DENVER, Colorado, United States—Sprint PCS network partners AirGate PCS Inc. and iPCS Inc. agreed to merge their operations in a US$900 million deal.The deal,...
BUCHAREST, Romania—According to the Tanzanian newspaper Business Day, the Tanzanian cellular operator Vodacom announced that after one year, 130,000 subscribers have been signed up...
LAGOS, Nigeria—Motorola's Global Telecom Solutions said it has won a US$57 million contract from Econet to deploy GSM networks in northern Nigeria.The first phase...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Nokia said it has signed a Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) contract to deliver core network and radio access for Europolitan Vodafone.Nokia will...
MOSCOW—Lukoil Co. is negotiating a wireless license with the communications ministry of neighboring Moldova and is also eyeing the Ukrainian and Romanian markets.The Lukoil...
TOKYO—Kyocera Corp., a leading mobile handset manufacturer, plans to cut 10,000 jobs by the end of December 2001 in its overseas operations, Yasuo Nishiguchi,...
BEIJING—The English-language China Daily newspaper published a list of 19 licensed CDMA handset producers in its 31 August edition. The Ministry of Information Industry...
BEIJING—China Unicom, China's second-largest operator, has signed several contracts during the month of August.Fenghuo Telecom clinched a deal with Unicom's subsidiary in Jilin Province...
BEIJING—According to China Mobile's general manager, Zhang Ligui, the company aims for more than 180 million subscribers by the end of China's current five-year...
TOKYO—Toshiba announced plans to cut 18,800 jobs in its Japanese operations as part of its strategy to revamp the company by 2004."With this action,...
NEW DEHLI, India—Bharti Enterprises, India's leading cellular service provider, finalized agreements with three vendors—Ericsson, Seimens and Motorola—for the supply of infrastructure equipment. The value...
TASHKENT, Uzbekistan—The Central Asian republic of Uzbekistan is going to launch commercial operation of a CDMA network this year to mark the 10th anniversary...
BEIJING—Motorola said it signed six contracts valued at US$260 million to expand GSM networks for China United Telecommunications.The U.S. vendor expects the networks to...
SINGAPORE—Three telecommunications companies in Singapore indicated they would take part in the upcoming auction of new second-generation (2G) spectrum rights. The three cellular operators...
TORONTO—Diversinet announced an initiative aimed at simplifying mobile-commerce services for business, application developers and consumers in Hong Kong.The company's OneWPKI initiative will offer a...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—For the first time in recent memory, the worldwide sales of cell phones dropped as operators cut subsidies and consumers stopped purchasing.Gartner...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—The joint cell phone venture between Ericsson and Sony could, according to the executives of the Swedish telecoms giant, see the Ericsson...
TOKYO—Kyocera said it plans to cut 10,000 jobs at is branches overseas, representing 20 percent of its 51,000 work force worldwide.The company said the...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—Germany's E-Plus, KPN Mobile of the Netherlands and Belgium's KPN Orange have each reached agreements with NTT DoCoMo to adopt the Japanese...
WASHINGTON—The prime minister of Australia will propose a free-trade agreement (FTA) with the United States when he meets with President George W. Bush on...
TOKYO—Hitachi Ltd. denied reports that it has decided to shut down its plant that makes dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) chips.A news report also had...
International's roaming clearinghouse unitOLYMPIA, Washington, United States—Illuminet Holdings, a provider of signaling system 7 (SS7) network and database services to telecom carriers, signed a...
SAN DIEGO, United States—Qualcomm Inc. said it has shipped its 500 millionth CDMA chip for wireless communication."Our latest generation of Internet-ready, multimedia chipsets and...
