TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo Inc. said it has sold more than 4 million i-shot handsets, just six months after i-shot service, which allows subscribers to transmit images from camera phones to e-mail …
CARROLLTON, Texas-CellStar Corp. has completed the mandatory conversion of its 5-percent senior subordinated convertible notes, converting shares of CellStar common stock at a ratio of 200 shares for each $1,000 …
RESTON, Va.-Grayson Wireless said its Geometrix 911 wireless caller location system now supports wireless networks that use 1xRTT technology. According to Grayson, Geometrix is the only commercially available network overlay …
NEW DELHI, India-Korean giant LG Electronics launched its CDMA handsets in the Indian market on Wednesday, but said the handsets will be sold through basic service providers like Reliance Infocomm …
JAKARTA, Indonesia-The recent acquisition of the Indonesian government’s 41.94-percent stake in Indosat by Singapore Technologies Telemedia (ST Telemedia) will soon change the atmosphere of the country’s mobile business. Both ST …
HELSINKI, Finland-The Moscow-based Sistema Joint Stock Financial Corporation (Sistema) has approached several leading Finnish telecom companies and venture capital houses in search of Western technical expertise and funds to conduct …
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-Mobile network operator MTN Uganda announced it has invested more than US$4 million in a major network upgrade. Philip Besiimire, MTN’s public relations officer, said the upgrade is …
BEIJING-China Netcom and China Telecom, China’s main fixed-line operators, are considering building wireless local loop (WLL) services based on the CDMA standard, but mobile operator China Unicom is expected to …
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-The Court of New York accepted Impsat’s restructuring plan, which includes the reduction of its US$990 million debt to US$270 million, the passing of the company to its …
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-The nation’s 18th largest law firm will be the first to use Good Technology Inc.’s new G100 wireless e-mail devices, and will equip more than 1,200 employees with the …
BELLEVUE, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. chief technology officer Rod Nelson was elected chariman of the board of governors for the 3G Americas industry organization, succeeding Cingular Wireless L.L.C. CTO Bill …
SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Software company Atsonic L.L.C. announced a new wireless service to deliver live video of traffic updates and travel times information to mobile phones and personal digital assistants. The company’s …
MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Lucent Technologies released a new chip the company said will work as a smart antenna for CDMA networks, doubling the networks’ capacity for voice and data traffic. The …
SAN DIEGO-Mobile phone maker Kyocera Wireless Corp. will use software from Roxio Inc. to allow users of its forthcoming 7135 smart phone to edit and change images on their device. …
BANGALORE-Motorola will expand Bharat Sandhar Nigam Ltd.’s (BSNL) cellular network in southern India according to a newly signed deal worth $33 million. According to their agreement, Motorola will install a …
BEIJING-Motorola is aggressively promoting its Innovative Convergence platform to local Chinese handset makers. The platform integrates mobile-phone chips with application development systems, enabling handset makers to shorten their production cycles …
DUBLIN, Ireland-A report in one of the United Kingdom’s leading tabloid newspapers suggested the Competition Commission has reached a decision on the fairness or otherwise of mobile call costs in …
DUBLIN, Ireland-As the investigation into the circumstances surrounding the awarding of the second GSM license in Ireland continues, those who advised the government at the time have been trying to …
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-The two major cell-phone operators in Colombia, which operate on TDMA technology, announced they are migrating their networks to different technologies. In the case of BellSouth, the company …
BEIJING-Reclusive North Korea has decided to build a GSM network, initially in an area 48 kilometers around the capital Pyongyang and to be expanded to cover the whole country by …
