DOHA, Qatar-Motorola and Alcatel said they have signed a US$60 million contract to supply infrastructure equipment for Qatar's state-owned carrier Qatar Telecom.The network will...
RESTON, Va.-Nextel Communications Inc. launched the new Motorola Inc. i88s mobile phone, which includes support for location-based services with global positioning satellite technology, a...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Describing the product introduction as networks in motion, Cisco Systems Inc. has rolled out a new mobile access router that will work...
OREM, Utah-Rappore Technologies Inc. introduced its Shield 1.1 software solution designed to address security concerns for wireless local area networks.Rappore said the software automatically...
MILPITAS, Calif.-Palm Inc. announced its board of directors approved a 1 for 20 reverse stock split."The decision made by Palm's Board of Directors to...
NEW YORK-Orange Communications will offer presence-aware messaging through a new deal with Antepo."Instant messaging is a key initiative within Orange," said Andreas Waber, director...
TOKYO-Japanese vendor NEC Corp. has taken a 5-percent stake in two mobile-phone subsidiaries owned by Hutchison Whampoa Ltd. for a total $73 million. The...
Several analyst firms have highlighted Asian carriers-and not the highly watched Japanese operators-as being in the best positions to capitalize on the current mobile...
HONG KONG-With the cellular phone market saturated at 86 percent of the population, Hong Kong's wireless engineers have wasted no time in jumping on...
MILPITAS, California, United States-Palm announced its board of directors approved a 1-for-20 reverse stock split."The decision made by Palm's board of directors to complete...
PARIS-French mobile operator Bouygues Telecom was awarded a third-generation (3G) license by the French regulator for about US$610 million.Bouygues Telecom opted out of the...
NEW YORK-Moody's Investors Service has assigned a speculative grade liquidity rating of SGL-3 to tower owner and operator Crown Castle International Corp.Moody's said that...
NEW YORK-Citing increased competition and challenges integrating former WorldCom Wireless customers, Lehman Brothers lowered its net customer additions guidance for AT&T Wireless Services Inc.'s...
WASHINGTON, D.C.-Ernesto Vargas Guajardo, president and chief executive officer of MVS Communications, will deliver the opening keynote address at the Wireless Communications Association's Ninth...
SAN BRUNO, Calif.-IPWireless Inc. said Clearwire Technologies will deploy its next-generation broadband everywhere technology, beginning with a major U.S. city in the first quarter...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-VeriSign Inc. has finalized three new contracts for its NetDiscovery services, an outsourced solution for compliance with the Communications Assistance for Law...
OSLO, Norway-Europolitan Vodafone filed a formal request with PTS, the Swedish national telecom regulator, asking for an extra two years to meet its third-generation...
HELSINKI, Finland-Following discussions with senior government ministers in Denmark, the Brussels, Belgium-based European Investment Bank (EIB) has drafted a proposal to loan Danish mobile...
MANILA, The Phillipines-GSM technology has inherent vulnerabilities that can be exploited by hackers, a recent World Bank study has warned. According to a paper...
NEW DELHI, India-The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has terminated the license of Koshika Telecom, a cellular service provider in Uttar Pradesh (East) circle, following...
MELBOURNE, Australia-Australian telecommunications watchdog, the Australian Communications Authority, has returned a favorable report card for the first year of mobile number portability (MNP) with...
PARIS-Thierry Breton, former chief executive of French consumer electronics company Thomson Multimedia, was nominated as chairman and chief executive officer of France T
