BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—During this year’s first semester, the BellSouth branch in Chile obtained a higher growth rate than the company’s average in Latin America. With a 66-percent increase in quantity …
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—The Paraguayan Communications Company (CPC) was granted a license by the National Telecommunications Commission (Conatel) to offer cellular telephony in Paraguay on the 900 MHz frequency using GSM …
NEW DELHI—Saboori Communications launched SaMoSa, which it called the world wide web of short messaging service (SMS). It is the first user configurable SMS service with micro-billing support. The SaMoSa …
PRAHA, Czech Republic—Eurotel Praha on 14 September began offering all of its Eurotel GSM banking customers access to bank services through a mobile telephone. New, more up-to-date and safer multibanking …
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia—The St. Petersburg-based North-Western GSM carrier was licensed by the communications ministry of the Central Asian republic of Tajikistan to create a second GSM network in the country. …
MOSCOW—Sonic Duo, which has the third GSM license in Moscow, finally launched a test operation of its network in the Russian capital. After several delays caused by the absence of …
MADRID, Spain—Ipse 2000, an Italian mobile-phone operator controlled by Spanish Telef
OXFORD, United Kingdom—European competition commissioner Mario Monti has indicated that his commission is not planning to prohibit third-generation (3G) network sharing through new legislation and would assess proposals on a …
OXFORD, United Kingdom—Despite the marketing hype, fewer than 200,000 of the 1 million U.K. online banking customers are using a WAP cell phone to access their accounts, according to new …
TOKYO—J-Phone Group, a mobile business unit of Japan Telecom on 1 October will start providing a variety of services using Disney characters for its J-Sky service users, J-Phone announced on …
TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo plans to triple the data transmission speed (for downlinks) of i-mode service from current 9.6 kbps to 28.8 kbps in the spring of 2002, NTT DoCoMo announced on …
TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo, the leading mobile carrier in Japan, will launch cellular phone bill settlement service via i-mode on 22 October, NTT DoCoMo announced on 13 September. Using the service, NTT …
BEIJING—Datang Telecom obtained the first CDMA handset manufacturing license issued in China. The company also produces network equipment. Together with Germany’s Siemens, Datang has developed the TD-SCDMA 3G standard.
BEIJING—Ericsson’s joint venture Nanjing Ericsson Panda Communications will deliver US$100 million of GSM mobile network equipment to China Mobile’s subsidiary in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of China.
BEIJING—Hong Kong listed China Unicom’s first-half earnings surged to CNY2.19 billion (US$265 million), but fell short of analysts’ predictions of CNY2.25 billion (US$272 million). Mother company China Unicom reported a …
SAO PAULO, Brazil—NTT DoCoMo Inc. said it plans to partner with Telefonica S.A. work on third-generation telephony projects, according to Brazil newspapers. The papers cited NTT DoCoMo Brazil’s technical director …
MADRID—Telefonica Moviles S.A. announced that due to the terrorist events of September 11 and their effect on international capital markets, it plans to cancel the public exchange offer announced February …
REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.—Oracle Corp. released its earnings report on schedule Thursday but without comment. The company said it is missing seven employees in the World Trade Center in New York …
NEW YORK—NextWave Telecom Inc.’s Wednesday bankruptcy hearing was postponed as federal courts were closed after the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, D.C, and a new date has not …
SAN DIEGO—The Telephone Entertainment Network of Leap Wireless International Inc., San Diego, has contracted to obtain information updates from the Metro Networks subsidiary of Westwood One. Westwood One, managed by …
