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MIAMI-The CDMA Development Group announced winners of the 3G CDMA Industry Achievement Awards this week at the CDMA Americas Congress taking place in Miami. Among the winners were: Wang Jianzhou …

DUBLIN, Ireland-M-commerce moved a step closer to becoming reality with two separate announcements this week. Payment software company Valista announced Orange has chosen its payment technology to provide connectivity to …

BellSouth Corp. said it plans to offer $3 billion aggregate principal amount of five- and 10-year senior notes to help finance its share of the pending acquisition of AT&T Wireless …

ATLANTA-BellSouth Corp. said it plans to offer $3 billion aggregate principal amount of five- and 10-year senior notes to help finance its share of the pending acquisition of AT&T Wireless …

WOODBURY, N.Y.-Messaging suppliers Comverse and Tecnomen both announced multimedia messaging service center contracts Wednesday. Comverse said Telefonica Moviles Espana selected its MMSC to be deployed with a third-party MMSC to …

SAO PAULO-Brasilcel, the company jointly owned by Telefonica Moviles and Portugal Telecom, has launched a plan to buy additional stakes in the other Brazilian subsidiaries partially owned by the two …

Distributor Brightstar Corp. is planning an initial public offering of up to $115 million, according to a new filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The company plans to …

Distributor Brightstar Corp. is planning an initial public offering of up to $115 million, according to a new filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The company plans to …

MINNEAPOLIS-Fair Isaac Corp. said Telefonica Moviles Peru, the largest wireless services provider in Peru, selected Fair Isaac’s RoamEx roamer data exchanger to gain near-real-time visibility of roaming call records generated …

ANNAPOLIS, Md.-MoviStar Puerto Rico has completed the initial deployment of Phase II E911 services via technology from Telecommunication Systems Inc. MoviStar is certified by the public-safety answering point in Puerto …

MEXICO CITY-Grupo Iusacell said it has agreed to integrate Qualcomm’s BREW offering into its CDMA system. This will allow the carrier’s customers to access a slew of applications including e-mail, …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Wireless gear supplier L.M. Ericsson announced a series of contracts around the world, assuring its place as the world’s premier infrastructure player. In the context of the CommunicAsia conference …

Wireless gear supplier L.M. Ericsson announced a series of contracts around the world, assuring its place as the world’s premier infrastructure player. In the context of the CommunicAsia conference in …

SYDNEY, Australia-Australia’s leading wireless carrier said it will license i-mode technology from NTT DoCoMo Inc. in the Japanese carrier’s ninth partnership for the wireless Internet technology. Telstra is licensing the …

SYDNEY, Australia-Australia’s leading wireless carrier said it will license i-mode technology from NTT DoCoMo Inc. in the Japanese carrier’s ninth partnership for the wireless Internet technology. Telstra is licensing the …

Tim Berners-Lee, widely credited with creating the World Wide Web, has spoken out against the wireless industry’s attempts to create a “.mobi” mobile-specific Internet domain listing. Further, the World Wide …

Several third-generation commercial launches were announced in markets across Western Europe last week, with market leaders Vodafone Group plc, Telefonica Moviles and Telecom Italia Mobile all beginning services in various …

Several third-generation commercial launches were announced in markets across Western Europe this week, with market leaders Vodafone Group plc, Telefonica Moviles and Telecom Italia Mobile all beginning services in various …

MADRID, Spain-Telefonica Moviles, one of the leaders in the Latin American wireless industry, said it will acquire 100 percent of the shares of Chilean operator Telefonica Movil Chile from Compania …

SAN DIEGO-Novatel Wireless Inc., which provides wireless broadband access solutions, said it received more than $7 million in new orders from existing customers. The orders are for the company’s Merlin …

HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. said it has signed a deal to expand Chile Telefonica Movil’s GSM/EDGE network. Telefonica launched Latin America’s first commercial EDGE network last October in Chile. The value …

With bigger net incomes and increasing orders, wireless vendors blossomed with more optimism and richer cash flows than a year ago, signaling what industry watchers see as better times ahead. …

Lucent Technologies Inc. is riding a third consecutive quarter of profits as indicated in its fiscal second-quarter results with a net income of $68 million, or 2 cents per diluted …

“What Simpay is all about is opening up the mobile Internet space beyond the carrier’s branded portal,” said Jim Wadsworth, Simpay’s chief marketing officer. Described as a mobile-commerce company, Simpay’s …

LONDON-Intec Telecom Systems will supply mediation software for Vivo, a joint venture between Telefonica Moviles and Portugal Telecom that serves more than 21 million customers in 19 Brazilian states. The …