MOSCOW—Sonic Duo, which has the third GSM license in Moscow, received the first frequencies shared by its major competitor Mobile TeleSystems (MTS). The news was followed by a change of …
OXFORD, United Kingdom—Some of the major shareholders of Blu, Italy’s fourth-largest mobile operator, have made it clear they no longer want to remain involved with the company. British Telecommunications (BT) …
SYDNEY, Australia—Telstra Mobile said it launched the first short message service (SMS) game in Australia. The game is based on the television program “Who Wants to be a Millionaire.”Telstra said …
BEIJING—China’s second-largest mobile operator, China Unicom, launched its Uni-Info wireless data service on 1 August. The carrier will charge customers a connection fee and will transfer a content fee to …
TOKYO—About 41 percent of seniors in their 60s in Japan have their own cellular phones, and 35 percent started using their cellular phone within the past year, according to a …
BEIJING—Japan’s Hitachi is negotiating with China’s Hisense Group to set up a mobile handset manufacturing joint venture in China in the second half of the year. In September last year, …
TOKYO—NEC, the leading high-tech enterprise in Japan, and Cybird, a mobile content provider, partnered for a content business in Korea. Under the deal, NEC acquired 15.4 percent of Cybird Korea, …
NEW DELHI, India—Bharti Cellular has won the maximum number of eight licenses in the bidding for fourth cellular licenses in 17 Indian telecom circles, or coverage areas. The Indian government …
SAN JOSE, California, United States—Metricom announced it will cease operations in all its markets on Wednesday, 8 August, to conduct a wind down of its business and to sell all …
WASHINGTON—Bankrupt PCS carrier NextWave Telecom, in a strongly worded response, on 30 July urged the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to deny a petition filed recently by a group of winning …
WASHINGTON—A group of 16 House Democrats on 31 July warned the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) not to grant the waiver requests of wireless carriers seeking to delay implementation of enhanced …
MUNICH, Germany—Siemens has completed a global purchasing agreement with Orascom Telecom for the construction and extension of GSM mobile networks. The three-year contract includes Orascom Telecom’s operations in 20 countries.
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Illinois, United States—Motorola said it has signed a US$47 million deal with Morocco’s leading operator Maroc Telecom to expand GSM network infrastructure in cities in northern and southern …
TEL AVIV, Israel—BreezeCom and Floware Wireless Systems said they completed their merger and are renaming the newly merged entity Alvarion.The company’s shares will trade on the Nasdaq exchange under the …
LAGOS, Nigeria—MTN, a subsidiary of South Africa’s M-Cell, said it will launch its GSM network in Nigeria on 8 August for billed subscribers and 25 August for prepaid subscribers.The launch …
NEW YORK—Millicom International Cellular (MIC) said its Bolivian mobile subsidiary received a US$25 million investment to fund its network expansion.Telefonica Celular de Bolivia received the money from the International Finance …
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—A year after initiating its operations outside the Buenos Aires metropolitan area (AMBA), Movicom BellSouth announced it has 200,000 new users in 10 cities of Argentina. Using its …
SAN DIEGO, United States—Qualcomm said it has signed an agreement with Gemplus to roll out hardware and software solutions to enable cdmaOne and cdma2000 with removable user identity modules (R-UIM).“Rolling …
LOS ANGELES, United States—Oberthur Card Systems announced the US$3.3 million acquisition of the remaining 50 percent of Rapsodia Software from French company Prosodie. Rapsodia was set up in May 1999 …
