NEW YORK—Following AirGate PCS’s release of a revised quarterly outlook, which quickly resulted in a tumbling of its stock value which reverberated throughout the wireless sector Thursday, Standard & Poor’s …
LEDBURY, United Kingdom—Cellular operators must do more to promote their gaming services or risk stunting the growth of the mobile entertainment market, according to a new study from international telecommunications …
GREENSBORO, N.C.—RF Micro Devices Inc. released revised guidance for the current quarter ended June 30, 2002. The company now expects revenues to range from $98 million to $101 million and …
ATLANTA—Consolidation moves across the wireless data industry continue to hit in waves, this time with three companies announcing sales or mergers. O2wireless Solutions Inc., which offers outsourced telecommunications services, announced …
NEW YORK—Nortel Networks Corp. said it will earn $1.3 billion from two public offerings of 25,000 equity units and 550 million of its common shares. The company, which is scheduling …
KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.—InterDigital Communications Corp. announced it is playing host to the General Assembly of the UMTS Forum and its members for a two day conference on 3G wireless …
LONDON—Austrian carrier Mobilkom Austria will use Logica’s multimedia messaging product, along with its Prepaid Service Agent, which will ensure pre-delivery charging. Mobilkom launched multimedia messaging services this week. “We are …
STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Telecom gear maker Ericsson AB has confirmed that it is in talks with German chipmaker Infineon over a possible sale of or partnership with Ericsson’s microelectronics unit. Ericsson’s microelectronics …
MELBOURNE, Australia—Singapore Telecommunications Ltd. signed a deal with Iridium Satellite L.L.C. to become a service provider, Iridium said. SingTel will focus on delivering Iridium mobile satellite services to commercial customers, …
ARLINGTON, Va.—IoWave Inc. acquired the assets of multichannel multipoint distribution services equipment provider Hybrid Networks Inc., which ceased operations at the end of April, IoWave announced. Terms of the agreement …
ROME—Telekom Austria has acquired Telecom Italia Mobile’s 25-percent stake in mobile operator Mobilkom Austria for $676 million, of which $651.5 is the purchase price and $24.5 million is the dividend …
RESTON, Va.—Nextel Communications Inc. said it has appointed Gregory Meacham to vice president of federal programs and homeland security marketing. Meacham will work with Nextel to strengthen the company’s relationship …
TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo Inc. said its Taiwanese partner KG Telecommunications will begin i-mode service on June 20. The operator will launch i-mode services on its GPRS network. Content from about 80 …
STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Microsoft Corp. closed its Mobile Internet Business Unit in Stockholm, Sweden, cutting about 80 jobs. The affected employees will be offered jobs in the company’s U.S.-based headquarters. The Microsoft …
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association’s Wireless 2001 tradeshow jumped to a ranking of 42, up from 68, in Tradeshow Week’s annual ranking of the top 200 tradeshows in …
Permit issues could delay operator rollouts HELSINKI, Finland-PTS, Sweden’s telecom regulatory authority, appears to have accepted the general position adopted by operators that meeting the 2002 deadline for rollout of …
BEIJING—Datang Telecom has cut the price of its CDMA handsets by 20 percent to 1,980 yuan (US$239.22). They are the first CDMA handsets in China priced below 2,000 yuan (US$241.63). …
OXFORD, United Kingdom—The calls for urgent changes that were recently made by Europe’s leading mobile operators about the alterations to their third-generation (3G) license conditions look likely to be rejected …
TOKYO—Ericsson Japan on 5 June said it would develop a roaming system for wireless local area network (WLAN) providers. In Japan, some carriers, including NTT Communications, have launched commercial-based WLAN …
