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TOKYO-Korea Telecom Freetel, South Korea’s second-largest mobile carrier, launched 1XRTT technology in May, targeting to win 1 million 1X subscribers during the first year. To facilitate more advanced data services, …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Uncertainty related to the future of Scandinavian mobile prepaid calling plans, less preferred here than in Western Europe generally, is largely due to the struggle to migrate customers to …

Siemens AG is eliminating 6,100 jobs from its mobile handset and network operations. The German telecom equipment and handset company, which shied away from offering its earnings picture for the …

A number of players must work together to deploy a nationwide wireless network, including carriers, tower companies and equipment manufacturers, but there is a new kind of company on the …

NEW YORK-The wireless information superhighway today is at the stage the interstate roads were during the 1930s, said Grover Righter, vice president of technical strategy for Kabira, San Rafael, Calif. …

NEW YORK-Not surprisingly, the number and size of mergers and acquisitions for which a dollar value was made public declined markedly in all industries when compared to the same period …

WASHINGTON-In a development with national implications for a wireless industry increasingly hit with complaints about service quality and billing problems, a California telecom regulator last week suggested the state Public …

WASHINGTON-The telecommunications industry is questioning whether the nearly half-million dollars it has paid to a nonprofit consultant to the government on numbering issues is kosher. The Federal Communications Commission is …

OTTAWA-Sigem Inc. and WirelessCar announced they intend to form a strategic alliance to develop and offer a complete telematics solution, leveraging Sigem’s ePing global positioning system products with WirelessCar’s communications, …

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 …

LAS VEGAS-Cingular Wireless said it will launch its first operational standards-based General Packet Radio Service in the United States, dubbed Cingular Wireless Internet Express, in its GSM markets in California, …

LAS VEGAS-Portal Software Inc., IBM Corp. and Reciprocal Inc. are working together to deliver a new secure digital content commerce and distribution offering that integrates Portal Software’s Infranet platform and …

NEW YORK -Paragon Networks International, Brookfield, Conn., wants to take wireless carriers on a walk across “BROADway” to bridge the gap between today’s circuit-switched networks and tomorrow’s packet-based networks. Introduced …

Lucent Technologies Lucent Technologies introduced Flexent Wireless IP Core Network Architecture, which it said will help wireless carriers deliver a range of voice and data services to customers. According to …

LAS VEGAS-TSI Telecommunication Services Inc., a global supplier of interoperability solutions, made announcements regarding several newly formed strategic alliances at CTIA Global Wireless 2001. The company signed a technology agreement …

BEIJING-A spokesman for China Mobile said the company would further delay the one-way billing system beyond the proposed implementation period of early 2002, citing the “need for further research and …

HELSINKI, Finland-New World Mobility, a mobile operator based in Hong Kong, has selected the Nokia Artuse Unstructured Supplementary Services Data Centre, a platform that offers faster interactive messaging services within …

NEW YORK-With the March 12 commercial debut of NetProfile Wireless Edition, Bridgewater Systems, Kanata, Ontario, is offering a chance and a challenge to mobile operators seeking a profitable way out …

Wireless carriers are always looking for ways to retain customers. The most common retention method is to offer services that customers like to use so much that they are willing …

CINCINNATI-Convergys Corp. and IBM Corp. announced they will port Release 6.0 of Convergys’ Atlys solution onto IBM’s Unix server platform, including the new eServer pSeries line. Atlys Release 6.0 is …

AWR Applied Wave Research appointed Ronald Patston as vice president of marketing. Prior to joining AWR, Patston held several positions in various companies in the wireless and EDA industry including …

CANNES, France-Sema, an information technology and business services company, announced Mobile E-mail, its new messaging service offering for telecom operators. The product allows operators to offer interactive Internet e-mail services, …

CANNES, France-Amdocs, a provider of customer-care, billing and order-management, introduced Amdocs 3G, a platform designed to assist carriers as they adapt to third-generation wireless services. According to the company, Amdocs …

Hailing from Stockholm, Sweden, one of the world’s premier breeding grounds for mobile-phone technology, wireless network security developer Columbitech is gearing up to take on the United States with a …

LOS ANGELES-Telemac Corp., a provider of network-independent billing and accounting technologies for the wireless industry, announced it has been granted broader U.S. and European patents covering a network-independent, handset-based prepaid …