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PARIS—Maporama announced a partnership with Navigation Technologies that will enhance location-based service offerings for Italy’s WIND Telecomunicazioni customers. “Maporama is excited to provide its industry-leading technology to forward-thinking operator WIND …

NEW YORK—Still smarting from low operator demand, Lucent Technologies Inc. said it expects its quarterly revenue to fall by 10 percent to 15 percent from the previous quarter’s $3.52 billion, …

VIENNA, Austria—Mobilkom Austria said it acquired a 5-percent stake in Croatia’s VIPnet from Ingra, increasing its stake to 71 percent from 66 percent. The value of the transaction was not …

ROME—Telekom Austria has acquired Telecom Italia Mobile’s 25-percent stake in mobile operator Mobilkom Austria for $676 million, of which $651.5 is the purchase price and $24.5 million is the dividend …

TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo Inc. said its Taiwanese partner KG Telecommunications will begin i-mode service on June 20. The operator will launch i-mode services on its GPRS network. Content from about 80 …

Permit issues could delay operator rollouts HELSINKI, Finland-PTS, Sweden’s telecom regulatory authority, appears to have accepted the general position adopted by operators that meeting the 2002 deadline for rollout of …

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DUBLIN, Ireland—The pressure on dominant Irish mobile operator Vodafone Ireland has intensified with the revelation that Vodafone Group is expecting its Irish operation to improve its performance in line with …

TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo said its Taiwanese partner KG Telecommunications will begin i-mode service on 20 June. The operator will launch i-mode services on its General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) network. Content …

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa—Mobile network operator Econet Wireless Nigeria announced it will enter a promotion surrounding the 2002 World Cup soccer event. The company is expected to spend about US$260,000 on …

ATLANTA—Agilent Technologies Inc. introduced a new remote monitoring system for cdmaOne or cdma2000 wireless networks that it said lowers expenses for service providers and increases efficiency for technicians at this …

BOSTON—Canadian wireless operator Microcell Telecommunications Inc. launched SpeechWorks International Inc.’s speech-activated customer service application for its Fido brand wireless service. The SpeechWorks service is designed to allow customers to automatically …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Swefour AB was awarded the fourth GSM license in Sweden by the Swedish National Post and Telecom Agency. Swefour plans to set up a network and offer capacity to …

WASHINGTON—The Bush administration and Japan made little progress last week in talks on interconnection fees charged by NTT DoCoMo, putting on hold a relatively minor dispute with potentially enormous trade …

DUBLIN, Ireland—The imminent launch of the XDA, an O2-branded mobile device manufactured specifically for that operator, is clear evidence that European operators are demanding more input into handset development. However, …

TOKYO—KDDI, the second-largest operator in Japan, announced that in cooperation with SK Telecom in Korea it launched an image data transmission service between users of the two operators. It is …

JAKARTA, Indonesia—After offering free General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) services since last November, Indonesia’s IM3 finally decided to release its GPRS price plan commencing in June. At first, IM3 decided …

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa—South Africa’s third mobile cellular operator Cell C has reported that it has broken through the 500,000 subscriber mark and is on track to meet its revised target …

BUCHAREST, Romania—Jordan’s second-largest mobile operator MobileCom launched commercial General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) access for its customers over its GSM network this week. MobileCom was first registered on 21 September, …

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia—Incumbent operator DiGi.com decided against bidding for a third-generation license in Malaysia, but five groups did submit bids for one of the country’s three licenses on offer. The …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Several groups are lining up to bid for Italian company Blu, the country’s smallest mobile operator. Sweden’s Tele2 AB partnered with Star Capital Partners and has made an offer …

TORONTO—Canadian operator Rogers AT&T Wireless reported an agreement with InfoSpace Inc. to launch an English and French-language SMS service dubbed EasyInfo on the carrier’s TDMA and GSM/GPRS network. The service …

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa—Ericsson said it has rolled out a mobile network in the remote northwestern area of Tanzania to link three major refugee camps to the outside world. The network, …

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa—Nigerian Communications Minster Bell Haliru Mohammed has said that the US$306 million in proceeds from the fixed wireless access (FWA) license auction will be used to develop rural …

OXFORD, United Kingdom—A joint venture between Orange and U.K.-based cable operator NTL should soon enable Orange cell-phone users to order digital content and have it downloaded via NTL’s broadband connection …