MUNICH, Germany-The head of Siemens' mobile-phone business died Dec. 28, the company said. Siemens could not immediately elaborate on the death of Ian Moyes,...
LONDON-British Telecommunications plc said it will expand its Wi-Fi network to 500 U.K. McDonald's restaurants during the next few months. Plans call for BT...
ST. LOUIS-AAT Communications Corp. announced it plans to acquire all tower assets of Signal One L.L.C., a privately held Chattanooga, Tenn.-based tower owner and...
LAS VEGAS-RealNetworks Inc. said it will include support for PalmOne Inc.'s Treo 600 smart phone in its newly unveiled Internet music download service. The...
SAO PAULO, Brazil-Brazil's largest mobile operator signed a contract with Lucent Technologies Inc. to expand the operator's CDMA2000 1x network. The expansion will cover...
MELBOURNE, Fla.-Investors cheered AirNet Communications Corp.'s elevated fourth-quarter earnings forecast, sending the wireless base station maker's stock up almost 80 percent to $1.70 per...
SINGAPORE-Singapore Telecommunications Ltd. has joined other operators around the world in blaming a lack of available third-generation handsets for its 3G rollout delay. The...
GERMANTOWN, Md.-Hughes Network Systems Inc. said it was awarded a contract with Polish cellular operator Era/PTC to deploy its wireless access system in major...
T-Mobile USA Inc. said it has gained two customers for every one customer it has lost since the implementation of wireless local number portability....
OYSTER BAY, N.Y.-Symbian will come out the winner in the battle for mobile-phone operating systems, followed closely by Microsoft Corp. and the Linux open...
WASHINGTON-Meredith M. Attwell, a former wireless industry lobbyist, has joined the National Telecommunications and Information Administration as a senior advisor to Acting Assistant Secretary...
WASHINGTON-The Council of the District of Columbia has voted to prohibit drivers from talking on handheld mobile phones, following the lead of New York...
Handset bellwether Nokia Corp. received a boost from J.P. Morgan, which upgraded the company to "overweight" from "neutral," leading to a 3.5-percent leap in...
WASHINGTON-The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is rejecting the notion that because 2004 is a presidential election year, its legislative priorities-led by class-action reform-cannot be...
DALLAS-Texas Instruments Inc. said it has unveiled a universal router known as wONE that delivers simultaneous 802.11g and 802.11a from a single chipset.This also...
WASHINGTON-Congress should sunset all telecommunications regulation including spectrum allocations and let the private sector innovate if true telecom progress is ever to occur, according...
PARIS-Alcatel Corp. said it signed a $14 million GSM expansion contract with Gansu Mobile Communication Co. Ltd., a subsidiary of China Mobile. Under the...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Operating system company PalmSource Inc. announced it is now shipping the latest version of the Palm OS, version 6, to its licensees.Palm's licensees...
VERNON HILLS, Ill.-Telular Corp. said it has received $25.3 million in purchase orders from Latin American wireless network operators since Sept. 1. The orders...
AUSTIN, Texas-Globile Wireless announced it will distribute a new Bluetooth hands-free car kit and speaker product in North America. The portable solution allows users...
SEATTLE-Connexion by Boeing said it signed a letter of intent with China Airlines to bring high-speed connectivity to travelers on commercial flights in and...
AUSTIN, Texas-Ultra-wideband semiconductor company Alereon said it has received $31.5 million in the first round of its series A financing.The financing, which was led...
MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Lucent Technologies Inc. announced two new executive appointments Tuesday. The company has appointed Jan M.K. Jaferian as its new intellectual property business...
