TOKYO-Nortel Networks Corp. said it signed an optical network contract to expand KDDI's metro access network and support the carrier's cdma2000 1x offering."We will...
DOHA, Qatar-Motorola said it signed a US$25 million GSM contract expansion with Qatar Telecommunications. The expansion will allow the operator to offer enhanced coverage...
NEW YORK-Cingular Wireless officially launched its GSM service in New York City today, placing the nation's second-largest carrier in 43 of the top 50...
JAKARTA, Indonesia-Singapore's PSB Corporation is leading the provision of full Bluetooth compliance testing services in the Southeast Asia region. Centro de Technologia de las...
BEIJING-Ningbo Bird, China's largest manufacturer of pagers, phased out its pager production this month. When the paging business was at its peak in 2000,...
MANILA, The Philippines-International telecommunications giant AT&T is considering telecommunications companies like Philippine Long Distance Telephone (PLDT), Smart Communications and Ayala-owned Globe Telecom as partners...
NEW DELHI, India-Pakistan has installed a modern national frequency management system with World Bank assistance, officials stated in the country's capital of Islamabad.The National...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-Econet Nigeria announced it extended its network coverage by connecting the town of Eket in the Akwa Ibom state to its network.The...
BEIJING-Li Yue, vice president of China Mobile, announced at the GSM China 2002 conference that China Mobile's customers are expected to send 50 billion...
TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo, the largest mobile operator in Japan, said it is in talks with KTF of South Korea, and with Singapore Telecommunications as potential...
ISTANBUL, Turkey-Turkish wireless carrier Turkcell reported adding approximately 1.1 million net subscribers during the second quarter, doubling the 511,000 net customer additions reported for...
ATLANTA-BellSouth Corp. reported it is implementing a Cisco wireless local area network at St. Vincent's Hospital in Birmingham, Ala., enabling health care providers to...
LONDON-Wireless platform provider Cash-U scored another major win through a new resale deal with Ericsson.Under the agreement, Ericsson will resell Cash-U's wireless application platform...
BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Verizon Wireless Inc. introduced Vindigo's personal navigation applications service, allowing subscribers to download local information on where to eat, shop and play in...
WASHINGTON-President George W. Bush named Michael Powell, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, to serve on his newly created Corporate Fraud Task Force."I gained...
ATLANTA-The Weather Channel has partnered with Nextel Communications Inc. to provide Nextel Online Internet users with wireless weather information.Nextel customers with Web-enabled wireless phones...
LONDON-In spite of increasing interests in hotspots, no operator can guarantee that it is financially viable, according to a study by ARC Group."Operators should...
WASHINGTON-Wireless industry lawyers have petitioned a panel of federal judges here to transfer all pending brain-cancer lawsuits to U.S. District Judge Catherine Blake in...
ISTANBUL, Turkey-Turkish wireless carrier Turkcell reported adding approximately 1.1 million net subscribers during the second quarter, doubling the 511,000 net customer additions reported for...
BUCHAREST, Romania-According to Arabian online newspaper itp.net, Kuwaiti mobile operator Wataniya contracted with Siemens for the installation of a General Packet Radio Service (GPRS)...
NEW YORK-U.S. operators AT&T Wireless Services and VoiceStream Wireless are in preliminary talks to merge their wireless operations, which would create the nation's second-largest...
