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ATLANTA—Cingular Wireless rolled out its Wireless Internet Express General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) service in a number of markets in the Southeast and in Las Vegas, following the initial introduction …

LONDON—Motorola Inc. says it has revised its view of when it expects third-generation mobile services to attract mass-market acceptance in Europe to 2004 instead of 2003 in line with analyst …

ATLANTA—Cingular Wireless rolled out its Wireless Internet Express GPRS service in a number of markets in the Southeast and in Las Vegas, following the initial introduction in Seattle this summer. …

SAN DIEGO—Leap Wireless International Inc. launched its Cricket wireless service in the Reno, Sparks and Carson City, Nev., and in Toledo and Sandusky, Ohio. With the launches, Leap now offers …

BEIJING—Ericsson has signed an agreement worth nearly US$535 million to supply GSM/General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) equipment, software and services for Guangdong Mobile Communication. “Ericsson will deploy a number of …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Ericsson signed a cooperation agreement with Vytel Asia to build out next-generation networks in the Asia-Pacific region. “The two companies are combining their expertise and capacity to meet the …

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BEIJING—China’s second-largest mobile operator, China Unicom, plans to put its CDMA network in commercial use early next year. So far, 24 million yuan (US$2.9 million) has been invested to build …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Ericsson said it won a GSM network expansion order from Thailands’ AIS mobile operator worth US$60 million. The order covers network infrastructure and service solutions for AIS’ GSM 900 …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Ericsson AG has announced 2,000 job cuts as part of what it describes as its efficiency program in response to the slowdown in the telecom market.The company said 1,300 …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Ericsson AG says it has signed a cooperation agreement with Vytel Asia to build out next-generation networks in the Asia Pacific region. “The two companies are combining their expertise …

NEW DELHI, India—Ericsson has bagged a host of mobile infrastructure orders exceeding US$70 million from India’s Bharti group. It will provide end-to-end infrastructure of GSM nodes to Bharti for five …

HELSINKI, Finland—Vattenfall and Swedish power sector ally Birka Energi have reached a preliminary agreement to use their combined electricity systems as springboards to build new stations for third-generation (3G) networks, …

OXFORD, United Kingdom—Cell-phone operator BT Viag, the German subsidiary of BT’s MmO2 mobile division, said it plans to launch Microsoft’s combined Pocket PC and mobile device in early 2002. The …

BEIJING, China—Ericsson AB says it has signed a deal to deliver Mobitex system to Chinese operator Sky Networks Communication Group Co. Ltd. here and north of the country. “This will …

BUCHAREST, Romania—Hungary’s Westel began commercial General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) to its clients throughout country. Westel’s GSM network is based on Ericsson system elements in about 70 percent of the …

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 …

SINGAPORE—Singapore’s telecom regulator Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) appointed Ericsson Cyberlab Singapore as the first assessment center to promote the development of the wireless industry through its Pilots and Trial Hotspots …

OXFORD, United Kingdom—Having been formed with much fanfare in September 1999, the joint venture between Ericsson and Microsoft to co-develop mobile Internet software appears to have been less than a …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications, the joint venture between Ericsson and Sony first announced earlier this year, began operations this week, aiming to more effectively compete with dominant handset vendor …

HELSINKI, Finland—Nokia began shipping its General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) phones in Europe on 28 September, barely making the third-quarter deadline it had set for itself for commercially offering GPRS …

LONDON—Swedish vendor Ericsson has joined forces with Morocco’s Finance.Com, a subsidiary of BMCE Bank, to launch the country’s first mobile portal for financial transactions. The project, which is to be …

NEW DELHI, India—Ericsson AB said it has signed a $70 million contract to supply GSM and GPRS equipment for Bharti Enterprises in north and south of India. The five new …

HELSINKI, Finland—Nokia began shipping its GPRS phones in Europe on Sept. 28, barely making the third-quarter deadline it had set for itself for commercially offering GPRS handsets. Competing handset vendors …

SAN DIEGO—Ericsson Enterprise released its OneBox 2.0 unified messaging product, which the company said is designed to offer instant access to all types of electronic messages from wired telephones, Windows-based …