TAIPEI, Taiwan—Taiwan’s third-generation (3G) license auction is under way, with the five licenses offered expected to bring just above the minimum bids. The auction is the first in Asia to …
SINGAPORE—The Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) is seeking comment on a possible change in charging methods between Singapore operators for calls from and to mobile and fixed-line customers. Regulator IDA would …
TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo Inc. said it may not sign up the 150,000 subscribers to its third-generation (3G) network by the end of March it predicted when it launched the service last …
AUSTIN, Texas, United States—Motorola said it sold its GSM/General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) handset chip technology to Benq of Taiwan, one of Asia’s leading original design manufacturers of mobile phones. …
KING OF PRUSSIA, Pennsylvania, United States—InterDigital Technology Corporation (ITC), subsidiary of InterDigital Communications, is expanding its patent license that includes CDMA and third-generation (3G) products. The agreement with Japan Radio …
WOODBURY, New York, United States—Wireless messaging company Comverse announced several major China Mobile operators have deployed its prepaid short message service (SMS) product. “This prepaid SMS success is a major …
LOS ANGELES—Oberthur Card Systems said it has successfully connected its SIMphonIC CDMA card to China Unicom’s CDMA network. According to Oberthur, the test, which used handsets from 19 different manufacturers, …
SUNNYVALE, California, United States—Spectrian, a designer and manufacturer of power amplifiers for the wireless infrastructure market, announced it formed Spectrian Telecommunications Equipment, a wholly owned subsidiary in Shanghai, China. Harry …
OXFORD, United Kingdom—While the U.K. government wants to force the four U.K. cell-phone operators to adopt more rigorous security measures in the hope that it will reduce street crime, the …
BUCHAREST, Romania—EuroTel Praha, the Czech GSM operator, announced that with the help of a movable base station connected to the EuroTel network, members of the Czech army can make mobile …
SAMARA, Russia—The fifth-biggest Russian carrier, SMARTS on the Volga, chose the Evolium solution of French vendor Alcatel to develop its GSM 900/1800 MHz networks. The carrier, with close to 300,000 …
DENVER, United States—European wireless giant Mm02 announced a series of major deals that further the carrier’s strategy to offer a range of unique products and services in the European market …
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa—Nigerian mobile-phone users have been given an easier route to gaining access to GSM technology thanks to a new loan scheme introduced by local financial institution, First Bank. …
LONDON—The Lebanese government has come to an agreement with mobile operator Cellis to defuse a long-running legal battle that led it to cancel the company’s operating contract last year. According …
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa—After years of uncertainty and a lack of clear policy, the South African Department of Communications has opened the way for Global Mobile Personal Communications by Satellite (GMPCS) …
MIGDAL HAEMEK, Israel—Tower Semiconductor said it received a permit from the Israeli Securities Authority to publish a prospectus in Israel. The price of each security will be determined by a …
SAN JOSE, California, United States—DMC Stratex Networks announced an agreement with Spescom to distribute Stratex Networks’ wireless broadband transmission equipment for the South African, Namibian, Mozambican and Lesotho markets. “Apart …
MOSCOW—A shareholder of the fourth-biggest Russian carrier Kuban GSM in the Krasnodar region in the south of the country has decided to sell its interest in the operator, and top …
NEW DELHI, India—A price war in prepaid cellular services in Mumbai and New Delhi—India’s biggest GSM markets—is in the offing, with the state-owned MTNL launching on 14 January its prepaid …
RESTON, Va.—XO Communications Inc. said it reached a definitive agreement with Forstmann Little & Co. and Telefonos de Mexico S.A. de C.V. on the terms of their previously announced plan …
