MOSCOW—The second-biggest Russian carrier Vimpelcom (BeeLine) placed its first euro bonds worth US$250 million to finance network expansion across Russia.Vimpelcom Vice President Valery Goldin...
NEW YORK—Medis Technologies Ltd., which is developing direct liquid ethanol fuel cells for use in wireless handsets and other portable electronic devices, has received...
MIAMI—Brightstar Corp. announced the launch of Brightstar Chile, a new subsidiary in Chile. The company now operates subsidiaries in 12 Latin American countries, including...
OVERLAND PARK, Ill.—Buffeted by the reduced equipment spending of telecommunications carriers, Andrew Corp., Overland Park, Ill., reported second-quarter net income of $3.3 million on...
CINCINNATI—Convergys Corp. announced it has signed a five-year billing and customer care contract to provide its Atlys billing product to PrimeCo Personal Communications to...
DUBLIN, Ireland—Hutchison 3G, part of the Hutchison Whampoa Group, signed a contract with software developer Network365 for the provision of mobile payment software across...
SEOUL, Korea—Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. reported $7.6 billion in total sales for the first quarter and $1.46 billion in profits, which marked a record...
HOLTSVILLE, N.Y.—Wireless and mobile computer maker Symbol Technologies Inc. reported lower revenues compared with the same quarter last year, and it lowered its expectations...
DUBLIN, Ireland—Hutchison 3G announced it will offer mobile payment services through a deal with Network365.Under the agreement, Hutchison 3G will deploy Network365's payment platform,...
BERWYN, Pa.—Ntelos completed the sale of its personal communications services licenses in Charlottesville and Winchester, Va., to Triton PCS Holdings Inc. for $12 million....
BOULDER, Colo.—SignalSoft Corp. axed approximately 80 employees, bringing its work force down to 150.The company said three weeks ago it would be reducing headcount...
DALLAS-Texas Instruments said it has introduced a new development kit for its OMAP processing platform to allow wireless software developers and device manufacturers to...
DENVER—Qwest Communications International Inc. revised financial guidance for this year citing continuing weakness in both the telecommunications sector and the regional economy in its...
TOKYO—Coca-Cola Japan, NTT DoCoMo and Itochu jointly announced that they will establish Coca-Cola vending machines with which i-mode users can purchase a can of...
NEW DELHI, India—It will cost less to make calls over mobile networks in Pakistan beginning 1 May.The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) reduced the airtime...
CUPERTINO, Calif.—Boingo Wireless Inc. said it has implemented Portal Software Inc.'s billing solution, known as Infranet, for mobile service providers."Boingo developed its billing infrastructure...
HELSINKI, Finland—Telfort, the Dutch subsidiary of U.K.-based MmO2, has entered a strategic agreement with Ericsson under which it will outsource all its mobile network...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—After announcing its wireless initiative last week, BT Group said it is aware of the security concerns surrounding wireless local area network...
JAKARTA, Indonesia—Indosat Multimedia Mobile (IM3) said it will continue its free General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) offering until the end of April, with an...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa—Safaricom, the joint venture between Telkom Kenya and Vodafone Group, has reported that the operator's subscriber base has grown from 15,000 to...
TOKYO—The Japanese government on 17 April sent a letter of counter argument to the U.S. government regarding the U.S. governmental claim that Japanese mobile...
AUSTIN, Texas—Metrowerks announced the shipment of its new CodeWarrior Development tools, a set of tools that enables application and content development for Tao Group's...
