JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-Witness Mangwende, Zimbabwean minister of transport and communications, has informed parliament that the regulatory body, the Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (POTRAZ), has been dissolved amid …
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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-South African mobile network operator MTN claimed it has paid back more than US$370,000 in funds to prepaid subscribers since the relaunch in June of it payback incentive …
NEW YORK-The Marconi Foundation announced Andrew Viterbi, who developed the interference suppression algorithm used for major digital standards, will be a panelist at its Nov. 8 conference, “WWW Redux: Trends, …
WASHINGTON-XO Communications Inc., the FBI and the Department of Justice last month entered an agreement which will allow XO’s fixed-wireless licenses to be transferred to a new ownership group, 40 …
OSLO, Norway-A surprise tax bill of 2.4 billion crowns (US$323 million) is the latest bit of bad news for Norway’s leading telecom operator and just part of the recent gloomy …
SEOUL, South Korea-South Korea’s mobile payments made for purchases of digital content or other inexpensive products may face a disruption as the Fair Trade Commission (FTC), the country’s top trade …
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-Alvaro Uribe’s Colombian government has decided to postpone the national-level auction of three regional personal communications services (PCS) licences until January and has added to the conditions of …
TORONTO-Canada’s Research in Motion (RIM) is facing allegations that it agreed to pay New York broker Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB) to ensure analyst coverage. CSFB could face prosecution as …
OXFORD, United Kingdom-Tabloid newspapers in the United Kingdom have used banner headlines to alert readers that hundreds of cell-phone transmitter masts have been secretly installed in petrol stations throughout the …
HELSINKI, Finland-BrainHeart Capital, a Stockholm-based group dedicated to investments in wireless technologies, has decided against investing in the third-generation (3G) industry, 3G company stocks and 3G projects, in what amounts …
OXFORD, United Kingdom-In an effort to drive General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) traffic, Vodafone has struck a deal with Fujitsu Siemens that will see the cell-phone operator offer a laptop, …
DUBLIN, Ireland-Barely a week after its parent company British Telecommunications (BT) revealed plans to re-enter the U.K. consumer mobile market, there are indications that Ireland’s number-two telecommunications provider Esat BT …
NEW DELHI, India-The Thai government agency, Communications Authority of Thailand (CAT), plans to seek a foreign strategic partner as part of its restructuring exercise, prior to telecom deregulation next year. …
TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo, the largest mobile operator in Japan, gained merely 2,200 new subscribers for its third-generation (3G) services in September, which brought NTT DoCoMo’s total FOMA or 3G service subscribers …
MANILA, The Philippines-Saddled with heavy debts resulting from the East Asian financial crisis in 1997 and the continued downturn of the global economy, Pilipino Telephone Corporation (Piltel), the mobile-phone subsidiary …
NEW DELHI, India-India has become the fourth country in the Asia-Pacific region to have GSM players offering multimedia messaging service (MMS), with BPL Mobile launching the new service in Mumbai, …
MELBOURNE, Australia-As the federal government’s push to sell its remaining stake in Telstra gains momentum, the Australian communications giant, in its submission to the Estens inquiry into regional telecommunications, has …
REDMOND, Wash.-Smart antenna solution provider Metawave Communications Corp. announced plans for “major restructuring” of its operations, which include cutting 30 percent of the company’s work force and the appointment of …
FOSTER CITY, Calif.-FaceTime Communications, Foster City, Calif., introduced commercially Oct. 8 its IM Auditor application, which permits the management, control and interoperability of any enterprise’s wired or wireless device with …
