SAN RAFAEL, Calif.-Alltel has chosen Fair Isaac Corp.'s Risk Manager and Fraud Manager For Telecommunications solution to improve its fraud and payment risk detection...
SARASOTA, Fla.-Retrieval Dynamics Corp. and EarthLink Inc. announced a teaming to create a wireless data package for real estate executives. The program combines a...
SEOUL, Korea-Samsung Electronics announced its first-quarter figures, showing a 4.8-percent increase in mobile-phone sales.Samsung said it aimed to sell 13 million mobile phones in...
WOBURN, Mass.-Boston Communications Group Inc. reported record first-quarter earnings of $23.1 million, a 53 percent increase from the same period a year ago.The telecommunications...
WASHINGTON-If the Federal Communications Commission thought that the regulatory issues for mobile wireless were challenging, the issues for broadband wireless could be overwhelming."Broadband-wireless technologies...
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia said it has signed an agreement to supply W-CDMA equipment to Greek operator Telestet.Nokia also said it has already started providing core...
TOKYO-KDDI, the second-largest mobile operator in Japan, 17 April launched a voice search service for its au brand mobile handset users. KDDI has developed...
BEIJING-The Beijing Morning Post reported Huawei Technologies came out on top of a third-generation (3G) vendor test by China's Ministry of Information Industry (MII),...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-Telecom Personal, the largest cellular operator in Argentina and Paraguay, announced it has US$45 million in cash to pay its creditors, which...
TOKYO-Japan Telecom and East Japan Railway are going to launch a demonstration experiment for high-speed wireless local area network (WLAN) service via mobile phones...
MOSCOW-The biggest CDMA IS-95 carrier in Russia operating in the 800 MHz band launched an offensive against the Communications Ministry, which has restricted its...
BEIJING-According to China Unicom's listed subsidiary's annual report, the company had a handset inventory worth 2.36 billion Chinese yuan (US$285 million) in 2002. The...
DUBLIN, Ireland—Vodafone has announced plans to restrict access to adult services over its network just 24 hours after wireless research and consulting company Strategy...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Proxim Corp. closed out its first quarter, which ended March 28, with increasing revenues and declining losses compared with the same period a...
WASHINGTON-Sens. Don Nickles (R-Okla.) and Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) offered legislation to make wireless telecommunications equipment eligible for depreciation treatment on par with other qualified...
METUCHEN, N.J.-Berkeley Varitronics Systems announced two new international distributors will provide sales and support for its wireless products.Genetel Online will offer sales and support...
WASHINGTON-A former Internet advertising executive has been tapped as the Department of Homeland Security's first privacy czar. Nuala O'Connor Kelly, who previously oversaw data...
TAMPA, Fla.-TSI Telecommunication Services Inc. said two regional wireless carriers will use the company's technology to offer ring tones, graphics and other messaging services.Montana...
NEW YORK-Airespace Inc., San Jose, Calif., hatched in the Storm Ventures incubator 18 months ago, reached a fledgling milestone last weekwhen it made the...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-Zambian President Mwanawasa recently inaugurated the Zamtel GSM link in Chipata with a call to the operator to begin offering affordable prepaid...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-Kenyan mobile network company Kencell Communications recently announced the extension of its local network to the towns of Iten and Kabarnet.Philippe Vandebrouck,...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-The new Ecuadorian cellular operator, which will begin to offer its services before the end of the year, will gain 20 percent...
TOKYO-Hewlett-Packard Japan released a new personal digital assistant (PDA) with both wireless local area network (WLAN) and Bluetooth functions. The new PDA, called "iPAQ...
