TOKYO—DDI Pocket, Japan's largest PHS operator, is going to launch a 128 kilobits per second (kbps) data transmission service on 26 March, the carrier...
WASHINGTON—Telecom regulator Conatel has postponed by 60 days the pre-qualification process for the concession of cellular and personal communications services (PCS) licenses in Honduras....
ATLANTA, United States—BellSouth agreed to pay US$150,000 in fines after a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) complaint alleged that managers at Telcel, BellSouth's...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—The auction of eight sets of frequencies for 2.5-generation (2.5G) and third-generation (3G) licenses in Uruguary, planned for 28 January, was postponed...
BOSTON, United States—Bankrupt paging company Arch Wireless has filed a reorganization plan highlighting the efforts it will take to pull itself out of its...
ATLANTA, United States—Cingular Wireless reported it has begun field testing GAIT technology, which would allow customers to roam seamlessly between its TDMA and GSM...
SAN JOSE, California, United States—Netro will acquire AT&T Wireless' "Project Angel" fixed-wireless assets, including the company's development team, a license to intellectual property, equipment...
WASHINGTON—Bankrupt U.S. personal communications services (PCS) carrier NextWave Telecom received a 14-day extension on the deadline to file its opposition to the U.S. government's...
BEDMINSTER, New Jersey, United States—Verizon Wireless acquired 10 megahertz personal communications services (PCS) licenses from Carolina PCS I Limited Partnership and its subsidiaries, covering...
MONTREAL—Microcell Telecommunications laid off 180 employees in its offices across Canada as part of its strategic reorganization following the recent completion of its financing.The...
TORONTO—Rogers AT&T Wireless has become the first wireless carrier in Canada to offer ICQ two-way short message service (SMS) messaging on its network. The...
ST. LOUIS, United States—Telia Mobile Denmark will use billing system provider Amdocs' Ensemble product for its convergent customer care and billing system, the companies...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Ericsson has won a contract to deliver wireless broadband access network for Telia Group company, Skanova."We have chosen the supplier that has the...
BERLIN, Germany—Germany's MobilCom said it will sell its fixed-line assets to Freenet, an Internet service provider (ISP) in which MobilCom holds a majority stake....
PRAGUE, Czech Republic—Eight companies have submitted bids for a majority stake in Cesky Telecom. Cesky Telecom owns 51 percent of EuroTel Praha, the country's...
MILAN, Italy—Hutchison Whampoa's Italian third-generation (3G) subsidiary, announced it secured about e4.2 billion (US$3.7 billion) in financing to build its 3G network in Italy.An...
CALGARY—Wi-Lan said it is participating in Wi-Comm Communications, a joint venture in Beijing, created to accelerate Wi-Lan's penetration into the Chinese market.Wi-Lan said it...
BEIJING—Technology and handset issues have forced Chinese mobile operators to postpone trials of TD-SCDMA, China's proprietary third-generation (3G) technology.The trials will commence in the...
HONG KONG—Hong Kong's telecom regulator has asked for comments on its proposal to reduce mobile carrier license fees beginning in May.The country's Information Technology...
TOKYO—A governmental advisory body for the telecommunications ministry on 16 January decided to revise the telecom regulation to let operators use the OFDM system...
TOKYO—Japanese mobile-phone shipments in November 2001 dropped by 24.2 percent to 3.22 million units, the Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association (JEITA) announced....
LONDON—Vodafone, a Vodafone Group subsidiary, exercised its option to sell to Siemens its 50-percent stake, minus 2 shares, in the Atecs Mannesmann engineering and...
OSLO, Norway—Telenor announced it completed the acquisition of Comsat Mobile Communications, making Comsat the new U.S. subsidiary of Telenor under the name Telenor Satellite...
SWINDON, U.K.—Lucent Technologies and Qualcomm said they have collaborated to place a series of voice calls employing Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) technology in...
