BERLIN-The wireless industry may not witness any mergers among the big vendors, according comments Rueters attributed to Frank Dunn, Nortel Networks Ltd. Chief Executive."I...
TOKYO-KDDI, the second-largest Japanese mobile operator, said it would launch a new handset with BREW capabilities in February. BREW is a data application download...
BEIJING-Chinese analysts expect the country's PHS services will increase sharply in the first half of the year because the Ministry of Information Industry (MII)...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-BellSouth's Latin American operation saw a fall in income of US$2.23 billion in 2002, a 23-percent drop compared with the previous year....
MELBOURNE, Australia-Latest subscriber figures for Vodafone Australia show the mobile carrier is having some success with its strategy of targeting the prepaid market with...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-Looking to break into the European cell-phone market has proved harder than expected for the Far Eastern manufacturer Daewoo. The company, which...
TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo, the largest mobile carrier in Japan, said it will stop selling the latest mobile handset manufactured by NEC because the handset might...
HELSINKI, Finland-TDC, the Copenhagen-based Danish operator in which U.S. telecom group SBC Communications holds a 42-percent equity holding, has made an outright bid to...
OSLO, Norway-Sales of handheld computing devices, including personal digital assistants (PDAs) and smart phones, rose 3.5 percent in the final quarter of 2002 in...
BEIJING-China's Ministry of Information Industry (MII) estimates the production capacity of the 36 mobile-phone manufacturers in China will reach 250 million this year, up...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-Following last week's decision from cell-phone operator MmO2 that it will delay the deployment of its U.K. third-generation (3G) service until the...
PARIS-French Telecom equipment maker Alcatel said it has acquired Aravox Technologies Corp., which makes real-time packet technology for Internet Protocol."The acquisition of this technology...
ATLANTA-BellSouth filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Glenayre Technologies Inc. and Call Sciences Inc. alleging that the companies are infringing on BellSouth's patent on...
PARIS-Maporama has partnered with Danem, a mobile software editor and reseller, to develop and market new generation mobile applications for mobile personnel in the...
SAN DIEGO-In One Voice Technologies Inc.'s recent comments on its corporate outlook for 2003, Dean Weber, chairman and chief executive officer, acknowledged the economic...
MIAMI-Prepaid wireless service provider TracFone Wireless Inc. said it has reached a company milestone in having served more than 2 million customers nationwide. "This...
MISSION VIEJO, Calif.-Bird-B-Gone Inc. released its Bird Spike 2000, a solution for eliminating power outages caused by birds and animals interfering with wireless communications...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-A range of big-name wireless players within the Java Community Process released what they call the road map for dealing with Java...
WASHINGTON-A Swedish-funded study published in a journal of a U.S. health agency says mobile phone exposure causes brain damage in rats. The study, published...
WASINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission today authorized mobile satellite service providers the flexibility to integrate ground-based transmitters into their operations, but it also reallocated 30...
LONDON-British Telecommunications said it has rolled out new wireless hot spots across Hilton hotels, airports and motorway service stations in the United Kingdom. The...
TOKYO-NTT East and NTT West said telephone fees from fixed-line users to mobile-phone users should be determined by fixed-line operators. In Japan, the fee...
SURABAYA, Indonesia-Indosat-M3 (IM3), the pioneer of General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) services in Indonesia, has encountered a 90-percent drop in GPRS traffic after beginning...
WASHINGTON-A U.S. government-sponsored study said mobile-phone exposure causes brain damage in rats.The study, published yesterday in the online edition of the journal Environmental Heath...
