NEW DELHI, India—Leading Thai operator AIS has decided to unlock its network access code to allow customers to procure handsets of their choice from...
BONN, Germany—German telecommunications giant Deutsche Telekom reported its T-Mobile wireless division posted $4.1 billion in revenue for the first quarter of this year compared...
WASHINGTON—The numbering crisis is over, said Michael Altschul, senior vice president and general counsel for the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association."The whole numbering crisis...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.—Proxim Corp., created from the merger of Proxim Inc. and Western Multiplex Corp., announced Kevin Duffy has been made general manager of the...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.—Datastick Systems Inc., developer of software and peripherals for Palm OS handhelds, announced it will develop a software interface exclusively for Oceana...
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.—Openwave Systems Inc. and wireless application developer Digital Bridges expanded their partnership, the companies announced.Openwave paid an undisclosed sum for a minority...
PARIS—French vendor Alcatel said it opened a third-generation center in Taiwan, calling it the first fully functional 3G/UMTS system in Taiwan and the first...
OVERLAND PARK, Kan.—Sprint PCS signed a letter of intent with eOne Global, an affiliate of electronic payment provider First Data Corp., to establish a...
BEDMINSTER, N.J.—Verizon Wireless is launching another global positioning system-enabled handset, the company announced.The 9155-GPX from Audiovox Communication Corp. will be available this week in...
CUPERTINO, Calif.—Consolidated Telecom selected Vyyo Inc. to provide its multichannel multipoint distrbution service equipment for a broadband deployment in Dickinson, Scranton and Killdeer, N.D.,...
CARACAS, Venezuela—Lucent Technologies and Telcel BellSouth announced a three-year agreement to continue building a cdma2000 network in Venezuela. The initial deployment of 1x equipment...
DUBLIN, Ireland—A contract awarded to Vodafone Group has become the subject of a formal appeal to the Irish telecommunications industry regulator.A 130 million euro...
NEW YORK—Tele2 said it won a Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) license in Luxembourg from the country's Ministry of Telecommunications.Tele2's Luxembourg operator Tango received...
HELSINKI, Finland—Nokia Networks said it signed an agreement to buy a 10-percent stake for US$35.8 billion in Redback Networks Inc., with an option to...
SAN JOSE, California, United States—Worldwide mobile-phone unit sales reached 93.8 million units in the first quarter of 2002, a 3.8-percent decline from first-quarter 2001,...
TOKYO—NEC, the leading handset maker in Japan, announced that it shipped 2.5-generation (2.5G) handsets for China Mobile. China Mobile is the largest mobile carrier...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—Pakistani operator Mobilink said it reached a subscriber base of 500,000 customers, and predicts it will have 1 million subscribers by year-end.The operator,...
TOKYO—KDDI, the second-largest operator in Japan, announced that it succeeded in offering what it called the world's first experiment for a third-generation (3G) and...
DENVER, United States—A potentially important deal between Motorola and Multitone Electronics has fallen through, Motorola confirmed, which leaves the paging and messaging landscape still...
TOKYO—According to a survey conducted by the Cabinet Office, 94.9 percent of Japanese under 30 years old have their own mobile phones.The government conducted...
NEW DELHI, India—Indian cellular operators have demanded immediate removal of cellular-phone ownership as a criterion for mandatory filing of income-tax returns, saying it is...
MANILA, The Philippines—Wireless communications will emerge as an integral part of the Filipino workplace as enterprises adopt mobile networks in their operations, according to...
