CUPERTINO, California, United States—Vyyo received a 3.5 GHz order from China Communication Systems for commercial deployments of broadband wireless service in Wuhan, China.Vyyo said...
TOKYO—Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. announced its cell phone unit will close a Great Britain-based plant in an effort to further reduce costs by moving...
LONDON—AdreAct said Dunkin' Donuts Italy is using its technology for a wireless marketing campaign for its stores in Rome. The campaign is focused on...
SEOUL, Korea—South Korean mobile-phone makers are considering legal action against Qualcomm over the royalty rates they must pay for Qualcomm's CDMA patents. The vendors...
TOKYO—Mitsubishi Electric and Samsung Electronics announced they have standardized specifications for random access memory modules (RAMs) for use in mobile devices to provide higher...
HELSINKI, Finland—Springtoys said SingTel Mobile and Globe Telecom of the Philippines adopted its games, which will reach a potential customer base of more than...
Bucharest, ROMANIA—HE Shaikh Mohammed bin Khalifa Al Khalifa, Ministry of Transport under-secretary and Batelco board director, signed a nearly 9.8 million dinar (US$26 million)...
LONDON—Tunisia has restarted attempts to launch a second GSM mobile-phone license tender. The new round of bidding will close in January 2002, and the...
HELSINKI, Finland—Finnish mobile giant Sonera announced it is retreating from two major wireless data areas—data transaction security and wireless Internet portals.Sonera said it will...
LONDON—Musiwap, a European mobile music service provider, signed an agreement to make clips of Zomba's music catalog accessible through Musiwap's wireless services. Zomba is...
SAN DIEGO—Verizon Wireless and Lucent Technologies demonstrated an over-the-air data call using CDMA 1xEV-DO technology at the CDMA Americas Congress. The companies noted they...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa—The South African government postponed the initial public offering (IPO) of Telkom, the state-controlled telecom company that has a stake in mobile...
MUNICH, Germany—Siemens partnered with Beyond Solutions Europe (BSE) to provide games for mobile networks. Based on BSE's gaming platform and a catalog of games,...
HELSINKI, Finland—ICE International, a technology development company based in Bergen, Norway, has confirmed plans to enter the international marketplace with new technology that will...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—The likelihood of Qualcomm's cdma2000 technology being deployed in Europe has encountered a fresh hurdle after the U.K. Radiocommunications Agency (RA) claimed...
SAN DIEGO—The Mobile Wireless Internet Forum (MWIF) announced its strategic intentions for the coming year, which include plans to focus on standardizing core network...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Illinois, United States—Motorola's 1xEV-DV framework, a stepping stone to third-generation (3G) cdma2000 1x, has been accepted as a standard by the 3G...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Flextronics announced it will acquire 91 percent of The Orbiant Group from Telia and integrate it with Flextronics Network Services, which offers network...
