NAPERVILLE, Ill.-Tellabs announced several changes to its corporate management team that it said will strengthen relations with customers, speed product development and grow international business. The changes, effective August 5, …
HACKENSACK, N.J.-Due to the high cost of managing roaming CDPD subscribers, wireless enterprise software and service provider GoAmerica Inc. announced it deactivated several thousand CDPD customers and said it plans …
MINNEAPOLIS-Following ADC Telecommunications Inc.’s earlier announcement it intended to lower its quarterly break-even sales point toward $250 million per quarter from its original goal of $300 million, the company has …
RESTON, Va.-Nextel Communications Inc. selected Wireless Services Corp. to serve as its network interoperability provider, enabling Nextel customers to send and receive text messages to and from subscribers of other …
BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Verizon Wireless Inc. and America Online Inc. announced the immediate availability of a suite of AOL services and features to Verizon Wireless Mobile Web subscribers. The AOL services include …
BOSTON-Brasil Telecom announced it will use Netonomy’s entire product suite for its customer relationship management programs. The carrier will use Netonomy’s NetService Center, NetService Center Business Edition and Channel Activator …
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. said it signed an agreement with AirWalk Communications Inc. under which AirWalk will license Qualcomm’s CDMA patent portfolio to develop, manufacture and sell wireless infrastructure equipment for …
LONDON-Text messaging company Scan Mobile scored a major new outlet for its applications, announcing a partnership with European carrier Orange to offer a variety of messaging applications. Among its portfolio, …
RESTON, Va.-Despite several frustrating and fruitless negotiations with XO Communications Inc.’s bank lenders, Carl Icahn is still hovering around the company’s restructuring proceedings, this time offering to pay investors 50 …
WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association was appointed as a non-resident member of the National Coordinating Center for Telecommunications on the same day the Federal Communications Commission released its response …
HELSINKI, Finland-The Finnish government hinted on 31 July at a possible delay in the finalization of merger arrangements between Nordic telecom companies Sonera and Telia. The delay emerged following confirmation …
TOKYO-Gartner Japan, a Japanese business unit of Gartner Group, has predicted the mobile handset market on a unit basis will expand at an annual increasing rate of 5.3 percent between …
OXFORD, United Kingdom-In an effort to calm the nerves of the third-generation (3G) community, Canning Fok, Hutchison’s managing director, said reports of call handover problems between current-generation and 3G networks …
OXFORD, United Kingdom-While outsiders have praised Sonera and Telef
BEIJING-Expansion of China’s PHS network called Little Smart in the suburbs of Beijing and Tianjin has been put on hold by the Ministry of Information Industry (MII), which fears a …
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-The Venezuelan cell-phone operator Movilnet presented a new service that allows new clients to receive mobile-phone messages without actually owning their own cellular phones. The “Virtual Cellular” service …
DUBLIN, Ireland-Europe’s largest mobile-phone retailer shows no signs of relinquishing its market-leading position, with Carphone Warehouse announcing a 16-percent increase in connections during the past four months. These 1.16 million …
NEW DELHI, India-Idea Cellular said it will launch its services in the Indian capital next month, taking the total number of GSM players to four. The company has already invested …
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-Speaking at a recent technology and communications summit in Johannesburg, executives from South Africa’s mobile and fixed operators reiterated their calls that the local regulator, the Independent Communications …
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-The National Telecommunications Council in Ecuador assigned two of the three national 3.4 GHz to 3.6 GHz bands for wireless local loop (WLL) services to TV Cable and …
