OTTAWA-Industry Canada said it will continue to prohibit the use of jamming devices following a public consultation on the issue. Radio frequency jamming devices,...
WASHINGTON-Wireless Communications Association International is hosting two high-profile panels at its annual conference in Boston next week that will assess the implications for the...
RESTON, Va.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. affiliate Triton PCS will offer its subscribers downloadable ring tones and graphics through a new deal with wireless media...
PARIS-Gerhard Schmid, the embattled chief executive of Germany's MobilCom, stepped down on Friday, potentially paving the way for France Telecom to launch a takeover...
NEW YORK-Citing continued competitive pressure and a slowing subscriber base, Moody's Investor Services downgraded its outlook for the wireless industry to negative and placed...
MOSCOW-Ericsson will supply equipment to expand the GSM 900/1800 MHz networks of the second-biggest Russian carrier, Vimpelcom (BeeLine), in three Russian regions.According to the...
WASHINGTON-A new Finnish study concludes mobile phone radiation could lead to cancer by undermining the blood-brain barrier's ability to block out carcinogens and other...
ALAMEDA, California, United States-UTStarcom said it won a US$19.9 million contract in Vietnam to deploy its IP-based PAS citywide wireless access system to Vietnam...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-South African company Econoserv has announced it has successfully implemented a business solution in Nigeria. GeeSM is a Nigerian business selling virtual...
MANILA, The Philippines-The Department of Finance (DoF) has planned that a portion of collections from possible taxes on cellular phone firms will be used...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-The Telecommunications Council of Ecuador called to tender on 17 July an auction to assign three wireless local loop (WLL) frequencies from...
TOKYO-KG Telecom, a leading mobile carrier in Taiwan, launched i-mode-like service on Thursday. Because it is the first i-mode-like service in Asia outside Japan,...
TORONTO-Cell-phone coverage at Canada's biggest airport may get worse now that its landlord is demanding wireless carriers remove their network equipment after talks between...
TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo, the leading mobile carrier in Japan, on Thursday announced that it will launch wireless local area network (WLAN) service on 1 July....
BEIJING-Telecom consultancy BDA China published a new report titled "Mobile Subscribers in China 2002," based on a survey of 2,000 people between the ages...
MELBOURNE, Australia-With both business and consumers' interest in using mobile data growing, Optus and SingTel have launched a worldwide search for "killer" mobile applications...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Russian Communications Minister Leonid Reiman played down fears of already operating foreign investors on the Russian telecom market, saying their equities will not...
TOKYO-KDDI, the second-largest mobile operator in Japan, will terminate its service based on PDC by March 31, 2003, Tadashi Onodera, president of KDDI, said...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-In what would appear to be an industry first, U.K.-based cell-phone operator MmO2 has published tariffs for its third-generation (3G) service running...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-By 2007, the number of cell-phone users in South Africa will be 19 million-double the current number-claimed the country's largest operator, Vodacom....
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-M-Cell, the listed telecommunications group that owns 100 percent of MTN, announced that turnover for the last 12 months has risen by...
BEIJING-Mobile-phone operator China Unicom has introduced promotional offers in at least 10 Chinese cities to attract subscribers to its fledgling CDMA network. Unicom originally...
