OXFORD, United Kingdom—Latvia and the Czech Republic have both indicated their readiness to deploy third-generation (3G) networks, albeit within different timescales. Operators in Latvia...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—Five Italian cell-phone operators have agreed, somewhat reluctantly, to a ruling from the country's telecom regulator to a revised number portability fee....
OXFORD, United Kingdom—With Bluetooth chipset manufacturers forecasting shipments of more than 90 million devices this year, the technology looks, eventually, like it is coming...
MOSCOW—Russian company Accord-Tel announced plans to create the fifth pan-Russian wireless network with the use of cdma2000 technology based on the International Mobile Telecommunications-Multi...
LONDON—Vodafone Group plc acquired an additional 2.2-percent stake in Spanish wireless partner Airtel Movil S.A. following the exercise of a put option held by...
CAMBRIDGE, England—Mitsubishi Electric says it has agreed to license the ARM926EJ-S core processor to run wireless applications on mobile phones and personal digital assistants."The...
OWINGS MILLS, Md.—Wireless data services provider Aether Systems Inc. announced it will buy back $15 million in convertible debt, a move that comes about...
DENVER—Qwest Communications International Inc. reported it would potentially reduce the carrying value of goodwill by an estimated $20 billion to $30 billion as a...
SOMERSET, N.J.—LogistiCare, which specializes in non-emergency medical transportation management, is deploying Dynamic Mobile Data's MobileDispatch wireless dispatch and Automatic Vehicle Location software in the...
WOBURN, Mass.—Graham F. Paxton will serve as International Wireless Inc.'s new president and chief executive officer, the company announced.Paxton, who will start work May...
SAN FRANCISCO—Soma Networks said it signed a contract with NTT Communications Corp. to conduct market trials of its wireless broadband voice and data solution...
CAMPBELL, Calif.—P-Com Inc. announced its restructuring program is nearing completion. The company said it has reach an agreement to restructure most of its $29.3...
WOODBURY, N.Y.—Comverse Technology Inc. announced market research results of its Voice Controlled Voice Mail (VCVM) service deployed by Italy's Blu S.p.A. mobile operator.Satisfaction level...
TORONTO—Canada's four national wireless carriers launched commercial availability of inter-carrier mobile text messaging. The four operators, Bell Mobility, Microcell PCS, Rogers AT&T Wireless and...
SAN DIEGO—Wireless streaming media company PacketVideo Corp. said it will cut an unspecified number of jobs in order to realign itself with the sluggish...
BOYNTON BEACH, Fla.—Korean wireless device maker HuneTec Co. Ltd., which licensed Motorola Inc.'s ReFLEX two-way paging technology, is the latest in a string of...
LAUSANNE, Switzerland—Orange's Swiss operator has agreed to purchase Liechtenstein's Viag EuroPlatform, which owns licenses to operate GSM 1800 MHz and Universal Mobile Telecommunications System...
MOSCOW—Cdma2000 technology based on the International Mobile Telecommunications-Multi Carrier (IMT-MC) standard has made the first step toward acquiring federal status in Russia.In March, the...
TOKYO—NTT Communications, a long-distance and international business unit of NTT Group, is going to launch wireless local area network (WLAN) service in mid-2003 using...
RESTON, Virginia, United States—Nextel Communications reported in a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing that it took a US$1.6 billion charge during the fourth...
BEDMINSTER, New Jersey, United States—Through a deal with message interoperability company InphoMatch, Verizon Wireless is now the last of the nationwide, consumer-focused carriers to...
CHICAGO—Verizon Wireless plans to roll out its next-generation Express Network in a trio of new U.S. markets this week, including Chicago, St. Louis and...
TOKYO—KDDI, the second-largest mobile operator in Japan, launched third-generation (3G) service based on cdma2000 1x on 1 April. NTT DoCoMo, the leading mobile carrier...
TORONTO—Canadians are not getting too excited about the possibilities for short message service (SMS), according to a report released by the Yankee Group in...
