MANILA, The Philippines—Gokongwei-owned Digital Telecommunications Philippines (Digitel) will push through with the launch of its mobile-phone operations this year. Digitel President John Gokongwei Jr. announced the move to compete in …
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—Comsat International and Metrored this week joined the Argentine exodus that is shaking the Latin American telecommunications market. The trend began when Impsat was transferred to its creditors, …
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—Nuevatel is planning to invest US$12.5 million this year in Bolivia to launch its long-distance service in July and expand its cellular network. The objective of both initiatives …
DUBLIN, Ireland—The pressure on dominant Irish mobile operator Vodafone Ireland has intensified with the revelation that Vodafone Group is expecting its Irish operation to improve its performance in line with …
OXFORD, United Kingdom—While the cost of integrating a camera into a cell phone is only US$10, silicon chip developer STMicroelectronics has complained that European terminal makers are resisting the move …
OXFORD, United Kingdom—In an effort to promote the use of multimedia messaging service (MMS), Vizzavi Deutschland, the wireless portal jointly owned by Vodafone and Vivendi Universal, has requested Alatto Technologies …
MELBOURNE, Australia—Vodafone Australia will move to prevent stolen mobile phones from being reconnected from the end of December. Telstra announced in April it would stop reconnections as of 15 August. …
DUBLIN, Ireland—U.K.-based Research firm Strategy Analytics has claimed that mobile operators are missing opportunities to rejuvenate their average revenue per user (ARPU) rates by not making the most of opportunities …
TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo said its Taiwanese partner KG Telecommunications will begin i-mode service on 20 June. The operator will launch i-mode services on its General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) network. Content …
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa—MTN South Africa has launched its General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) service, to be available in a trial phase to its contract subscriber base prior to the commercial …
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BEIJING—Huawei Technologies, based in Shenzhen, China, announced the launch of its U.S. subsidiary FutureWei, headquartered in Texas. The company will provide telecommunications and enterprise networking equipment to the U.S. and …
TORONTO—Sierra Wireless shares fell 33.8 percent on the Toronto Stock Exchange on 5 June, a day after the company cut its guidance for its second quarter and indicated sales from …
TOKYO—Sony announced it will launch a new storage device for mobile handsets, as well as portable music players, in July. Sony has been providing the Memory Stick storage device. The …
BEIJING—China Mobile (Hong Kong) will reap goodwill of around 40.3 billion yuan (US$4.87 billion) following the pending acquisition of eight provincial mobile networks from parent China Mobile Communications. China Mobile …
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa—Mobile network operator Econet Wireless Nigeria announced it will enter a promotion surrounding the 2002 World Cup soccer event. The company is expected to spend about US$260,000 on …
BEIJING—The China Sports Press Association has selected CDMA handsets from Ningbo Bird to be the official mobile phones for Chinese journalists covering the 2002 World Cup finals. The company provided …
BEIJING—The Import and Export Bank of China has agreed to make a 500 million yuan (US$60 million) credit to Siemens Shanghai Mobile Communications, its first to a foreign firm.
STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Wireless equipment maker Ericsson said it will provide infrastructure for multimedia messaging services (MMS) to Swisscom Mobile, which will begin offering the service sometime this month. “The introduction of …
STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Shareholders of equipment vendor Ericsson have approved a US$3.1 billion rights issue to help the company through uncertain times. Like Nortel Networks, Motorola and Lucent Technologies, the company will …
