LONDON-Virgin Mobile U.K. said it signed up 232,000 customers during the third quarter, giving the company more than 2 million customers at the end of September, which is less than …
NEW YORK-Moody’s Investors Service has assigned a speculative grade liquidity rating of SGL-3 to tower owner and operator Crown Castle International Corp. Moody’s said that the company has “ample cash …
LONDON-Virgin Mobile UK said it had signed up 232,000 customers during the third quarter giving the company more than 2 million customers at the end of September, which is less …
NEW YORK-Citing increased competition and challenges integrating former WorldCom Wireless customers, Lehman Brothers lowered its net customer additions guidance for AT&T Wireless Services Inc.’s third quarter from 300,000 subscribers to …
NEW YORK-America Online Inc. and the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children announced the launch of AOL Amber Alerts, a service that will allow AOL members to choose to …
WASHINGTON, D.C.-Ernesto Vargas Guajardo, president and chief executive officer of MVS Communications, will deliver the opening keynote address at the Wireless Communications Association’s Ninth Annual Technical Symposium and Business Expo …
SAN BRUNO, Calif.-IPWireless Inc. said Clearwire Technologies will deploy its next-generation broadband everywhere technology, beginning with a major U.S. city in the first quarter of 2003. “Clearwire selected the IPWireless …
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-VeriSign Inc. has finalized three new contracts for its NetDiscovery services, an outsourced solution for compliance with the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA). Calif.-based CLEC Arrival …
OSLO, Norway-Europolitan Vodafone filed a formal request with PTS, the Swedish national telecom regulator, asking for an extra two years to meet its third-generation (3G) license conditions. The application coincided …
HELSINKI, Finland-Following discussions with senior government ministers in Denmark, the Brussels, Belgium-based European Investment Bank (EIB) has drafted a proposal to loan Danish mobile operator TDC Mobile US$200 million to …
MANILA, The Phillipines-GSM technology has inherent vulnerabilities that can be exploited by hackers, a recent World Bank study has warned. According to a paper titled “E-Security: Risk Mitigation in Financial …
NEW DELHI, India-The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has terminated the license of Koshika Telecom, a cellular service provider in Uttar Pradesh (East) circle, following default in payment of license fee …
MELBOURNE, Australia-Australian telecommunications watchdog, the Australian Communications Authority, has returned a favorable report card for the first year of mobile number portability (MNP) with more than 400,000 users switching carriers …
PARIS-Thierry Breton, former chief executive of French consumer electronics company Thomson Multimedia, was nominated as chairman and chief executive officer of France T
PARIS-French mobile operator Bouygues Telecom was awarded a third-generation (3G) license by the French regulator for about US$610 million. Bouygues Telecom opted out of the first round of licensing in …
MILPITAS, California, United States-Palm announced its board of directors approved a 1-for-20 reverse stock split. “The decision made by Palm’s board of directors to complete the planned reverse stock split …
DOHA, Qatar-Motorola and Alcatel said they have signed a US$60 million contract to supply infrastructure equipment for Qatar’s state-owned carrier Qatar Telecom. The network will increase its capacity to 400,000 …
LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, United States-The law firm of Cauley Geller Bowman & Coates filed a class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on …
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Ericsson said it signed a contract to extend the length of a deal to manage Telecom New Zealand’s TDMA network to 2007. “The agreement represents a managed services contract …
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia said it will supply a Terrestrial Trunked Radio (TETRA) network to the Monagas state government in Venezuela. The two-way radio system will offer digital communications to state police, …
