LONDON—Bahrain's Batelco announced a further round of tariff cuts on its MobilePlus services. The rate cuts have been applied to a range of services,...
MONTREAL—Telesystem International Wireless (TIW) announced it has sent the maturity notice for the 7-percent Equity Subordinated Debentures (ESD) due 15 February, 2002, and has...
MCLEAN, Virginia, United States—LCC International has acquired Transmast Italia SRL, a wireless infrastructure, deployment, civil engineering and project management firm in Milan, Italy, from...
CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom—Smart antenna developer Antenova and Cambridge Consultants signed a memorandum of understanding to jointly market advanced antenna solutions.Under the terms of the...
WASHINGTON—Motorola filed last week with U.S. regulators to sell up to US$2 billion in debt securities, common and preferred stock and other securities.The company...
DENVER, United States—Orange U.K. has completed its transition of its GSM network to an Internet Protocol (IP)-based signaling network. Orange U.K. has replaced 90...
PARIS—The tender to sell France's remaining two Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) licenses opened on 1 January, with bids due by 16 May.The government's...
NEW YORK—The European Telecommunications Standards Institute held its first smart card interoperability event in mid-December at its headquarters in Sophia Antipolis, France, bringing together...
LONDON—Mobile entertainment company Cash-U Mobile Technologies released the second-generation versions of its products, the Pecan mobile entertainment platform and the Pistachio software developers kit.The...
ORLANDO, Fla.—The disposable phone market is getting a little more crowded with the launch of another company, New Horizons Technologies International, which plans to...
ANN ARBOR, Mich.—Network access management software provider Interlink Networks announced it developed a wireless data authenticator based on the emerging Diameter protocol. The company...
WASHINGTON—The Federal Communications Commission said on Dec. 28 that it was re-allocating 27 megahertz of spectrum for new flexible services.The spectrum is being made...
MORRISVILLE, N.C.—Orange U.K. has completed its transition of its GSM network to an IP-based signaling network. Orange U.K. has replaced 90 percent of its...
MCLEAN, Va.—LCC International Inc. has acquired Transmast Italia SRL, a wireless infrastructure, deployment, civil engineering and project management firm in Milan, Italy, form its...
SANTA CRUZ, Calif.—Plantronics Inc. has acquired Ameriphone Inc., a company that develops telephones and accessories for the hearing impaired.Ameriphone will join Plantronics' Walker Division,...
BOSTON—2002 will probably offer up the same struggles the wireless industry saw in 2001, according to a recent Yankee Group study.The Yankee Group highlighted...
LOS ANGELES—USIntellicom's prepaid wireless system infringes Telemac Corp.'s patent for a network-independent prepaid billing system, according to a recent Federal District Court ruling.Pre-Cell Solutions...
VANCOUVER, British Columbia—The Federal Communications Commission and Industry Canada have issued regulatory approvals for Sierra Wireless's AirCard 710 Wireless Network Card, the first GSM/GPRS...
BEIJING, China—Smart cards solutions maker Gemplus said it has won a contract to supply its first live card-based CDMA network to China Unicom."The launch...
