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CAMBRIDGE, U.K.—nGame Ltd. announced a new partnership with Telus Mobility to provide eleven wireless games for Telus subscribers with web-enabled mobile phones.The games are: Rat Race, Air Aces, Alien Fish …

TORONTO-Canadian wireless carriers are bracing for tougher times as they gear up for faster 2.5-generation (2.5G) services. The four national carriers-Bell Mobility, Microcell, Rogers AT&T Wireless and Telus Mobility-posted disappointing …

SEATTLE, United States—Just a month after Canadian carrier Telus Mobility announced it would switch from an airtime billing system to a pay-per-use system, the carrier added Mforma Corp.’s games and …

MARKHAM, Ontario—Telus Mobility said it has agreed to use Lucent Technologies’ SurePay Prepaid Service for Mobile Networks to standardize its prepaid calling management platform.“Standardizing with Surepay across our entire national …

VANCOUVER, British Columbia-Telus Corp. completed the sale of its directory information services business to Verizon Information Services, a Yellow pages and online directory provider. Telus said it would use the …

SEATTLE-Applications management and platform provider ViAir Inc. said Canadian wireless carrier Telus Mobility will integrate ViAir’s WirelessInbox messaging application with its mobility office inbox product, a move which will give …

Australia Telstra Wholesale and Vodafone Australia announced a new three-year generic access agreement deal that they said will replace previous agreements and further enhance the ongoing relationship between the two …

In technology as in life, the last protocol on stage is the hero. While time will serve as jury in due course, for now the CDMA operators and manufacturers seem …

INDONESIA Lucent Technologies Inc. has signed two contracts with PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia Tbk to build its nationwide intelligent network and multimedia access infrastructure valued at $17.5 million. “We are pleased …

BURNABY, British Columbia-Telus Corp. plans to take advantage of debt capital markets in both Canada and the United States as it struggles to develop a long-term debt financing plan. The …

BURNABY, British Columbia-Canadian telecommunications company Telus Corp. recently released its first-quarter 2001 results, posting a revenue gain of 21 percent to almost $1.17 billion, compared with the year-ago quarter’s $9.65 …

TORONTO-It is clear that Canada’s dominant trunked radio network is going to get much more dominant. Last year’s C$6.6 billion (US$4.3 billion) blockbuster deal by Telus to acquire Clearnet Communications …

SCARBOROUGH, Ontario- Telus Mobility, the national wireless telecommunications business unit of Telus Corp., announced what it said are record first quarter wireless subscriber results. The “results represent an all-time record …

VANCOUVER, British Columbia-Sierra Wireless and Telus Mobility will partner to develop a next-generation CDMA Type II PC card for use in laptops and handheld devices. According to the companies, the …

BURNABY, British Columbia-Telus Corp., a Canadian telecommunications company, has extended its employee stock options to every employee in the company. A three-year plan called “Team TELUS Options” has been launched …

TORONTO-The established Canadian wireless fraternity scooped up most of the available spectrum licenses contested in the February auction. All told, Industry Canada’s auction for wireless spectrum in the 2 GHz …

At the end of bidding last Thursday, total bids among the five Canadian companies still vying for 40 megahertz of additional spectrum in the 2 GHz frequency band had reached …

Indiqu Inc. wants to make your cell phone fun. The mobile games developer and marketer has signed several deals in the past few weeks to expand its coverage and improve …

After nine rounds of bidding, Industry Canada’s auction of 62 individual personal communications services licenses covering 16 markets across Canada garnered $142.3 million in total high bids. Seven companies qualified …

BURNABY, British Columbia-Telus Corp. and Clearnet Communications Inc. announced all of the conditions for Telus’ offer to purchase Clearnet’s debentures have been satisfied, and Telus will take up and pay …

TOKYO-KDDI, the sole cdmaOne operator in Japan, has been expanding its international roaming services, fully using its universally standardized cdmaOne technology. In January, KDDI launched international roaming services in Canada …

BURNABY, British Columbia-Telus Corp. announced plans to make an offer to acquire all of the 574,000 outstanding Clearnet Communications Inc. warrants in exchange for Telus warrants.

OTTAWA-Seven companies will participate in a spectrum auction in Canada set to begin 15 January. Forty megahertz of spectrum in the 2 GHz band will be awarded. Mobile incumbent carriers …

TORONTO-Wireless carriers Clearnet Communications and Microcell Telecommunications have won a key regulatory battle to gain competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC) designation in Canada. The change in status will allow the …

TORONTO-Now that the C$6.6 billion (US$4.3 billion) Telus deal to acquire Clearnet Communications has been finalized, engineering issues are starting to surface. The challenge? How to combine the wireless operations …