NEW YORK—Tele2 said it won a Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) license in Luxembourg from the country’s Ministry of Telecommunications. Tele2’s Luxembourg operator Tango received the most points in the …
DUBLIN, Ireland—A contract awarded to Vodafone Group has become the subject of a formal appeal to the Irish telecommunications industry regulator. A 130 million euro (US$120.4 million) contract for the …
CARACAS, Venezuela—Lucent Technologies and Telcel BellSouth announced a three-year agreement to continue building a cdma2000 network in Venezuela. The initial deployment of 1x equipment has begun in Caracas and will …
CUPERTINO, Calif.—Consolidated Telecom selected Vyyo Inc. to provide its multichannel multipoint distrbution service equipment for a broadband deployment in Dickinson, Scranton and Killdeer, N.D., Vyyo said. The deployment is comprised …
BEDMINSTER, N.J.—Verizon Wireless is launching another global positioning system-enabled handset, the company announced. The 9155-GPX from Audiovox Communication Corp. will be available this week in addition to the SCH-N300 from …
SAO PAULO, Brazil—3G Americas announced its endorsement of this year’s 3GSM Americas 2002 and the Mobile Evolution Expo, to begin December 4 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. “This event is absolutely …
LONDON—A new report stated the number of contract mobile subscribers has increased in the United Kingdom for the first time since 1999. J.D. Power and Associates said the number of …
OVERLAND PARK, Kan.—Sprint PCS signed a letter of intent with eOne Global, an affiliate of electronic payment provider First Data Corp., to establish a mobile payment network enabling customers to …
PARIS—French vendor Alcatel said it opened a third-generation center in Taiwan, calling it the first fully functional 3G/UMTS system in Taiwan and the first member of the company’s 3G Reality …
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.—Openwave Systems Inc. and wireless application developer Digital Bridges expanded their partnership, the companies announced. Openwave paid an undisclosed sum for a minority stake in Digital Bridges, and …
SANTA CLARA, Calif.—Datastick Systems Inc., developer of software and peripherals for Palm OS handhelds, announced it will develop a software interface exclusively for Oceana Sensor Technologies Inc., a manufacturer of …
SUNNYVALE, Calif.—Proxim Corp., created from the merger of Proxim Inc. and Western Multiplex Corp., announced Kevin Duffy has been made general manager of the company’s newly formed broadband services division. …
WASHINGTON—The numbering crisis is over, said Michael Altschul, senior vice president and general counsel for the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association. “The whole numbering crisis seems to be over. … …
BONN, Germany—German telecommunications giant Deutsche Telekom reported its T-Mobile wireless division posted $4.1 billion in revenue for the first quarter of this year compared with $2.5 billion reported for the …
PLANO, Texas—French vendor Alcatel Alsthom has laid off 450 more workers in the United States, making a total of 1,500 job cuts since November last year. The company said the …
SAN JOSE, Calif.—Worldwide mobile phone unit sales reached 93.8 million units in the first quarter of 2002, a 3.8-percent decline from first-quarter 2001, according to Dataquest Inc., a unit of …
MISSISAUGA, Ontario—Wireless security solutions provider Certicom said Texas Instruments has licensed its products for TI’s OMAP platform for handsets, personal digital assistants and advanced mobile Internet appliances. “Both carriers and …
HELSINKI, Finland—Nokia Networks said it signed an agreement to buy a 10-percent stake for $35.8 billion in Redback Networks Inc., with an option to increase its shares in the future. …
BOYNTON BEACH, Fla.—A potentially important deal between Motorola Inc. and Multitone Electronics has fallen through, Motorola confirmed, which leaves the paging and messaging landscape still more uncertain. Last year Motorola …
BEDMINSTER, N.J.—Verizon Wireless reported a reciprocal roaming agreement with South Korean wireless operator SK Telecom allowing customers to use the same handset and phone number when on each carriers network. …
