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 compared with the previous year, capturing …
TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo, the largest mobile operator in Japan, announced it would limit the number of views for its i-shot images to 50 times. The i-shot offering is NTT DoCoMo’s version …
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 future. Dr. Witness Mangwende, the minister …
TOKYO-NTT Comware, an NTT Group company, and a local museum in Hyogo Prefecture, Western Japan, will launch a field test for an “indoor navigation system” on 28 January, the organizations …
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 past two years, are laying the …
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 by U.S.-based Verizon, which also …
TORONTO, Canada-Nortel Networks Ltd. said it narrowed its fourth quarter loss to $248 million, or six cents per common share, in contrast with the same period in 2001 when it …
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 were prime credit class customers. The …
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 i90c handsets. Zingy will offer hundreds …
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 five-year deal includes official and …
NEW YORK-Nokia Corp. more than doubled its net profit last quarter, earning $1.05 billion, or 24 cents per share, on net sales of $9.51 billion. For the year, the Finnish …
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 as part of the CTIA Wireless …
WASHINGTON—John Muleta, former chief of the FCC’s Enforcement Division of the Common Carrier Bureau, is a top candidate to be wireless telecom bureau chief at the Federal Communications Commission. Thomas …
SAN DIEGO, Calif.-Qualcomm Inc. posted a first-quarter net profit of $241 million, or 30 cents per diluted share, a rise from a profit of $139.2 million, or 17 cents a …
WASHINGTON, D.C.-The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association and the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association announced cross-border, inter-carrier text messaging services enabling text messaging between customers of major U.S. and Canadian wireless …
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 two years, are laying the groundwork …
CHANTILLY, Va.-The march toward global interoperable text messaging took another step forward as messaging giant LogicaCMG Wireless Networks and InphoMatch Inc. announced they will connect their inter-carrier text messaging systems. …
WASHINGTON-Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association President Thomas Wheeler today warned Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell that allowing mobile satellite service operators to operate land-band transmitters could cause interference to …
HELSINKI, Finland-Telenor, the Oslo-based Norwegian state telecom company, has been stung into legal action in Portugal, following the “premature and unwarranted” closure of the Portuguese mobile-phone start-up OniWay. The legal …
LONDON-The U.K. mobile landscape looks set for change after the U.K. Competition Commission recommended in a report released today that the four U.K. mobile operators reduce their mobile termination charges …
