CAIRO, Egypt-Orascom Telecom Holding said it sold its shares in Yemen mobile operator Sabafone to Al Ahmar Group for US$18.5 million. With the completion of the transaction, all litigation between …
BOCA RATON, Florida, United States-Feeling financial pressure as wireless carriers continue to slash capital expenditures, wireless tower owner and operator SBA Communications has lowered its third-quarter guidance for earnings before …
VILNIUS, Lithuania-Lithuania’s Omnitel said it introduced multimedia messaging service (MMS) to its subscribers. The service is free until 1 December after a one-time set-up fee of 10 litas (US$2.85). The …
WASHINGTON-Skyworld Communications Inc., a minority-owned wireless dealer in Chicago, is bringing a $23 million lawsuit against T-Mobile USA Inc. for breach of contract and violation of the Illinois Franchise Act. …
WASHINGTON-Justice Department antitrust chief Charles James is resigning to become vice president and general counsel for Chevron Texaco Corp., leaving several pending high-tech mergers in limbo and creating uncertainty for …
PARIS-Vodafone Spain and Nortel Networks presented details of the rollout program for Vodafone’s UMTS network in Spain. A Vodafone executive said network coverage has been deployed in 23 cities and …
SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif.-Starfish Software has been granted a patent for a solution that allows a user to make changes to records in a client database while synchronization with a server …
TORONTO-Merrill Lynch has significantly lowered its estimate of how much cash Nortel Networks will have at the end of next year, citing concerns about Nortel’s wireless equipment division. Merrill said …
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-Cell C shareholder Saudi Oger is reported to be seeking fresh opportunities in other emerging African markets. Jonahan Newman, the network’s chief of strategy development, said the possibilities …
MOSCOW-The biggest Russian carrier Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) has reportedly reached a deal to acquire a controlling stake in Ukraine’s second-biggest operator Ukrainian Mobile Communications (UMC). UMC shareholders include government-owned Ukrtelecom …
SAN DIEGO, Calif.-Qualcomm Inc. said it has rolled out Wideband CDMA test mobiles at 1900 MHz for North American deployment. “These test mobiles are identical to those used for W-CDMA …
ATLANTA-EMS Technologies Inc. has granted LGC Wireless Inc. a non-exclusive worldwide license to manufacture and market its wireless products under patent no. 6,005,884, as part of the settlement of the …
GREENWOOD VILLAGE, Colo.-Ciber Inc.’s Wireless Practice has been acknowledged by IBM and Palm Inc. for integrating IBM and Palm Solution Group technologies-making it the first integration partner of the two …
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. and Vodafone Omnitel have jointly completed what they describe as the world’s first voice-over-Internet Protocol call using Nokia’s mobile switching center server and media gateway. “IT is …
ATLANTA-ART Advanced Recognition Technologies Inc. (ART) announced it will join with Qualcomm Inc. to implements its smARTspeak XG software into Qualcomm’s CDMA Mobile Station Modem (MSM) chipsets. ART’s phoneme-based name …
WOODBURY, N.Y.-Comverse, a unit of Comverse Technology Inc., announced it will demonstrate its Multimedia Mobile E-mail on a mobile device based on Texas Instruments’ OMAP wireless processing platform. Comverse said …
DOHA, Qatar-Motorola Inc. and Alcatel said they have signed a $60 million contract to supply infrastructure equipment for the Qatar’s state-owned carrier Qatar Telecom. The network will increase its capacity …
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-After the controversy unleashed in Argentina between Qualcomm and 3G Americas over which technology will prevail in Latin America, Pyramid Research has modified its forecast, lowering by 25 …
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-After 10 years as president of Telecom Argentina, Juan Carlos Masjoan resigned from his post last Friday and was replaced by vice president Franco Bertone, who represents Telecom …
