TOKYO—Ericsson Japan on 5 June said it would develop a roaming system for wireless local area network (WLAN) providers. In Japan, some carriers, including...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—The calls for urgent changes that were recently made by Europe's leading mobile operators about the alterations to their third-generation (3G) license...
Permit issues could delay operator rolloutsHELSINKI, Finland-PTS, Sweden's telecom regulatory authority, appears to have accepted the general position adopted by operators that meeting the...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Shareholders of equipment vendor Ericsson AB have approved a $3.1 billion rights issue to help the company through uncertain times.Like Nortel Networks, Motorola...
DUBLIN, Ireland—The pressure on dominant Irish mobile operator Vodafone Ireland has intensified with the revelation that Vodafone Group is expecting its Irish operation to...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—While the cost of integrating a camera into a cell phone is only US$10, silicon chip developer STMicroelectronics has complained that European...
BEIJING—Huawei Technologies, based in Shenzhen, China, announced the launch of its U.S. subsidiary FutureWei, headquartered in Texas. The company will provide telecommunications and enterprise...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa—MTN South Africa has launched its General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) service, to be available in a trial phase to its contract...
TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo said its Taiwanese partner KG Telecommunications will begin i-mode service on 20 June. The operator will launch i-mode services on its General...
DUBLIN, Ireland—U.K.-based Research firm Strategy Analytics has claimed that mobile operators are missing opportunities to rejuvenate their average revenue per user (ARPU) rates by...
MELBOURNE, Australia—Vodafone Australia will move to prevent stolen mobile phones from being reconnected from the end of December. Telstra announced in April it would...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—In an effort to promote the use of multimedia messaging service (MMS), Vizzavi Deutschland, the wireless portal jointly owned by Vodafone and...
NEW YORK—At the request of the Securities and Exchange Commission, which is conducting an investigation into it, Los Angeles-based Platforms Wireless International Corp. said...
ORLAND PARK, Ill.—Andrew Corp., Orland Park, Ill., said June 4 it has completed its $470 million acquisition of Celiant Corp., which adds new radio-frequency...
ATLANTA—Agilent Technologies Inc. introduced a new remote monitoring system for cdmaOne or cdma2000 wireless networks that it said lowers expenses for service providers and...
HUNTSVILLE, Ala.—Time Domain Corp. said the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted a significant patent for its ultra-wideband silicon chipset. The patent, one...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden—The pending merger between Sweden's Telia AB and Finland's Sonera Corp. could be just the beginning of Nordic consolidation, with international press reports...
ATLANTA—Air2Web announced it is developing new mobile solutions for Magnet Communications' Internet Banking Suite to allow corporate banking customers to manage accounts and receive...
WASHINGTON—InPhonic Inc. has deployed its patent-pending, two-way short message service technology in tandem with eBay to provide a real-time alerts and interactive response service...
ATLANTA, United States—U.S. company Inet Technologies said it deployed its short message service tracking and billing technology for Globe Telecom in the Philippines. The...
