TOKYO-Matsushita Electric Industrial and Nokia announced they would jointly develop a platform for letting a mobile handset and an audio visual (AV) device communicate with each other. Following the agreement, …
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-The cell-phone market in Argentina returned to positive indices during the third quarter of the year, when the two major operators, Unif
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-NII Holdings concluded the renegotiation of its debt with its creditors, reducing it from US$2.8 billion to less than US$500 million, in exchange for 64 percent of the …
OXFORD, United Kingdom-While being bombarded by mobile operators to use more services, cell-phone users are coming under increasing pressure from other bodies not to use their handsets. In the United …
TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo, the dominant mobile carrier in Japan, launched a mobile handset that can be used as a television remote control as well. Users of the N504iS handset, manufactured by …
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-South African investment company VenFin has committed itself to purchasing the remainder of what U.K. cellular company Vodafone does not buy of Hosken Consolidated Investments’ (HCI) 5-percent stake …
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia said Brazilian operator Oi has launched multimedia message service (MMS) using equipment from Nokia. The company said MMS accounted for three messages per user per day during the …
BOSTON-A new handset market report shows both LG Electronics and Samsung Electronics making significant strides in the mobile phone market, while other big handset players continue to suffer in a …
IRVINE, Calif.-Boost Mobile, a virtual network operator using Nextel Communications Inc.’s iDEN network, will sell phones aimed at teenage girls using Quiksilver Inc.’s Roxy fashion brand. The new alliance is …
NEW ORLEANS-Infrastructure services provider Morrison Hershfield released the DualPole, a new tower reinforcement solution, at the recent 2002 Tower Summit & Trade Show. The DualPole provides additional colocation capacity on …
BEIJING, China-Lucent Technologies Inc. said it has replaced 65 of China Unicom’s CDMA base stations with cdma2000 1x in a single day in Shanghai province. The swap-out took place swiftly …
TOKYO-Japan’s four mobile-phone operators announced plans to conduct a joint study on the possible biological effects of exposure to radio waves from mobile-phone systems. The four companies-NTT DoCoMo Inc., KDDI …
FRANKFURT, Germany-Moody’s Investors Service has downgraded French vendor Alcatel’s senior debt ratings to B1 from Ba1, reflecting the company’s dwindling revenue flow, the need to downsize and lack of financial …
CAMBRIDGE, U.K.-ARM Ltd. and M-Systems, Kfar Saba, Israel, have signed a technology collaboration agreement under which M-Systems’ SuperMAP cryptographic coprocessors will be optimized for use with the ARM SecureCore family …
NEW YORK-Zingy, a New York-based mobile entertainment provider, has entered into an agreement with Microsoft Corp. to provide MSN members with access to content that includes ringtones, screen logos, group …
SCARBOROUGH, Ontario-Telus Mobility said it has expanded its cdma2000 1x network throughout Canada via a combination of network buildouts in Western Canada and the implementation of a reciprocal roaming and …
LONDON-Messaging company Logica announced it deployed an intercarrier multimedia messaging service with an unnamed wireless carrier. The company said the service will allow users to send MMS messages across different …
LAS VEGAS-Along with continuing to combine various industry standards groups, the Open Mobile Alliance said it will initiate a new interoperability testing program to cover a variety of wireless data …
TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo Inc. plans to introduce its Limitplus billing plan Dec. 1 that will block all outgoing calls and all data communications once monthly phone charges reach a pre-set limit. …
LOS ANGELES-Wireless application publisher Moviso LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Vivendi Universal Net USA, announced it will begin selling prepaid phone cards for buying ring tones through a lineup …
