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NEW YORK-Third-generation technology is completely unnecessary for taking advantage of data opportunities, which are growing even though widespread consumer adoption may be years away, according to speakers at the recent …

As the news swirls around Wall Street, analysts think a possible merger between Alcatel Alsthom of France and Lucent Technologies Inc. may not only be the biggest acquisition of a …

Transition is the word of the year, according to UBS Warburg’s analysis of mobile handset sales for the first quarter and forecast for the rest of 2001. Suppliers are struggling …

LOS ANGELES-Last week was a big one for wireless gaming enthusiasts, with dozens of announcements hitting the wires in conjunction with the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles. A variety …

NEW YORK-Unplugged Games Inc., founded last year with $2 million in venture financing, made public May 15 an agreement reached last month to supply AT&T Wireless Services Inc.’s Digital PocketNet …

GoBeam Inc. GoBeam Inc. rolled out its GoBeam Dashboard, a dashboard user interface that enables customers to easily manage business communication services from a browser-based console. The service is accessible …

BRAZIL Transcrypt International Inc.’s subsidiary, EFJohnson Co., has been awarded a $2 million contract to supply its LTR-Net communication system to the State of Santa Catarina Police Department in Brazil, …

Top players in both the vendor and carrier space are pitching in to advance GAIT-GSM ANSI Interoperability Team-a new network standard that fuses TDMA and GSM technologies to enhance roaming, …

Symbian received an important lift after Nokia Corp. said that half its third-generation mobile phones will use the company’s platform by 2004. The move ends speculation on whether Symbian’s stakeholders, …

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia-The St. Petersburg-based Telecominvest holding said it decided to work with Finnish supplier Nokia Corp. instead of Germany’s Siemens AG to create a GSM-900 MHz network in North …

HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia and BT Wireless completed a third-generation ALL-IP multimedia call using a BT Wireless trials ALL-IP system. The multimedia applications were provided by Nokia experimental All IP Mobility Core …

LONDON-The market for mobile services in the Middle East continues to show strong growth, with the ever-increasing number of new cellular operators barely keeping pace with growing customer numbers. An …

HONG KONG-Trunked radio has been the Cinderella of Hong Kong’s wireless communications in recent years, compared with the fast-growing mobile-phone technologies, but things may soon change. China’s industrialization is opening …

Mobile devices Alcatel Alcatel launched the One Touch 502 General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) phone with Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) access. The phone offers GPRS monoslot technology, which is ideal …

The monthly average revenue per user (ARPU) of Southern Cone cellular operators fell more than 50 percent during the last five years. In 1996, a cellular user in Argentina spent …

Three industry heavyweights announced plans to create universal standards for mobile instant messaging and presence services, a move that further validates a small but growing segment of the wireless industry. …

NEW YORK-Investors looking for successful Bluetooth market plays will have to wait till late this year, but the outlook for the technology will grow brighter during the next several years, …

The alliance between Sony Corp. of Japan and L.M. Ericsson of Sweden is giving the two companies hope they have a chance to trump Nokia Corp. as the supreme player …

TORONTO, Canada-Mobile financial services company 724 Solutions Inc. seems to have beat the slowdown currently dragging down most of the telecommunications industry, showing strong growth and significant revenue in the …

Three major wireless vendors gave mixed signals last week as Nokia Corp. posted a profit, while Nortel Networks Inc. and L.M. Ericsson reported losses in tune with market consensus. Both …

NEW YORK-Emblaze Systems Inc. will optimize its patented streaming media technology for use in wireless devices running on Symbian’s EPOC operating system, under an agreement announced last week. A simulation …

HELSINKI-Nokia will deliver its third-generation network solution to Finnish mobile operator, Radiolinja. Nokia will supply the 3G IP mobility core network, which includes packet-switched and circuit-switched elements and support services. …

HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia, KPN Mobile and Interpay Nederland have successfully made a financial transaction on a mobile network based on WIM technology, a part of the WAP 1.2 specification. According to …

HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Networks and the Shanghai Machinery Complete Equipment (Group) Corp. will provide the city of Tianjin, China, with an 800 MHz TETRA mobile digital radio communication system for its …

As the economy slackens and competition revs up, the handset market may set the stage for a battle between big names and their smaller counterparts. Some analysts are doffing their …