BONN, Germany—Research In Motion Ltd. continues to push its voice-capable BlackBerry, with wireless giant T-Mobile now selling the product and Retrieval Dynamics Corp. lined...
SAN DIEGO—Leap Wireless International Inc. said it has made "significant progress" in mitigating the effects of recently reported fraud on its Cricket wireless service...
AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands—Cambridge Silicon Radio launched a ready-engineered example of a Bluetooth headset, which the company said would make it quicker for companies to...
BELLEVUE, Wash.—VoiceStream Wireless Corp.'s parent company T-Mobile International Inc. announced actress Catherine Zeta-Jones would be the global spokeswoman for the company's various wireless services....
CHICAGO—U.S. Cellular Corp. received Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust clearance for its planned acquisition of the Chicago MTA wireless business from PrimeCo Wireless Communications, satisfying one of...
LONDON—CMG Wireless Data Solutions said it won an 8.5 million euro (US$7.82 million) contract with the Philippines' Globe Telecom for the expansion of its...
HELSINKI, Finland—Nokia said it signed a US$75 million contract to expand the GSM networks of Yunnan MCC in China.Under the contract terms, Nokia will...
BEIJING—China International Trust and Investment Corporation (CITIC) and China Satellite Communications Corporation (ChinaSat) reached an agreement to reorganize their assets to make use of...
WASHINGTON—The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) qualified 128 bidders to participate in the scheduled 19 June auction of 758 licenses in the lower 700 MHz...
BEIJING—Siemens IC Mobile is collaborating with China Mobile to offer Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) and short message service (SMS) services to inform subscribers when...
BEIJING—China Unicom plans to significantly upgrade its paging service with new information and data services, such as e-mail.The number of paging subscribers in China...
TOKYO—NTT Communications, a long-distance and international business unit of NTT Group, announced it would launch wireless service based on the 5 GHz band in...
CALGARY—An isolated native-Indian community has obtained its first solid link—without wires—to the outside world. Quick Link Communications of Calgary, a satellite services provider, has...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa—South Africa's third mobile network operator Cell C announced it joined forces with the Unilever Institute of Strategic Marketing and the School...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa—South African mobile network operator Vodacom announced that it has won a license to operate a GSM network in Mozambique. The expansion...
BEIJING—Qualcomm Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Irwin Jacobs expects China Unicom's CDMA network to have 3 to 4 million users by the end...
MELBOURNE, Australia—Australia's telecommunications industry ombudsman (TIO) has placed the country's mobile-phone operators on notice following a spate of "unreasonable early termination fees on mobile-phone...
MANILA, The Philippines—The Philippines' House committee on transportation and communications through its chairman Representative Jacinto Paras favors an inquiry into the planned Nextel buyout...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—The Supreme Court of Chile has resolved to exclude Smartcom, owned by Endesa of Spain, from the 30 megahertz personal communications services...
WASHINGTON—The Bush administration likely will not pursue a comprehensive national broadband policy, a development that could hurt industry efforts to secure additional spectrum for...
HELSINKI, Finland—The uphill battle to meet Sweden's December 2003 national rollout deadline for third-generation (3G) networks has taken a significant new twist, after Sweden's...
