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NEW YORK-Like the Wizard of Oz working the controls unseen, electronic commerce could soon become the primary delivery and fulfillment mechanism for all goods and services, regardless of whether consumers …

TORONTO-The consolidation trend in the North American wireless sector is intensifying. The prevailing wisdom is that it is no longer good enough to be merely a regional or national carrier …

BOSTON, United States-Europe’s wireless service market saw consumer prices fall an average of 20 percent this year compared with last year, led by Germany’s 45-percent drop and Denmark’s 38-percent reduction …

BOSTON-Europe’s wireless service market saw consumer prices fall an average of 20 percent this year compared with last year, led by Germany’s 45-percent drop and Denmark’s 38-percent reduction in wireless …

Telus Corp. offered to acquire all the shares of Clearnet Communications Inc. for $4.48 billion, creating a daunting competitor in Canada’s tight wireless market. Under terms of the offer, Telus …

In a surprise ending, six groups walked away with Universal Mobile Telecommunications System licenses in Germany at a total cost of $45.85 billion, the largest amount raised yet in a …

The realm of wireless data is uncharted territory for most consumers, but carriers also are feeling their way through the darkness, searching for the best way to market data and …

WASHINGTON-The rapid growth of the wireless industry increases the importance of the Federal Communications Commission’s spectrum management responsibilities and may someday lead to service-quality regulation, the agency’s members said in …

Hoping to understand why 67 percent of U.S. subscribers said they would be interested in changing their wireless service provider in a 1999 survey, the Yankee Group has compared wireless …

With a little help from concerned consumer groups and government researchers, voice technologies are forging ahead as a safe alternative to dialing while driving, while at the same time opening …

NEW YORK-The risks of using a cellular phone while driving “appear to be small compared to other daily risks, but are uncertain because existing research is limited and of uneven …

DUBLIN, Ireland-The massive sums being invested in third-generation (3G) licenses, network development and acquisitions have placed the major European operators firmly under the financial spotlight. While observers agree there is …

We have e-mail, e-commerce and e-tailers, among other “electronic” conveniences. The “e” phenomenon has spread quickly across all aspects of business and industry, and now wireless customers with questions or …

L.M. Ericsson led the stampede of companies that introduced Bluetooth products in the past few weeks, but some industry experts believe it will be several years away before consumers embrace …

OmniSky OmniSky Corp., a provider of wireless Internet services for handheld computing devices, named five new people to its executive management team. Lawrence Winkler is the company’s new senior vice …

Nortel Networks increased its presence in the European mobile-phone market last week, garnering a $700 million third-generation equipment contract with BT Cellnet in the United Kingdom and displacing several of …

WALTHAM, Mass.-Primark Corp. announced it has agreed to sell to a subsidiary of Reuters Group plc its subsidiary, Yankee Group Research Inc., for $72.5 million in cash. The deal is …

Wireless resellers are a hardy breed. Their success or failure teeters on the shoulders of carriers that tightly control the supply of the product they need to survive. Whether warranted …

MONTREAL-The transmission was delayed 20 minutes because the test PC had crashed. And the picture quality, to put it kindly, was choppy. Nevertheless, in February, Rogers AT&T Wireless and Ericsson …

CANNES, France and HANNOVER, Germany-Visitors at the ever-expanding GSM World Congress, held in February in Cannes, France, could have mistaken the huge exhibition as focusing exclusively on Wireless Application Protocol …

WASHINGTON-With predictions that data-particularly e-commerce-will shape the industry’s future, the big question is which enterprise network will handle the most wireless traffic in the New Millennium. Will it be a …

There is a chink in Nokia Mobile Phones’ armor, and it is the vendor’s market share in the cdmaOne handset business. While Nokia sells the most popular handsets in the …

Brazil’s spectrum choice in auctioning new personal communications services licenses could be an important decision for the GSM community as it struggles to gain inroads into Latin America. The Brazilian …

TORONTO-Industry Canada conducted its first spectrum sale in November, raising CAN$172.5 million (US$116.7 million) in online bidding for licenses in the 24 GHz and 38 GHz bands. In the process, …

The Canadian wireless market has seen a run-up in stock prices this year as tremendous growth and recent consolidation activity have driven increased interest in the sector. “1998 was not …