BURLINGTON, Mass.-B Digital USA Inc. selected Lightbridge Inc.’s Customer Acquisition System and TeleServices for its customer service solution. B Digital has a direct fulfillment sales model, which means it does …
PARIS-Equant and France Telecom’s Global One announced they will merge, forming a company with about 3,700 large business customers and pro forma annualized revenues of up to $3 billion. The …
NORWAY Norway is expecting to raise between $2 billion and $2.7 billion in the initial public offering comprising 21 percent of state-owned Telenor. Shares will begin trading on Dec. 4 …
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-Phone.com Inc. announced an agreement to integrate the Wireless Keyword Navigation System from RealNames Corp. into the Phone.com UP.Link Server. The result will allow users to access wireless …
NEW YORK-A pair of smooth operators from Europe eased into the choppy initial public offering market last week, although they had to trim their sails a bit in order to …
BEIJING-Inktomi announced China Mobile will integrate its Traffic Server network cache platform within its national Internet Protocol Backbone for delivery of wireless content and services. China Mobile will deploy the …
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.’s Global Telecom Solutions Sector won another large stake in China’s mobile phone market with a $29 million GSM communications award covering about 370,000 people in the …
NEW YORK-Globalstar do Brasil and South American transportation company Itapemirim have teamed up to put mobile phones on 43 inner-city buses in South America. The service is scheduled to start …
A new venture backed by veteran airline executive Dan Colussy is reported to be buying the assets of Iridium L.L.C., Motorola Inc.’s financial drain and the center of controversy since …
Ever since the two announced their merger in mid-August, a lingering question was what name would Phone.com Inc. and Software.com Inc. call their combined powerhouse. Last week, the two announced …
NEW DELHI, India-Five companies and groups have submitted bids for supply of infrastructure for the proposed GSM network of the state-owned company ACT Mobile in Thailand. Those in the fray …
RICHARDSON, Texas-Intelect Communications Inc. announced it will sell its private networking business operated by its Intelect Network Technologies subsidiary. The announcement is part of the company’s new corporate strategy, which …
NEW YORK-iMedeon Inc., an Alpharetta, Ga., provider of wireless Web applications for mobile work- force management, has completed a second round of venture capital financing and a strategic partnership agreement. …
WASHINGTON-Five Caribbean countries, all part of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States are in the process of implementing telecom legislation challenging Cable & Wireless’ monopoly on telecom services in the …
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-Argentina’s telecom market opened to full competition, with all license types to be authorized to provide every telecom service. In addition, all telecom providers must interconnect their networks …
HUNT VALLEY, Md.-Tessco Technologies Inc. got a vote of confidence from Cisco Systems Inc. after Cisco gave the company premier channel partner certification status. “Premier certification status provides strong recognition …
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. introduced its CityHopper Broadband Wireless Access range of products, which the company said will bring high bandwidth services to businesses and other multidwelling buildings. Successful trials of …
Dear Editor: While Communications Commissioner Harold Furchtgott-Roth sings a soliloquy of regulatory and technical evolution, the state of future technological applications lies in disarray (“Opinion”, RCR Wireless News, Oct. 30, …
WASHINGTON-A major personal injury lawsuit is expected to be filed this week in Illinois against Motorola Inc. and possibly others by a former technician with the company who claims his …
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson said Bolivian operator Entel Movil selected it to deploy Latin America’s first General Packet Radio Service network. The three-year $36 million agreement is for a full GSM/GPRS …
