JOHANNESBURG, South Africa—South Africa’s third mobile network operator Cell C announced it joined forces with the Unilever Institute of Strategic Marketing and the School of Management studies at the University …
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—One of the effects of the Argentine crisis on the region is the recent rejection by Uruguay and Paraguay of the option to privatize their telephony companies. The …
CALGARY—An isolated native-Indian community has obtained its first solid link—without wires—to the outside world. Quick Link Communications of Calgary, a satellite services provider, has connected the Wasagamack community to wireless …
TOKYO—NTT Communications, a long-distance and international business unit of NTT Group, announced it would launch wireless service based on the 5 GHz band in July on an experimental basis. Under …
BEIJING—China Unicom plans to significantly upgrade its paging service with new information and data services, such as e-mail. The number of paging subscribers in China is constantly dropping as more …
TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo, the leading mobile operator in Japan, limited the use of mobile phones for two hours in the afternoon of 7 June due to World Cup ticket sales. From …
BEIJING—Siemens IC Mobile is collaborating with China Mobile to offer Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) and short message service (SMS) services to inform subscribers when goals are made in the FIFA …
WASHINGTON—The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) qualified 128 bidders to participate in the scheduled 19 June auction of 758 licenses in the lower 700 MHz band (698-746 MHz). Qualified bidders made …
BEIJING—China International Trust and Investment Corporation (CITIC) and China Satellite Communications Corporation (ChinaSat) reached an agreement to reorganize their assets to make use of each other’s advantages. Lacking a terrestrial …
HELSINKI, Finland—Nokia said it signed a US$75 million contract to expand the GSM networks of Yunnan MCC in China. Under the contract terms, Nokia will supply core and radio-access networks …
LONDON—CMG Wireless Data Solutions said it won an 8.5 million euro (US$7.82 million) contract with the Philippines’ Globe Telecom for the expansion of its short messaging service (SMS) capacity to …
CHICAGO—U.S. Cellular Corp. received Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust clearance for its planned acquisition of the Chicago MTA wireless business from PrimeCo Wireless Communications, satisfying one of the regulatory conditions of the purchase. …
BELLEVUE, Wash.—VoiceStream Wireless Corp.’s parent company T-Mobile International Inc. announced actress Catherine Zeta-Jones would be the global spokeswoman for the company’s various wireless services. For the U.S. market, Zeta-Jones will …
AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands—Cambridge Silicon Radio launched a ready-engineered example of a Bluetooth headset, which the company said would make it quicker for companies to produce their own lower cost headsets …
SAN DIEGO—Leap Wireless International Inc. said it has made “significant progress” in mitigating the effects of recently reported fraud on its Cricket wireless service following the implementation of controls designed …
BONN, Germany—Research In Motion Ltd. continues to push its voice-capable BlackBerry, with wireless giant T-Mobile now selling the product and Retrieval Dynamics Corp. lined up as a select reseller of …
TOKYO—Japanese electronics giant Fujitsu is considering offer a wireless data service to corporate customers in Japan through a deal with Japanese carrier KDDI, according to media reports. The Nihon Keizai …
LONDON—Hutchison 3G will use Elata’s Java platform to offer targeted, personalized wireless Java applications, the companies announced. “Choosing a flexible platform that will not only cater to our rollout requirements …
HONG KONG—Ericsson demonstrated cross-technology MMS over cdma2000 and GPRS technologies at this week’s 3G World Congress in Hong Kong. In its demonstration, Ericsson sent MMS from a cdma2000-enabled PDA to …
PARIS—Maporama announced a partnership with Navigation Technologies that will enhance location-based service offerings for Italy’s WIND Telecomunicazioni customers. “Maporama is excited to provide its industry-leading technology to forward-thinking operator WIND …
