By WASHINGTON-In global spectrum allocations, life goes on even if it doesn’t always seem that way. The United States has been working for almost a year to prepare for the …

Avesair Inc. may be just shy of its first birthday, but its proven technology has years behind it and its executives are industry veterans. In fact, the expertise and experience …

LONDON-Vodafone Group plc launched an advertising campaign, featuring television, movie, print and outdoor media. Each version of the campaign will feature the carrier’s “How Are You?” tagline. The campaign started …

BEAVERTON, Ore.-For the love of base stations of the cdma2000 variety, Tektronix Inc. has rolled out its Option CD2 software for third-generation testing. “Option CD2 enables field crews to efficiently …

SALT LAKE CITY-Verizon Wireless celebrated the opening of its newest customer service call center in West Valley City, Utah. The $42 million facility includes more than 800 workstations and 200 …

LAGOS, Nigeria-Motorola’s Global Telecom Solutions said it has won a $57 million contract from Econet to deploy GSM networks in northern Nigeria. The first phase of the project is scheduled …

BOSTON-Viridien Technologies, Cape Clear Software and MessageMachines announced they are teaming to offer a messaging platform that integrates instant alerts and notifications and can distribute information to a variety of …

WEXHAM SPRINGS, United Kingdom-Bluetooth company Red-M said it is working with personal digital assistant maker Palm Inc. to ensure Palm’s devices are compatible with Red-M’s networking products. Palm has said …

LOS GATOS, Calif.-GIC-Software said it filed for a patent on its new gaming platform for the Palm Inc. operating system, a platform the company said allows multiple users the ability …

BOULDER, Colo.-Mobile restaurant directory and reservation provider GlobalDining announced it joined Pinpoint Networks Inc.’s Fuel developer program. “By providing a fast, simple and trusted wireless reservation network, we are able …

HACKENSACK, N.J.-GoAmerica Inc. announced new features and services for its Go.Web corporate mobile Internet service, and for the first time the company released its Go.Web application-programming interface to the general …

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-The Budget Law approved the end of last year established that the state-owned cellular operator, Ancel, could sell up to 40 percent of its shares. However, in June, …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden—L.M. Ericsson said it has won contracts to build out the provincial Internet backbone networks for Chinese carriers Shandong Mobile, Shanxi Mobile and Inner Mongolia Mobile, all of them …

SUNNYVALE, California, United States—Repeater Technologies was granted a Network Industry License by China’s Ministry of Information Industry, allowing its OA850C network repeater to be used in China Unicom’s CDMA network. …

BEIJING—Jan Malm, President of Ericsson (China) has confirmed that China has become Ericsson’s top market in the first half of this year with sales of US$970 million, 12 percent of …

Japan’s second-largest telecom company, KDDI Corp., has hired Goldman Sachs Group Inc. as an adviser on the possible sale of the company’s wireless unit Tu-ka, according to The Wall Street …

PLANO, Texas, United States—A new study shows short message service (SMS) chatting, embraced by European youth as the new cool way to communicate, is now quickly becoming a mainstay among …

HERZELIA, Israel—Israel-based Formula Telecom Solutions, a developer and provider of end-to-end telecommunications management solutions, announced it was awarded a contract valued at US$10.5 million from MobiTel, Bulgaria’s GSM operator. The …

NEW YORK—A new study shows a surprisingly small number of consumers prefer to use speech-recognition technology; results that possibly dampen recent pushes by wireless companies to create a range of …

OXFORD, United Kingdom—Kurt Hellstrom, Ericsson CEO, has given a downbeat view on the cell-phone market claiming there are no clear signs of a recovery. The company, which holds a dominant …