MELBOURNE, Australia-Wi-Fi services are burgeoning in Australia with two companies announcing the launch of commercial services this week. One of the operators, Xone, which...
TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo, the largest mobile operator in Japan, is going to grant full support to French operator Bouygues Telecom to launch i-mode-like service in...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-The arrival of the GSM mobile network operators in Nigeria has been regarded as the impetus behind the sudden increase in telephone...
BEIJING-Starting on 1 October, China's telecom carriers will be allowed to adjust prices for value-added services. The Ministry of Information Industry (MII) will continue...
SAN DIEGO-Leap Wireless International Inc. received approximately $22.2 million in cash from the sale of its equity interests in Mexican operator Pegaso Telecommunications to...
WALNUT CREEK, Calif.-Verizon Wireless Inc. expanded its Express Network service to Fresno, Bakersfield and the counties of San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara, Calif....
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-South African mobile network operator Vodacom announced it has stopped the practice of "blacklisting" stolen handsets and instead has moved toward what...
TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo, the largest mobile operator in Japan, started providing services using the N-Star C, a communication satellite that NTT DoCoMo launched by itself...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-The Paraguayan Communications Company (Copaco) approved a 100-day reconstruction plan, which will help its search for a partner to install and operate...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-The Colombian cellular operator Comcel plans to invest US$400 million before the end of 2003 to nationalize its network, which currently serves...
BEIJING-China United Telecommunications Corporation launched its 11.5 billion yuan (US$1.4 billion) domestic initial public offering (IPO), the largest ever in China by number of...
HELSINKI, Finland-Tele2, Sweden's second-largest network operator, has threatened to "hand back" its Norwegian third-generation (3G) license unless regulatory authorities in Norway relax the terms...
LA JOLLA, Calif.-IBM Corp. unveiled its new ViaVoice Translator, which the company said is an affordable consumer machine translation software that allows users to...
TORONTO-Capital expenditures fell and revenue growth was nearly flat for Canadian telecommunications service providers in the first quarter of 2002, according to a recent...
TOKYO-J-Phone Co. Ltd. said it will begin offering its J-Phone Online service nationwide next week, allowing customers to view and make changes to their...
BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Flarion Technologies Inc., Bedminster, N.J., has contracted with Flextronics, an outsourced manufacturer of telecommunications equipment, to produce its RadioRouter and PC card products...
TOKYO, Japan-Fujitsu Ltd. said it has begun providing base transceiver station equipment for NTT DoCoMo's IMT-2000 third-generation mobile networks since July."The new base station...
DALLAS- Texas Instruments Inc. said it has unveiled power interface switches that will reduce power consumption and extend battery life for notebooks, personal digital...
NEW YORK-Lucent Technologies Inc. shares dropped to their lowest ebb since the vendor's spin-off from AT&T Corp, raising the specter of possible delisting.The company's...
WASHINGTON, D.C.-Ascendent Telecommunications Inc. released the Ascendent Continuity of Government (AscendentCOG) solution at this week's Homeland Security Tech Expo in Washington, D.C.The solution is...
CLEARWATER, Fla.-Tech Data Corp. signed a distribution agreement with Cingular Wireless L.L.C. to ship Research in Motion 957, 950 and Enterprise Server Software communications...
LONDON-Vodafone Group plc signed a partnership agreement with Middle East operator Mobile Telecommunications Co., which serves more than 600,000 customers in Kuwait.The agreement calls...
HOUSTON-Wireless communication tower owner and operator Crown Castle International Corp. announced the quarterly dividend on its 12 3/4 percent senior exchangeable preferred stock was...
