JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-Mobile network operator Vodacom announced it will assist students in schools throughout South Africa and the region to become computer literate following...
SCHAUMBURG, Illinois, United States-Shares of Motorola rose slightly after the company reported promising second-quarter results. Discounting charges of nearly US$3.5 billion taken during the...
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia mobile-phone sales rose in the second quarter, but infrastructure sales lagged considerably behind totals recorded for second-quarter 2001. Nokia also lowered its...
TOKYO-Omron, a pioneer of automated control equipment, developed what the company called a next-generation ticket gate system that lets mobile-phone users go through gates...
BEIJING-The packet data service node (PDSN) manufactured by Lawton Development passed testing by China's Ministry of Information Industry (MII). The equipment will be used...
NEW DELHI, India-The Taiwan-based Comtrend Corporation, a solutions provider to telecom companies, will market wireless instant messaging solutions from New Delhi-based ACL Wireless Limited...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-TIM Digitel is the new name for Digitel, the third cellular operator in Venezuela, which in its first year of operations has...
JAKARTA, Indonesia-Indonesia's slow growth of 2.5-generation (2.5G) services has not inhibited Indonesia's government to begin preparations for the country's 3G regulatory framework.Tulus Rahardjo, the...
HONG KONG-GSM operator SmarTone has launched a "picture mail" service that enables multimedia messaging service (MMS) phone users to send messages combining pictures, text,...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-Air2Lan is going to provide wireless local area network connectivity throughout the Southeast using the Vernier Networks System, the companies announced.The Vernier...
KIHEI, Hawaii-Maui Sky Fiber announced The Ritz-Carlton Kapalua will offer Maui Sky Fiber's broadband services to its resort guests.Maui Sky Fiber is in the...
REDMOND, Wash.-Wayne M. Perry, a member of AT&T Wireless Services Inc.'s board of directors since last July, resigned Wednesday.Perry said he decided to resign...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Globalstar awarded a contract to Space Systems/Loral for the design and future construction of its 2 GHz satellite system, the company said.Financial...
LOS ANGELES-Moviso, Motorola, VoiceStream and GetMoreMojo.com have aligned to wirelessly promote the soon-to-be-released Austin Powers flick "GoldMember."The joint solution allows Austin Powers fans to...
HAYWARD, Calif.-Wireless enterprise company AvantGo Inc. announced it scored its second patent, one that covers technology for the synchronization and customization of XML-based Web...
CHESTERFIELD, Miss.-While industry leaders have knocked around the idea of a killer application in wireless for years, a new report from Datacomm Research Company...
MANILA, The Phillipines-Despite the influx of General Packet Radio Service (GPRS)-capable handsets and free service from operators, it will take some time to lure...
JOHANNEBSBURG, South Africa-MTN South Africa announced its General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) pricing strategy and some of the initial applications that will be available...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-Mobile operator Smartcom PCS, owned by Endesa of Spain, sued BellSouth through the Chilean government's Antimonopoly Resolution Commission on the grounds of...
BEIJING-China's Ministry of Information Industry (MII) released mobile subscriber statistics for the first half of the year. At the end of June, China had...
MELBOURNE, Australia-The Australian Communications Authority (ACA) announced it will allocate, by auction if demand dictates, the remaining 3.4 GHz band of the radio-frequency spectrum....
DUBLIN, Ireland-Vodafone Group announced it will launch the "Sha-mail" service in Europe in the fourth quarter. The company revealed its plans to begin marketing...
HELSINKI, Finland-Telenor, the Oslo-based semi-state-owned telecom operator, rejected on 17 July speculation by market analysts that the company is anxious to re-open consolidation talks...
