DENVER—Qwest Communications International Inc. said the SEC has informed the company that it will be subject to a formal investigation regarding its accounting practices....
TORONTO—Moody's Investor Services has lowered Nortel Networks Corp.'s credit rating to junk status.The rating on its senior long-term debt dropped to Ba3 from Baa3,...
FAIRFAX, Va.—IBM Corp. entered an alliance with Trust Digital LLC. to provide secure data on mobile devices.Using password protection, data encryption and a variety...
WASHINGTON—A class-action antitrust lawsuit filed against the mobile-phone industry in early January and promptly withdrawn two weeks later is expected to be refiled today...
MELBOURNE, Australia—Former directors of failed mobile-phone operator One.Tel this week launched a new telecommunications reseller with a strikingly similar company name, TeleOne. The announcement...
WASHINGTON—Lawyers for Christopher Newman in an US$800 million brain-cancer lawsuit against the mobile-phone industry have notified the U.S. federal judge overseeing the case that...
CLINTON, Miss.—WorldCom Group announced it will cut 3,700 jobs, affecting six percent of WorldCom Group's work force, or four percent of WorldCom Inc.'s overall...
THE HAUGE, The Netherlands—KPN Mobile said it will begin offering mobile data services based on i-mode, the technology developed by its Japanese partner NTT...
BELLEVUE, Wash.—VoiceStream Wireless will cut about 260 jobs from offices in Atlanta, Memphis, Tenn. and Louisville, Ky. as part of the ongoing incorporation of...
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Several major trade associations have joined to send a letter to President George W. Bush in support of his leadership in securing more...
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association announced seven laboratories are now authorized to test wireless products for the CTIA Certification Program."Our seven authorized...
Secretary of Commerce Donald Evans was the keynote speaker at today's Spectrum Summit. Following are his prepared remarks.As I stand here in our Department...
WASHINGTON—The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) granted a temporary waiver to VoiceStream Wireless to provide wireless priority access service (PAS) on a short-term basis to...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa—Nigerian mobile network operator Econet Wireless has unveiled its latest product called Wireless Talk, an informational and educational column published in the...
NEW DELHI, India—Spice Nepal, a joint venture between India's ModiCorp and Nepali trading house Khetans, is expected to launch its GSM services in the...
NEW DELHI, India—Mobilink, a GSM 900 MHz service provider in Pakistan, plans to invest US$60 million in network expansion and service upgrades."We are putting...
DUBLIN, Ireland—A joint survey conducted by the U.K. telecom regulator OFTEL and its Irish counterpart ODTR has found that consumers are still largely unaware...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—The Chilean auction of three 10-megahertz bandwidths in the 1900 MHz spectrum was newly postponed. The Court of Appeals saw fit to...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa—South African mobile network operator Vodacom confirmed that the company has as yet not accepted the offer of a mobile license in...
JAKARTA, Indonesia—SingTel Mobile confirmed that it purchased an additional 12.7-percent stake in Indonesia's Telkomsel for US$429 million from PT Telkom, giving it a 35-percent...
MANILA, The Philippines—Globe Telecom, one of the Philippines' leading mobile-phone operators, has launched a wireless broadband service that offers a wireless Internet connection.Jesus Romero,...
HELSINKI, Finland—TDC, the Danish telecom company that is currently the subject of attention from acquisitive Nordic neighbor Telia, is being linked as a "probable"...
TOKYO—Yozan, a Tokyo-based software developer, on 2 April announced that the firm is going to launch Internet Protocol (IP)-based wireless service in the fourth...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—The telecommunications crisis worsened during the past week in Argentina, with the second- and fourth-largest operators now in default. Telecom Argentina and...
