OXFORD, United Kingdom—Sweden's state-owned Vattenfall has called for the launch of third-generation (3G) services to be delayed until consumer demand can be more accurately...
KIEV, Ukraine—A working group uniting officials from various Ukrainian ministries recommended to sell a 25-percent stake in major Ukrainian Mobile Communications (UMC), in which...
SWINDON, United Kingdom—Lucent said it completed a live high-speed data call using a variety of mobile Internet services on commercial Universal Mobile Telecommunications Service...
BEIJING—Officials at the Ministry of Information Industry (MII) indicated they may issue up to three new mobile-phone licenses to offer increased competition to the...
HONK KONG—Motorola Inc. says it has signed a three-year, $44 million contract to supply GSM 1800 infrastructure for Malaysia's carrier Telecom Cellular, whose service...
MADRID, Spain—Xfera, one of four companies in Spain with a Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) license, unveiled plans to lay off 25 percent of...
LONDON—Vodafone Group added 2.5 million worldwide proportionate subscribers during the third quarter, bringing the wireless giant's proportionate customer base to 95.6 million subscribers. However,...
TOKYO—NEC has joined the Mobile Electronic Transactions (MeT) Initiative, which seeks to develop open and common industry framework for secure mobile transactions."The MeT Initiative...
GOTEBORG, Sweden—Hewlett-Packard selected WirelessCar to integrate its universal telematics network into HP's telematics solutions, WirelessCar said."HP's telematics solutions, powered by the WirelessCar universal telematics...
EDINBURGH, Scotland—Digital Bridges and Purple Scotland announced an agreement in mobile gaming. Purple will become co-publisher of the Classic collection of games on Digital...
TORONTO—Conexys said its South African subsidiary signed a three-year channel partnership agreement with South African Philips Business Communications valued at about 15.5 million rand...
HONG KONG—Bharti Enterprises selected install Motorola to install a US$70 million GSM network including General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) equipment in the telecom circles...
LONDON—Algeria's second GSM license holder, Orascom Telecom, announced it will begin operating Algeria's second mobile-phone network in January, two months ahead of schedule.Orascom, which...
LONDON—Swedish vendor Ericsson has joined forces with Morocco's Finance.Com, a subsidiary of BMCE Bank, to launch the country's first mobile portal for financial transactions....
HELSINKI, Finland—Nokia began shipping its General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) phones in Europe on 28 September, barely making the third-quarter deadline it had set...
DUBLIN, Ireland—Ireland's telecom regulator published a draft paper on the strategic management of Ireland's radio spectrum. The regulator is seeking comments on issues raised...
AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands—Several European operators have chosen CMG Wireless Data Solutions' technology to facilitate pan-European i-mode-based services, CMG said, although it declined to name...
HELSINKI, Finland—Danish competition officials, reacting to confidential information of cartel arrangements within the mobile telephone sector, have staged raids on the head offices of...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Telia launched Finland's first General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) service, called Telia Mobile Online. The service provides a continuous connection tot he Internet...
TORONTO—Nortel Networks has slashed 20,000 jobs as it announced it expects a US$3.6 billion third-quarter loss, bringing its total loss for the current fiscal...
