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Mobile satellite service is an idea and a technology that today lies buried under the apprehension and disappointment of a number of major business deals gone bad. But about 10 …

The wireless data industry started as a dream and a nationwide network almost 30 years ago. As the years slowly passed and people began to recognize the value of mobile …

During the past 20 years, two overriding factors have shaped the wireless carrier landscape: customer growth and carrier consolidation. The number of wireless customers has grown from less than 100,000 …

DENVER, United States—The Barbados government has agreed with Cable & Wireless for the U.K.-based telecom company to give up its monopoly on telecom services during the next 21 months. International …

CARACAS, Venezuela—CANTV’s board of directors agreed on a plan to repurchase 15 percent of its stock at US$30 per American Depositary Receipt (ADR) to avoid a takeover bid from U.S.-based …

TEL AVIV, Israel—Alvarion said Mexico’s Alestra is deploying its base stations and terminal equipment in the 10.5 GHz frequency band. The equipment will address commercial demand for Alestra’s broadband wireless …

GAITHERSBURG, Maryland, United States—Ace*Comm said Compania Dominicana de Telefonos (Codetel) placed a series of orders to extend its use of the company’s mediation technology. The software will improve data collection …

BEDMINSTER, New Jersey, United States-Verizon Wireless said it will begin previewing its high-speed 1x network in select U.S. cities as a precursor to the commercial launch of services beginning later …

OXFORD, United Kingdom-The public failure of U.S.-based wireless local area network (WLAN) operator Mobilestar has drawn fresh attention to what could be a successful business model of wireless public access …

TOKYO-Sharp and SOMA, a U.S.-based venture, tied-up over the next-generation wireless communications business. Based on the agreement, Sharp will provide “several million” U.S. dollars in funds for Soma and will …

MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, United States-A broad spectrum of technology companies, including Cisco Systems, Comverse, Intel, Microsoft, Philips Speech Processing and SpeechWorks International, agreed to form a forum to develop a …

LONDON-European vendor Marconi said its third-quarter results met its projections with an operating profit of US$7.5 million. The company, which announced the resignation of its chief executive in the wake …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Ericsson has announced 2,000 job cuts as part of what it describes as its efficiency program in response to the slowdown in the telecom market. The company said 1,300 …

TOKYO-An international standards body agreed on methods to support the unrestricted movement of third-generation (3G) terminals, called global circulation. The sixth meeting of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Working Party …

BEIJING—South Korea’s Samsung Electronics plans to join Kejian and two other Chinese companies to set up a joint venture in China’s southern city of Shenzhen to produce CDMA handsets. The …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Ericsson said it won a GSM network expansion order from Thailands’ AIS mobile operator worth US$60 million. The order covers network infrastructure and service solutions for AIS’ GSM 900 …

MUNICH, Germany—Siemens said China Mobile selected it as a major supplier to expand its General Packet Radio Service (GPRS)-based mobile Internet services in nine provinces in China. The entire project …

SHANGHAI, China—Lucent Technologies said it has demonstrated its first cdma2000 1x call for voice and data in China. Lucent said it is collaborating with China Unicom to demonstrate the mobile …

STAMFORD, Connecticut, United States—SmartServ Online announced it will provide its SmartServQ wireless short message service (SMS) application to a major wireless service provider in Hong Kong. SmartServQ provides subscribers with …