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NEW YORK-Struggling satellite communications provider Globalstar Telecommunications Ltd. said it billed more than twice the number of minutes in the second quarter than in the first, and reported net revenues …

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Component shortages and a widespread shift to entry-level phones impacted second-quarter earnings from L.M. Ericsson. The company’s stock fell 11 percent on the news and was trading around $20.13 at …

WASHINGTON-A congressional subcommittee and the wireless industry put pressure on the Federal Communications Commission to delay the upcoming 700 MHz auction, while private wireless wants the agency to go ahead …

RICHARDSON, Texas-Integrated communications services provider CenturyTel selected Ericsson Inc. to supply a wireless broadband point-to-multipoint access system solution based on next-generation Time Division Multiple Access architecture with Fast Dynamic Capacity …

NEW YORK-The iAnywhere Solutions Inc. subsidiary of Sybase Inc., Emeryville, Calif., will join L.M. Ericsson in a global strategic alliance to develop and deliver what the companies are calling the …

It’s been a wild roller-coaster ride for Qualcomm Inc.’s stock this year. The former Wall Street angel is fighting a public-relations battle that says a move to wideband Code Division …

NEW YORK-The interplay between intelligent networks and Internet Protocol is a battle of the Titans, according to David Berndt, director of wireless mobile technologies for The Yankee Group. Carriers must …

NEW YORK-Telstra Corp., Australia’s dominant telecommunications provider, “hates to be considered an incumbent because we transitioned to a New Age company years ago,” said Philip Wise, managing director of its …

NEW YORK-Nokia Corp. has spent the past five years refining lessons learned from its attempts to jump-start digital cellular in the United States, said Matt Wisk, vice president of national …

NEW YORK-Developers of devices and applications for wireless communications strutted their stuff, offering new, nearly new and soon-to-debut products and services at this year’s MobileFocus. Giving more gumption to handheld …

Analysts these days are seeing rays of hope for Nokia Mobile Phone’s dismal market share in the CDMA handset business. The world’s largest mobile-phone manufacturer dominates the global Time Division …

WASHINGTON-ATS Mobile Communications, a Pittsburgh dispatch radio operator, has alleged in state court that Com-Net Critical Communications Inc.-the buyer of L.M. Ericsson’s private radio business-broke a 15-year, $6 million contract …

WASHINGTON-Congress Friday passed legislation to give federal law enforcement the ability to negotiate directly with wireless carriers and manufacturers for network-wide digital wiretap upgrades of switches on a firm fixed-price …

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-Cuba’s government decreed that the new millennium begins on 1 January, 2001, and to mark the event, grand celebrations are being prepared. In tone with the decision, the …

SINGAPORE-Governments in Asia will issue licenses of third-generation (3G) cellular networks to around 40 operators in 11 countries within the next year, representatives from several equipment vendors said at the …

TORONTO-The major Canadian carriers are cautiously laying the groundwork for third-generation (3G) wireless networks. But true, full-blown 3G in Canada is at least three to four years away. “Canadian mobile …

BUCHAREST, Romania-At the end of May, the principle vendors of mobile telephones in Romania held a meeting to discuss the country’s black market for mobile handset sales. In the other …

BEIJING-The mobile Internet revolution is knocking on China’s door. With 60 million mobile-phone subscribers and only 10 million people surfing the Internet using personal computers, Web access through mobile phones …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Portugal operator Telecel Comunicacoes Pessoais signed a contract with L.M. Ericsson calling for Ericsson to upgrade Telecel’s Global System for Mobile communications network and introduce mobile Internet capability using …

Xircom Inc. announced it is acquiring Omnipoint Technologies Inc., a subsidiary of VoiceStream Wireless Corp. Xircom also said last week it will provide Bluetooth access products to Ericsson Mobile Communications …

Red-M, a wireless Internet server developer, and L.M. Ericsson have agreed to cooperate on enabling Wireless Application Protocol applications over Bluetooth technology. The idea is to allow mobile access to …

MobilePosition.com is a Swedish company looking to combine lifestyle-focused vertical Internet content with location position technology and mapping functions. Calling itself a microportal, the company is marketing its platform to …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-BellSouth Mobility said it plans to deploy up to 56 Ericsson Datacom Inc. AXC 627 Tigris Access Servers in 28 of its mobile switching centers. The servers, part of …

ATLANTA-Wireless infrastructure vendors made their wireless Internet plans a major priority at SuperComm here last week, introducing network solutions portfolios that, while different in makeup, have the same goal-to help …