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TOKYO-Japan hopes to stoke competition in its hard-to-penetrate mobile-phone market by allowing three new entrants to offer wireless services. The country’s telecommunications ministry opened the door for Softbank Corp., eAccess Ltd. and IPMobile Inc. to introduce new wireless handsets and …

The coming surge of mobile virtual network operators will target virtually every demographic, from ethnic groups to sports fans to rural users. But no group of consumers is being courted as much as America’s youth. As wireless enters the multimedia …

Chinese officials may wait until next year to award licenses for third-generation technology, according to a prediction by market research firm iSuppli Corp. The firm said that recent setbacks in testing TD-SCDMA technology-the country’s homegrown 3G technology-may cause the Chinese …

Chinese officials may wait until next year to award licenses for third-generation technology, according to a prediction by market research firm iSuppli Corp. The firm said that recent setbacks in testing TD-SCDMA technology-the country’s homegrown 3G technology-may cause the Chinese …

WASHINGTON-The Japanese Embassy today confirmed the government plans to add three competitors to the mobile-phone market, a move that comes after months of prodding by the U.S. trade representative and an aborted lawsuit against the telecom ministry by hard-charging wireless …

WASHINGTON-Softbank Corp. said the Japanese government authorized it to operate an experimental third-generation mobile-phone base station in the 1.7 GHz band using W-CDMA technology. Softbank, a major broadband player in Japan, has been aggressively trying to crack Japan’s 3G wireless …

WASHINGTON-Softbank Corp., the Japanese Internet company trying to muscle or possibly buy its way into that country’s mobile-phone market, has crashed the party here by breaking with U.S. and foreign mobile-phone carriers that do not want any further American intervention …

Japan, which has uncanny savvy in developing and marketing mobile-phone services, has now taken wireless lobbying to a lofty level that would shame the wiliest of American influence peddlers. Softbank Corp. has taken a page right out of our playbook …

WASHINGTON-While the Bush administration pursues a traditional carrot-and-stick approach to prod Japan into further liberalizing its wireless market, a Japanese telecom firm needing a wireless play is mounting an unorthodox challenge to the Japanese establishment by using high-powered American lawyers …

iPass announced it has exceeded its goal of having 10,000 active hot spots in its Global Broadband Roaming network by the end of the second quarter of 2004, counting at the end of June more than 11,179 hot spots in …

TOKYO-Japanese ADSL high-speed Internet service provider Softbank applied for a license with the Japanese telecom regulator to test a third-generation mobile-phone technology, according to international press reports. The company applied for a license for a field trial of TD-CDMA technology. …

TOKYO—Softbank and McDonald’s Company (Japan) announced they will jointly launch wireless local area network (WLAN) services at McDonald’s outlets. Starting in the latter half of May, they will launch an experimental service at 20 outlets in Tokyo. Users of the …

SAN FRANCISCO—Following a recent annual meeting, venture capital firm SoftBank Venture Capital announced it will change its name to Mobius Venture Capital, a move it said reflects its independent status. The company also announced its funding of two wireless companies, …

NEW YORK-The worst is just behind or dead ahead for technology stocks, depending on whether you believe the bull or the bear who shared the dais at the New York Society of Security Analysts’ “Internet Economy Conference.” Federal Reserve Board …

Two companies are fusing their ideas together to help further ideas for profit in the wireless Internet space. IdeaEdge Ventures and Startupfactory have entered into an international alliance to launch mobile Internet businesses around the world. IdeaEdge Ventures helps develop …

HILLSBORO, Ore.-There are a variety of wireless e-mail services ready to satisfy the needs of e-mail junkies stuck in a meeting or an airport who are dying to know the contents of their beloved inbox. But one service is beginning …

DALLAS-Looking to increase its presence in the consumer market, WebLink Wireless Inc. formed distribution deals with Kmart Corp. and BlueLight.com, the latter an independent e-commerce company formed by Kmart and Softbank Investment Capital. According to the deal, Kmart will offer …

BELLEVUE, Wash.-Several former executives of Microsoft Corp. and McCaw Cellular have joined other wireless industry pioneers to form Ignition Corp., a holding company designed to fund, mentor and help build wireless Internet start-up companies. Ignition has raised an initial $140 …

August 17-18 Alexander Resources. Marriott Courtyard Crystal City, Washington, D.C. (800) 948-8225 or (972) 818-8225. Wireless Number Portability Forum August 18 Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association. Westin City Center Hotel, Washington, D.C. (202) 736-3224. Wireless Interconnection ’98 August 18-19 Bellcore. Sheraton …

Mobile & Fixed Wireless Networks and Services Seminar July 6-7 Alexander Resources. Marriott Courtyard Crystal City, Washington, D.C. (800) 948-8225 or (972) 818-8225. Signalling System 7 and Intelligent Networks July 6-8 IBC UK Conferences Ltd. The Rutherford Conference Centre, London. …