BEIJING-China’s largest telecom equipment vendor China Putian Corporation, plans to build a 500 million yuan (US$60.41 million) plant to produce Xiaolintong wireless handsets to be used on China Telecom’s and …
JOHANESSBURG, South Africa-Econet Wireless Nigeria announced it will invest US$l0 million in infrastructure in the Bauchi state, situated in the northeast of Nigeria. The investment has been packaged to stimulate …
RICHARDSON, Texas-Navini Networks Inc. and Pronto Networks will partner to provide a solution for service providers deploying numerous hot spots in large coverage areas, referred to by the companies as …
SAN FRANCISCO-Connexion by Boeing and Cable & Wireless have joined to introduce broadband connectivity to international airline travelers starting in 2003. Lufthansa and British Airways will offer 3-month service trials …
MUNICH, Germany-Mobile-phone maker Siemens predicted its handset business will continue to grow next year, according to media reports, and that the company could increase its worldwide handset market share to …
BETHLEHEM, Pa.-Padcom Inc. said it has unveiled a software solution, known as Version 3.60 of the Connectivity Suite, that enables seamless roaming between cdma2000 1xRTT and other wireless data networks …
CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom-Research and advisory firm Analysys predicted that downloadable wireless games will become so popular in Western Europe that in just three years they will replace ring tones as …
SAN DIEGO-Indian wireless operator Reliance Infocomm Ltd. will use wireless streaming video technology from Thin Multimedia Inc. to offer streaming video applications over its CDMA 1xRTT network. The carrier will …
SANTA BARBARA, Calif.-Somera Communications said it will realign its North American operations and work force by cutting 10 percent of jobs and consolidating certain operations in an effort to strengthen …
SANTA CLARA-Newbury Networks Inc. released its Wi-Fi Watchdog security solution for wireless LAN implementations at the 802.11 Planet Conference this week. Wi-Fi Watchdog detects locations of 802.11 traffic in a …
STAMFORD, Conn.-Alltel Corp. now offers Forbes.com Wireless Powered by SmartServ content for its recently introduced BREW service. The content will be available through its “BREW Shop” option for download onto …
WASHINGTON-The Wireless Communications Association announced Loea Corp.’s president and chief executive officer, Louis Slaughter, will be a featured general session speaker on Jan. 13, the opening day of the Ninth …
OYSTER BAY, N.Y.-The market for advanced computing devices is still staking itself out, according to a new report from Allied Business Intelligence, but it has the potential to increase to …
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission officially relieved the winning bidders of 156 licenses totaling more than $14 billion in its ill-fated attempt to re-auction personal communications services licenses during its Auction …
BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Verizon Wireless Inc. said it intends to offer Research In Motion Ltd.’s voice-enabled BlackBerry 6750 handheld device on its cdma2000 1x-based Express Network during the first quarter of next …
SAN JOSE, Calif.- Matsushita Communication Industrial Co. Ltd. will license over-the-air application provisioning technology from DoOnGo Technologies Inc. for use in the company’s Panasonic FOMA mobile phones. Using the new …
SAN FRANCISCO-Telespree Communications said it has completed interoperability testing of its activation and provisioning technology in a CDMA2000 1x multivendor network environment with Motorola Inc. and Winphoria at the inCode/TMNG …
WASHINGTON- National Communications System official John Graves said today T-Mobile USA will be awarded a government contract by early next week to provide basic wireless priority access service to federal, …
NEW YORK-Leading industry players have teamed together to form a new company called Cometa Networks to provide wireless Internet access nationwide to telecom companies, Internet service providers, cable operators and …
LONDON-Mobile commerce company Magex Ltd. released its new mobile payment platform that supports mobile-phone payments through interactive voice response systems, text messaging and WAP technology. “This new capability gives users …
