NigeriaIntercellular Nigeria awarded a US$21 million contract to Motorola for the supply and deployment of a CDMA fixed wireless local loop (WLL) network expansion....
CanadaFuzion Wireless Communications said it launched its fixed wireless broadband services network in Ontario, Canada. Serving businesses in Toronto and other locations, Fuzion said...
Millicom International Cellular said it was awarded a nationwide license to provide wireless data, Internet access and fixed telephony services in Peru. The 20-year...
Brazil's national telecom agency Anatel said it received 35 proposed from companies, entities and individuals on the proposal of guidelines for implementation of the...
DENVER, United States-Qualcomm and Ford Motor Co. perpetuated the marriage between wireless communication and mobility, creating a new company called Wingcast, which will develop...
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...
DENVER, United States-With services already up and running in the Arizona cities of Phoenix and Tucson, Sprint said it filed a series of applications...
DENVER, United States-One of the world's most savvy and chic brand names is coming to the U.S. mobile-phone market next year.Virtual network operator (VNO)...
YINCHUAN, China-Less than an hour's drive outside Yinchuan, capital city of the Ningxia Hui autonomous region in China's West, a newly constructed village houses...
HONG KONG-Hong Kong may become the Asian leader in mobile e-commerce, as network operators rush to embrace next-generation smart cards, said Claus Hansen, GSM...
After a month-long review, the Chinese government said in June that PHS will continue to be allowed in China's county-level cities and counties. However,...
BEIJING-China's telecom circles are hotly debating whether the country's own standard for third-generation (3G) mobile communications-Time Division Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access (TD-SCDMA)-will be...
TOKYO-Tokyo Telecommunication Network (TTNet) plans to launch Internet access services by the end of this year, allowing Astel PHS users to browse popular i-mode...
MELBOURNE, Australia-Hutchison Telecommunications (Australia) had more than 18 months to sweat on its marketing. That is how long it took the wireless carrier, with...
BUCHAREST, Romania-As European wireless penetration rates increase, operators are looking to new services, including short message service (SMS) and fax and data transmissions, to...
MEXICO CITY-Since paging services started in Mexico in 1993, carriers have made large investments in advertising and marketing strategies. Biper, the country's largest messaging...
TOKYO-Advertising on mobile terminals, including the popular i-mode-enabled terminals, has established itself as a lucrative business in Japan.The number of Japanese users who access...
DENVER, United States-As wireless Internet services gain subscribers around the globe, wireless application service providers (WASPs) will become even more important. A traditional ASP...
DENVER, United States-Instant messaging is considered a key element to what the wireless industry calls pervasive messaging, meaning the ability to send a text...
Wireless Internet technologyIntegra Micro SystemsIndian software company Integra Micro Systems introduced a Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) browser for the PalmOS platform, allowing Palm devices...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-Although cellular telephony client bases doubled last year in Uruguay and Paraguay, at this point it seems only Paraguay will be able...
SAO PAULO, Brazil-Two issues characterized the Brazilian cellular market during the first half of the year-an increase in subscriber numbers and the rollout of...
BOGOTA, Colombia-Celumovil BellSouth acquired 100 percent of the shares of Colombian mobile carrier Cocelco through a purchase on the Bogot stock exchange. BellSouth said...
