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STAMFORD, Conn.-Research and consulting firm Gartner said it increased its 2004 phone sales predictions to 580 million units-further evidence that the mobile-phone market is enjoying gangbuster growth. “2003 sales surpassed …

HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia will provide Guangdong Mobile Communications Corp. Ltd. (MCC) with its WAP Gateway solution to offer WAP service in China’s Guangdong province. In addition to the WAP Gateway solution, …

KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.-Investors reacted harshly to a decline in InterDigital Communications Corp.’s net income, sending the company’s stock down almost 15 percent after the news to about $21 per …

LONDON-A group of the wireless industry’s largest players announced a plan to form a domain name registry company for the mobile Internet-an agency similar to the Internet’s ICANN registry company-in …

IRVING, Texas-Nokia Corp. said it cut 50 positions from its research and development facility in Texas. The company said the layoffs were primarily in its radio network and core network …

HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. will modernize and upgrade TeliaSonera’s existing GSM/GPRS/EDGE Nokia network in the Nordic countries of Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. According to the agreement, Nokia will supply its …

As the market heats up for wireless instant-messaging services, a handful of vendors are touting their rapid implementation of the Open Mobile Alliance’s IM specifications as a way to drum …

In two major announcements last week, Nortel Networks Ltd. and Alcatel Alsthom demonstrated the kind of attention the wireless industry is paying to voice over wireless local area networks. Alcatel …

LONDON-A firm representing about 13 percent of Psion plc’s shareholders said it will vote against the company’s plans to sell its stake in operating system company Symbian to Nokia Corp. …

HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. will modernize and upgrade TeliaSonera’s existing GSM/GPRS/EDGE Nokia network in the Nordic countries of Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. According to the agreement, Nokia will supply its …

LONDON-A firm representing about 13 percent of Psion plc’s shareholders said it will vote against the company’s plans to sell its stake in operating system company Symbian to Nokia Corp. …

OSLO, Norway-Opera Software continued its advances in the mobile phone market with the signing of a new deal with handset maker Kyocera Wireless Corp. Kyocera said it will sell the …

KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.-Just a few months after it acquired the company, InterDigital Communications Corp.’s subsidiary Tantivy Communications Inc. said it filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Lucent Technologies Inc. …

The line in the sand is getting deeper. On one side sits the world’s No. 2 mobile-phone maker Motorola Inc. and its operating system partner Microsoft Corp., a team hoping …

To borrow a phrase from the auto business, the wireless industry seems to be running on all pistons. The news out of last week’s 3GSM show in Cannes, France, seemed …

CANNES, France-A variety of players were among the companies making announcements on the push-to-talk front, further evidence that players across the globe are gearing up to offer the service. First, …

Although wireless by and large caters to the consumer market, many of the industry’s major mobile-phone makers zeroed in on the high-margin business user during the 3GSM show in Cannes, …

CANNES, France-The 2004 GSM Association Awards, sponsored by Intel, Microsoft, Vodafone, Nortel, Nokia and Convergys, were presented last night at 3GSM World Congress in Cannes, France. The winners were: Sony …

CANNES, France-Motorola Inc., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Panasonic Mobile Communications Co. Ltd. and others led the charge on the mobile phone front, introducing a range of wireless devices from the …

CANNES, France-Orange plc announced commercial trials of its 3G network in the United Kingdom and France, and confirmed it plans to launch full commercial 3G services in each country in …

LG Electronics Co. Ltd. announced its second GSM carrier partner with the release of the G4011 clamshell phone for AT&T Wireless Services Inc. The phone follows the release of two …

HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia, in anticipation of next week’s 3GSM World Congress in Cannes, France, enforced its view that operations outsourcing in the mobile network infrastructure business is instrumental in helping operators …

HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia announced it has been confirmed as the exclusive supplier of T-Mobile’s 3G W-CDMA radio access network in the Netherlands. Nokia is supplying 3G radio-access equipment, the Nokia NetAct …

SAN DIEGO-As mobile-phone news continues to roll in, LG Electronics Co. Ltd. announced its second GSM carrier partner with the release of the G4011 clamshell phone for AT&T Wireless Services …

TOKYO-NEC Corp. said it will start marketing third-generation node base stations based on the Common Public Radio Interface specification. The vendor said it will partner with Siemens AG in the …