WASHINGTON—President Bush signed H.R. 4560 into law this morning delaying the auction of most of the 700 MHz spectrum band and eliminating other legislative deadlines for auctioning other spectrum bands. …
MANILA, The Philippines-The recent major buy-in by the Gokongwei group, a multibillion-dollar conglomerate that is involved in virtually every aspect of Philippine business, of the New York Stock Exchange-listed telecommunications …
VANCOUVER, British Columbia—Sierra Wireless said Singapore’s Networks Electronics S.E.A. Pte Ltd. has signed an agreement to distribute the Sierra Wireless AirCard 750 GSM/GPRS wireless network card modem. Network Electronics also …
ATLANTA—Motorola Inc., Agere Systems Inc. and Infineon have formed a joint venture company called StarCore LLC to develop and market digital signal processor technologies for mobile devices and infrastructure equipment. …
BUDAPEST, Hungary—Euronet Worldwide Inc., provider of electronic financial transaction solutions, and Vodafone Hungary announced the implementation of Euronet ATM Recharge, which will enable Vodafone subscribers to purchase prepaid airtime at …
STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Ericsson AB said it is joining Juniper Networks to deploy what it described as the first commercial multi-protocol Label Switching-based virtual private network for China Mobile Communications in nine …
STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Ericsson has signed a $135 million deal to expand the GSM networks of the Shandong Mobile Communication Co. According to Ericsson, the contract includes Ericsson’s mobile switching center, base …
TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo Inc. said it plans to roll out a dual network service, allowing its FOMA third-generation service subscribers to use the same phone number for both their FOMA service …
WOODBURY, N.Y.—Comverse announced Thailand-based mobile operator, Advanced Info Service (AIS), has chosen Comverse’s VoiCD advanced mobile music solution for listening to and distributing music and other multimedia content. AIS will …
ALBANY, N.Y.—CommSoft announced it will provide Armstrong, an owner and operator of several independent telephone companies, with the CommVergence billing and customer care system for use in a service bureau …
NEW YORK—Moody’s Investors Service Inc. said Monday it has downgraded about $5.2 billion in L.M. Ericsson debt to Baa3, one tier above junk bond status, from Baa2. “The rating downgrade …
DUBLIN, Ireland—There is some confusion in the European mobile sector about the likely impact of the European Commission’s decision to authorize governments to change the parameters of third-generation (3G) licenses. …
TASHKENT, Uzbekistan—Ericsson signed a contract to supply a GSM 1800 MHz network to the Uzdunrobita carrier, which operates TDMA technology and has recently received a GSM 900/1800 MHz license for …
DUBLIN, Ireland—Cellular operators need to market mobile entertainment applications more aggressively if many more games applications developers are not to go out of business. This is the view of international …
MUNICH, Germany—Germany company Varetis said it expanded its three-year-old relationship with U.S.-based Avaya by signing up to the Avaya DeveloperConnection Program. The deal makes Varetis one of the first European …
HOUSTON—Greater Harris County 911 Emergency Network of Houston is teaming with Ford Motor Co. to show off its emergency rescue telematics system at the National Emergency Number Association annual conference …
SAN DIEGO—Qualcomm Inc. recently demonstrated security features of its OmniTRACS communications and tracking system at an event for congressional leaders and Department of Transportation (DOT) representatives in Washington, D.C. Qualcomm …
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—Mobilize Inc., which sold software for wireless access to corporate information, ceased operations and sold off its remaining assets, according to the company’s Web site. Company officials were …
CARY, N.C.—SpectraSite Holdings Inc. late Wednesday amended offers to purchase a portion of its outstanding senior notes to reduce the minimum tender condition by half, to $150 million. The company …
HELSINKI, Finland—Finland’s Sonera Corp. and Hong Kong CSL Ltd. launched the world’s first commercial inter-operator multimedia messaging services over Aicent Inc.’s and Sonera’s GPRS Roaming Exchange networks. The service allows …
