BELLEVUE, Wash.—Cellular One reported it will invest nearly $800 million in four states by the end of the year to upgrade the wireless infrastructure...
TOKYO—Qualcomm Inc.'s Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless application platform received a boost through the company's deal with video game giant Sega Corp., which announced...
PLANO, Texas—Cyneta Networks, a company developing a resource-aware adaptive switch, released information about its executive team, which includes former executives from Taleria Ventures, Nortel...
BOYNTON BEACH, Fla.—Motorola Inc. has teamed with Outr.Net to launch Overnight Apps, which assists business in launching custom, real-time applications and reduces development time...
ARLINGTON, Va.—Last week, France played host to the third meeting of Project MESA, an international public-safety partnership working to bring together organizations from public...
BANGKOK—Thailand's CP Orange said it has signed a $250 million contract with Motorola Inc. to install cellular networks in Thailand's provinces.According to a statement...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—European cell-phone operators have been criticized by the Global Mobile Suppliers Association (GSA) for promoting the technical attributes of their networks rather...
BANGKOK, Thailand—Thailand's CP Orange said it signed a US$250 million contract with Motorola to install cellular networks in Thailand's provinces.According to a statement by...
BEIJING—Beijing Mobile, a unit of China Mobile, said it plans to raise its call forwarding rates because of high interconnection costs.According to Reuters, China...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—Current lithium battery technology used to power cell phones and personal digital assistants (PDAs) is reaching its limits, according to researchers. To...
RALEIGH, N.C.—High Speed Net Solutions Inc. said it has demonstrated its Bluefuel Image module designed to enable image applications on mobile phones and other...
TORONTO—RFID developer SAMSys Technologies Inc. has joined the Research In Motion BlackBerry Independent Software Vendors Alliance Program in hopes of integrating RIM's BlackBerry solution...
TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo, the leading mobile carrier in Japan, and IBM Japan have jointly developed key technologies for streaming service over mobile phones, both firms...
LUXEMBOURG—Millicom International Cellular (MIC) has been awarded licenses to develop GSM 1800 MHz wireless telephony in Russia's Rostov-on-Don, Izhevsk, Kemerovo, Irkutsk and Omskand surrounding...
BUCHAREST, Romania—The board of directors of Enitel AS, in consultation with the company's debt committee, has decided to hand in a petition for bankruptcy...
COPENHAGEN, Denmark—The Danish telecom agency awarded four third-generation (3G) licenses for US$118 million each after receiving bids from five companies.Incumbent operators TDC Mobile, Telia...
NEW YORK—MMO2, the BT Wireless unit that British Telecommunications plans to spin off in November, has received low-tier investment-grade corporate credit ratings of Baa2...
HONG KONG—The Hong Kong telecom regulator announced the initial results of the first phase of its third-generation (3G) license auction.The successful bidders are Hong...
LONDON—According to a recent Frost & Sullivan study, the pending introduction of General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) may change mobile data access, especially among...
HELSINKI, Finland—Nordic telecom companies Sonera and Telia have met, in separate talks, with representatives of the government of Belarussia to discuss a possible participation...
KIEV, Ukraine—The second-largest Ukrainian carrier Kyivstar is placing corporate bonds worth 86.95 million hrivnas (US$16.3 million). The placement will continue until 17 October.The bonds...
BOSTON, United States—In a recent report, analyst and consulting company Ovum warned that operators need to follow thought-out strategic business plans to successfully implement...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden—The boards of Sony and Ericsson have both approved their mobile-phone joint venture, first announced in April.The joint company, Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications,...
NEW YORK—Ericsson received mixed reviews this week from Moody's Investors Service, which confirmed the company's investment-grade A3 long-term debt ratings, but changed the ratings...
