BELLEVUE, Washington, United States—InfoSpace and Vodafone Australia announced they are extending their business agreement in a move to continue to work together to offer wireless Internet services in Australia. The …
MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, United States—Luxxon announced Hutchison Telecommunications (Hong Kong) purchased its Mediator Streaming System, which Luxxon said will allow the carrier to demonstrate to the public the next-generation wireless …
TAMPA, Florida, United States—China Unicom signed a contract with Telecommunication Services Incorporated (TSI) to provide international CDMA roaming services, allowing China Unicom customers to roam on a number of CDMA …
OXFORD, United Kingdom—The staff at Deutsche Telekom-owned One 2 One, one of the United Kingdom’s four cell-phone operators, has been warned that a major strategic review is under way within …
MOSCOW—The CDMA technology, which must abandon the 470 MHz to 872 MHz band in Russia by 2010, began to move down to the 450 MHz band, and a second carrier …
WASHINGTON—The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted 3-1 to relax the spectrum cap in urban markets to 55 megahertz and to completely dissolve the cap in January 2003. The move likely …
BEIJING—Motorola will invest an additional US$6.6 billion in China in the next five years to reach a cumulative investment of US$10 billion and double its production capacity in the country. …
OXFORD, United Kingdom—News International, the vast media organization with outlets in most major countries, is preparing to unveil its proprietary mobile content delivery platform and a new strategy of forming …
LAKE CHARLES, La.-US Unwired Inc. added 35,107 personal communications services subscribers during the third quarter, ahead of the 14,574 customers added last year and 28,000 added during the previous quarter. …
BROOMFIELD, Colo.—Level 3 Communications Inc. signed an agreement with AT&T Wireless to provide network services, including private line circuits to provide transport for its GPRS network. Financial terms of the …
RESTON, Va.—Motient Corp. announced a deal that could add as many as 40,000 new subscribers over four years to its network through a deal with Airespring Wireless, which will sell …
SANTA CLARA, Calif.—Palm Inc.’s stock rose sharply in heavy trading after the company announced a new ad campaign and the resignation of its Chief Executive Officer Carl Yankowski. Palm’s stock …
NEW YORK—Alamosa Holdings Inc., which went public about a year ago, halved its planned secondary stock offering last week, selling 4 million shares with proceeds went solely to existing stockholders. …
MURRAY HILL, N.J.—Lucent Technologies Inc. said it has decided to migrate straight to third-generation technology and skip 2.5 generation in its CDMA offerings. “We believe that the future of wireless, …
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—The WAP Forum, which works to foster the growth of the Wireless Application Protocol standard, named Robert L. Brown, the former chairman of the GSM Association North American …
SAN DIEGO—Qualcomm Inc. said it has signed a memorandum of understanding with handset vendor Sanyo to develop new handsets based on the Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless. Qualcomm also signed …
WOODBURY, N.Y.—Comverse Technology Inc. said it will collaborate with Qualcomm Inc. to bring enhanced wireless services, such as multimedia messaging, voice solutions and mobile Internet solutions, to Binary Runtime Environment …
SAN DIEGO—Qualcomm Inc. said it rolled out the first samples of its third-generation Mobile Station Modem, or MSM6050, which it claims to be the first baseband integrated circuit on 300mm …
BERWYN, Pa.-Triton PCS Inc. increased the pricing of its previously announced private offering of 8.75-percent senior subordinated notes from $300 million to $400 million. The carrier said net proceeds from …
