SAN JOSE, Calif.—A subsidiary of wireless enterprise company Semotus Solutions filed a $20 million lawsuit against Internet service provider EarthLink Networks Inc., alleging EarthLink...
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil—Cellular operator Telefonica Celular announced the commercial launch of its cdma2000 1x data and voice network in Brazil. The network, with...
LONDON—The Mobile Entertainment Forum announced a new board of directors and created two regional branches in Asia and the Americas to further growth in...
NEW YORK—Hewlett-Packard Co. said federal prosecutors have asked for documents on the voting by two of its big shareholders, Deutsche Bank and Northern Trust,...
DALLAS—MetroPCS, which offers flat-rate local wireless service in the Atlanta, Miami and the Sacramento, Calif., areas, said it has partnered with Telvista Co. to...
OVERLAND PARK, Kan.—Sprint PCS reported first-quarter results at the high end of company and analysts expectations and provided hope that the industry could meet...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, United States—Shares in wireless personal digital assistant (PDA) maker Handspring tumbled by more than 20 percent following the company's disappointing third...
REDMOND, Washington, United States—The second- and third-largest U.S. wireless operators are in talks to merge their operations according to a report from Bloomberg. While...
LONDON—European carrier MmO2 signed separate contracts with Nokia and Nortel Networks to equip its 2.5- and third-generation (3G) networks in the United Kingdom, Isle...
WASHINGTON—The U.S. Personal Communications Industry Association (PCIA) has decided to drop its annual trade show, global m-commerce user initiative and LifePage donor program and...
MANILA, The Philippines—In its attempt to cash in on the heavy use of short messaging service (SMS) among Filipinos, Philippine-based Mobile Horizons, a subsidiary...
NEW YORK—Lucent Technologies Inc. plans to cut about 5,000 more jobs, contrary to what the company had envisioned, according to the Wall Street Journal.The...
NEW YORK—Moody's Investor Services placed its ratings of Nextel Communications Inc. and Nextel Finance Co. on review for possible downgrade citing concerns about Nextel's...
WASHINGTON—The Grayson Wireless Geometrix Location System for GSM systems meets the enhanced 911 Phase II mandate, confirmed the National Emergency Number Association.Grayson, a division...
SHANGHAI, China—French vendor Alcatel is venturing into the Chinese market by providing $9 million in seed money for startups to bring about new technologies...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—Korea will see mobile penetration reach 80 percent by 2006, according to Pyramid Research. The country already has a 62-percent mobile penetration rate,...
PARIS—Three semiconductor companies announced they would forge a US$1.4 billion alliance to develop new chips with a view to cutting costs and defining standards...
TOKYO—J-Phone, a Vodafone Group mobile carrier in Japan, became the country's second-largest mobile service, exceeding au, a mobile service provided by KDDI, according to...
TOKYO—Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications, a joint venture of Sony and Ericsson, is going to set up a subsidiary in China for producing third-generation (3G)...
MOSCOW—Russia is planning to issue a maximum of four third-generation (3G) Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) licenses, but that will not happen earlier than...
BEIJING—Following a three-month trial period, China Unicom launched commercial services on its CDMA network on 8 April.The trial period went less smoothly than the...
HELSINKI, Finland—Norwegian telecom operator Telenor's competitors in Scandinavia are puzzled by the Oslo-based operator's decision to price at the high end for multimedia messaging...
