MILAN, Italy—Dutchtone's 1.2 million customers will now be able to download a wide range of music tracks and personalized messages through a deal among...
WASHINGTON—The Personal Communications Industry Association laid off five people on Wednesday, reducing its staff to 47 people after a similar reduction of nine people...
BEIJING—Vodafone Group plc plans to invest $35 million in China Mobile subsidiary Aspire Holdings to acquire a 9.9-percent stake. Vodafone already has a 2-percent...
LONDON—The owners of Vizzavi Europe, a mobile portal formed in May 2000, announced a revised revenue model, along with the departure of the company's...
LONDON—Jordanian operator Fastlink has unveiled its countrywide commercial General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) service. The service will enable post-paid customers to have always-on connections...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa—The South African government has sold its 20-percent stake in mobile operator M-Cell to Ice Finance, a Dutch investor, for US$475 million....
HELSINKI, Finland—Nokia said it has begun what it calls the first volume shipments of commercial GSM/Enhanced Data Rates for Global Evolution (EDGE) hardware by...
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia, United States—The local multipoint distribution services (LMDS) provider formerly known as Advanced Radio Telecom (ART) emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and...
DENVER, United States—Mexico's Grupo Salinas has secured a cellular license in Nicaragua after delays in finalizing the deal. Reuters reported the Mexican company's Nicaraguan...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—The National Telecommunications Council of Ecuador announced that it will auction three wireless local loop (WLL) licenses on 15 April. The companies...
Murray Hill, New Jersey, United States—Lucent Technologies has appointed a returning executive, Patricia Russo, as its chief executive officer (CEO). She replaces Henry Schacht,...
BOSTON, United States—The Yankee Group expects the deployment of new technologies to drive handset sales between 2002 and 2005, with Asia leading the way,...
RESTON, Virginia, United State—Nextel Communications entered a licensing agreement with Qualcomm for the further development and deployment of Qualcomm's QChat software, which is designed...
ROCHESTER, New York, United States—Eastman Kodak Company announced it will spin off its wireless business into a company called Appairent Technologies, which will develop...
LAS VEGAS, United States—In his keynote at the 2002 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates detailed his...
LONDON—Hutchison 3G UK partnered with BBC Technology to manage the production of Hutchison's audio-visual content to be available in its third-generation (3G) service.BBC will...
MOSCOW—Russian Communications Minister Leonid Reiman said the Arabic Thuraya satellite communications company is likely to get a license in Russia if it fulfills all...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—The U.K. government is calling on cell-phone operators and terminal manufacturers to rapidly improve the security features of handsets to halt a...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—In an effort to stimulate the use of General Packet Radio Service (GPRS)-based services, Telia Mobile has become the first cell-phone operator...
