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DUESSELDORF, Germany-German operator E-Plus has purchased the UMTS infrastructure of embattled company MobilCom for about $23 million. The acquisition ends speculation about the future of MobilCom’s third-generation network. MobilCom was …

HELSINKI, Finland-Hungarian operator Pannon GSM Telecommunications plc announced it made a successful call using an EDGE phone and network. The carrier also said it will use equipment from Nokia Corp. …

DALLAS-Nokia Corp. announced it is continuing its mobile-commerce trial with credit card company MasterCard International through a new trial in Nokia’s home base of Irving, Texas. The market trial will …

KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.-InterDigital Communications Corp.’s first quarter results reflected an improved financial performance during the past year. InterDigital reported revenues of $37.3 million, a 78-percent improvement from the year-ago …

SAN RAMON, Calif.-The PAM Forum plus Parlay Group now equals the Parlay Group. Both standards groups are merging into the Parlay Group in a process that will be completed by …

WASHINGTON-Telecom and high-tech sectors, beaten down and eager for an economic revival, last week found themselves forced to pick and choose among competing tax-cut packages in Congress after the GOP-led …

Nokia Corp.’s 6200 EDGE-capable phone hit store shelves this week, making AT&T Wireless Services Inc. the first carrier in the world to sell an EDGE phone. However, the phone today …

Nokia Corp. hired a former Palm Inc. executive to head up its worldwide developer efforts, a move that highlights Nokia’s continuing focus on its developer and licensing business and the …

Sprint PCS added movie reviews from Hollywood trade publication Daily Variety and up-to-the minute professional baseball scores and updates to its PCS Vision 1KTV service. The downloadable Java-based service allows …

Those in the industry agree digital rights management is a key issue for wireless, and as a result there are several companies and a range of peripheral players looking to …

REDMOND, Wash.-Nokia Corp.’s 6200 EDGE-capable phone hit store shelves this week, making AT&T Wireless Services Inc. the first carrier in the world to sell an EDGE phone. However, the phone …

OSLO, Norway-Browser company Opera Software announced its software is now available for Nokia Corp.’s 7650 and 3650 phones. Opera said its platform supports full Web pages. “This is just the …

LOS ANGELES-A U.S. law firm has filed a class action lawsuit against Nokia Corp. in a California Superior Court alleging several of the company’s popular mobile phone models included a …

WATERLOO, Ontario-BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd. and its partners made a string of announcements in conjunction with the Wireless Enterprise Symposium in New Orleans, including news that Palm OS …

HELSINKI, Finland-Globe Telecom awarded a $35 million GSM network expansion deal to Nokia to deliver solutions for Globe’s network expansion in the Philippines. Deliveries of Base Station Subsystems and Network …

ATLANTA-Cingular Wireless L.L.C. introduced a pair of Nokia Corp. handsets for its networks including the GSM/GPRS-enabled Nokia 6800 and TDMA-enabled Nokia 3560. Cingular said the color-screen Nokia 6800 is compatible …

Wireless streaming video over mobile phones is now available at a store near you. Internet video company RealNetworks Inc. today planned to launch a wireless Web site featuring streaming content …

FRAMINGHAM, Mass.-LG Electronics has replaced Sony Ericsson Communications Inc. in the No. 5 spot for worldwide handset sales in the first quarter of the year, according to data released by …

DUBLIN, Ireland-Vodafone Ireland said it opened its third-generation network, although it will initially be available only to several “key business partners.” The network provides data speeds of up to 144 …

FRAMINGHAM, Mass.-LG Electronics has replaced Sony Ericsson Communications Inc. in the No. 5 spot for worldwide handset sales in the first quarter of the year, according to data released by …

REDMOND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. launched its GoPhone spending-limit program that allows credit challenged customers to sign-up for a wireless service plan with cheaper per-minute charges than are typically available …

SAN DIEGO-Nokia Corp. will build a mobile phone for Verizon Wireless that will include BREW application download technology from Nokia’s archrival Qualcomm Inc. Verizon executives confirmed the move during Qualcomm’s …

TEL AVIV, Israel-ART, Advanced Recognition Technologies Inc., announced its smARTspeak XG speech is now available on wireless phones based on Nokia’s Series 60 platform. The companies demonstrated ART’s speech technology …

IRVING, Texas-Nokia Corp. said it beat five other proposals for standardizing a cdma2000 wideband speech codec with the Third Generation Partnership Project 2. “The new Variable Rate Multi-Mode Wideband speech …

HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia IP networks security appliances, which runs Check Point Software Technologies’ Internet security software, has been chosen by transaction technology solution provider OM to secure its global business. Nokia’s …