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WASHINGTON-The FCC’s Wireless Telecommunications Bureau hired 21 high school students from a local private school to play with its new bidding software to see if they could break it. They …

WASHINGTON-Come Monday, March 12, wireless carriers may be facing fines of up to $10,000 per day if they cannot meet wiretap capacity requirements and did not previously warn the government …

JACKSON, Miss. (AP)-WorldCom Inc., the nation’s second-largest provider of long-distance service, on Wednesday laid off about 6,000 U.S. employees, or roughly 7 percent of its worldwide work force, as part …

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Approximately 1,200 employees have been cut from the work force of 3Com Corp., a provider of connectivity products and solutions. The company said the layoffs are in accordance …

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-Early in 2001, several countries in South America have changed their tariff schemes with the objective of reducing the existing gap between the cost of fixed calls and …

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados-Barbados has identified wireless and the Internet as the first segments of its telecommunications market to be opened to competition. A three-phase timetable announced by the government anticipates full …

DENVER, United States-While some countries in Latin America are moving forward with advanced wireless networks, Central American nations are not likely to see commercial next-generation systems any time soon. Mass-market …

Mobile computing company Psion shook the European wireless market-and sent its stocks rocketing to a new 27-month low-with news that it is dropping out of the running in the smart-phone …

TOKYO-Matsushita Communications Industrial, the leading cellular vendor in Japan, is putting the final touches on its new third-generation (3G) mobile terminals for NTT DoCoMo. NTT DoCoMo, Japan’s leading mobile carrier, …

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-A year after the launch of mobile Internet services in South America, almost all the cellular telephony operators are offering Internet services, although exclusively in the major cities …

DUBLIN, Ireland-Having paid handsomely for their licenses at a time when wireless auctions were the flavor of the month around Europe, wireless local loop (WLL) operators face an uncertain future. …

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-The many delays that have beset South Africa’s third mobile network license process could be at an end. In February, the Minister of Communications Dr. Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri announced …

TORONTO-The move was surprising but not totally unexpected. After many denials, U.S. carrier AT&T Wireless finally announced last November it is switching from TDMA wireless technology to the rival European-developed …

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-Mobile Telephone Networks (MTN), the South African mobile network operator, recently secured one of four mobile operator licenses in Nigeria. The network must pay a license fee of …

DUBLIN, Ireland-Having paid so much for their licenses, prospective third-generation (3G) mobile operators in Germany, as in other European countries, have been working hard to convince the financial markets and …

Handsets Sendo European mobile phone manufacturer, Sendo, launched its second product platform, the S200 dual-band GSM mobile phone. Aimed at the young-at-heart prepaid market, features of the small and light …

GSM Europe, the European arm of the GSM Association, met new proposals from the European Commission (EC) covering how telecom operators will be regulated with hostility. The group claimed the …

HONG KONG-Nokia has signed a contract with CLP Power Hong Kong Limited (CLP Power) to supply an 800 MHz TETRA system which includes digital exchanges, base stations, dispatcher equipment, a …

SAN FRANCISCO-A decidedly different feeling surrounded the Broadband Wireless World Forum in San Francisco last week compared with last year, when the industry’s exuberance could hardly be contained by its …

DALLAS-WebLink Wireless Inc.’s stocks dropped almost 50 percent last week after the company released its fourth-quarter results, which included a huge drops in sales, dire warnings for the year to …

BOTHELL, Wash.-Infowave Software Inc., a global provider of software that connects enterprise applications to wireless devices announced its support for RIM BlackBerry 950 and 957 wireless pagers through Infowave’s Wireless …

Robert Gemmell is thinking about a group of people, scattered throughout the world, who each live in a nice house or apartment in a semi-rural area. These people want fast …

Wireless carriers like to promote the clarity of their digital wireless voice services every chance they get. Whether it’s in commercials or how they word press releases, each carrier wants …

Like the old dog that would not die, digital subscriber line and cable services continue to dwarf wireless in the house of the end user. Yet wireless, the new dog …

A variety of wireless operators released fourth quarter results last week, including national carrier VoiceStream Wireless Corp., regional operator Western Wireless Corp. and flat rate, local calling provider Leap Wireless …