LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, United States—Alltel said it will buy all of CenturyTel's wireless properties for US$1.65 billion cash. Alltel said the deal will bring...
NEW DELHI, India—The Thai government on 19 March gave formal approval to the state-owned Telephone Organization of Thailand (TOT) to go ahead with a...
HELSINKI, Finland—The Danish government has requested a meeting with SBC Communications to discuss the U.S. telecom company's immediate future plans for its 42-percent equity...
BEIJING—China Unicom's CDMA network registered 448,000 subscribers at the end of February. Only a paltry 9,000 users signed up in February. The vast majority...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa—Mobile communication applications provider iTouch, founded in Cape Town, South Africa, and listed on the London Stock Exchange, has announced financial results...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa—Zimbabwe is a country on the threshold of total anarchy and economic collapse. With the recent elections, the world is collectively holding...
MELBOURNE, Australia—The mobile-phone operations of Telstra have largely helped the Australian communications giant post a 2-percent lift in sales across the company in the...
NEW DELHI, India—Indian cellular operators suffered a severe blow over the weekend when the Telecom Dispute Settlement Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT) finally dismissed their petition...
MANILA, The Philippines—Mobile and data network provider Alcatel Phils. projects US$200 million in sales this year amid the expected sluggish local cellular phone industry....
JAKARTA, Indonesia—Vodafone New Zealand recently announced the purchase of management rights for 5 megahertz of third-generation (3G) spectrum from TelstraClear.TelstraClear, the new name after...
ATLANTA, United States—BellSouth announced it sold its entire stake, or 234.7 million shares, in Dutch telecommunications provider Royal KPN. The sale will give the...
LONDON—Vivendi Universal signed a nonbinding memorandum of understanding with a consortium of financial investors led by Citigroup Investments to dispose of its 49-percent stake...
MOSCOW—The biggest Russian carrier, Mobile TeleSystems (MTS), placed US$50 million of euro bonds.The MFD-InfoCenter reported that the bonds will mature on 21 December, 2004,...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—With cell-phone penetration reaching more than 80 percent in some European countries, market researchers have reported a growing tide of opinion to...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—Mobile phones should be equipped with satellite tracking and theft alarms, according to the U.K.-based Design Council. The organization claimed that if...
TOKYO—J-Phone, Vodafone Group's carrier in Japan, announced that the number of users of J-Phone's popular mobile photo service exceeded 4 million. J-Phone launched the...
BEIJING—China Mobile Communications reported a net profit of 45.5 billion yuan (US$5.5 billion) for 2001. Its listed subsidiary China Mobile (Hong Kong) said its...
TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo, the leading mobile carrier in Japan, in the third quarter will launch an experiment for a fourth-generation (4G) mobile service, which will...
NEW DELHI, India—The Bharti Group has bought more than a 26-percent stake from Telia AB in Bharti Mobile, which operates cellular services in Karnataka,...
ATLANTA, United States—Numerex announced it will provide United Telecommunication Services (UTS), official telecommunications company of the Netherlands Antilles, with its patent-pending wireless short message...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—As a result of the Argentine crisis, company Impsat Fiber Networks reached an agreement with its creditors to transfer all its shares...
