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Nokia Corp. continued its massive open mobile architecture standards push last week by signing up some of the world’s largest infrastructure and application server vendors, including BEA Systems Inc., Borland …

LONDON—NEC announced it will close a semiconductor plant in Scotland, eliminating 1,260 jobs. The Livingston, West Lothian, plant closure is blamed on the widespread downturn in demand for cellular phone …

OXFORD, United Kingdom—Hutchison has signed a crucial network sharing deal with British Telecommunications’ former wireless division, mmO2. The agreement will allow Hutchison’s subscribers to make and receive calls using mmO2’s …

LONDON—The Isle of Man’s third-generation (3G) network is now live after about a six-month delay from the original scheduled launch. Manx Telecom, a subsidiary of British Telecommunication’s mm02 mobile arm, …

LONDON—NEC Corp. has denied a report in the World Street Journal that it plans to put off the launch of its third-generation mobile-phone handsets to between September and November rather …

TOKYO—NEC Corp. says it is having talks with Matsushita Communications Industrial Co. to explore details of establishing an advanced cellular phone handset joint venture focusing on the Chinese market. “Consideration …

OXFORD, United Kingdom—As speculation continues about what Siemens will do with its mobile-phone business, the research firm Gartner said that its latest study into cell-phone manufacturer rankings has seen Siemens …

WOODBURY, New York, United States—Comverse Technology agreed to provide NEC System Integration & Construction (NECSIC)with network communications products in Japan. “When selecting a system integration partner, Comverse was a natural …

WOODBURY, N.Y.—Comverse Technology says it has agreed to provide NEC System Integration & Construction Ltd. with network communications products in Japan. “When selecting a system integration partner, Comverse was a …

TOKYO—NEC Corp. said it plans to outsource the manufacturing functions of NEC Miyagi Ltd. and NEC Yamanashi Ltd., which develop and manufacture telecom infrastructure systems, to an Electronics Manufacturing Service …

TOKYO—NEC won an order for more than 1 million units of third-generation (3G) video phones from Hutchison Whampoa. NEC is going to provide the terminals based on both wideband-CDMA (W-CDMA) …

TOKYO—Citing sharp declines in demand, NEC Corp. is asking 6,600 semiconductor plant workers to stay at home with reduced pay for one to three days a month in November and …

TORONTO-As the handset manufacturing business gets tougher because of declining demand, more phone makers are looking at joint ventures as their economic salvation and perhaps their best strategy to catch …

A new study by marketing research firm BWCS claimed that more than 90 percent of U.K. business travelers with laptops are interested in using wireless local area network (WLAN) services …

TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo, the leading mobile carrier in Japan, on 1 October launched the world’s first third-generation (3G) mobile service in the Tokyo metropolitan area, receiving mixed reviews from market analysts. …

TOKYO—Matsushita Communication Industrial, the leading mobile handset vender in Japan, announced that it is expecting to have a 40 billion yen (US$325 million) operational loss for fiscal year (FY) 2001 …

TOKYO—NEC, a leading communications vender in Japan, announced that the firm is expecting its revenues for fiscal year (FY) 2001 ending March 2002 to decline by 2 percent, and the …

Once upon a time, a technology called pACT had a life, savored some love and then disappeared into oblivion. Another one called B-CDMA rocked the eaves of wireless, had an …

TOKYO—NEC won the largest market share of 29.4 percent, exceeding its rival Matsushita Communication Industrial, in the Japanese mobile handset market in the first half of fiscal year 2001 from …

TOKYO—NEC said it will supply a mobile Internet platform to Taiwan’s KG Telecom, which will begin its i-mode-like mobile Internet service in mid-2002. The contract value is 1 billion yen …

BEIJING—Sixteen foreign mobile-phone suppliers spent 196.47 million yuan (US$23.77 million) on advertisements in China during the first half of the year, accounting for 89 percent of the industry’s total expenditure …

TOKYO—NEC said it will supply a mobile Internet platform to Taiwan’s KG Telecom, which will begin its i-mode-like mobile Internet service in mid-2002. The contract value is $8.2 million. NEC …

SAN FRANCISCO, United States—News of the official launch of Microsoft’s new personal digital assistant (PDA) operating system sparked dozens of major wireless, software and device company announcements of new products …

TOKYO—NEC has joined the Mobile Electronic Transactions (MeT) Initiative, which seeks to develop open and common industry framework for secure mobile transactions. “The MeT Initiative is very pleased to welcome …

TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo said it will begin selling handsets compatible with its planned third-generation (3G) FOMA network beginning 1 October at 260 stores in the Tokyo metropolitan area, the day the …