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SAN FRANCISCO-Starbucks Coffee Co., Hewlett-Packard Co. and T-Mobile International have combined to launch a hot spot service in Starbucks coffee houses, allowing customers to connect to Internet applications using 802.11b technology."As easy as ordering their latte, Starbucks customers can check e-mail, surf the Web,...

BERLIN-Deutsche Telekom AG's recently appointed chief executive officer told a German newspaper last week that the company would accelerate a restructuring program and might pull out of some foreign markets in an attempt to reduce its considerable debt load.Helmut Sihler said the company planned...

ARMONK, N.Y.-Technology giant IBM Corp. released an important new product the company said allows wireless device users to seamlessly roam across a variety of disparate wireless networks-including wireless local area network, cellular, private mobile radio and satellite networks-all without ever turning off the device.IBM...

MUNICH, Germany-T-Mobile said two of its subsidiaries will contribute to helping the victims of the flooding in parts of Europe.RadioMobile in the Czech Republic is donating about $16,000 to a special fund announced by the Czech Red Cross to provide humanitarian aid for the...

DENVER, United States-VoiceStream Wireless' launch of wireless service last month in the U.S. states of California and Nevada not only provided the country's smallest nationwide operator with a footprint in a pair of lucrative markets, but also was the carrier's first public launch of...

PALO ALTO, Calif.-Danger Inc. reported a partnership with T-Mobile USA to develop and sell products based on Danger's Hiptop platform and services. The deal also calls for T-Mobile to be the first wireless operator to offer the Hiptop-enabled device, named the T-Mobile Sidekick, later...

BELLEVUE, Washington, United States-T-Mobile USA, which is known as VoiceStream Wireless in most of the country, launched its T-Mobile-branded Windows Powered Pocket PC Phone Edition for its T-Mobile and VoiceStream customers.The US$600 voice-enabled personal digital assistant (PDA) is powered by Microsoft's software, allowing users...

As the battle for the multimedia messaging service (MMS) market in Europe begins to heat up among the region's wireless carriers, the fight for the MMS infrastructure market has largely drawn to a close-and the undisputed winner is Ericsson."The leader in the MMSC (multimedia...

BELLEVUE, Wash.-Currently known as VoiceStream, T-Mobile today broke into the U.S. market, launching voice and data services in California and Nevada. T-Mobile's Get More services, promoted by spokeswoman Catherine Zeta-Jones, work over a GSM network that promises "more minutes, more features and more services...

OXFORD, United Kingdom-The rebranding that is being implemented by some of the large European cell-phone operators as they push toward a worldwide identity seems to be failing, according to advertising executives. Two operators, T-Mobile and MmO2, have attracted the most criticism as they attempt...

BONN, Germany—Research In Motion Ltd. continues to push its voice-capable BlackBerry, with wireless giant T-Mobile now selling the product and Retrieval Dynamics Corp. lined up as a select reseller of the device in the United States."The corporate market is a critical market with more...

BELLEVUE, Wash.—VoiceStream Wireless Corp.'s parent company T-Mobile International Inc. announced actress Catherine Zeta-Jones would be the global spokeswoman for the company's various wireless services. For the U.S. market, Zeta-Jones will replace current VoiceStream spokeswoman Jamie Lee Curtis whose contract runs out at the end...

OXFORD, United Kingdom—While the cost of integrating a camera into a cell phone is only US$10, silicon chip developer STMicroelectronics has complained that European terminal makers are resisting the move to multimedia messaging service (MMS). The company, which recently acquired the camera-on-a-chip pioneer Vision...

HELSINKI, Finland—Carriers and vendors across the world continue to refine and define their strategies for offering multimedia messaging services, which many in the industry hope will open the way for significant wireless data revenues.News on the front continues to come in massive waves, with...

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, it is more likely to be an extreme but isolated example of operator control...

OXFORD, United Kingdom—Peter Erskine, chief executive officer (CEO) of MmO2, stated that mobile data is essential to the growth of the cell-phone industry and claims that from 2005, it will account for more than 90 percent of total mobile revenue growth. To support this...

DUBLIN, Ireland—The latest shareholder criticism of the performance of its parent company Deutsche Telekom has made it more likely that T-Mobile will finally be sold within the next 12 months to help reduce debts running to tens of billions of Euro, even though it...

FRANKFURT, Germany—Deutsche Telekom's chief executive, Ron Sommer, told investors at the company's annual meeting that the telecommunications giant plans to cut 22,000 jobs, or about 9 percent of its work force, by the end of 2004 in an attempt to cut costs and reduce...

SAN FRANCISCO—European giant T-Mobile will use nGame's Java QuickStart Program to launch Java gaming applications throughout its coverage area, nGame announced.NGame's QuickStart product allows carriers to roll out Java-capable games in less than three months and includes an over-the-air provisioning server.In other Java-related news,...

BONN, Germany—German telecommunications giant Deutsche Telekom reported its T-Mobile wireless division posted $4.1 billion in revenue for the first quarter of this year compared with $2.5 billion reported for the first quarter last year. The company attributed the increase to positive effects of its...

OVERLAND PARK, Kan.—Sprint PCS signed a letter of intent with eOne Global, an affiliate of electronic payment provider First Data Corp., to establish a mobile payment network enabling customers to make purchases and payments with their wireless devices.A similar plan was recently announced by...

STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Wireless giant Ericsson continued to lead the multimedia messaging service infrastructure industry through its new deal with T-Mobile. T-Mobile will use Ericsson's MMS center to launch services in its Hungary market and plans to roll out similar services in its German, Austrian and...

OXFORD, United Kingdom—European cell-phone operators seem in no rush to sign General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) roaming agreements with their counterparts over fears of technology mismatches. Given that GPRS services are targeted at corporate users, industry analysts are blaming this absence of cross-border roaming...

DUBLIN, Ireland—Following similar deals signed earlier this year with Nokia and Siemens, T-Mobile International has chosen Nortel Networks to supply Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) equipment for its third-generation (3G) services scheduled to go live in the second half of 2002."The selection of Nortel...