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GAITHERSBURG, Maryland, United States—ACE*COMM announced that Mexico’s Grupo Iusacell has selected its Convergent Mediation platform to collect and process use records to produce billable record formats. According to ACE*COMM, the …

HELSINKI, Finland—ICE International, a technology development company based in Bergen, Norway, has confirmed plans to enter the international marketplace with new technology that will automatically “turn off” unwanted mobile telephones …

TOKYO—NEC won an order for more than 1 million units of third-generation (3G) video phones from Hutchison Whampoa. NEC is going to provide the terminals based on both wideband-CDMA (W-CDMA) …

FRANKFURT, Germany—Deutsche Telekom’s wireless unit T-Mobile added 1.7 million net subscribers during the third quarter, bringing the carrier’s worldwide wireless customer base to 45.6 million subscribers. VoiceStream Wireless, T-Mobile’s U.S. …

HELSINKI, Finland—Finnish mobile giant Sonera announced it is retreating from two major wireless data areas—data transaction security and wireless Internet portals. Sonera said it will close down or sell its …

PARIS—French vendor Alcatel has posted low third-quarter financial results and warned 2001 will end with a full year of losses. In addition, in an attempt to “break even,” the company …

SINGAPORE—Motorola said sales of new products have led its global market share to jump to 18 percent in the third quarter, an increase from the 14.8-percent market share it recorded …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Flextronics announced it will acquire 91 percent of The Orbiant Group from Telia and integrate it with Flextronics Network Services, which offers network installation and commissioning services worldwide. “The …

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Illinois, United States—Motorola’s 1xEV-DV framework, a stepping stone to third-generation (3G) cdma2000 1x, has been accepted as a standard by the 3G Partnership Project 2 standards body. “Motorola …

LONDON—British Airways passengers in New York’s JFK Airport can connect to online services through a deal with Compaq. The service is available from 22 October through 18 November and allows …

SAN DIEGO—The Mobile Wireless Internet Forum (MWIF) announced its strategic intentions for the coming year, which include plans to focus on standardizing core network architectures, communicating the advantage of wireless …

TOKYO—Mitsubishi Electric and Samsung Electronics announced they have standardized specifications for random access memory modules (RAMs) for use in mobile devices to provide higher density, smaller packaging and lower prices. …

CAMBRIDGE, U.K.—Cambridge Positioning Systems (CPS) announced it has begun a trial of Antenova’s steerable directional antenna to test its capability of improving the accuracy, while reducing the cost of deploying …

MUNICH, Germany—Siemens partnered with Beyond Solutions Europe (BSE) to provide games for mobile networks. Based on BSE’s gaming platform and a catalog of games, Siemens will compile customer-specific packages for …

LONDON—Musiwap, a European mobile music service provider, signed an agreement to make clips of Zomba’s music catalog accessible through Musiwap’s wireless services. Zomba is the largest independent music operation.

OXFORD, United Kingdom—While the number of German cell-phone users nearly doubled from 1999 to 2000, two new market forecasts are now predicting that growth in 2001 will have slowed dramatically …

BUCHAREST, Romania—According to the Swedish financial newspaper Finanstidningen, Skanska is exercising its option to sell its 10-percent shareholding in Orange Sweden, which won a third-generation (3G) license in Sweden last …

OXFORD, United Kingdom—Orange, one of the leading innovators of cell-phone services, has confirmed that it will delay the introduction of General Packet Radio Service (GPRS)-based technology, originally due in the …