WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission officially relieved the winning bidders of 156 licenses totaling more than $14 billion in its ill-fated attempt to re-auction personal...
BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Verizon Wireless Inc. said it intends to offer Research In Motion Ltd.'s voice-enabled BlackBerry 6750 handheld device on its cdma2000 1x-based Express Network...
SAN JOSE, Calif.- Matsushita Communication Industrial Co. Ltd. will license over-the-air application provisioning technology from DoOnGo Technologies Inc. for use in the company's Panasonic...
SAN FRANCISCO-Telespree Communications said it has completed interoperability testing of its activation and provisioning technology in a CDMA2000 1x multivendor network environment with Motorola...
WASHINGTON- National Communications System official John Graves said today T-Mobile USA will be awarded a government contract by early next week to provide basic...
NEW YORK-Leading industry players have teamed together to form a new company called Cometa Networks to provide wireless Internet access nationwide to telecom companies,...
SAN FRANCISCO-Connexion by Boeing and Cable & Wireless have joined to introduce broadband connectivity to international airline travelers starting in 2003.Lufthansa and British Airways...
RICHARDSON, Texas-Navini Networks Inc. and Pronto Networks will partner to provide a solution for service providers deploying numerous hot spots in large coverage areas,...
JOHANESSBURG, South Africa-Econet Wireless Nigeria announced it will invest US$l0 million in infrastructure in the Bauchi state, situated in the northeast of Nigeria. The...
TOKYO-J-Phone, a Vodafone Group company in Japan, will launch third-generation (3G) service in Japan on 20 December, J-Phone announced. By launching a dual terminal...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-Having deployed several thousand Panasonic GD87 cell phones, Vodafone Germany has confirmed the handsets can make billable calls without users being aware....
BEIJING-Zhou Huan, chairman and president of the Datang Telecom Technology Group, told Hong Kong's South China Morning Post that China should back its home-grown...
KIEV, Ukraine-The biggest Ukrainian carrier Kyivstar entered the international finance market for the first time to borrow US$100 million by placing bonds against a...
SURABAYA, Indonesia-PT Telkom, Indonesia's state-owned telecom company, launched its limited mobility service to retail customers this week.The so-called TelkomFlexi service employs cdma2000 1x technology...
OTTAWA, Canada-The volume of text messaging in Canada has increased 98 percent since April-when the nation's wireless carriers set up interoperable text messaging services-increasing...
BEIJING-Following complaints from rival China Mobile, China Unicom is scaling back price cuts to attract customers to its CDMA service. The company promised to...
HELSINKI, Finland-DNA Finland, the Finnish regional telecom group, has displaced Virgin Mobile as the lead contender to acquire Telia Mobile's network operations in Finland....
OXFORD, United Kingdom-Having stated in November the worldwide growth in handset sales would climb by as much as 15 percent, Nokia's Chief Executive Officer...
DUBLIN, Ireland-There was some bad news this week for supporters of greater competition in the Irish mobile-phone market, when the latest sectoral report revealed...
TOKYO-Broadband Mobile Communications (BMC), a Tokyo-based venture company, announced it will launch an experiment for mobile Internet Protocol (IP) telephony service with five convenience...
BEIJING-China's largest telecom equipment vendor China Putian Corporation, plans to build a 500 million yuan (US$60.41 million) plant to produce Xiaolintong wireless handsets to...
