SAN JOSE, Calif.-In-building solution provider LGC Wireless and 3G base station developer Kevab plan to align for joint marketing and testing with Kevab’s OneBASE 3G Pico Base Station and LGC’s …
LOS GATOS, Calif.-Retailing wireless data technology will be addressed in The Wireless Experience tutorial taking place on the first day of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas next month. …
DUBLIN, Ireland-The majority backers of Portuguese Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) hopeful OniWay have decided to pull the plug on the venture. However, two other shareholders-Telenor, which controls 20 percent, …
TOKYO-J-Phone, a Vodafone Group company in Japan, will launch third-generation (3G) service in Japan on 20 December, J-Phone announced. By launching a dual terminal that will be able to be …
OXFORD, United Kingdom-Having deployed several thousand Panasonic GD87 cell phones, Vodafone Germany has confirmed the handsets can make billable calls without users being aware. The company said the software bug …
BEIJING-Zhou Huan, chairman and president of the Datang Telecom Technology Group, told Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post that China should back its home-grown third-generation (3G) standard, TD-SCDMA. “As the …
KIEV, Ukraine-The biggest Ukrainian carrier Kyivstar entered the international finance market for the first time to borrow US$100 million by placing bonds against a three-year syndicated credit at a yield …
SURABAYA, Indonesia-PT Telkom, Indonesia’s state-owned telecom company, launched its limited mobility service to retail customers this week. The so-called TelkomFlexi service employs cdma2000 1x technology and comes with two pricing …
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OTTAWA, Canada-The volume of text messaging in Canada has increased 98 percent since April-when the nation’s wireless carriers set up interoperable text messaging services-increasing the number of text messages sent …
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-The Chilean branch of Nextel received a hard blow when the 29th Civil Judge of Santiago declared the 18 licenses granted by the government for mobile digital service …
BEIJING-Following complaints from rival China Mobile, China Unicom is scaling back price cuts to attract customers to its CDMA service. The company promised to focus more on profitability and less …
HELSINKI, Finland-DNA Finland, the Finnish regional telecom group, has displaced Virgin Mobile as the lead contender to acquire Telia Mobile’s network operations in Finland. DNA is reported to have placed …
NEW DELHI, India-The wireless market in India could be set for an upheaval. As large basic service operators plan to roll out economical CDMA-based wireless local loop (WLL) services across …
OXFORD, United Kingdom-Having stated in November the worldwide growth in handset sales would climb by as much as 15 percent, Nokia’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Jorma Ollila has now revised …
DUBLIN, Ireland-There was some bad news this week for supporters of greater competition in the Irish mobile-phone market, when the latest sectoral report revealed that third operator Meteor has lost …
MELBOURNE, Australia-Telstra announced it launched Australia’s first fully operational third-generation (3G) mobile service aimed at business users. In particular, it has upgraded base stations on its CDMA digital cellular network. …
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-Mobile network operator MTN Group announced it has resumed its positive growth driven by strong performance across all its African operations. Revenue increased by 68 percent from 5.17 …
TOKYO-Broadband Mobile Communications (BMC), a Tokyo-based venture company, announced it will launch an experiment for mobile Internet Protocol (IP) telephony service with five convenience stores in December. According to the …
