PARIS-Bouygues Telecom and Nortel Networks Corp. announced they signed a memorandum of understanding to cooperate on third-generation mobile voice, data and multimedia networks based on the Universal Mobile Telecommunications System …
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. introduced several solutions designed to improve the services available from the company’s third-generation and Internet Protocol product offerings. Based on Open Service Architecture standardized by the 3G …
MELBOURNE, Australia-The Australian Communications Authority (ACA) announced that beginning Sept. 25, 2001, mobile-phone carriers must allow customers to keep their number when changing phone companies. The date is six months …
WASHINGTON-Nextel Communications on Friday filed a petition with the Federal Communications Commission to deny the transfer of three licenses to Leap Wireless International Inc. “Inconsistencies between Leap’s financial data reported …
PALO ALTO, Calif.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and Vicinity Corp. have partnered to provide AT&T Digital PocketNet users location-based information through Vicinity’s BrandFinder wireless application, the companies announced. PocketNet users can …
DENVER-Formus Communications Inc. said it signed a global supply agreement with Alcatel under which Alcatel will supply a wide range of networking equipment, including broadband wireless access, data switching and …
TEMPE, Ariz.-Worldwide cellular subscribers are expected to exceed 1.2 billion by 2004, according to a market study conducted by Forward Concepts titled “Wireless2000.” The report predicts the cellular subscriber base …
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Yahoo! Inc. signed an agreement with Telecom Italia Mobile to provide a range of Yahoo!’s Wireless Application Protocol-enabled content and services in Italian to TIM’s customers. “The wireless …
WASHINGTON-After a shaky start, Clinton administration officials last week said progress is being made at the World Radiocommunication Conference on a global multiband spectrum allocation for third-generation mobile phone systems. …
LONDON-Webraska Mobile Technologies, a provider of traffic maps and navigation services on Internet mobile phones, is opening access to its Global Navigation Server to wireless carriers, their partners and wireless …
CUPERTINO, Calif.-Vyyo Inc. said it has joined Remec Inc. to develop customer premises equipment products for use in multichannel multipoint distribution system broadband wireless access networks. Remec will provide the …
How ironic that during a time industry chooses to celebrate the heroic side of the wireless phone industry, we also can see how wireless phones can cater to the less …
NEW YORK-Sprint PCS affiliate US Unwired Inc. squeaked through its initial public offering May 18, pricing its 8-million-share deal at $11 each, $2 below the low end of the expected …
WASHINGTON-The wireless industry received a stinging rebuke Thursday about its lack of action on a Federal Communications Commission item that could increase the amount of money wireless customers pay into …
PHILADELPHIA-The wireless industry is not ready for the advent of wireless data even as data is becoming increasingly important to the wireless industry and the Internet economy, said panelists at …
ATLANTA-TowerCom Enterprises L.L.C., a company that owns, develops and manages wireless communications towers, said it purchased certain tower assets in California and Arizona and formed TowerCom West Coast L.L.C.
MIAMI-Tiaxa launched its panregional wireless Internet portal in Latin America, offering wireless phone users personalized, location-sensitive mobile Internet services. The company noted it can capitalize on the region’s adoption and …
Two surveys that are attempting to track what people want from the wireless Web have revealed that consumers value wireless access to e-mail. Telephia Inc. is conducting a nationwide survey …
OSLO, Norway-Telenor AS announced it entered an agreement to acquire a 30-percent stake in Thai mobile carrier Total Access Communication Public Co. Ltd. and up to a 24.9-percent stake in …
ARLINGTON, Va.-TeleCorp PCS Inc. put into commercial service a new switch in its Arkansas region to accommodate the company’s westward network expansion and to handle additional growth. The Lucent 5E …
