LONDON—O2, Vodafone’s wireless unit, the first carrier to sell Research In Motion Ltd.’s BlackBerry wireless e-mail device in Europe, announced it has signed up more than 250 corporate customers for …
MARLOW, U.K.—NetDespatch announced the launch of Masquerade, a MASC Communications-powered solution that allows centralized web-based order entry and tracking systems to be updated via wireless voice transactions. “Voice browsing is …
ROCHESTER, Minn.—Pemstar Inc. announced it has been chosen by LGC Wireless to manufacture the InterReach Unison, a new in-building wireless networking product. “LGC selected Pemstar as its strategic manufacturing partner …
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago—Telecommunications Services of Trinidad and Tobago Ltd. said Nortel Networks will supply GSM and GPRS technologies for the upgrade of its wireless network. TSTT said Nortel will …
GARDEN GROVE, Calif.—Recyclable prepaid mobile phone provider Hop-On announced a significant deal, valued at more than $25 million annually, with an unnamed London-based corporation. The corporation will purchase 1 million …
STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Ericsson AB’s bookkeeping practices have come under the spotlight of tax obstruction as the country’s Economic Crimes Bureau examines the company’s accounts. The agency will inquire whether Ericsson seriously …
SANTA CLARA, Calif.—Investors and the analyst community roared their approval of Palm Inc.’s third-quarter results, sending the company’s stock up almost 25 percent to about $3.90 per share. Palm reported …
DALLAS—In what might trigger a series of monster consolidations in the wireless equipment space, Motorola Inc. and Nortel Networks are in talks to merge their network divisions, according to a …
HELSINKI, Finland—Finnish operator Sonera plans to offer commercial UMTS services by Sept. 26, once terminals for the new services become available, the operator announced. If the carrier meets the deadline, …
OXFORD, United Kingdom—In an effort to reduce its market entry costs as a greenfield third-generation (3G) operator, Hutchison 3G is negotiating with U.K. operators mmO2 and One 2 One about …
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—In a decision unprecedented in Chile, Telef
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—As a result of the Argentine crisis, company Impsat Fiber Networks reached an agreement with its creditors to transfer all its shares to them in exchange for renegotiating …
ATLANTA, United States—Numerex announced it will provide United Telecommunication Services (UTS), official telecommunications company of the Netherlands Antilles, with its patent-pending wireless short message service (SMS) throughout its Caribbean coverage …
NEW DELHI, India—The Bharti Group has bought more than a 26-percent stake from Telia AB in Bharti Mobile, which operates cellular services in Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Punjab circles. The …
TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo, the leading mobile carrier in Japan, in the third quarter will launch an experiment for a fourth-generation (4G) mobile service, which will be able to provide 100 Megabits …
BEIJING—China Mobile Communications reported a net profit of 45.5 billion yuan (US$5.5 billion) for 2001. Its listed subsidiary China Mobile (Hong Kong) said its net profit reached 28 billion yuan …
TOKYO—DDI Pocket, a PHS business unit of KDDI Group and the largest PHS carrier in Japan, will launch a 128 kilobits per second (kbps) packet communications service on 26 March. …
TOKYO—J-Phone, Vodafone Group’s carrier in Japan, announced that the number of users of J-Phone’s popular mobile photo service exceeded 4 million. J-Phone launched the service with handsets that include built-in …
OXFORD, United Kingdom—Mobile phones should be equipped with satellite tracking and theft alarms, according to the U.K.-based Design Council. The organization claimed that if cell-phone manufacturers adopt these two examples, …
OXFORD, United Kingdom—With cell-phone penetration reaching more than 80 percent in some European countries, market researchers have reported a growing tide of opinion to ban the use of mobile phones …
