NEWARK, New Jersey, United States—IDT said Winstar Communications will exit the wireline resale business entirely, exit its fixed-wireless business in certain of its smaller markets and consolidate certain facilities and …
BELLEVUE, Washington, United States—3G Americas, a new trade organization representing five principal wireless technologies in the Americas, launched to help unify the U.S. wireless industry. GSM, TDMA, GPRS, EDGE and …
HANNOVER, Germany—Deutsche Telekom and Microsoft are presenting mobile solutions for business customers at this week’s CeBIT trade show in Germany and announced the companies will cooperate in developing devices for …
MANILA, The Philippines—Globe Telecom, one of the Philippines’ leading mobile-phone service providers, is set to offer 24 billion Philippine pesos (US$175 million) worth of 10-year fixed rate senior notes to …
OSLO, Norway—Telenor said its Malaysian subsidiary DiGi.Com entered into three joint venture agreements with Technology Resources Industries (TRI), which owns Malaysian mobile operator Celcom, the country’s second-largest operator. The companies …
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia—Swedish company Tele 2 denied plans to sell the St. Petersburg-based FORA Communications AMPS carrier, which combines operators St. Petersburg Telecom and Oblcom. “We are not going to …
DENVER—Qwest Communications International Inc. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Joseph Nacchio has taken over as chairman of President George Bush’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee. The NSTAC is a group …
SUNNYVALE, Calif.—Dobson Cellular Systems Inc. placed a follow-on order under a purchasing agreement signed in 2000 for a minimum of 200 wireless systems from Conductus Inc. for its ClearSite superconductor …
KANSAS CITY, Mo.—Sprint PCS said it plans to introduce an Intercarrier Messaging feature of its Sprint PCS Short Mail service, allowing customers to send and receive messages from customers of …
STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Ericsson AB and Texas Instruments have signed an agreement to make reference designs for GPRS and 3G platforms based on TI’s silicon technology as an extension of a memorandum …
HELSINKI, Finland—Cable & Wireless GRX and Sonera GRX have joined to enable worldwide GPRS roaming through GRX (GPRS Roaming Exchange) interconnect for their mobile customers. The combination will enable roaming …
LINCOLN, Neb.—Transcrypt International Inc. announced its EFJohnson Co. subsidiary has taken multiple orders from the Department of Interior (DOI) for its radio communications equipment. Totaling $1.6 million, the Bureau of …
WEST CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa.—Global technology commercialization company BTG announced it will acquire a new multi-branch feed-forward technology from Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. According to BTG, the new technology will …
LAS VEGAS—Chadmoore Wireless Group. Inc., a dissolved Colorado-based company now selling its assets to Nextel, announced it will begin the initial distribution of cash to its shareholders in approximately three …
HANOVER, Germany—Electric Pocket announced its Mailer POP3 e-mail application for Palm OS handhelds this week at the CeBIT show in Germany. “In designing Mailer we took a fresh look at …
ATLANTA—BellSouth Corp. closed its previously announced agreement with Dutch telecommunications provider Royal KPN, restructuring the relationship between the two companies. Under the agreement, BellSouth exchanged its 22.51-percent stake in German …
BANGALORE, India—Texas Instruments (TI) is holding an OMAP Technology Summit here with more than 150 executives and developers attending to discuss the future of 2.5-generation (2.5G) and third-generation (3G) mobile …
AUSTIN, Texas, United States—Motorola said it licensed its i.250 GSM/General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) mobile phone platform to Eastcom Communications, one of China’s biggest original design manufacturers. “The i.250 innovative …
SAN DIEGO, United States—Qualcomm signed an agreement with Japanese carrier KDDI to enable the carrier’s handsets with Qualcomm’s Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless (BREW) technology to enhance KDDI’s data services …
HANOVER, Germany—Psion Teklogix announced it will partner with Option to develop drivers for the GlobeTrotter Universal tri-band GSM/GPRS PC-card radio so they can be integrated into devices in the Psion …
