PENSACOLA, Fla.-Tower owner and operator Jesta Towers Inc. said it plans to acquire six tower development projects in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida to...
HELSINKI, Finland-Danish, Swedish and German telecom companies TDC, Telia and Deutsche Telekom are showing an interest in acquiring the Stockholm, Sweden-based communications and financial...
DUBLIN, Ireland-Irish XML and Web services company PolarLake announced a partnership with Tokyo-based Eire Systems in which Eire will provide PolarLake's customers in Japan...
COSTA MESA, Calif.-The CDMA Development Group reported more than 127 million worldwide CDMA subscribers at the end of the second quarter and 15 million...
BALA CYNWYD, Pa.-A class action lawsuit has been filed against telecom analyst Jack Grubman, Citigroup Inc. and Sanford Weill, Citigroup's chief executive officer, on...
LONDON-Cable & Wireless and Amdocs announced that Cable & Wireless Regional will implement Amdocs Ensemble for billing and customer care for its mobile operations...
FRANKFURT, Germany-German weekly magazine Focus reported VoiceStream Wireless Corp. added 500,000 new customers during July and August, which was approximately the same number of...
INDIANAPOLIS-Brightpoint Inc. announced the completion of the sale of interests in Brightpoint Middle East FZE, its subsidiary Fono Distribution Services L.L.C. and Brightpoint Jordan...
NEW YORK-Advanced Recognition Technologies Inc., an Atlanta-based developer of natural human interface technologies, will port its smARTspeak XG speech recognition technology to Motorola Inc....
DALLAS-Texas Instruments Inc. says it has rolled out a chip known as TNET1100B, which uses less power in cellular phones and personal digital assistants.The...
AUSTIN, Texas-Wireless Valley Communications Inc. announced HP Services will use its software, including SitePlanner and LANFielder software modules, in worldwide wireless local area network...
NEW YORK-Verizon Communications Inc. closed its sale of 371,000 local access lines in Missouri to CenturyTel Inc. over the weekend, completing a three-state asset...
DUBLIN-Mobile messaging company XIAM Ltd. announced the United Kingdom's West Midlands police force is using its technology for a text messaging application that will...
TAIPEI, Taiwan-Nortel Networks Ltd. said it has signed a $20 million contract to supply Chunghwa Telecom with an optical long haul solution to support...
LONDON-Siemens AG and Aircom International have signed an agreement calling for Aircom to supply its Enterprise Suite of network engineering software tools to Siemens'...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-A survey of 38,000 text messaging users conducted by SMS.ac claimed that nearly 70 percent stated they are open to receiving messages...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-The cell-phone operator MmO2 has launched a Java-based games service that will be offered free for this month to U.K. users before...
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. said Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. will license its Series 60 software platform, which Nokia licenses as a source code product to...
PROVIDENCE, R.I.-Tower Ventures Inc. (TVI) announced it has formed Tower Ventures II L.L.C. (TVLLC) and has contributed all of its assets to the company....
HELSINKI, Finland-Sonera Corp. has delayed the commercial launch of its third-generation network in Finland until 2003 from the initial Sept. 26 launch plan due...
WASHINGTON-A debate is simmering at the Federal Communications Commission that could result in wireless carriers having to pay incumbent local exchange carriers significantly more...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-While Sony has stated that its cell-phone joint venture with Ericsson has its full backing, the troubled Swedish telecom company has revealed...
NEW YORK-The $410 million in outstanding subordinated convertible debt issued by Agere Systems Inc., Allentown, Pa. received a speculative-grade ratings downgrade August 30 from...
LONDON-As expected, Vodafone Group plc has acquired Vivendi Universal's 50-percent stake in the two companies' mobile portal joint venture Vizzavi for $140.6 million. Vivendi...
