PARIS-Alcatel Corp. continues to fund its 3G Reality Centers, with announcements of about a $10 million investment in a center in Cascais, Portugal, and the opening of another Asian center …
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-A strong discussion has started in Argentina about what platforms will prevail in Latin America. On the one hand, the 3G Americas organization maintains that GSM will be …
OXFORD, United Kingdom-Having been a late entrant into the Hungarian market, Vodafone is being forced to speed up the expansion of its cell-phone network after its rival, Pannon GSM, gave …
NEW DELHI, India-The Indian cellular industry has opposed a proposal by Communications Minister Pramod Mahajan to allow unrestricted competition in mobile telephony, saying it will amount to violation of the …
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-Technology and telecommunications holding group Venfin announced that it would not be prepared to spend more than 1.5 billion rand (US$143.4 million) for the 5-percent stake in mobile …
PARIS-Alcatel continues to fund its 3G Reality Centers, with announcements of about a US$10 million investment in a center in Cascais, Portugal, and the opening of another Asian center in …
STAMFORD, Conn.-Motorola Inc. said it has signed a software contract to certify and offer Smartserv applications on a variety of its mobile phones with Java 2 platform and micro edition …
SAN DIEGO-Wireless enterprise company Wireless Knowledge, a Qualcomm Inc. subsidiary, confirmed it acquired the majority of rival Mobilocity’s assets, including some of the company’s top executives, intellectual properties and its …
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Barely a week after its rights issue, telecom equipment maker L.M. Ericsson said the company’s downgrade by Moody’s Investors Service will increase its financing cost. Ericsson’s shares dropped on …
PARIS-Apple Computer Inc. released a new software called Rendezvous, which the company said is a networking technology that can incorporate consumer electronics, printers, enterprise database management and educational applications. Philips, …
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission is seeking comment on whether bidders in the re-auction of bankrupt NextWave Telecom Inc.’s PCS C- and F-block licenses should be able to withdraw entirely from …
OXFORD, United Kingdom-The long-running dispute between MobilCom, the financially troubled German third-generation (3G) license holder, and its major shareholder, France T
BEIJING-China Eastcom, one of China’s 19 licensed CDMA handset manufacturers, has reached an agreement with carrier China Unicom to offer CDMA handsets to consumers at one-third of market prices. Its …
HELSINKI, Finland-Finnet, the Helsinki-based umbrella association for 40 local telecom operators in Finland, has adopted an aggressive position to competing with rival operators Sonera and Elisa for mobile and fixed-line …
OXFORD, United Kingdom-In an attempt to stimulate the third-generation (3G) content market, Hutchison 3G, which now wants to be known simply as 3, has launched a competition targeted at developers …
MELBOURNE, Australia-Australian carrier Hutchison Telecommunications has raised concerns about the launch of third-generation (3G) mobile communications if Telstra, which has a half stake in pay-television operator Foxtel, is permitted to …
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-After a year of successive postponements, the Regulatory Unit of the Uruguayan Communications Services (URSEC) announced that on 18 November, there will be an auction of personal communications …
TORONTO-Analysts who cover Research in Motion (RIM) are warning that the Waterloo, Ontario, Canada-based company will not likely be able to sustain sales growth for some of its new wireless …
BUCHAREST, Romania-The three main mobile Czech operators and the country’s five most important banks have founded the Mobile Payment Association (MPA). The aim of the MPA is to develop and …
