PLANO, Texas-Terion Inc. extended its existing contract for wireless communications supporting its FleetView trailer monitoring system with Verizon Wireless Inc. until 2005. Financial terms...
WILMINGTON, Del.-Bankrupt Devon Mobile Communications L.P. will sell 75 wireless communications towers to Mountain Union Telecom L.L.C., pending court approval.Devon Mobile was forced to...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-Despite the fanfare surrounding Nokia's launch this week of its first third-generation (3G) handset, many insiders remain adamant that there are significant...
PORTLAND, Ore.-Enhanced directory assistance provider Metro One Telecommunications Inc. said it will discontinue service for Cingular Wireless L.L.C. in California, Nevada and Washington after...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission said it will no longer require cellular carriers to provide coverage maps to their customers.While other wireless carriers have not...
SEOUL, South Korea-Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and Mitsubishi Electric Corp. have come together in a strategic alliance to develop camera chips for mobile applications...
NEW DELHI, India-The cellular subscriber base in India will explode during the next few years, but the average revenue per user (ARPU) will register...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-Content providers looking to launch reverse-billed short message service (SMS)-based services are calling on cell-phone operators to increase the price limits set...
SAN ANTONIO-SBC Communications Inc. said it will make more cuts to its workforce and further reduce capital expenditures, blaming the telecom industry's economic strife...
WELLINGTON, New Zealand-Verizon Communications has sold most of its 21.5-percent stake in Telecom New Zealand. Verizon sold its stake to Merrill Lynch, which then...
WASHINGTON-A state appeals court in Illinois has affirmed a lower court ruling that threw out a cancer lawsuit brought by former Motorola Inc. engineer...
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia said Vodafone Ireland has selected it as the sole supplier for its W-CDMA network. Nokia said deliveries will begin in October.The value...
TOKYO-Mitsubishi Electric announced it developed Internet Protocol (IP) mobile technology for wireless local area network (WLAN) and PHS data communications. The firm is aimed...
TOKYO-Sharp, a major consumer electronics maker, assumed the third position, after NEC and Matsushita Communications Industrial, in the Japanese mobile handset market in the...
PARIS-French supplier Alcatel Corp. said it signed two separate contracts with Guangxi Unicom for its fifth GSM network expansion and marginal network contract valued...
FRANKFURT, Germany-Germany's troubled telecom firm MobilCom said it would cut 1,850 jobs and halt the rollout of its third-generation network in Germany.The German company...
CHICAGO-U.S. Cellular Corp., which is in the middle of overlaying its CDMA/TDMA network with cdma2000 1x technology, said it has begun testing Qualcomm Inc.'s...
BEIJING-China Mobile plans to buy 300,000 General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) handsets to promote its multimedia messaging service (MMS), which the company will launch...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-The Telecommunications Secretary in Argentina authorized Millicom to rent the infrastructure network of existing cellular operators. This is the first time there...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-A dispute between MSI/Detecon and the Tanzania government concerning the network operator the Tanzania Telecommunications Company Limited (TTCL) is said to be...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-Kyocera Wireless entered the Chilean cellular market as a terminal provider for the Smartcom PCS network. Smartcom is the first South American...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Vodafone Group's Swedish subsidiary Europolitan will not meet regulator deadlines for building a third-generation (3G) network.Europolitan Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Jon Risfelt said...
HACKENSACK, N.J.-GoAmerica Inc. announced EarthLink Inc. will take over its billing, customer care and network services operations under a major new partnership between the...
BEIJING-Fixed-line carrier China Telecom received the green light from the Hong Kong Stock Exchange for an initial public offering (IPO) worth US$3.4 million to...
