BEIJING, China-Homegrown technology TD-SCDMA will be one of the major beneficiaries of the Chinese government plan to spend $84.6 billion for research and development.Fixed-line...
TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo Inc. said it will expand its wideband CDMA-based FOMA service in the Kanto Koshinetsu region beginning Feb. 22 with 400 additional cell...
DENVER-Ricochet Networks Inc. announced its Ricochet high-speed wireless network is now compatible with the Linux desktop system LindowsOS 3.0, meaning LindowsOS customers in the...
HELSINKI, Finland-Sonera's mobile satellite division has been acquired by an international business group led by Italy's Compagnia Generale Telemar S.p.A. and Sweden's Laumar Marine...
ORLAND PARK, Ill.-Andrew Corp.'s wireless and in-building products group has developed a multi-band wireless infrastructure that gives commuters wireless phone reception in the 30...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission Thursday opposed Chairman Michael Powell's deregulation plan that would lift the network-sharing requirement except in the most sparsely populated rural...
CANNES, France-With the infrastructure market continuing to remain in the doldrums, most of the major infrastructure vendors are turning to 'managed services' as a...
CANNES, France-Operators and vendors alike expressed a quiet optimism for the upcoming year as the GSM community gathered for its annual global meeting last...
BEIJING-Fixed-line carrier China Netcom plans to launch its Little Smart or 'xiaolingtong' service in selected areas of China's capital Beijing in May, using UTStarcom...
BEIJING-China Mobile will double its investment in wireless data networks and GPRS this year, but reduce its investment in GSM networks. The forecast was...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-The Mozambique Transport and Communications Minister Tomas Salomao has lashed out at claims that the government is placing pressure on the publicly...
JAKARTA, Indonesia-After launching multimedia messaging services in August last year, Singapore's MobileOne (M1) asked its subsidiary Wireless Intellect Labs to boost the use of...
TOKYO-Netvillage, a Tokyo-based venture, on 17 February announced it plans to provide remote mail technologies to Linkage Technology in China.China Mobile, the leading mobile...
TOKYO-The number of Japanese mobile handset shipments in 2002 numbered 405 million units, a 20.2-percent decrease from a year ago, according to statistics compiled...
Matsushita Electric Industries, the leading consumer electronics company in Japan, has launched an experiment of a cashless train riding system in Hokkaido, a Northern...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-Movicom Bellsouth in Argentina suspended payment of interests and capital of its debt, which is around US$ 500 million, and designated BroadSpan...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-NII Holdings' income reached US$780.4 million in 2002, an 18-percent increase on the previous year. The company made a net gain of...
CHANTILLY, Va.-Wireless interoperability company InphoMatch said T-Mobile customers in the United Kingdom will now be able to send text messages to non-GSM wireless subscribers...
LAGUNA HILLS, Calif.-Debisys Inc. said it has entered into a partnership agreement with Cellular One Bermuda to provide its turnkey processing technology for Cellular...
CANNES, France-The Open Mobile Alliance standards body said it completed two interoperability tests in conjunction with the 3GSM World Congress, and that it approved...
CANNES, France-Wireless device maker Handspring Inc. said it will integrate Action Engine's software management tools into its line of Treo mobile phone/personal digital assistants."Providing...
CANNES, France-In a race to differentiate their products in an increasingly crowded market, cell-phone developers are unveiling increasingly bizarre designs. In what would seem...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-Mobile network operator MTN announced it will not disconnect the national operator Nitel due to the huge debt outstanding to the network...
CANNES, France-Anadigics Inc. announced a new family of switch products and what it describes as the world's smallest GSM/GPRS quad-band power amplifier modules at...
