DALLAS, United States—In a memorandum of understanding, L.M. Ericsson said it has agreed to combine Texas Instruments’ semiconductors with its mobile platforms. “TI’s wireless digital signal processor and analog products …
LONDON—U.K. mobile-phone manufacturer Sendo announced it will use PacketVideo’s mobile multimedia player software as the streaming video application base for the company’s new Z100 General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) smart …
SCHAUMBURG, Illinois, United States—Motorola revised its third-quarter forecast for this year, saying that sales will be flat compared with the second quarter, rather than improving 5 percent as it previously …
OXFORD, United Kingdom—While it’s been generally accepted within the industry for some time, Vodafone’s public admission that its third-generation (3G) network would provide much lower data speeds than originally anticipated …
OXFORD, United Kingdom—Despite evidence that cell-phone users are two-and-a-half times more likely to suffer from a temporal brain tumor, medical researchers in Sweden claim that several more years of fact …
LONDON—Vodafone Group plc launched its first global advertising campaign, featuring television, movie, print and outdoor media. Each version of the campaign will feature the carrier’s “How Are You?” tagline. The …
WOODBURY, New York, United States—Comverse announced Swedish mobile carrier Europolitan Vodafone will trial Comverse’s multimedia messaging service over its General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) network. Comverse’s announcement comes a week …
MINSK, Belarus—The Belarussian Communications ministry has determined the winner of the second GSM license tender, but delayed the official announcement for several days until the end of the presidential election …
LONDON—British Telecommunications plc plans to rename its BT Wireless unit mm02 next year following the planned spinoff of the division to BT shareholders later this year. Though the wireless division …
ROCHELLE PARK, New Jersey, United States—Schema Inc. announced it has signed a nationwide contract with an unnamed U.S. TDMA carrier to optimize and increase the carrier’s spectrum capacity. According to …
LONDON—United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.) telecommunications operator Etisalat revealed that it has earmarked approximately US$1 billion to upgrade its cellular infrastructure. A significant proportion of this amount will finance the expansion …
CHICAGO—Motorola Inc. has cut 2,000 jobs, raising the number of workers separated from their jobs since December to 32,000, amounting to 22 percent of its staff. The phone maker, which …
SEATTLE-Terabeam was chosen by Microsoft Corp. to connect the company to the Internet for its annual employee meeting, which took place at Safeco Field in Seattle in late August. Terabeam …
LONDON-The viability of wireless local area network (WLAN) technology is growing more questionable as its speed continues to lag behind that of wireline LANs, according to one Frost & Sullivan …
WASHINGTON-A major public-safety advocate on Thursday said she likes what she sees of the recent enhanced 911 Phase II waiver request filed by Cingular Wireless L.L.C. At the same time, …
WASHINGTON—Rep. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) said he will offer an amendment to the defense appropriations bill on the House floor next week that would guarantee the Department of Defense receives funds …
WASHINGTON—A New York bankruptcy court denied the Federal Communications Commission’s request to postpone NextWave Telecom Inc.’s motion to schedule a confirmation hearing in its plans to emerge from bankruptcy, which …
LA JOLLA, Calif.—Sensoria Corp. launched the Sensoria Telematics Environment, a standards-based telematics platform that allows drivers to share music wirelessly between their PC and their car, obtain current weather information, …
NEW DELHI, India—Motorola Inc. said it has won a $178 million contract to supply GSM mobile equipment to India’s state-owned carrier BSNL for 1.4 million subscribers. “It’s for turnkey deployment …
