NEW YORK-Carriers worldwide acquired about 54.7 million new subscribers last quarter, down 5.9 percent from the same period of 2001, bringing the total to...
NEW YORK-Carriers worldwide acquired about 54.7 million new subscribers last quarter, down 5.9 percent from the same period of 2001, bringing the total to...
NEW YORK-Mobile TeleSystems, which has 6.7 million subscribers in Russia, plans to raise $400 million in a private placement of dollar-denominated bonds to finance...
PROVIDENCE, R.I.-Private tower company Bay Communications L.L.C., founded in November 2002, has secured private equity funding from Boston-based Housatonic Partners.Bay Communications will use the...
NEW DELHI, India-In the ongoing price war in the Indian wireless market, leading GSM companies have announced plans to make cell-to-cell incoming calls free,...
BEIJING-China's TCL Mobile Communications sold 6.21 million mobile phones last year, exceeding its sales target of 5 million units. The company is China's largest...
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. announced Donald Schrock, executive vice president and group president of Qualcomm CDMA Technologies, will retire effective August 1, 2003.Sanjay Jha, who...
MEXICO CITY-Mexican operator Iusacell has launched commercial cdma2000 1x services using equipment from Lucent Technologies. The service is Mexico's first 1x offering.Iusacell, partially owned...
NEW YORK-American Tower Corp. announced it will receive $420 million following the sale of 12.25 percent senior subordinated discount notes due 2008 of newly...
CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa.-Sprint PCS affiliate UbiquiTel Inc. said it added 22,400 customers during the fourth quarter of 2002, noting 84 percent of the subscriber additions...
DALLAS-Texas Instruments Inc. suffered a fourth-quarter loss of $589 million, or 34 cents a share, on revenue of $2.1 billion. This contrasts with a...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-According to Jaime Gros, general manager, Chilean cellular operator Smartcom PCS increased its client base and income by 50 percent during 2002...
SURABAYA, Indonesia-Lippo Telecom (LippoTel), Indonesia's first regional GSM 1800 MHz mobile operator, announced this week it was awarded a license for nationwide operation by...
RESTON, Va.-Nextel Communications Inc. signed a deal as the official wireless communications provider for the Dallas Stars, Dallas Mavericks and the American Airlines Center.The...
WASHINGTON-The states are preparing to crack down on the mobile-phone industry. Twenty-two attorneys general, who have been collecting information from wireless carriers during the...
WASHINGTON-House Commerce Committee Chairman Billy Tauzin (R-La.) has launched an investigation into mounting evidence of widespread fraud in the $2.25 billion government program to...
FOLSOM, Calif.-The Association of Wireless Professionals (AOWP) announced it will hold its AOWP Certified Wireless Sales Associate (CWSA) Training Course March 16 and 17...
WASHINGTON-The states are preparing to crack down on the mobile-phone industry. Twenty-two attorneys general, who have been collecting information from wireless carriers the past...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-After having suffered a fall of 2 percent in incomes during 2002, Pyramid Research forecasts that this year will see an increase...
NEW YORK-Nextel Communications Inc. reported a deal with mobile entertainment provider Zingy to supply polyphonic ringtones for Nextel customers using Motorola Inc.'s i95cl and...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-The Zimbabwean Ministry of Transport and Communications has ruled out the possibility of licensing a fourth mobile network operator in the near...
