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Rural Cellular Corp. said it is acquiring PCS spectrum from AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and one of its affiliates covering 1.9 million potential customers in Rural Cellular’s Northeast region and …

For some time now, the U.S. government has legislated that state emergency service authorities and cellular operators comply with an enhanced911 initiative that would ensure that mobile calls to emergency …

HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. said it won $70 million worth of GSM network expansion contracts from the Philippines’ Smart Communications Inc. Deliveries of equipment and services have already begun, the Finnish …

CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom-Mobile operators and mobile virtual network operators could lose up to 16 percent of revenue if they adopt the wrong pricing policy for messaging, content and entertainment (MCE) …

Rural Cellular Corp. said it is acquiring PCS spectrum from AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and one of its affiliates covering 1.9 million potential customers in Rural Cellular’s Northeast region and …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-TeliaSonera said it subsidiary Overseas Telecom has completed the disposal of its 26-percent stake in Indian mobile operator Bharti Mobile. Bharti Televentures purchased the stake. TeliaSonera, which is working …

TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo Inc. and Hong Kong-based Hutchison Whampoa Ltd. released further details and expanded their previously announced agreement to cooperate on the development and promotion of third-generation W-CDMA services. Under …

BONN, Germany-Lucent Technologies Inc. said it has won a multimillion dollar UMTS contract to supply German operator E-Plus with data networking equipment and services to manage and consolidate voice and …

MOSCOW-Chinese vendor Huawei Technologies said it won a frame contract valued at nearly $60 million with Russian mobile operator MegaFon. Huawei said it will help build a dual-band network to …

LONDON-Orange has formed a new alliance with Motorola Inc. for a range of devices tailored to the Orange brand that will be available in the second half of the year. …

LONDON-Vodafone Group plc announced several management changes yesterday in a move that seems to focus on third-generation marketing as the operator readies launches in several countries. Thomas Geitner, currently chief …

WASHINGTON-Tecore Wireless Systems said it is setting up a distribution center in Iraq to deploy GSM mobile-phone systems throughout the country. “Our established regional presence, experience with deployments in difficult …

MUNICH, Germany-Siemens said it will build a GSM/GPRS 1900 MHz network for Colombia Movil in Colombia. The Colombian operator will also equip its network with EDGE technology, Siemens said, giving …

TORONTO-A Canadian wireless operator is getting into the telecom bundling game, with Canada’s Microcell announcing an agreement with Sprint Canada Inc. to offer a residential wireline-wireless bundled service. The service, …

MONTREAL-Canadian operator Microcell said it will become the latest operator to launch the Sony Ericsson P800 smart phone. The phone first became available in Europe and the Middle East late …

TOKYO-J-Phone Company Ltd. said yesterday that the number of users of its Sha-mail picture messaging handsets exceeded 10 million. The Japanese operator was the first in the country to launch …

NEW YORK-A series of diverse mobile commerce announcements show the industry is still interested in the technology, with Japanese operator NTT DoCoMo Inc., start-up Network365 and a New York candy …

MURRAY HILL, N. J.-Lucent Technologies Inc. signed two separate contracts, one with a New Zealand operator and the other with a Chinese carrier. The U.S. vendor signed a five-year, $100 …

TORONTO-A Canadian mobile operator is getting into the bundling game, with Canada’s Microcell announcing an agreement with Sprint Canada Inc. to offer a residential wireline-wireless bundled service. The service, scheduled …

TOKYO-Japanese operator KDDI Corp. and Okinawa Cellular Telephone plan to offer a new payment collection service where charges for purchases through participating online shopping sites are invoiced to end users …

REDMOND, Wash.-As previously announced by Cesky Telecom, AT&T Wireless Services Inc. said it has signed an agreement to jointly sell with Verizon Communications Inc. a 49-percent interest in Czech Republic …

MONTREAL-Canadian operator Microcell said it will become the latest operator to launch the Sony Ericsson P800 smart phone. The phone first became available in Europe and the Middle East late …

MOSCOW-Russian mobile operator Mobile TeleSystems said it increased its ownership in Ukrainian Mobile Communications to 83.7 percent by acquiring an additional 26-percent stake in the Ukrainian operator. MTS paid Ukrtelecom …

For those who serenade wideband CDMA as the authentic third-generation protocol, Qualcomm Inc.-inspired cdma2000 is no more than a counterfeit David dueling the shadow of the giant to come. When …

MEXICO CITY-Verizon Communications Inc. and Vodafone Americas BV, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Vodafone Group plc, plan to sell their approximately 74 percent stake in Mexico’s third largest wireless operator Grupo …