BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—The Paraguayan Ministers Council’s rejection of the rebalanced tariff provoked the resignation of the country’s reformation secretary and the postponement until 30 April of the privatization of the …
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa—The overall mobile industry in South Africa is expected to grow to 46 million rand (US$4.1 million) by 2005, with Vodacom continuing to be the largest player by …
OXFORD, United Kingdom—Having turned his back on the mobile industry following the sale of the U.K.-based cell-phone operator Orange to France T
TOKYO—The Cabinet Office in Japan on Thursday announced that it found 27 percent of the country’s mobile users receive at least two junk mails on their phones a day. According …
MONTREAL—Canadian wireless operator Bell Mobility launched its cdma2000 1x network in Montreal with plans to extend coverage in major urban centers across Quebec in the third quarter and in its …
DALLAS—Alaskan wireless service provider ACS Wireless signed a four-year agreement valued at approximately $422 million with Nortel Networks to upgrade its network with cdma2000 1x technology. Nortel said it would …
TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo Inc. plans to introduce additional countermeasures next month against forged-domain spam mail. The carrier said the additional measures are due to “spammers” forging other carriers’ domain names to …
SAN FRANCISCO—Research In Motion Ltd. and Sun Microsystems Inc. announced they are working together to provide the platform, products, services and tools for enterprise software developers to use Java technology …
NEW ORLEANS—The Morial Convention Center in New Orleans now owns a common wireless carrier signal distribution network that supports wireless use by customers of Alltel, Cingular Wireless, Nextel, Sprint PCS, …
ALEXANDRIA, Va.—Ecutel Inc. announced its has signed up seven new authorized resellers of its Viatores advanced mobile private networking software. “With Viatores, Ecutel resellers can help customers overcome the security …
NEW DELHI, India—Hughes Software Systems announced it will offer video and audio streaming for third-generation W-CDMA networks over its 3G SGSN source code. According to HSS, the solution will allow …
IRVINE, Calif.—FieldCentrix Inc. said it will work with the Microsoft Consulting Services Advanced Technology (MCSAT) group to develop its next generation of products with Microsoft’s Visual Studio .NET and the …
SUNNYVALE, Calif.—Conductus Inc. announced it completed a $7.3 million private placement of equity to support the commercialization of its ClearSite products for the wireless market. Under the terms of the …
CARY, N.C.—UbiNetics says it has enhanced its third-generation terminal-testing solution, the CS100 Node B emulator, to help developers simulate complex test scenarios and verify their designs before testing with live …
HELSINKI, Finland—Whatever the ultimate outcome of Telia’s strategic Scandinavian union with Sonera, the net effect will certainly not be a merger of equals. The boards of Telia and Sonera have …
NEW DELHI, India—Escotel, a cellular service provider in Uttar Pradesh (West), Haryana and Kerala circles, this week crossed the 500,000 customer mark, becoming the fourth-largest cellular operator in India after …
MANILA, The Philippines—Mobile-phone operators need lots of creativity to be a step ahead of the competition, according to Napoleon Nazareno, president and chief executive officer (CEO) of Smart Communications, one …
WASHINGTON—The Federal Communications Commission said that it is returning 85 percent of the deposits made when the agency re-auctioned the PCS C- and F-block licenses originally won by NextWave Telecom …
WASHINGTON—The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association on Wednesday hailed the wireless priority access agreement signed by VoiceStream Wireless Corp. by calling on the federal government “to free up the additional …
HACKENSACK, N.J.—GoAmerica Inc. announced significant customer additions and improvements in its operational expenses but the news failed to impress investors, which sent the company’s stock down almost 12 percent after …
