LONDON—Turkey’s newest mobile-phone operator, Aycell, has announced it will be technically operational later this month.Aycell, which is run by state-run telephone carrier Turk Telekom, issued a statement announcing that its …
PARIS—Lucent Technologies Inc. said it plans to cut 410 jobs in France out of 1,300 positions as part of the company’s cost-cutting strategies.The decision was made amid speculation that the …
OXFORD, United Kingdom—Having accepted the contract to manufacture Ericsson’s cell phones, Flextronics has run into a storm of protest in Sweden following the announcement that it plans to cut nearly …
OXFORD, United Kingdom—European cell phone operators will see Bluetooth-enabled devices generate revenues of US$2 billion by 2006, claims a new market study conducted by Pyramid Research. The short-range wireless technology …
TOKYO—Nokia has signed a contract to supply a wideband-CDMA (W-CDMA) mobile packet switching system and radio-access network to Japanese carrier J-Phone Group.The J-Phone group, which has 10 million customers, hopes …
INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, United States—Brightpoint announced its Brightpoint Australia subsidiary has signed an agreement to sell and distribute Motorola mobile-phone accessories in Australia.
PARIS—Alcatel has signed a memorandum of understanding with Intrinsic Technology to set up a complete end-to-end mobile infrastructure in China for advanced data services.“The market for data services, even in …
BEIJING—Motorola (China) and China Unicom recently signed a long-term cooperation agreement. Both companies want to cooperate on data communications, network optimization and unified management of the GSM and CDMA networks. …
PARIS—Alcatel has signed a contract to expand Tibet’s GSM network for Mobile Communications Co. of Tibet, a subsidiary of China Mobile. It targets 280,000 subscribers.Under the deal, Alcatel will supply …
BEIJING—China’s computer vendor Legend Holdings has entered a deal with Siemens AG to roll out GPRS-enabled wireless devices in China.According to the terms of the alliance, Siemens will supply communication …
HELSINKI, Finland—Nokia has signed a US$200 million contract with Smart Communications Inc. to expand GSM networks in the Philippines. Under the deal, Nokia will supply and install several mobile switching …
BEIJING—At the end of last year, Shanghai Mobile, China Mobile’s subsidiary in the East-China metropolis of Shanghai, had 2.83 million subscribers and a network capacity of 3 million. The company …
BEIJING—Xu Xiaotian, director of the department of electronics and information product administration at China’s Ministry of Information Industry told a technology fair in Shanghai that China plans to add 46.4 …
NEW DELHI, India—The continuing consolidation trend in India’s cellular industry is now spilling over to basic service providers as well. Tata Teleservices—provider of CDMA-based limited mobility services under the “Tata …
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. said it has signed $705 million contracts with Orange U.K. to supply third-generation Universal Mobile Telecommunications System and GSM network expansion for three years. Initial delivery of …
CAMPBELL, Calif.-Horizon 3, a systems integration company, announced it will partner with Luna Communications, a wireless networking solutions company, to broaden its services, product portfolio and presence. Horizon 3 will …
WALTHAM, Mass.-BTC Mobility, a division of The Bermuda Telephone Co. Ltd., introduced Wildfire Communications Inc.’s voice-activated personal assistant service to its customers in Bermuda. The Wildfire service allows users to …
VANCOUVER, British Columbia-Telus Corp. completed the sale of its directory information services business to Verizon Information Services, a Yellow pages and online directory provider. Telus said it would use the …
Even the last bastion has been hit. The heat of the economic slowdown is choking contract electronics manufacturers that help the major original equipment manufacturers make their phones and infrastructure …
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