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China Mobile began charging for wireless Internet services beginning 21 October after twice delaying the date due to slack demand for the services, particularly by many industry professionals. However, Frost …

SINGAPORE-With the worst effects of the economic crisis over, telecommunications companies in countries throughout the Asia-Pacific region are likely to advance rapidly in these promising cellular markets, said research firm …

HANNOVER, Germany-After a year of industry enthusiasm and the wild market forecasts that have surrounded the short-range wireless technology Bluetooth, the silicon-chip developers used the giant CeBIT 2000 exhibition to …

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-Rural and underserved markets quickly are becoming integral, strategic components of international telecommunications expansion, because reaching the 4 billion people worldwide still without access to telephone services poses …

NEW YORK-Smart cards must overcome a chicken-and-egg problem before they can expand their use in wireless devices beyond their established role as subscriber identification modules in Global System for Mobile …

NEW YORK-In the last seven years, semiconductor processing capacity has increased by about 2,600 percent while battery technology has improved by approximately 65 percent on a watts basis, said Phillip …

BANGALORE, India-Finally, the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has received the Telecom Commission’s OK to offer cellular services in 17 cities across the country. With Mahanagar Telephone Nigam (MTNL)-an offshoot of …

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-According to “World TDMA Digital Cellular Infrastructure Equipment Markets,” a recent report compiled by Frost & Sullivan, Time Division Multiple Access markets are expected to see a compound …

Widespread consolidation among telecommunications carriers has concentrated buying power into fewer and fewer hands, with vendors experiencing many of the side effects. In the last year alone, at least half …

With vendors putting their time and energy into the three main U.S. digital standards and into developing standards for third-generation technology, there hardly seems room for commercialization of the more …

Changing times are requiring some infrastructure vendors to reorganize their businesses and better align themselves with their customers. Siemens AG of Germany is the latest vendor to realize this. The …

WASHINGTON-An agreement between GTE Corp. and AirTouch Paging, signed earlier this month, is a good example of how the telecommunications industry can work with “regulatory guidance but without regulatory fiat,” …

PageMart Wireless Inc. launched a narrowband personal communications services network in Austin and San Antonio, offering a guaranteed-receipt alphanumeric message service called Scout. This makes PageMart the first paging carrier …

Motorola Inc.’s Cellular Infrastructure Group is struggling to keep PrimeCo Personal Communications L.P. from giving future contracts to another vendor for more personal communications services equipment. PrimeCo reportedly is dissatisfied …

21st Century Telesis Inc. said it is making a significant step toward becoming the first U.S. wireless carrier to commercially deploy Personal Access Communications System technology. Costa-Mesa, Calif.-based 21st Century, …

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-The world’s smart card markets are creating high growth markets in regions not traditionally marketed for technological advances, according to a recent report from international market consulting company …

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-Despite the threat from emerging personal communications services networks, the cellular service market continues to flourish, according to research conducted by Frost & Sullivan International Inc. The report …

LONDON-Frost & Sullivan has predicted the network operators sector of the European radio paging market will grow at a higher rate than the hardware sector. Revenues for the radio pager …

The fusion of wireless telecommunications and computer processing power into a device that fits your hand ought to be a slam-dunk proposition. It lets time-critical information go unobtrusively to where …

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-The U.S. mobile communications services market is projected to more than triple from $26.3 billion in 1994 to $92.5 billion by the year 2001, according to a new …