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SAO PAULO, Brazil-Jarbas Valente, Anatel’s superintendent of private services, said he was surprised by the auction results for the surplus licenses in bands D and E for personal communications services. …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Orange SA has requested from the Swedish telecom regulator a three-year extension for building out its third-generation network in Sweden. Sweden’s 3G license conditions include having an operational network …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, and TORONTO-In the aftermath of their quarterly earnings report, the stocks of both Nortel Corp. and Ericsson AB plummeted, highlighting the struggles of the major players in the …

LONDON-Wireless platform provider Cash-U scored another major win through a new resale deal with Ericsson. Under the agreement, Ericsson will resell Cash-U’s wireless application platform to its carrier customers. Cash-U’s …

HELSINKI, Finland—Carriers and vendors across the world continue to refine and define their strategies for offering multimedia messaging services, which many in the industry hope will open the way for …

OXFORD, United Kingdom—The Polish telecom regulator, URTiP, has conceded that the three operators that purchased third-generation (3G) licenses will not be held to the contractual launch date due to the …

ROCHESTER, N.Y.—Performance Technologies Inc. announced Telefonica Moviles Espana will use its GSM Roaming Platform to provide GSM roaming to some other Telefonica Mobiles affiliates. The Performance Technologies GSM Roaming Platform …

MADRID—Telefonica Moviles SA selected Nortel Networks to supply radio access equipment for its UMTS rollouts in Germany and Spain in a contract valued at about $250 million over three years. …

WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif.—Wireless data provider GTRAN Wireless Inc. announced it has deployed its new DotSurfer 1x data card solution in several Latin American countries. The card gives mobile device users …

NEW YORK—Emblaze Systems Ltd. announced it is conducting a trial of its Wireless Multimedia Platform for handheld devices over Spanish wireless carrier Telefonica Moviles Espana’s network. The trial, over the …

SAO PAULO, Brazil—NTT DoCoMo Inc. said it plans to partner with Telefonica S.A. work on third-generation telephony projects, according to Brazil newspapers. The papers cited NTT DoCoMo Brazil’s technical director …

MADRID—Telefonica Moviles S.A. announced that due to the terrorist events of September 11 and their effect on international capital markets, it plans to cancel the public exchange offer announced February …

STOCKHOLM—Ericsson said it intends to claim 20 percent of the CDMA market by 2004, even as it identified five carriers as its major customer focus. The carriers include Vodafone Group …

MADRID, Spain-Telefonica Moviles and Nokia agreed to cooperate in developing applications for value-added services for Telefonica Moviles clients in business and consumer segments. The companies will set up a services …

Hewlett-Packard Co., Telefonica Moviles, Ericsson Espana and the Generalitat of Catalonia in Spain announced a joint venture company, called Tempos 21, which will develop and market mobile applications and e-services. …

SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Motorola said it completed the sale of its investments in four cellular companies in northern Mexico to Telefonica S.A. for more than $1.8 billion in Telefonica shares. The sale …

The GSM Association-the body behind GSM and GPRS networks, as well as the popular short message service-announced last week another standards effort, one that some industry observers believe will be …

As European telecom companies pant under spectrum’s debt burden and fret over possible third-generation rewards, a market research firm thinks the future is worthy of the torture. “Mobile operators will …

FRANKFURT, Germany-In a win for new entrants in Germany’s mobile market, RegTP, the German telecom regulator, said it would allow the country’s six Universal Mobile Telecommunications System license holders to …

Monopoly claims on Microsoft Corp. might go out the window in the wireless space as major vendors, developers and operators expect to leverage both the software giant’s .NET and Java …

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, …

In a dramatic move to bolster its value and trim debt, British Telecom said last week it would spin off its wireless unit, BT Wireless, as a separately traded company, …

MADRID, Spain-Telefonica’s mobile subsidiary, Telef

MADRID, Spain-Telefonica and Spanish utility company Iberdrola signed an agreement under which Telefonica will acquire all Iberdrola shareholdings in the Brazilian telecom operators in which both companies have stakes. Iberdrola …

Infowave Thomas U. Koll was appointed Infowave Software Inc.’s new chief executive officer. He previously was vice president of Microsoft’s Network Solutions Group and was responsible for the company’s worldwide …