BEIJING—New York's CI Wave and Beijing's Taiji Computer are jointly planning, developing and building a nationwide 3.5 GHz broadband fixed wireless access (BFWA) data...
BEIJING—By the end of the year, China will set up a new telecom carrier, the China Telecommunications Satellite Group Corporation, by merging the satellite...
RALEIGH, North Carolina, United States—Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications and MobileAria announced a partnership to promote in-vehicle Bluetooth adoption.MobileAria said it will support and market...
NEW DELHI, India—The Indian government has decided to award licenses for Global Mobile Personal Communication by Satellite (GMPCS) services for a period of 20...
WAKEFIELD, Massachusetts, United States—In an effort to spur mobile commerce, four credit card giants joined forces to create the Mobile Payment Forum, which will...
BEIJING—U.K.-based Vodafone opened a representative office in Beijing on 9 November. Foreign operators must have a representative office for three years before they can...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—News International, the vast media organization with outlets in most major countries, is preparing to unveil its proprietary mobile content delivery platform...
BEIJING—UTStarcom has signed a contract worth US$11 million with fixed-line operator China Telecom to expand a local wireless network in Henan province.China Telecom does...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—The staff at Deutsche Telekom-owned One 2 One, one of the United Kingdom's four cell-phone operators, has been warned that a major...
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia—Ericsson announced a contract of an unspecified amount to supply wireless broadband equipment to Russian operator Combellga."The contract includes base station hubs...
BEIJING—Nortel Networks said it won an approximately US$18 million contract to provide optical long-haul backbone networks to enhance the speed of China Mobile's GSM...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, United States—Luxxon announced Hutchison Telecommunications (Hong Kong) purchased its Mediator Streaming System, which Luxxon said will allow the carrier to demonstrate...
TAMPA, Florida, United States—China Unicom signed a contract with Telecommunication Services Incorporated (TSI) to provide international CDMA roaming services, allowing China Unicom customers to...
WASHINGTON—The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted 3-1 to relax the spectrum cap in urban markets to 55 megahertz and to completely dissolve the cap...
HELSINKI, Finland—Denmark's TDC has blamed "technical problems" for its decision to delay the launch of its third-generation (3G) mobile-phone network in Switzerland. The launch,...
WOODBURY, New York, United States—Comverse, a unit of Comverse Technology, announced T-Mobile International's wireless German subsidiary, T-Mobil, selected the company's voice portal to deliver...
LONDON—The WAP Forum and the GSM Association announced they will formalize and strengthen their cooperative alliance, collaborating on projects such as the GSM Association's...
BEIJING—Motorola will invest an additional US$6.6 billion in China in the next five years to reach a cumulative investment of US$10 billion and double...
BEIJING—Australia's Telstra and China Unicom have signed a memorandum of understanding to further explore business opportunities covering fixed and wireless services, including voice and...
TORONTO—In a major joint announcement, four of Canada's wireless carriers said they are joining forces in an effort to stimulate short messaging service (SMS)...
WHITE PLAINS, New York, United States—NextWave Telecom reached an agreement with the federal government to relinquish its personal communications services (PCS) licenses to the...
BEDMINSTER, N.J.—Verizon Wireless Inc. filed an updated registration statement relating to its potential initial public offering of common stock with the Securities and Exchange...
