British Telecommunications

New app stores and smartphone platforms are dominating the news out of Mobile World Congress this week, but it’s a quiet little mobile marketing initiative U.S. carriers will be monitoring …

Dave Dorman, a former AT&T chief executive and currently on Motorola Inc.’s board of directors, has gotten the nod to become the board’s next chairman. Dorman has served on the …

For years, the nation’s two largest wireless carriers, Cingular Wireless L.L.C. and Verizon Wireless, have focused on their network’s reach and reliability in marketing strategies and their business models. But …

LONDON, England—Britain’s Office of Communications has announced the winners of 6.6 megahertz of technology-neutral spectrum to be used for low-power GSM wireless services such as private networks. The Wireless Telegraphy …

BANGALORE, India—Subex Systems Ltd., a telecom software products developer, announced it’s buying British revenue-assurance developer Azure Solutions Ltd. for $140 million. The companies said they will operate as Subex Azure …

BARCELONA, Spain-The evolution toward convergence could make for some strange bedfellows. The 3GSM World Congress was named for third-generation cellular services, but it was the alphabet soup of other technologies …

Virgin Mobile Holdings plc is set to be one of the first European operators to launch mobile TV services using a dedicated mobile TV network. The company, which operates a …

Ratification is looming for a WiMAX specification standard, and trials, products and opinions are rampant. The worldwide WiMAX market is expected to reach $3.5 billion and account for 4 percent …

GERMANY BenQ Corp. completed its takeover of Siemens AG’s mobile-phone business, and the combined entity began operations Oct. 1. BenQ Mobile comprises 7,000 employees, a 5.2-percent worldwide mobile-phone market share …

RICHARDSON, Texas-Navini Networks Inc. said it’s working with British Telecommunications plc on mobile WiMAX trials for the U.K. market and expects the trials to continue into the first quarter of …

LONDON-British Telecom plc launched its BT Fusion fixed-mobile convergence service offering, which uses Bluetooth technology to switch seamlessly between the company’s wide-area wireless network and its in-home BT Broadband service. …

Following news that it was not selected as a preferred supplier for British Telecom’s huge 21st Century Network project, U.K. equipment vendor Marconi Corp. said it will lay off workers, …

LONDON-Following news that it was not selected as a preferred supplier for British Telecom’s huge 21st Century Network project, U.K. equipment vendor Marconi Corp. said it will lay off workers, …

LONDON-BT, the leading U.K. fixed-line carrier, said it selected eight telecom equipment suppliers for its next-generation network that will see phones that work over both fixed and mobile networks, among …

LONDON-U.K. fixed-line carrier British Telecommunications plc launched a mobile virtual network operator service for the corporate market, dumping its former wireless subsidiary MmO2 for rival carrier Vodafone U.K. as the …

Nortel Networks Ltd. said it has completed the scheduled transfer of certain optical design operations and related assets in Ottawa and Monkstown, Northern Ireland, to Flextronics. The transfer was part …

LONDON-Revenue assurance company Azure Solutions said it has acquired Connexn Technologies. The combined companies will operate under the Azure name. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. All existing …

TORONTO-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. neglected to sell its 34-percent stake in Rogers Wireless Communications Inc. by Sunday night’s deadline. AWS earlier declined to accept a $1.15 billion bid from the …

LONDON-British Telecommunications plc said it will expand its Wi-Fi network to 500 U.K. McDonald’s restaurants during the next few months. Plans call for BT Openzone access points to be installed …

London Following its launch of an MVNO service in the United Kingdom promoted through a multimillion-dollar ad campaign, British Telecommunications Inc. launched a new service, BTringtones.com, on its public Internet …

OTTAWA-In tune with its “Business Without Borders” vision, Nortel Networks Ltd. said it plans to trial its public wireless local area networks architecture with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and …

HOUSTON-Crown Castle International Corp. announced it has completed an amended $1.6 billion credit facility and made certain changes to its capital structure. “This leverage-neutral transaction simplifies our capital structure and …