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...
TOKYO—Fujitsu, a leading telecom vendor in Japan, is planning to launch a mobile carrier business renting PHS networks owned by DDI Pocket. The vender...
CHANTILLY, Va.—InTouch USA, which provides wireless handset rentals to business travelers, said it is now offering a phone that can be used in China,...
HONG KONG—Sprint PCS and China Unicom have formed a strategic alliance for cdma2000 services, Sprint PCS' Bill Blessing told attendees Wednesday at the 3G...
HONG KONG—Verizon Wireless Inc. is the first customer for Lightbridge Inc.'s Mobile Data Manager, a new service that enables carriers to allow users to...
CALGARY, Alberta—Wireless Matrix Corp. said it has received an order from Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) for 2,400 mobile base station units to be...
WASHINGTON—Telecommunications research and analyst firm The Strategis Group ceased operations today.The firm was founded in 1964 by Martin Malarkey and Archer Taylor. It was...
ALISO VIEJO, California, United States—SMS Media Group said it signed a deal with European mobile entertainment company Jippii Group that enables SMS Media to...
HELSINKI, Finland—Tecnomen said it was awarded a contract valued at 700,000 euros (US$662,900) by Kuwait's Mobile Telecommunications Company (MTC) for paging system expansions in...
MUNICH, Germany—Swedish vendor Ericsson announced the sale of its microelectronic unit to Infineon Technologies for US$379 million in stock, ending industry speculation."This transaction makes...
PARIS—Alcatel said it will provide maintenance and service to Austria's Tele.ring under a three-year US$37.8 million contract. Alcatel supplied parts of the network, and...
