NEW YORK -The Uzan family, which controls Telsim, Turkey’s second-largest mobile carrier, will most likely be found guilty of fraud for borrowing and never repaying $2.7 billion in equipment vendor …
AUSTIN, Texas-Wireless Valley Communications Inc. released its new InFielder and InFielder PDA measurement products, capable of measuring the performance of third-generation wide-band CDMA and iDEN networks. The new products allow …
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 carriers China Telecom and China …
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 sites and cover approximately 97 percent …
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 Ricochet coverage area can wirelessly access …
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 AB. Telemar Finland, a branch of …
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 tunnels along the new Inter-City Express …
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 areas. The majority of the commission …
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 fresh source of urgently needed revenue. …
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 week in the south of France. …
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 equipment. Netcom plans to install 30 …
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 made by CCID Consulting, affiliated with …
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 owned telecommunications company, TDM, and its …
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 MMS among MobileOne customers by delivering …
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 carrier in China, in June …
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 by Japan Electronics and Information Technology …
Matsushita Electric Industries, the leading consumer electronics company in Japan, has launched an experiment of a cashless train riding system in Hokkaido, a Northern Island in Japan. For the month-long …
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 Capital as its financial adviser in …
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 US$3.82 billion in 2002, fundamentally due …
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 One’s prepaid service offering. Financial terms …
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 to be a triumph for obscure …
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 in the United States. InphoMatch manages …
BEIJING-Qualcomm and China Unicom will jointly launch a GSM 1x trial in China’s Suzhou in the second quarter of the year. The purpose is to enable China Unicom’s GSM subscribers …
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 two new sets of specifications. The …
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 simplified device management that ensures …
