LONDON—SIM card and solutions provider Bluefish Technologies and mobile payment company Zaryba have jointly launched Zaryba TopUp, a new mobile payment solution that allows...
VANCOUVER, British Columbia—Canadian wireless operator Bell Mobility announced the commercial availability of Sierra Wireless' AirCard 555 Wireless Network Card on the carriers 1x network.Sierra...
OKLAHOMA CITY—Dobson Communications Corp. said it added 17,200 net subscribers during the recently completed first quarter, well below the 37,000 customers it added for...
SAN BRUNO, Calif.—Broadband wireless company IPWireless Inc. announced it will partner with Flextronics Semiconductor to develop and manufacture the IPWireless System on a Chip...
SAN DIEGO—AT&T Wireless Services Inc. launched its GSM/GPRS network in San Diego including the rollout of its recently introduced mMode wireless data service.The carrier...
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...
BEIJING—China's Eastern Communications (Eastcom) announced it is halting its 123.08 million yuan (US$14.87 million) effort to develop its own proprietary mobile-phone technology to compete...
BEIJING—The boom times in China's mobile telecom sector seem to be over. While the country still added 5.9 million new mobile-phone subscribers in February,...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—Nortel executives have admitted that the US$1.1 billion contact awarded to it by MmO2 for 2.5-generation (2.5G) and third-generation (3G) infrastructure this...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—In an effort to reduce third-generation (3G) deployment costs, Vodafone's Portuguese business, Telecel, formed a joint venture with Optimus, the cell-phone division...
TOKYO—KDDI, the second-largest telecom operator in Japan, announced it will launch a field trial for credit card settlement using third-generation (3G) handsets in the...
TORONTO—The Toronto Blue Jays have turned to technology to help boost ticket sales.The American League baseball team is using what it dubs "cyber-sellers." Equipped...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa—In the wake of recent tariff cuts by the competing GSM mobile operators, analog fixed wireless operator Intercellular announced that it will...
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...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—BellSouth doubled the quantity of users during the last six months in Ecuador, which caused a 40-percent increase in phone traffic and...
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...
BEIJING—Peter Borger, president of Siemens Shanghai Mobile Communications, told the South China Morning Post he expects the Chinese government to issue two more licenses...
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...
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...
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...
BOULDER, Colo.-Cellport Systems Inc. laid off about 80 employees and plans to exit the hands-free car kit manufacturing business.Company spokeswoman Lori Pidick told The...
SCHAUMBURG, Ill.—Motorola Inc. beat analyst expectations and reported a net loss for ongoing operations, excluding special items, for the first quarter ended March 30,...
