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TOKYO—NTT Corporation, the largest telecommunications carrier in Japan, announced that the carrier's loss after tax for fiscal 2001, ending March 2002, was 812.1 billion yen (US$6.3 billion). It became Japan's largest net loss in history exceeding that of Nissan in 2000. The carrier attributed...

TORONTO—Rogers AT&T Wireless signed an agreement with Canadian delivery company Purolator Courier Ltd. to use the carrier's GSM/GPRS network to provide an end-to-end wireless data solution enabling access to shipping information for Purolator customers across Canada.Purolator said it has deployed more than 6,000 Symbol...

OXFORD, United Kingdom—The Czech Republic's largest mobile operator, EuroTel, is back in the takeover sights of Cesky Telecom. This comes as the Czech government called off plans to sell its 51-percent shareholding in Cesky Telecom, which reported it is looking to restart discussions with...

KANSAS CITY, Mo.—Sprint Corp. and AT&T Wireless completed the exchange of 10 megahertz blocks of personal communications services spectrum covering approximately 18.5 million potential customers under an agreement announced by both companies in November 2000.The spectrum exchange included AT&T Wireless acquiring additional capacity in...

TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo Inc., the leading mobile carrier in Japan, announced its net income for the fiscal year ending March 31 was merely $6.2 million due to large special losses that DoCoMo posted from its overseas investments. DoCoMo posted a total of $6.3 billion in...

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts—St. Kitts and Nevis has announced two telecommunications licenses as Eastern Caribbean governments continue to make good on a pledge to liberalize their telecommunications markets.The Cable, established in 1983, will formally receive a license to provide a fixed public telecommunications network and...

WASHINGTON—The House voted to reauthorize the Export-Import Bank, which provides loan guarantees and insurance for overseas projects to Motorola Inc., AT&T Corp. and other U.S. firms. The Export-Import Bank and the Overseas Private Investment Corp., another government agency that specializes in political risk insurance...

CHICAGO, United States—More than half the attendees at a recent U.S. wireless conference said they intend to spend more year over year for wireless voice services, and 42 percent said they would spend an additional 11 percent to 20 percent per month on data...

CALGARY, Alberta—Rogers AT&T Wireless signed a roaming agreement with NMI Mobility to provide Rogers' customers in Northwestern Canada with extended wireless coverage when travelling in northern British Columbia, Yukon and the Northwest Territories.

REGINA, Saskatchewan—Rogers AT&T completed the installation of its GSM/GPRS network across its Saskatchewan coverage area, and said it currently covers more than 90 percent of Canada's population with its network.

WINNIPEG, Manitoba—Rogers AT&T Wireless completed the installation of its GSM/GPRS network across Manitoba's entire coverage area. The carrier said its GSM/GPRS network now covers more than 90 percent of Canada's population.

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—Telecom Personal commercially introduced its General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) network, provided by Ericsson, in the city of Buenos Aires, becoming the first provider in Argentina with 2.5-generation (2.5G) services. In January, the cellular operator surprised the market by launching a GSM...

REDMOND, Wash.—AT&T Wireless quietly introduced new nationwide calling plans designed to compete head-to-head with similar recently introduced plans from its competition.The plans, dubbed "National Network Plan" on the company's Web site, begin at $35 per month for 300 anytime minutes and unlimited night and...

REDMOND, Wash.—AT&T Wireless Services Inc. added 650,000 net subscribers during the first quarter of this year, exceeding both company and analyst expectations of around 550,000 net additions. The carrier ended the quarter with 19.5 million customers including those acquired through its purchase of TeleCorp...

TORONTO—The Toronto Blue Jays have turned to technology to help boost ticket sales.The American League baseball team is using what it dubs "cyber-sellers." Equipped with wireless credit card equipment, a cyber-seller can deal tickets in seconds on the sidewalk, sending customers right to the...

TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo Inc., the largest mobile carrier in Japan, and Bouygues Telecom, the third-largest operator in France, announced they reached a license agreement over i-mode services in France. Following the technology transfer agreement, Bouygues Telecom, a telecom business unit of Bouygues SA, is going...

REDMOND, Wash.—AT&T Wireless launched its consumer-oriented mMode service offering designed to provide customers with access to a number of communication, information and entertainment services using the carrier's GSM/GPRS network. AT&T Wireless said the service, derived from Japanese partner NTT DoCoMo Inc.'s i-mode service, will...

REDMOND, Washington, United States—The second- and third-largest U.S. wireless operators are in talks to merge their operations according to a report from Bloomberg. While neither AT&T Wireless nor Cingular Wireless would comment on the rumor, the Bloomberg report said the companies are in preliminary...

TORONTO, Ontario—Research In Motion Ltd.'s new GPRS BlackBerry wireless e-mail/mobile phone device is now available throughout Canada through the company's deal with Rogers AT&T Wireless."This advanced wireless communications tool is a strong addition to our suite of leading-edge GSM/GPRS wireless data products and services,"...

ORLANDO, Florida, United States—Following on a meeting of operators and vendors with an interest in Enhanced Data Rates for Global Evolution (EDGE) technology at the 3GSM World Congress in France last month, the EDGE Operators Forum officially formed and met in Orlando in March...

NEW YORK—Standard & Poor's Corp. lowered the speculative-grade ratings of American Cellular Corp. to CCC-plus from B because the company's annual report indicated it is likely to exceed the debt leverage limits required by its bank loan covenants."According to management and the auditors, if...

MobileSpring Inc. and InphoMatch Inc., rival vendors for short message service interoperability solutions, have been working together during the past few months to ensure their cross-carrier messaging systems are themselves interoperable.The teaming comes as no real surprise. By making sure their systems can work...

WASHINGTON—A class-action antitrust lawsuit filed against the mobile-phone industry in early January and promptly withdrawn two weeks later is expected to be refiled today in Manhattan federal court, according to a lawyer familiar with the case. The lead plaintiff in the new...

BOGOTA, Colombia—3G Americas, the recently announced trade organization that will advocate TDMA, GSM, GPRS, EDGE and UMTS technologies, launched Spanish and Portuguese Web sites at www.3gamericas.orgFounding members of the group include Telecom Personal in Argentina, U.S. operators AT&T Wireless and Cingular Wireless, Canadian operator...