GPRS

Cingular Wireless and Lucent Technologies Inc. said they completed the first High-Speed Downlink Packet Access data calls using a trial UMTS network deployed by the two companies in the Atlanta …

As usual, the wireless industry plans to come out in force during this week’s Consumer Electronics Show, running Thursday through Sunday in Las Vegas. Among the expected announcements: c LG …

MUNICH-Siemens AG said it has agreed to supply EDGE technology to Oskar Mobil of Czech Republic, making it the vendor’s fifth EDGE contract in Central Europe and 15th in the …

MUNICH, Germany-Technology company Siemens said it tested a mobile communications network that could transmit up to one gigabit a second, or about 1,000 megabits per second. In comparison, today’s GPRS …

BEIJING-Nokia Corp. and Siemens AG announced GSM network contract awards in China, both with separate divisions of China Mobile Communications Corp. Nokia said it signed a $200 million contract with …

The world’s two most popular consumer electronics devices may soon be combined into one-the mobile TV phone. Behold. Although one is designed for sedentary, passive entertainment and the other for …

BEIJING-Nokia Corp. and Siemens AG announced GSM network contract awards in China Tuesday, both with separate divisions of China Mobile Communications Corp. Nokia said it signed a $200 million contract …

Like a cat with full jaws and claws, GSM technology does not need to proclaim its strengths. The numbers tell the story. Up to 1.18 billion subscribers place and receive …

Struggling wireless data carrier Motient Corp. appears to be returning to the industry from which it originally sprang-satellite communications. The company last week raised $126.4 million in a private stock …

Struggling wireless data carrier Motient Corp. appears to be returning to the industry from which it originally sprang-satellite communications. The company last week raised $126.4 million in a private stock …

Wireless carrier Mobile One announced trials of three different U.S.-developed technologies for wireless high-speed data access for its subscribers. Singapore-based M1, which has more than 1.1 million subscribers, 500,000 of …

SAN DIEGO-L.M. Ericsson said it has signed a contract extension with T-Mobile USA Inc. for GSM equipment and deployment in the 1900 MHz band. The contracts also will cover GPRS …

Vodafone Group plc launched its UMTS-based Vodafone live! service across its operations in 13 countries, including Austria, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and …

PARIS-Motorola Inc. and Bouygues Telecom, a French mobile operator, announced a contract to deliver Push to talk over Cellular (PoC) services using Motorola V400p handsets. Bouygues Telecom will make its …

PARIS-Motorola Inc. and Bouygues Telecom, a French mobile operator, announced a contract to deliver Push to talk over Cellular (PoC) services using Motorola V400p handsets. Bouygues Telecom will make its …

Wireless carrier Mobile One announced trials of three different U.S.-developed technologies for wireless high-speed data access for its subscribers. M1, which has more than 1.1 million subscribers, 500,000 of which …

Nokia Corp. announced it has taken legal action against two European handset manufacturers for alleged patent infringements and intellectual property rights. In a separate action, the firm also set new …

LONDON-The contract beat goes on for Nortel Networks Ltd.: one in Europe, another in Russia. Nortel said carrier MmO2 has expanded its infrastructure contract with the vendor for UMTS gear …

LONDON-Vodafone U.K. has chosen Tatara Systems’ Subscriber Gateway to enhance its third-generation and GPRS laptop data services. The gateway helps Vodafone become a Wi-Fi service provider without building a hot …

BELLEVUE, Wash.-T-Mobile USA Inc. launched the Sony Ericsson GC79 PC card providing access to the carrier’s GPRS and 802.11b-based Wi-Fi data networks from a single device. The tri-band device operates …

ESPOO, Finland-Nokia Corp. said it will expand the GSM/EDGE and GPRS networks for India’s Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. under a $246 million contract. Under the agreement, Nokia will deploy 4 …

T-Mobile USA Inc. launched the Sony Ericsson GC79 PC card providing access to the carrier’s GPRS and 802.11b-based Wi-Fi data networks from a single device. The tri-band device operates on …

ESPOO, Finland-Nokia Corp. said it will expand the GSM/EDGE and GPRS networks for India’s Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. under a $246 million contract. Under the agreement, Nokia will deploy 4 …

TAIPEI, Taiwan-Motorola Inc. announced one of Taiwan’s largest operators, Chunghwa Telecom, commercially deployed Push-to-Talk over Cellular services to its 8 million subscribers on its GPRS network. The PoC service combines …

A year ago, the semiconductor sector seemed on cruise control, while other sectors of telecom had just begun to rev up their economic recovery engines. Quarter after quarter companies reported …