REDMOND, Washington, United States—U.S. wireless operator AT&T Wireless launched its Spanish-language Web site, allowing customers to shop online and access company information. The carrier also currently offers customer service, product …
RICHARDSON, Texas, United States—Ericsson issued a circular in the company notifying the staff that about 400 workers in the research and development (R&D) division will be laid off in January. …
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—As planned, the telephony liberalization process in Bolivia began on 28 November, including a multicarrier system for national and international long-distance calls. Through the process, Entel’s monopoly of …
SINGAPORE—The Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) of Singapore has asked StarHub to explain in 14 days why it cut more than 10,000 subscriber services. In a statement, IDA said it would …
WIESBADEN, Germany—Motorola Inc. says it will perform its first German UMTS infrastructure field trials early next year, based on a series of UMTS tests since September 2001 at its laboratory …
DALLAS-Texas Instruments Inc. says SK Telecom of Korea has selected its OMAP-based McubeWorks reference designs for 2.5G and third-generation cdma2001x networks. The company says SK Telecom plans “to conduct field …
BLYTHEVILLE, Ark.—United Communications Corp. and Canada’s BritePage Technologies Inc. have entered an agreement in which UCC will represent BritePage’s People Tracker Plus production in the U.S. People Tracker is an …
BETHESDA, Md.—Motorola Inc. and Access Spectrum LLC announced they have agreed Motorola will design, manufacture and market infrastructure and portable and mobile radio products for use by enterprises and carriers …
Arlington, Ill.—Motorola Inc. has reiterated its forecast for global industrywide mobile sales to be between 380 million and 400 million units for the year 2001. However, Mike Zafirovski, president of …
HELSINKI, Finland—Tele2, the Swedish mobile telecom headquartered in Stockholm, has reinforced its mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) strategy in Europe through the launch of MVNO services in the Netherlands. Tele2 …
OXFORD, United Kingdom—Sweden’s largest cell-phone operator Telia has decided to share a percentage of the revenues generated by content services with the developers. The new approach for the company is …
BUCHAREST, Romania—The Bulgarian mobile operator, Mobiltel, announced that Dutch company LL Telecommunication Holding, registered in Rotterdam, still holds 100 percent of its shares, following its purchase of the operator from …
BUCHAREST, Romania—The Baltic GSM operators said that their recently announced cooperation will lead to decreased call costs for customers. The leading mobile telephone operators in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia—Latvian Mobile …
STOCKHOLM, Sweden—The Post and Telecom Agency in Sweden said it awarded wireless broadband licenses to four Swedish-based telecommunications companies, including Telia, Europolitan Holdings, Telenordia unit Telenordia Access and Quadracom Wireless. …
LONDON—Dunkin’ Donuts, the international doughnut company, said its Italian sales increased 9 percent during the first three weeks of its short message service (SMS) mobile marketing campaign developed by AdreAct. …
STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Allgon said Norway’s Telenor selected it as the exclusive supplier of GSM and Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) repeaters. Allgon will supply standard and compact repeaters and associated fiber-optic …
JAKARTA, Indonesia—SingTel Mobile is about to add a new application to its existing General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) technology and future third-generation (3G) services. The application, multimedia messaging services (MMS), …
LONDON—Indonesian cellular operator PT Telkomsel announced plans to invest US$500 million during the next year to expand its GSM network. The network expansion will see Telkomsel increase its subscriber base …
TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo, the leading mobile carrier in Japan, launched a Bluetooth-enabled PHS handset. It is the first Bluetooth-enabled handset offered by NTT DoCoMo. Users of the PHS handset equipped with …
BEIJING—Motorola plans to open a new branch of its China Software Center in Chengdu, capital of Sichuan Province. The center was set up in 1993 and already has branches in …
