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TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo, the leading mobile carrier in Japan, will launch flat-rate PHS service in April, NTT DoCoMo said Thursday. DDI Pocket, a PHS operator of KDDI Group, launched Japan’s first …

TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo, the leading mobile carrier in Japan, will launch flat-rate PHS service in April, NTT DoCoMo said Thursday. DDI Pocket, a PHS operator of KDDI Group, launched Japan’s first …

HOUSTON-Tower owner and operator Crown Castle International Corp.’s fourth-quarter 2002 results released late Wednesday reflected lower total revenues, but an increase in site rental and broadcast transmission revenues and an …

BERVERTON, Ore.-Tektronix Inc. said it has agreed to extend its partnership with China’s Research Institute of Telecommunications Transmission to develop GPRS networks and elements. “Tektronix’ history in China and its …

BEIJING-Qualcomm and China Unicom will jointly launch a GSM 1x trial in China’s Suzhou in the second quarter of the year. The purpose is to enable China Unicom’s GSM subscribers …

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-Mobile network operator MTN Nigeria announced it has broken the 1 million subscriber barrier, the first network operator in the country to achieve this. In addition, the company …

ATLANTA-Internet service provider EarthLink said it will sell wireless laptop modems running over a national CDMA 1xRTT network, a move that further expands the ISP’s wireless strategy. EarthLink wouldn’t say …

WASHINGTON-In an issue that could pit Japan and other Asian countries against the European Union (EU) at a major telecom meeting later this year in Geneva, the International Telecommunication Union …

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-Nigerian President Olsegun Obasanjo has cautioned GSM mobile operators against charging too-high tariffs for their services. Obasanjo made the remarks while at the official opening of the national …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Two Swedish mobile equipment suppliers announced plans to merge through a share exchange. LGP Telecom Holding, which manufactures radio coverage and data transmission products, said it will merge with …

TORONTO-Canadian carrier Bell Mobility announced it will begin offering basic location-based services through its new MyFinder application and that it plans to expand the service with additional features. The service …

TORONTO-Canadian carrier Bell Mobility announced it will begin offering basic location-based services through its new MyFinder application and that it plans to expand the service with additional features. The service …

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia-St. Petersburg-based Delta Telecom, an NMT 450 MHz carrier, launched the first commercial cdma2000 1x network based on the International Mobile Telecommunications-Multi Carrier (IMT-MC) standard and operating in …

TORONTO-Canadian carrier Bell Mobility announced it will begin offering basic location-based services through its new MyFinder application and that it plans to expand the service with additional features. The service …

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NEW YORK-Spirea AB, Kista, Sweden, a developer of integrated radio-frequency solutions for the short-range wireless markets, will make available during the second quarter of 2003 two new transceiver chips for …

BOSTON-TDK Systems introduced its Bluetooth application version 1.3 software designed to allow Bluetooth devices to exchange voice, images and data in support of advanced applications including MMS and imaging applications.The …

Once the domain of top secret British agents with licenses to kill, wireless handsets that include cameras are now available to the common man as wireless carriers and handset manufacturers …

Operators are continuing to cut wireless prices in order to try to court new customers to capture a larger share of fourth-quarter subscriber additions. The fourth quarter historically has been …

Even though accessing wireless data using wireless local area networks is a questionable revenue driver for wireless carriers, any operator without a clear 802.11b-based business model is seen by many …

TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo, the largest mobile operator in Japan, will launch a flat rate mobile service in the second quarter of 2003, the company said on Thursday. According to the firm, …

SAN DIEGO-Voyager Systems Inc., San Diego, has closed a $7.5 million initial round of venture financing, led by Hamilton Apex Technology Ventures that it will use to expand sales and …

OXFORD, United Kingdom-A new study by the Italian-based National Research Council (NRC) has reawakened the long-running debate over cell-phone health hazards by claiming that radio frequency (RF) transmissions cause cancerous …

TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo Inc. reported success with an experimental fourth-generation mobile transmission that provided data speeds of 100 megabits per second on the downlink and 20 Mbps on the uplink in …