PARIS—French vendor Alcatel has announced it will cut over 3,000 jobs in its undersea network cable and fiber-optic units in reaction to the current economic downturn. The company, which said …
MANSFIELD, Vt.—The EMR Network asked the Federal Communications Commission to launch a rulemaking to re-examine radiation safety guidelines for mobile phones and base stations. “The pertinent regulations were revised in …
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico—MoviStar Puerto Rico, a joint venture between Clearcomm and Telef
TORONTO—Canadian household Internet accounts will average annual growth of 16 percent between year-end 2000 and 2003, down from a yearly growth of more than 30 percent in the late 1990s. …
DALLAS, United States, and STOCKHOLM, Sweden—VoiceStream Wireless signed contracts with both Nortel Networks and Ericsson for its next-generation services. Nortel said it signed a US$300 million GSM contract to upgrade …
AUSTIN, Texas—SchlumbergerSema announced it will offer mobile commerce services to wireless carriers through a deal with Microcell i5, a subsidiary of Microcell Telecommunications. Under the deal, SchlumbergerSema will integrate i5’s …
PARIS—Alcatel said it won two separate GSM network expansion contracts with China Mobile subsidiaries valued at US$70 million total. Shanghai Mobile’s eighth GSM expansion will include Alcatel’s Evolium series products. …
HELSINKI, Finland—Nokia said it signed an agreement with Indonesian carrier Telkomsel to supply radio access network equipment and services to expand its GSM dual-band network. Under the pact, Nokia will …
SAN DIEGO, United States—Qualcomm said that Korea Telecom Freetel is the first carrier worldwide to introduce data application services based on its Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless (BREW) mobile Internet …
NEW YORK—Stockholm-based Columbitech began a full-scale commercial launch Sept. 28 in Europe of its wireless virtual private network product, which allows mobile device users to access their corporate databases quickly …
LONDON—U.K. telecom regulator Oftel imposed price controls on the country’s four mobile operators, saying British consumers would save $1.2 billion during the next four years. The controls will reduce revenues …
BADEN, Germany—Intel Corp. introduced the Intel Telematics Design Center, a program that provides Web-based development and technical support for designing navigation, multimedia, hands-free and other in-car Internet products and applications …
BOSTON—The Yankee Group predicts that wireless infrastructure spending will increase from $99.4 billion in 2001 to a maximum of $120.2 billion in 2004 before declining to $114.6 billion in 2006, …
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia—Nokia said it has won a contract from Saudi Telecom Company (STC) to supply a GSM network valued at US$200 million. The network will include a GSM 900 …
PARIS—Alcatel said it completed the supply and installation of a GSM network for Tunisie Telecom, which covered the sports infrastructure during the XIVth Mediterranean Games, which took place 2-5 September. …
CAPE TOWN, South Africa—ITWeb users will be able to access the company’s news portal wirelessly through a deal with Clickatell. “This new wireless service offers our readers yet another tool …
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—SAP Regi
CARACUS, Venezuela—The US$1.4 billion takeover plan of U.S.-based power company AES for Venezuelan telecom company CANTV was approved by Venezuela’s National Securities Commission. CANTV, in which Verizon Wireless holds a …
REDWOOD CITY, California, United States—Just one week after a major sale to Telef
SAN JOSE, California, United States—U.S.-based Aeris.net and Mexico’s Telcel have launched a wireless telemetry network in Mexico. The network will offer nationwide service and will operate with Aeris.net products currently …
