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...
RICHARDSON, Texas—Wireless data infrastructure company Cyneta Networks Inc. announced it will team with optimization technology provider Idetic Inc. to create a wireless data optimization...
TOKYO—Fujitsu Ltd. will license wireless streaming media company PacketVideo Corp.'s media player technology for use in the company's third-generation mobile phones, the companies announced.The...
MURRAY HILL, N.J.—Lucent Technologies Inc. said its cdma2000 1x EV-DO equipment is now commercially available, including base station and core network hardware and software."There...
MILAN, Tenn.—Less-than-truckload carrier Milan Express announced it will implement Qualcomm's OmniTRACS mobile communications system, Agentek's AgentDelivery and AgentManager mobile and server software solutions and...
SINGAPORE—PCS Wireless L.L.C. announced it will refocus its business on the wireless testing and measurement market and will change its name to Metatron Technologies...
SAN JOSE, Calif.—Technology giants IBM Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co. both continued to reinforce their wireless data offerings through new resale and licensing agreements, a...
WATERLOO, Ontario—As expected, Research In Motion Ltd. filed a patent complaint against competitor Good Technology Inc. in the U.S. District Court in Delaware.RIM's complaint...
PISCATAWAY, N.J.—The SyncML Initiative announced it will officially consolidate into the newly formed Open Mobile Alliance, a group created to act as an umbrella...
LONDON-Indonesia's Telkomsel contracted CMG Wireless Data to upgrade its short messaging service center from a capability of sending 160 messages per second to 1,500...
DUBLIN, Ireland-The European Commission has once again underlined its determination to tackle areas of mobile communications it feels are noncompetitive or overpriced. It has...
JAKARTA, Indonesia-The slow development of third-generation (3G) services around the world has influenced mobile operators in Singapore to re-think the urgency of launching 3G...
OXFORD, United Kingdom and DUBLIN, Ireland-Looking to become the first company to launch third-generation (3G) services in the United Kingdom, Hutchison 3G has denied...
