LEIPZIG, Germany-Phone maker Siemens AG has laid off 2,000 temporary workers in Leipzig, Bottrop and Kamp-Lintfort, Germany. The company, which expects its handset sales to surge by 15 percent around …
MADRID, Spain-Telefonica and Spanish utility company Iberdrola signed an agreement under which Telefonica will acquire all Iberdrola shareholdings in the Brazilian telecom operators in which both companies have stakes. Iberdrola …
LENEXA, Kan.-Sprint PCS and Lucent Technologies Inc. completed an over-the-air data call using cdma2000 1xEV-DO, with transmission speeds up to 2.4 Megabits per second. Sprint, which is testing the technology …
NEW YORK-With NEC Corp. and Sony Corp. serving as “trend setters” among their in-country peers, Japanese electronics equipment companies are poised to follow the lead of their American and European …
NEW YORK -Simon Hayward, vice president and research director of The Gartner Group, Stamford, Conn., is waiting for the real “WAGs” to come to the fore and realize the unfulfilled …
BEIJING-China’s largest wireless carrier, China Mobile, said it plans to close its analog wireless network by the end of the year, according to international press reports. The company plans to …
HELSINKI, Finland- Nokia Corp. said that the decision in a March meeting of the Third-Generation Partnership Project to establish future compatibility between versions of the wideband CDMA standards shows that …
MONTREAL-Telesystem International Wireless Inc. has closed the sale of its interests in Brazilian cellular operations Americel S.A. and Telet S.A. to an affiliate of Bell Canada International Inc. and Telecom …
In the RCR Wireless News article, “Omvia intended to aid in customer retention,” (March 19, page 40) the story incorrectly states the relationship between SpeechWorks International Inc. and IVB. IVB …
HANNOVER, Germany-The wireless multimedia company PacketVideo Corp., and T-Mobil, which provides mobile telecommunication services in Germany, announced they will conduct trials of PacketVideo’s end-to-end wireless multimedia technology over T-Mobil’s advanced …
On the heels of a similar situation involving Lucent Technologies Inc., Motorola Inc. late Friday denied published reports that it faces a serious liquidity problem. “Motorola today is financially sound. …
WASHINGTON-Last December, two months after President Clinton ordered government studies on spectrum availability for third-generation wireless systems and at a time when mobile-phone and Pentagon officials were intensely studying the …
Even rumors did not forgive Lucent Technologies Inc. last week as the telecom equipment maker scrambled to reassure its nervous investors that it was not doomed to bankruptcy. “The rumors …
PARIS-An Alcatel executive said the company is not fully committed to the mobile handset business, because of the strong advantage of competitors Nokia and Motorola, according to international press reports. …
WASHINGTON-The White House on Friday said President George W. Bush intends to nominate Kevin J. Martin, Kathleen Q. Abernathy and Michael J. Kopps to the Federal Communications Commission. “It sounds …
The plan is ambitious, to say the least. Metrocall Inc. and WebLink Wireless Inc. announced last week a plan to merge by concurrently filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, a business …
A new company out of Andover, Mass., hopes to make the Palm personal digital assistant feel even more like a personal computer than ever before. Kada Systems Inc. launched Monday …
WASHINGTON-Fears about the timely deployment of enhanced 911 Phase II service appear to be coming true even as the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission expressed optimism that the Oct.1 …
One local multipoint distribution service wireless broadband carrier folded under the financial burden of the stock market last week, and now the futures of several others hang in the balance, …
