BEIJING—Ericsson is to deliver a Mobitex mobile Internet network to the Sky Networks Communication Group to serve 500,000 subscribers in Beijing and northern China....
LONDON—Diederik Karsten, chief executive of KPN's mobile-phone division, intends to leave the company next month, according to a report by The Financial Times.Board director...
LONDON—Although European awareness of application service providers (ASPs) is growing, enterprises still seem cautious to implement the services, according to a recent Frost &...
TOKYO—NTT East and NTT Corporation announced that they will launch a high-speed wireless local area network (LAN) service with a data transmission speed of...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Illinois, United States—Motorola said it will lay off 7,000 more workers as it announced a third-quarter loss of US$1.4 billion, its third...
TOKYO—NEC said it will supply a mobile Internet platform to Taiwan's KG Telecom, which will begin its i-mode-like mobile Internet service in mid-2002. The...
LONDON—Vodafone Multimedia, part of Vodafone U.K., selected SeeBeyond and its integration partner Ect to develop infrastructure to allow event-based or two-way text messaging."By leveraging...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Allgon said it signed a US$6 million agreement with Vimpelcom to provide a coverage solution for Moscow's subway network. Allgon will provide a...
HELSINKI, Finland—Vattenfall and Swedish power sector ally Birka Energi have reached a preliminary agreement to use their combined electricity systems as springboards to build...
PARIS—Malaysia's Telekom Cellular contracted Alcatel to expand the capacity of the operator's existing GSM 1800 MHz network and prepare it for General Packet Radio...
BEIJING—China Unicom has published an advertisement in China's English-language newspaper China Daily seeking candidates for 16 managerial posts from general manager of the general...
OSLO, Norway—Telenor Mobile launched an accelerator that it said will make surfing the Internet faster when using a portable PC, personal digital assistant (PDA)...
HONG KONG—Security technology vendor Diversinet said the Hongkong Post launched the Mobile e-Cert service to facilitate secure stock trading, banking, gaming and digitally signed...
BEIJING—Sixteen foreign mobile-phone suppliers spent 196.47 million yuan (US$23.77 million) on advertisements in China during the first half of the year, accounting for 89...
GLOUCESTERSHIRE, United Kingdom—Chronos Technology began offering Globalstar's packet data satellite service in Europe, with the main applications being remote measurement and telemetry in remote...
FRANKFURT, Germany—Nortel Networks said it has a contract with T-Mobil to supply it with its high-performance frame relay core network consisting of Passport 7480...
BEIJING—Hong Kong-listed China Mobile (HK) and its parent company China Mobile Communications expect to have a combined 100 million subscribers by year-end. China Unicom,...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—Five companies have applied to participate in the privatization of the Paraguayan National Telecommunications Administration (Administraci
SAN SALVADOR, EL SALVADOR—Wireless carrier Digicel signed an agreement with Velocitel to develop its GSM network in El Salvador.The "build-to-suit" lease arrangement will allow...
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia—The Mayalsian government has said it likely will award third-generation (3G) licenses in the country through a beauty contest rather than an...
SINGAPORE—Virgin Mobile launched service in Singapore on Friday, the first Asian market in which it has launched its mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) service.Virgin...
MANILA, Philippines—Philippine Long Distance Telephone (PLDT) said it may sell part of its mobile-phone unit to help pay off its debt. The company plans...
