JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-Witness Mangwende, Zimbabwean minister of transport and communications, has informed parliament that the regulatory body, the Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-The U.K.-based consumer magazine Which has called on prepaid cell-phone users to consider saving money by switching to yearly contracts with their...
DUBLIN, Ireland-Handset manufacturer DBTEL, which already has contracts to produce phones for a number of leading European operators including British Telecommunications (BT), is to...
TOKYO-Fujitsu Research Institute, a research arm of Fujitsu Limited, has developed a home-use robot controlled by a mobile phone, the company announced.According to the...
SEOUL, South Korea-South Korea's mobile payments made for purchases of digital content or other inexpensive products may face a disruption as the Fair Trade...
NEW YORK-PayCircle, a group formed to push mobile commerce applications through standard application programming interfaces-released the PayCircle Payment Web Service Specification 1.0, which covers...
TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo, the largest mobile operator in Japan, gained merely 2,200 new subscribers for its third-generation (3G) services in September, which brought NTT DoCoMo's...
NEW DELHI, India-The Thai government agency, Communications Authority of Thailand (CAT), plans to seek a foreign strategic partner as part of its restructuring exercise,...
DUBLIN, Ireland-Barely a week after its parent company British Telecommunications (BT) revealed plans to re-enter the U.K. consumer mobile market, there are indications that...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-In an effort to drive General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) traffic, Vodafone has struck a deal with Fujitsu Siemens that will see...
HELSINKI, Finland-BrainHeart Capital, a Stockholm-based group dedicated to investments in wireless technologies, has decided against investing in the third-generation (3G) industry, 3G company stocks...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-Tabloid newspapers in the United Kingdom have used banner headlines to alert readers that hundreds of cell-phone transmitter masts have been secretly...
TORONTO-Canada's Research in Motion (RIM) is facing allegations that it agreed to pay New York broker Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB) to ensure analyst...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-Alvaro Uribe's Colombian government has decided to postpone the national-level auction of three regional personal communications services (PCS) licences until January and...
WASHINGTON-Two U.S. Supreme Court justices seem to hold the fate of bankrupt NextWave Telecom in the palms of their hands.If NextWave is to prevail,...
SAN FRANCISCO, United States-Telephia reported more than half of the overall U.S. population living in major metropolitan areas now own mobile phones and subscribe...
ATLANTA-Intec Telecom Systems will provide Denmark's Sonofon with a solution to collect and process usage data on voice, data and short message service traffic...
WAYNESBORO, Va.-Ntelos Inc. said it added 13,043 net customers during the recently completed third quarter, more than double the 5,171 the carrier added during...
SOUTHBORO, Mass.-ViryaNet Inc. announced LoJack Corp., which tracks and recovers stolen vehicles, has chosen the ViryaNet Service Hub, Mobile Workforce Management, Service Scheduler and...
EL PASO, Texas-Verizon Wireless Inc. expanded coverage of its Express Network service to metropolitan El Paso, Texas, and southern New Mexico. The carrier said...
WASHINGTON-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. agreed on Wednesday to pay $2 million to the U.S. Treasury following revelations that it was not deploying enhanced 911...
SANTA BARBARA, Calif.-Somera Communications, which provides telecommunications equipment and equipment deployment services, announced it acquired Compass Telecom through an asset-purchase transaction.Compass Telecom provides outsourced...
