MANILA, The Philippines-Gokongwei-owned Digital Telecommunications (Digitel) has already short-listed two prospective companies, Alcatel and Ericsson, to undertake the next phase of the company's cellular...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-For the first time, Ericsson will not be the supplier to install a Telecom Personal network in Argentina, now that Alcatel has...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-Kenyan mobile network operator KenCell said it would like the government to abandon the 5-percent excise duty on airtime introduced in the...
DUBLIN, Ireland-Ongoing concerns regarding the effects of mobile-phone mast radiation on public health in France has encouraged SFR and Orange France to suspend the...
BEIJING-At a national conference on wireless telecommunications management, China's Ministry of Information Industry (MII) vowed to strengthen frequency management, which will limit CDMA technology...
ATLANTA-Cingular Wireless L.L.C. launched its "7-7-7" rate plan in its north and south Florida markets, allowing customers signed up to Home plans starting at...
CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa.-UbiquiTel Inc. reported $60.1 million in revenues for the fourth quarter of 2002, a 48-percent increase compared with the $45.8 million the carrier...
AUSTIN, Texas-Wintegra Inc., a fabless semiconductor company, has closed its third round of venture financing, raising $13 million from existing investors, including Texas Instruments...
WATERTOWN, Mass.-ArcStream Solutions, which offers systems integration services for wireless enterprise applications, announced it scored an additional $4 million in venture funding. The company...
NEW YORK-Wireless marketing company Enpocket announced it will conduct a detailed text-messaging campaign through a new deal with 20th Century Fox for its upcoming...
TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo Inc. announced that it has developed a wristwatch-type PHS terminal. The product will hit the market in April at the earliest, Japan's...
DALLAS-Telematics company ATX Inc. announced it will expand into Europe with the opening of a call center and data facility, and marketing and customer...
RALEIGH, N.C.-Australian carrier Telstra has launched its cdma2000 1x network with a number of applications developed for Qualcomm's BREW platform.The applications include Summus Inc.'s...
BEIJING-Fraudsters in the central Chinese city of Hangzhou are facing a rude awakening.Touting fake products and services through postcard-sized ads posted along the city's...
TOKYO-Oracle Japan and NTT DoCoMo have jointly developed a new system that lets corporate users distribute in-company information to personal digital assistants (PDAs) in...
BEIJING-According to the latest official statistics, China's two mobile operators added 9,782,000 users in the first two months of the year, bringing the total...
SURABAYA, Indonesia-Following last year's shareholding increase to 47.9 percent in Malaysia's Celcom, government-owned telecommunication operator Telekom Malaysia offered US$1 billion to take over the...
OSLO, Norway-An agreement among Sweden's operators to allow customers to send multimedia messaging services (MMS) between competing networks has failed to encompass all the...
LONDON-As the tender process for Bahrain's second GSM license draws to a close, three candidates, including MTC Vodafone, Wataniya Bahrain and Kalaam, have been...
TOKYO-Japanese operator NTT DoCoMo announced plans for two new devices this week.DoCoMo said it has developed a wristwatch-type PHS terminal. The product will hit...
DALLAS-MetroPCS Inc., which provides flat-rate unlimited local calling service in Atlanta, Miami, San Francisco and Sacramento, Calif., expanded its text messaging service offering to...
NEW YORK-Price Communications Corp., which was acquired last year by Verizon Wireless for $1.2 billion in stock, reported that Institutional Shareholder Services issued an...
