BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-With a growth rate above 50 percent during 2001 and a 20-percent penetration, cellular telephony has proven itself as the main communications...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados-As Cable & Wireless positions itself to be the company of choice in wireless, Internet and its traditional bread-and-butter service, long-distance communications, some...
TORONTO-The Canadian government may give a new meaning to the sounds of silence for wireless devices. Ottawa is considering changing its laws to allow...
KANSAS CITY, Mo.- Mobile entertainment provider Digital Bridges Ltd., has teamed with Sprint PCS to provide its interactive wireless games on the Sprint PCS...
KIRKLAND, Wash.-Wavelink Corp. just launched the Wavelink Developer Connection, a program that it said promotes open and fast wireless application development and encourages collaboration...
Lucent Technologies Inc. posted a loss, while both Qualcomm Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. recorded profits in their quarterly reports last week.In spite of...
WASHINGTON-Sen. Ernest Hollings (D-S.C.), angered by the Federal Communications Communication's approval of the VoiceStream Wireless Corp.-Deutsche Telekom AG merger last week, said he will...
Navigating the September trade-show scene is going to be a challenge for the wireless industry.The two major trade associations are sponsoring shows the same...
Iridium Satellite L.L.C. appointed Gino Picasso president and chief executive officer. Picasso previously was president and chief operating officer of Ace*Comm Corp., a provider...
NEW YORK-SV1, which last year introduced SafeTShield, an aftermarket earpiece cover to reduce radio-frequency emissions from wireless and cordless phones, will begin marketing the...
Three industry heavyweights announced plans to create universal standards for mobile instant messaging and presence services, a move that further validates a small but...
A number of players must work together to deploy a nationwide wireless network, including carriers, tower companies and equipment manufacturers, but there is a...
NEW YORK-Boston-based Atlas Venture has closed its sixth venture-capital fund, raising a total of $950 million in new private equity to invest in early-stage...
WASHINGTON-Commerce Secretary Donald Evans told industry executives last week he will continue to engage other administration officials in hopes of resolving a spectrum fight...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Western Multiplex Corp. reported its first- quarter earnings this week with an increase in both revenues and losses.Revenues reached $37.6 million, an increase...
MobileSys Inc., a wireless infrastructure provider, acquired wireless application software company BITMO, a move MobileSys said will allow it to add voice browsing, speech-recognition...
YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, N.J.-Scientists for IBM Corp. announced they have reached a scientific breakthrough that could lead to the mass production of computer chips that...
Siemens AG is eliminating 6,100 jobs from its mobile handset and network operations. The German telecom equipment and handset company, which shied away from...
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint PCS and its affiliates announced an agreement reducing the reciprocal rate exchange for customers who "travel" into each others networks from...
Alcatel has signed a memorandum of understanding to outsource the European manufacturing of its GSM handsets to Flextronics amid rumors the French equipment vendor...
BEIJING-Although no official announcement has been made yet, an official at Unicom Horizon Mobile Communications, the subsidiary of China Unicom entrusted with building a...
SINGAPORE-Vietnam's government-owned telecommunications monopoly Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications (VNPT) has asked the country's government to prevent a rival $230 million CDMA mobile-phone network from...
WASHINGTON-President Bush on Friday appointed Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell to a second term that runs through June 2007.Powell's current five-year term ends...
