WILMINGTON, Del.-Bankrupt Devon Mobile Communications L.P. will sell 75 wireless communications towers to Mountain Union Telecom L.L.C., pending court approval. Devon Mobile was forced to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy …
TOKYO-Sharp, a major consumer electronics maker, assumed the third position, after NEC and Matsushita Communications Industrial, in the Japanese mobile handset market in the second quarter, according to statistics compiled …
TOKYO-Mitsubishi Electric announced it developed Internet Protocol (IP) mobile technology for wireless local area network (WLAN) and PHS data communications. The firm is aimed at launching commercial service via its …
OXFORD, United Kingdom-In an effort to break the stranglehold of the likes of Nokia, Siemens and Sony Ericsson, Vodafone is preparing to launch a huge marketing campaign that will prominently …
OXFORD, United Kingdom-Despite the fanfare surrounding Nokia’s launch this week of its first third-generation (3G) handset, many insiders remain adamant that there are significant technological issues to resolve before the …
OXFORD, United Kingdom-Content providers looking to launch reverse-billed short message service (SMS)-based services are calling on cell-phone operators to increase the price limits set for each message. U.K. operators are …
CHICAGO-U.S. Cellular Corp., which is in the middle of overlaying its CDMA/TDMA network with cdma2000 1x technology, said it has begun testing Qualcomm Inc.’s BREW solution in Knoxville, Tenn. The …
PARIS-French supplier Alcatel Corp. said it signed two separate contracts with Guangxi Unicom for its fifth GSM network expansion and marginal network contract valued at more than $10 million. Alcatel …
FRANKFURT, Germany-Germany’s troubled telecom firm MobilCom said it would cut 1,850 jobs and halt the rollout of its third-generation network in Germany. The German company was close to bankruptcy earlier …
PLANO, Texas-Terion Inc. extended its existing contract for wireless communications supporting its FleetView trailer monitoring system with Verizon Wireless Inc. until 2005. Financial terms of the extension were not released. …
WELLINGTON, New Zealand-Verizon Communications has sold most of its 21.5-percent stake in Telecom New Zealand. Verizon sold its stake to Merrill Lynch, which then sold the shares to global institutional …
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia said Vodafone Ireland has selected it as the sole supplier for its W-CDMA network. Nokia said deliveries will begin in October. The value of the agreement was not …
WASHINGTON-A state appeals court in Illinois has affirmed a lower court ruling that threw out a cancer lawsuit brought by former Motorola Inc. engineer Robert Kane. Kane claimed the testing …
NEW DELHI, India-The booming Thai mobile market is showing early signs of a slowdown, a top industry leader has said. The market is “almost saturated” with sales slowing after hitting …
BUCHAREST, Romania-Romanian GSM operator Connex and Zapp Mobile, the country’s CDMA 450 MHz operator, announced that users of the two networks now can send each other text messages. The new …
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-M-Cell, the holding company of mobile network operator MTN, has lashed out at allegations that the company’s Nigerian operation is struggling, reporting that it would be profitable by …
BRAMPTON, Ontario-Speculations of takeover and delisting continue to swirl around Nortel Networks Ltd. as the Canadian telecom equipment maker lowered its third-quarter outlook by 15 percent, driving its shares down …
HELSINKI, Finland-Sonera said it has awarded Nokia Corp. a contract to supply an advanced delivery server for downloading mobile content such as Java games, polyphonic ringing tones and Symbian applications …
FREMONT, Calif.-@Road, which provides location-enhanced wireless Internet solutions for mobile resource management, announced it acquired the majority of the assets of ConnectBusiness, which offers wireless timekeeping and project management solutions. …
BEDFORDSHIRE, United Kingdom-Software provider CellTracker reported Japanese wireless operator J-Phone Co. Ltd. will use its Rollout Management software to manage site securing, procurement of design, materials and construction services and …
