LONDON-European vendor Marconi said its third-quarter results met its projections with an operating profit of US$7.5 million.The company, which announced the resignation of its...
PARIS—The French government has dramatically reduced its upfront cost of third-generation (3G) licenses and extended the license terms to 20 years from 15 years.The...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—German manufacturing giant Siemens has announced a further 7,000 job cuts, of which 2,000 will be within its cell-phone division, and has...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Illinois, United States—Motorola said it won a US$34.8 million contract from China Unicom to expand the carrier's 800 MHz CDMA networks in...
ATHENS, Greece—Greece's Ote Telecom is negotiating with the government of Macedonia to acquire a mobile license in the country. The operator has submitted a...
CARACAS, Venezuela—CANTV's board of directors agreed on a plan to repurchase 15 percent of its stock at US$30 per American Depositary Receipt (ADR) to...
GAITHERSBURG, Maryland, United States—Ace*Comm said Compania Dominicana de Telefonos (Codetel) placed a series of orders to extend its use of the company's mediation technology....
BARCELONA, Spain-Logica said it demonstrated a mobile multimedia messaging system with Ezos at the UMTS 2001 Forum. Logica offers the Multimedia Messaging Service Center...
SINGAPORE—Singapore's telecom regular Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) has selected four consortia to trial mobile payment solutions through a US$11 million initiative.The trials will run...
TEL AVIV, Israel—Alvarion said Mexico's Alestra is deploying its base stations and terminal equipment in the 10.5 GHz frequency band. The equipment will address...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-The public failure of U.S.-based wireless local area network (WLAN) operator Mobilestar has drawn fresh attention to what could be a successful...
BEDMINSTER, New Jersey, United States-Verizon Wireless said it will begin previewing its high-speed 1x network in select U.S. cities as a precursor to the...
TOKYO-Toshiba and Matsushita Electric Industrial announced a joint venture for liquid crystal display (LCD) and next-generation display businesses for personal digital assistants (PDAs) and...
BEIJING—After months of prevarication, the Chinese government has decided to split the quasi-monopoly fixed-line operator China Telecom in two parts following geographical lines. Both...
BANGKOK, Thailand—Hutchison CAT Wireless Multimedia plans to upgrade its CDMA network to offer third-generation (3G) service, according to international press reports. The company will...
TOKYO—Talks between Korea's SK Telecom and Japan's NTT DoCoMo have stalled without signs of moving forward, according to international press reports. The talks have...
CALGARY-Zi said it will provide expertise in text entry standards to China's Datang Telecom Technology, which is developing its own line of CDMA handsets....
SINGAPORE—Virgin Mobile, which launched its service in Singapore on 12 October, has found itself caught in a disagreement between incumbents SingTel Mobile and StarHub....
BEIJING—Ericsson has signed an agreement worth nearly US$535 million to supply GSM/General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) equipment, software and services for Guangdong Mobile Communication."Ericsson...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Ericsson signed a cooperation agreement with Vytel Asia to build out next-generation networks in the Asia-Pacific region."The two companies are combining their expertise...
TOKYO—Toshiba and KDDI will jointly launch a field test for communications between digital consumer electronics and mobile handsets next March. About 500 households in...
