by...
LAKE CHARLES, La.—US Unwired Inc. completed its previously reported all-stock acquisition of fellow Sprint PCS affiliate IWO Holdings Inc.US Unwired issued approximately 39 million...
SAN DIEGO—Leap Wireless International Inc. signed a definitive agreement with AT&T Wireless PCS L.L.C. to exchange six licenses in Lakeland, Fla., and portions of...
ARMONK, N.Y.-International Business Machines has announced its Websphere Everyplace Access solution, which allows employees to access data on any device on any network. This...
TORONTO—Canada's four national wireless carriers launched commercial availability of inter-carrier mobile text messaging. The four operators, Bell Mobility, Microcell PCS, Rogers AT&T Wireless and...
SAN DIEGO—Wireless streaming media company PacketVideo Corp. said it will cut an unspecified number of jobs in order to realign itself with the sluggish...
TOKYO—KDDI, the second-largest mobile operator in Japan, launched third-generation (3G) service based on cdma2000 1x on 1 April. NTT DoCoMo, the leading mobile carrier...
CHICAGO—Verizon Wireless plans to roll out its next-generation Express Network in a trio of new U.S. markets this week, including Chicago, St. Louis and...
BEDMINSTER, New Jersey, United States—Through a deal with message interoperability company InphoMatch, Verizon Wireless is now the last of the nationwide, consumer-focused carriers to...
RESTON, Virginia, United States—Nextel Communications reported in a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing that it took a US$1.6 billion charge during the fourth...
TOKYO—NTT Communications, a long-distance and international business unit of NTT Group, is going to launch wireless local area network (WLAN) service in mid-2003 using...
MOSCOW—Cdma2000 technology based on the International Mobile Telecommunications-Multi Carrier (IMT-MC) standard has made the first step toward acquiring federal status in Russia.In March, the...
LAUSANNE, Switzerland—Orange's Swiss operator has agreed to purchase Liechtenstein's Viag EuroPlatform, which owns licenses to operate GSM 1800 MHz and Universal Mobile Telecommunications System...
BOYNTON BEACH, Fla.—Korean wireless device maker HuneTec Co. Ltd., which licensed Motorola Inc.'s ReFLEX two-way paging technology, is the latest in a string of...
