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HELSINKI, Finland—Sonera said it reached a deal with other shareholders of the Dutch holding company Fintur Holdings that will allow Sonera to increase its stake in the GSM businesses of …

HELSINKI, Finland—Sonera said it reached a deal with other shareholders of the Dutch holding company Fintur Holdings B.V. that will allow Sonera to increase its stake in the GSM businesses …

JAKARTA, Indonesia—Southeast Asian operators are predicted to face unprecedented growth in data traffic during the coming years. Operators in the region have witnessed a surge in data traffic through short …

WHITE PLAINS, New York, United States—NextWave Telecom and bankrupt fixed wireless company Teligent were given approval by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court to transfer approximately US$1 million in telecommunications assets, including …

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.—NextWave Telecom Inc. and bankrupt fixed wireless company Teligent were given approval by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court to transfer approximately $1 million in telecommunications assets, including transmission equipment …

TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo Inc. and its regional subsidiaries Tokai and Kansai said they will expand their respective FOMA next-generation mobile service areas in early March, with subsidiaries Hokkaido, Tohoku, Hokuriku, Chugoku, …

SAN DIEGO, United States—PacketVideo is targeting carriers with pv3 Mobilemedia system, a new multimedia delivery system that includes encoding, transmission and decoding products that enable delivery of high-quality audio and …

BERLIN—The mobile division of Deutsche Telekom, T-Mobile, has forcefully indicated that it plans to be the first to launch third-generation (3G) services in Germany. The company announced plans to deploy …

TOKYO—J-Phone, the third-largest mobile carrier in Japan, announced it will launch a new e-mail service with motion pictures. According to J-Phone, which is now a Vodafone Group company, using the …

EINDHOVEN, The Netherlands—Royal Philips Electronics said it has successfully concluded a trial of its solution for delivering multimedia content and applications over wireless networks using Verizon Wireless’ Express Network data …

HELSINKI, Finland—Sonera, the Helsinki-based telecom company, has abandoned its fixed monthly connection charge for its consumer General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) offering in a move designed to increase use of …

EINDHOVEN, The Netherlands—Royal Philips Electronics said it has successfully concluded a trial of its solution for the delivery of multimedia content and applications over wireless networks using Verizon Wireless’ Express …

TORONTO—Research in Motion (RIM), the maker of the popular BlackBerry pager, announced a major alliance with Motorola and Nextel Communications to develop a combined e-mail, pager and telephone device for …

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—Following the postponement until May of the personal communications services (PCS) and third-generation (3G) licenses auction, Uruguay has added the possibility of a plebiscite to decide on the …

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia—The development of the pan-Russian Megafon project of St. Petersburg-based Telecominvest holding has prompted a series of acquisitions, as the initially “virtual” project reported 1 million clients in …

TOKYO—Kyocera, a leading telecom vender in Japan, and Hanaro Telecom, a leading carrier in Korea, reached an agreement regarding the next-generation high-speed mobile data business, Kyocera announced on 22 January. …

TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo Inc. said it may not sign up the 150,000 subscribers to its third-generation (3G) network by the end of March it predicted when it launched the service last …

BUCHAREST, Romania—EuroTel Praha, the Czech GSM operator, announced that with the help of a movable base station connected to the EuroTel network, members of the Czech army can make mobile …

SAN JOSE, California, United States—DMC Stratex Networks announced an agreement with Spescom to distribute Stratex Networks’ wireless broadband transmission equipment for the South African, Namibian, Mozambican and Lesotho markets. “Apart …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Swedish service provider iobox launched Germany’s first public wireless location arena network system at the Kempinski Vier Jahreszeiten Hotel in Munich using equipment from Swedish vendor Service Factory. Iobox …

TOKYO—DDI Pocket, Japan’s largest PHS operator, is going to launch a 128 kilobits per second (kbps) data transmission service on 26 March, the carrier announced on 17 January. DDI Pocket, …

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—Cellular operator Smartcom PCS has launched its 2.5-generation (2.5G) service in the city of Santiago de Chile using 1XRTT technology. Thus, Smartcom PCS follows the path initiated by …

TOKYO—A governmental advisory body for the telecommunications ministry on 16 January decided to revise the telecom regulation to let operators use the OFDM system for their wireless local area network …

TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo Inc. said it may not sign up the 150,000 subscribers to its third-generation network by the end of March it predicted when it launched the service last October, …