PARIS—Three semiconductor companies announced they would forge a US$1.4 billion alliance to develop new chips with a view to cutting costs and defining standards...
STAMFORD, Conn.—Wireless Internet veteran I3 Mobile Inc. announced it repurchased 1.5 million shares of the company's common stock from Keystone Ventures, which bought shares...
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.—Wireless e-mail provider Seven gained a new chief executive officer, Mark Biestman, who previously ran worldwide field operations for Commerce One.Seven's previous...
NEW YORK—AT&T Wireless sold $3 billion worth of global bonds on Thursday, according to co-lead manager Lehman Brothers Inc. Due to nervous investors the...
WASHINGTON—Access Spectrum LLC, the band manager for private-wireless users, said on Thursday that it is acquiring the 220 MHz band licenses of Aerwav Inc."This...
KANSAS CITY, Mo.—Sprint PCS and handset manufacturer LG InfoComm unveiled the Sprint PCS Phone 4NE1 by LG, a dual-band handset that features changeable side...
DUBLIN, Ireland—Mobile satellite communications operator Inmarsat has launched an e-mail, video streaming and file transfer service for corporate jet users. The London-based company said...
LONDON—Mobile operator MmO2 said it has signed a 10-year deal worth hundreds of millions of dollars to outsource IBM Corp.'s customer care software.According to...
RALEIGH, N.C.—Summus Inc. announced its BlueFuel-powered Exego application has been ported to the Microsoft PocketPC platform to allow wireless subscribers to exchange e-mail, digital...
TORONTO, Ontario—Research In Motion Ltd.'s new GPRS BlackBerry wireless e-mail/mobile phone device is now available throughout Canada through the company's deal with Rogers AT&T...
EDISON, N.J.—LSSi Corp. launched its Jolt self-service mobile directory that allows Web-enabled wireless device users to look up telephone listings.Jolt users simply enter search...
DENVER—Radio-paging company Peregrine Inc. announced it will acquire Gotta Go Wireless, a nationwide data messaging and cellular company."This is a very significant acquisition for...
PRAGUE, Czech Republic—The Czech government launched a second round of a tender to acquire a majority stake in state-owned Cesky Telecom after receiving bids...
HELSINKI, Finland—Norwegian telecom operator Telenor's competitors in Scandinavia are puzzled by the Oslo-based operator's decision to price at the high end for multimedia messaging...
BEIJING—Following a three-month trial period, China Unicom launched commercial services on its CDMA network on 8 April.The trial period went less smoothly than the...
MELBOURNE, Australia—Optus is likely to delay the rollout of its $A900 million (US$478 million) third-generation (3G) mobile network beyond its proposed date of November...
NEW DELHI, India—Tata Teleservices, a basic services provider, will launch its "limited mobility" service using wireless local loop (WLL) technology in five circles, or...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—The Colombian government passed a decree authorizing the auction of three regional licenses for personal communications services (PCS) on the C band...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa—Econet Nigeria has announced that it reduced the fee of its monthly contract package called Business Parta from US$35 to US$21.Bolaji Balogum,...
BEIJING—China's dominant mobile-phone carrier, China Mobile, signed an agreement with U.S. wholesale telecom carrier ITXC to exchange international phone traffic over ITXC.net, ITXC's global...
WASHINGTON—Verizon Wireless appealed a decision by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) last month to return 85 percent of the deposits for the winning bids...
LONDON—Inmarsat Ltd., a mobile satellite communications provider, began offering to corporate jet passengers April 10 its new "Swift64" service, which provides data speeds of...
