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OXFORD, United Kingdom—Having largely ignored the cellular industry until now, IBM Europe has announced its intent to become a major player by supplying services and information technology (IT) infrastructure to …

BOULDER, Colo.—Intrado Inc. said it plans to expand its business into commercial data management and announced a recently formed partnership this week. The company plans to enter commercial data management …

SAN FRANCISCO—Long-distance, credit card and online services company Working Assets has chosen Sentori Inc. to provide its new wireless billing solution, Sentori 3G, which will be hosted by billing and …

RESTON, Va.—Nextel Communications Inc. launched Amdocs customer and billing platform Ensemble, which the carrier expects will improve customer service and reduce customer retention costs. The implementation is part of a …

OXFORD, United Kingdom—News International, the vast media organization with outlets in most major countries, is preparing to unveil its proprietary mobile content delivery platform and a new strategy of forming …

CINCINNATI—Convergys Corp. announced its Convergys Activation Manager and Convergys Mediation Manager application modules are now available. The Mediation Manager supports convergent usage mediation, next-generation wireless services, real-time revenue generation and …

NEW YORK—Verizon Communications Inc. and Verizon Wireless said they will begin offering consolidated billing to customers in New York and Massachusetts. The service, One-Bill, is available to customers with accounts …

OXFORD, United Kingdom—Orange, one of the leading innovators of cell-phone services, has confirmed that it will delay the introduction of General Packet Radio Service (GPRS)-based technology, originally due in the …

Mobile users in the United Kingdom have been put on alert. A scam is doing the rounds. Text messages are being broadcast to thousands of mobiles stating they should ring …

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-After a series of delays, the battle for the South African cellular market appears set to begin. Third mobile network operator Cell C has launched a massive marketing …

Audiovox Communications Audiovox Communications introduced the Maestro, a Pocket PC that uses Microsoft Windows Powered Pocket PC 2002 software. The product features 32 MB of SDRAM and 32 MB of …

LAUREL, Maryland, United States—Jamaica’s newest cellular provider Digicel selected a billing and customer care software package from U.S.-based Sentori. The technology will allow Digicel to develop and launch services, including …

CUPERTINO, California, United States—Portal Software said that Monaco Telecom is deploying its Infranet customer management and billing platform to supply GSM and later third-generation (3G) services. The service will include …

CINCINNATI—Convergys Corp. and Logica plan to demonstrate an integrated prepaid and postpaid billing system this week at the 2001 UMTS Congress in Barcelona.According to the companies, the demonstration will show …

ATLANTA—BellSouth announced it is offering its wireless e-mail service for the Motorola Talkabout T900, a two-way messaging device capable of communicating with any other e-mail equipped device. According to BellSouth, …

NEW DELHI, India—The government-owned fixed-line operator, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), awarded Ericsson and Motorola contracts to build out its GSM network. BSNL is slated to launch a nationwide GSM …

NEW DELHI, India—Motorola Inc. said it has signed a $178 million GSM contract to supply infrastructure equipment for Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. in four states in southern India. The agreement …

MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, United States—In an effort to offer businesses a seamless messaging and billing service, MobileSys is adding TSI Telecommunication Services’ short message service (SMS) manager technology to its …

DALLAS, United States, and STOCKHOLM, Sweden—VoiceStream Wireless signed contracts with both Nortel Networks and Ericsson for its next-generation services. Nortel said it signed a US$300 million GSM contract to upgrade …

DALLAS—Nortel Networks has signed a $300 million GSM contract to upgrade VoiceStream Wireless’ national networks for deployment in the first quarter of 2002. Under the pact, Nortel Networks will supply …

NEW YORK—Hutchison 3G UK, holder of the largest block of Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) spectrum in the United Kingdom, has contracted with U.S.-based ADC Telecommunications to deploy ADC’s Singl.eView …

ARLINGTON, Va.—Convergys Corp., a provider of integrated billing and customer care services, signed a contract with TeleCorp PCS Inc. to provide its Atlys solution to support flexible billing for TeleCorp’s …

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.—eMerging Information Systems Inc. announced the installation of its Java-based Libertis business support system for Italy’s Energ.it Spa is complete. Energ.it said it plans to use the …

CINCINNATI, United States—Convergys announced Austrian mobile operator One will use its Geneva Active Revenue Management (ARM) software to replace its legacy billing system. One, which is owned by E.ON, Telenor, …

NEW YORK-Trivnet, an Israeli software provider, has developed a system designed to answer questions and eliminate concerns that have slowed adoption of the wireless phone as a sales transaction device. …