WASHINGTON—The Department of Justice and Black Crow Wireless LP both signed the NextWave settlement papers on Tuesday. Congress is expected to shortly take up implementing legislation. A bankruptcy court must …
WASHINGTON—The National Association of Tower Erectors and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration have signed a partnership agreement to reduce injuries and deaths that are on the rise as wireless …
WASHINGTON—Verizon Communications Inc. has reached a tentative agreement on a new three-year contract with the Communications Workers of America, to be effective when the current contract expires on March 16, …
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.—SkyGo Inc. has been chosen to provide Japan Mobile Communications Inc. (J-Mobile) with the wireless marketing technology to deliver advertisements across J-Sky, J-Phone’s mobile Internet service. J-Mobile, a …
SAN DIEGO—Leap Wireless International Inc. launched its Cricket wireless service in the combined markets of Merced and Modesto, Calif. Leap now offers service in 32 markets in 18 states. Harvey …
BOISE, Idaho—Verizon Wireless said its has upgraded its Idaho network to handle more calls and offer enhanced services, including Mobile Web, Mobile Messenger and Mobile Office, to customers in Idaho …
NEW YORK—Nokia Corp. says it expects annual growth sales of handsets to between 420 and 440 million in 2002, slightly lower than other industry forecasts. The comments caused its stock …
LUBBOCK, Texas—Alamosa Holdings Inc. applied for listing of its common stock to begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol “APS” on Dec. 6. “We are …
BEIJING—Motorola is expected to supply China with Terrestrial Trunked Radio (TETRA) and iDEN digital dispatch systems in preparation for the organization of the 2008 Olympic Games. Besides in the capital …
JAKARTA, Indonesia—Inquam, a venture company backed by Qualcomm, has marked its presence in Indonesia through an acquisition of Mobile Selular Indonesia (Mobisel) shares. Prior to the Inquam acquisition, the share …
HELSINKI, Finland—A sectoral report by Nordea, the largest commercial bank in the Nordic countries and Baltic-rim region, has concluded that Swedish investment in third-generation (3G) cell-phone networks will not take …
NEW DELHI, India—Nortelpa, a “mini-mirror” telecom service provider in Brazil, has selected the CorDECT wireless local loop (WLL) system of Midas Communication Technologies of Chennai, India, for providing telephony and …
OXFORD, United Kingdom—Three Spanish mobile operators are expected to make an appeal before Spain’s National Court over a government-imposed fee for using cell-phone spectrum. The three firms, Vodafone’s Spanish unit …
MOSCOW—Sonic Duo, which has the third GSM license in Moscow, finally went on air in the capital this month after numerous delays caused by frequency problems. The main result is …
BEIJING—China Unicom is expected to announce in the coming days that it will start CDMA services in January. The listed arm of the China Unicom Group is expected to lease …
TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo said it will launch a nationwide position-information service based on its Location Platform, dubbed the DLP service, on 27 November. The service uses information from global positioning system …
BEIJING—There is some controversy over which foreign vendor has sold the most handsets in China so far this year. According to International Data Corporation, Nokia held the number-one position in …
OXFORD, United Kingdom—The much troubled German e-commerce developer Brokat Technologies has agreed to sell its mobile business unit to EOne Global, a U.S. company specializing in payment solutions via the …
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—The telecom regulator of Uruguay, Unidad Reguladora de Servicios de Comunicaciones (URSEC), has decided to postpone the auction of personal communications services (PCS) and third-generation (3G) licenses that …
