LONDON—Brokerage firm Merrill Lynch has pared down its estimates of Nokia Corp. and Ericsson, citing a slow take-off in infrastructure equipment and next-generation handset...
THE HAGUE, The Netherlands—After much speculation about i-mode services in the European market, KPN Mobile said its German subsidiary E-Plus will begin offering the...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—In an effort to reduce their administration overheads, European cell-phone operators are negotiating with some of the major retail banks about using...
SUNNYVALE, California, United States—Western Multiplex rejected the unsolicited offer made by DMC Stratex Networks last week to acquire Western Multiplex.The board of directors reaffirmed...
LONDON—Short message service (SMS) company Logica said it scored two multimedia messaging contracts and is trialing the product with five additional wireless carriers. The...
FRANKFURT, Germany—Texas Instruments said it is bidding for German telecom equipment maker Condat in a deal valued at about US$93 million. According to the...
TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo and Oracle said they plan to collaborate on the technology and development of advanced mobile enterprise solutions, as well as sales and...
OTTAWA—Sprint PCS and Nortel Networks completed trials using Nortel's CDMA smart antenna technology, which Nortel said is designed to provide double the voice capacity...
HONG KONG—Hong Kong telecom regulator Office of the Telecommunications Authority (OFTA) said it plans to give unused spectrum to mobile operators. The unused spectrum,...
HONG KONG—Indian company Lifetree Convergence said it supplied its billing and operations system for Shell, which launched a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) service...
NEW DELHI, India—Pak Telecom Mobile Limited, a fully owned subsidiary of Pakistan Telecommunications Corporation offering GSM 900 MHz services under the Ufone brand in...
JAKARTA, Indonesia—Heru Prasetyo, Indonesia's Accenture country manager, suggested cellular operators should increase their average revenue per user (ARPU) from its current less than US$20...
MANILA, The Philippines—Short message service (SMS) technology, more popularly known as text messaging among Filipino mobile users, proved to be a substantial source of...
MELBOURNE, Australia—For the first time, there are more mobile phones in Australia than there are fixed telephone lines, the Australian Communications Authority announced in...
TOKYO—The number of mobile Internet users in Japan exceeded 50 million riding on the country's i-mode boom. The Telecommunications Carriers Association, an industry association,...
OXFORD, United Kingdom, and TOKYO—Hidden within the first cell-phone announcements from Sony Ericsson was the fact that the joint venture's P800 smart phone device...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—French and British cell-phone operators would appear to be adopting opposite third-generation (3G) investment strategies. Bouygues, the French telecom company, said it...
CALGARY—Cell-Loc, a developer of network-based wireless location technology, contracted Brazilian manufacturer PST Industria Eletronica de Amazonia to manufacture Cellocate beacon devices.Under the agreement, PST...
BOSTON, United States—Market research firm Yankee Group said although Mexican mobile subscriber numbers surpassed fixed-line subscribers in 2000, revenues from mobile services will not...
ATLANTA, United States—Cingular Wireless signed a $500 million supply agreement with Nortel Networks for GSM/General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) infrastructure upgrades in the United...
WASHINGTON—The government of Honduras plans to assign two new mobile telephony licenses. The licenses are planned for two of five frequency bands—in 800 MHz...
