DALLAS-Edge Wireless L.L.C., a member of the AT&T Wireless network, signed a three-year contract with Nortel Networks to upgrade its current TDMA network to GSM/GPRS. The $18.5 million contract calls …
HARRISBURG, Pa.-Pennsylvania attorney general Mike Fisher, praised the General Assembly for passing Senate Bill 820, sponsored by Sen. Jake Corman, which would prohibit prison inmates from possessing telecommunication devices. “I …
CALGARY, Alberta-Zi Corp., which provides software for device interfaces, announced Humax Co. Ltd. licensed the company’s eZiText for its digital set-top box products. “Humax represents one of our early implementations …
PITTSBURGH-Eizel Technologies Inc., which offers technology to connect mobile devices to corporate information programs, announced it closed a seed round of investment funding totaling $4.2 million. ITU Ventures led the …
SAN RAFAEL, Calif.-Autodesk Location Services announced the third release of its Autodesk LocationLogic, a development platform for location-based services. Autodesk said LocationLogic 3 includes new capabilities to help wireless operators …
PARIS-Alcatel said it launched a 3G Reality Center in Shanghai, China, to develop and test advanced mobile applications and data services in the country. Alcatel said it would partner with …
HELSINKI, Finland-Finnish supplier Tecnomen said it will begin multimedia messaging service trials in two countries, The Dominican Republic and Indonesia. The Dominican Republic trial will be with France Telecom Dominicana. …
TORONTO-BlackBerrys will soon be available in France through Research In Motion Ltd.’s latest carrier deal. The company said it will sell the BlackBerry wireless e-mail solution for enterprise customers in …
SOUTHFIELD, Mich.-Denso International America Inc., North American headquarters for Japan-based Denso Corp., cut 177 U.S. jobs, citing delays in their customers’ commercial telematics plans. The cuts are taking place at …
SAN ANTONIO-Bell Canada Holdings repurchased approximately 4 percent of SBC Communications Inc.’s 20-percent interest in the company for $870 million. The companies also entered an agreement giving SBC the right …
LONDON-U.K. telecom player Marconi plc said on Friday that the company would be delisted from the Nasdaq on July 3. The company said its American Depositary Receipts will be delisted …
BURLINGOTN, Mass.-Shares of Lightbridge Inc. took a hit Friday after the mobile business solution provider released new, lower-than-anticipated revenues for the second quarter ending June 30, 2002. The company said …
IRVINE, Calif.-FieldCentrix announced it is now offering FX e-Service to allow customers of field service companies using FieldCentrix systems to request service and access work order status over the Internet. …
SALT LAKE CITY-Fonix announced it will offer automatic speech recognition and text-to-speech capabilities on devices using Texas Instruments’ OMAP platform. Fonix Speech Solutions, to be rolled out in Europe this …
WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif.-Wireless modem maker Gtran Wireless Inc. has said its dual-band cdma2000 1x EV-DO data card known as the DotSurfer 6200 is now commercially available. The company said the …
HAZLET, N.J.-Retail Decisions said it signed a contract with Virgin Mobile to provide payment authorization and settlement services. Financial terms of the deal were not released.
MOSCOW-The biggest Russian carrier Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) finally launched a GSM 900/1800 MHz network in Belarus, thus making its first step into the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) uniting 12 …
OXFORD, United Kingdom-The rebranding that is being implemented by some of the large European cell-phone operators as they push toward a worldwide identity seems to be failing, according to advertising …
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-The Telecommunications Cooperative of Santa Cruz (Cotas) has become the first mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) in the region by launching its Cotas M
