TORONTO—The Canadian government has set aside C$110 million (US$70.2 million) to kick start Industry Canada’s national broadband network plans. The sum is much less than anticipated by industry watchers. Federal …
BUCHAREST, Romania—The Romanian cellular operator Telemobil launched on 7 December a nationwide voice and high-speed data network in its 450 MHz spectrum based on CDMA technology. Telemobil will initially introduce …
AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands—Two Dutch third-generation (3G) license holders, Dutchtone, majority owned by Orange, and Ben Nederland, backed by Deutsche Telekom, said they will share parts of their 3G infrastructure. The …
Hoping to appease both the federal government and its own subscriber base, Verizon Wireless said in a Federal Communications Commission filling it would increase network capacity during emergencies instead of …
ATLANTA-AirGate PCS Inc. priced its public offering of 4 million shares of its common stock at $50 per share. Former stockholders of iPCS Inc., which AirGate purchased last month, are …
RESTON, Va.—XO Communications Inc. requested to voluntarily delist its stock from the NASDAQ National Market and currently expects that it will begin trading on the NASD Over the Counter Bulletin …
PALO ALTO, Calif.—Walter Hewlett, a board member of Hewlett-Packard Co., filed a letter with the Securities and Exchange Commission warning of “enormous unhappiness” about the proposed merger between HP and …
WASHINGTON—House of Representatives members Billy Tauzin, Bill Thomas, James Sensebrenner and John Conyers introduced legislation on Thursday to write into law a settlement between the government and NextWave Telecom Inc. …
WASHINGTON—The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on 12 December began preparations to auction U.S. television channels 52-59 to fixed and mobile-wireless providers notwithstanding the fact that the spectrum in the lower …
WASHINGTON—Both the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and Verizon Wireless warned late 11 December that if Congress does not pass legislation codifying the settlement of bankrupt NextWave Telecom, they would walk …
OXFORD, United Kingdom—The four Swedish telecom operators that acquired third-generation (3G) licenses last year will face heavy fines if they fail to complete their network deployments on time, said the …
MOSCOW—A major Russian investment company, Sistema-Telecom Financial Corporation, said it will sell the Personal Communications (SONET) CDMA carrier as the project has no future in the country. “We shall sell …
STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Swedish wireless carrier Telia Mobile announced it will offer a wireless Internet service much like NTT DoCoMo’s wildly popular i-mode service. Telia’s service, dubbed PocketMode, features an open interface …
WASHINGTON—Oftel, the U.K. regulatory agency, referred its proposed decrease in the cost of calling mobile phones to the European Competition Commission. The action comes after U.K. mobile-phone operators rejected Oftel’s …
COPENHAGEN, Denmark—Lack of content will spell the demise of General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) offerings across Europe, according to a new report from Strand Consult, an independent consultancy based in …
STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Swedish vendor NCC Telecom said Sweden’ third-generation (3G) license holder Hi3G selected it to provide 3G infrastructure. The agreement covers the construction of at least 500 base stations in …
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, North Carolina, United States—Mobile marketing platform provider Avesair is continuing its expansion into the European market with the latest announcement it has been chosen by Enpocket, a …
JAKARTA, Indonesia—Malaysia’s TimeCel recently launched an interactive short message service (SMS) quiz promotion. The promotion, called Juara Lagu 2001 SMS Quiz, runs from 1 to 14 December. Juara Lagu is …
TOKYO—KDDI, the second-largest operator for both fixed-line and mobile services in Japan, on 14 December announced it will introduce a voluntary early retirement program targeting its employees between 44 and …
