LUBBOCK, Texas—Alamosa Holdings Inc. reported it will no longer be offering 4 million primary shares in its current underwritten public offering of common stock, with the remaining 4 million shares …
READING, England—Western Wireless Corp. selected Logica’s Radio Planning Odyssey product for RF planning, network optimization and digital migration programs. Financial terms of the agreement were not released.
TORONTO—Nokia Corp. says it has unveiled its Nokia 6360 phone for enterprise users with such features as built-in calendar notebook, calculator, browser, voice-dialing and e-mail support. “The Nokia 6360 is …
HELSINKI, Finland—Nokia Corp. said it has reduced to 130 the number of workers it intends to cut at its Salo plant because some of the workers agreed to retire or …
TOKYO—NEC Corp. said it plans to outsource the manufacturing functions of NEC Miyagi Ltd. and NEC Yamanashi Ltd., which develop and manufacture telecom infrastructure systems, to an Electronics Manufacturing Service …
RALEIGH, N.C.—Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications and MobileAria announced a partnership to promote in-vehicle Bluetooth adoption. MobileAria said it will support and market Sony Ericsson’s handsets with MobileAria’s True Hands Free …
TAMPA, Fla.—China Unicom signed a contract with Telecommunication Services Inc. to provide CDMA international roaming services, allowing China Unicom customers to roam on a number of CDMA networks across the …
MANILA, Philippines—Smart Communications has chosen SchlumbergerSema’s Java subscriber identity module (SIM) smart cards as its platform for data services, SchlumbergerSema said. Smart handles about 45 million outgoing short message service …
ALLENTOWN, Pennsylvania, United States—Agere Systems announced its wireless platform and semiconductor will be used in Beijing-based PTIC Capitel’s new small C76088 and C6288 models, which recently began selling to the …
HELSINKI, Finland—Springtoys said SingTel Mobile and Globe Telecom of the Philippines adopted its games, which will reach a potential customer base of more than 5 million mobile-phone users.
PHOENIX—Space Data Corp. said it was the high bidder on more than 1.4 MHz of nationwide Narrowband PCS spectrum in the 900 MHz band in the Federal Communication Commission’s most …
READING, United Kingdom—Nokia Corp. has taken the lead in the European handheld device market, beating out such big names as Palm Inc. and Compaq Computer Corp, a new survey shows. …
TORONTO—In the high-speed Internet pricing war with Rogers Cable, Bell Canada is the first to blink. Bell is raising prices for the first time since it launched its top-end Web …
BEDMINSTER, New Jersey, United States—Verizon Wireless signed definitive agreements to acquire certain Dobson Communications wireless operations in California, Georgia, Ohio and Tennessee for approximately US$465 million. The Tennessee market, which …
REDMOND, Washington, United States—Nokia and AT&T Wireless Services reported the completion of the first live Enhanced Data Rates for Global Evolution (EDGE) data call using GSM/EDGE technology and a live …
SAN DIEGO—Verizon Wireless and Lucent Technologies demonstrated an over-the-air data call using CDMA 1xEV-DO technology at the CDMA Americas Congress. The companies noted they already completed a field trial of …
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa—The South African government postponed the initial public offering (IPO) of Telkom, the state-controlled telecom company that has a stake in mobile operator Vodacom, and Telkom’s sale of …
Bucharest, ROMANIA—HE Shaikh Mohammed bin Khalifa Al Khalifa, Ministry of Transport under-secretary and Batelco board director, signed a nearly 9.8 million dinar (US$26 million) contract with Ericsson to undertake the …
LONDON—Tunisia has restarted attempts to launch a second GSM mobile-phone license tender. The new round of bidding will close in January 2002, and the government is relaxing some of its …
