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NEW DELHI, India—More operators in Africa are going in for fraud management systems to maximize revenues. Sonatel Mobiles of Senegal in Western Africa will soon deploy fraud management software (FMS) …

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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa—MTN Nigeria recently launched its Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) services. This latest development reflects the company’s ongoing drive to expand mobile telephony values beyond those of voice communication …

HELSINKI, Finland—Nokia said it has launched a TDMA/GSM phone model, which will enable roaming in the United States, Europe and other parts of the world. Nokia believes it is the …

LONDON—The owners of Vizzavi Europe, a mobile portal formed in May 2000, announced a revised revenue model, along with the departure of the company’s chief executive officer (CEO) and a …

NEW YORK—The U.S.-based Wireless Advertising Association announced it will merge with the United Kingdom-based Wireless Marketing Association in order to foster the mobile marketing industry and protect the interests of …

DALLAS, United States—Nokia continued its massive push for its open mobile architecture initiative by signing some of the world’s largest information and technology infrastructure and application server vendors, including BEA …

OXFORD, United Kingdom—KPN Mobile, the financially troubled Dutch operator, will later this month start the first practical i-mode tests in Europe through its joint venture with Japan’s NTT DoCoMo. The …

JAKARTA, Indonesia—Malaysia’s TimeCel recently launched an interactive short message service (SMS) quiz promotion. The promotion, called Juara Lagu 2001 SMS Quiz, runs from 1 to 14 December. Juara Lagu is …

PARIS—French mobile music services company Musiwap changed its name to Musiwave. The company said it replaced the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP)-focused name to better reflect the company’s focus on various …

NEW DELHI, India—The fate of a 4.5 million line GSM tender floated by the government-owned BSNL hangs in balance as the governmental Department of Telecommunications (DoT) is insisting on price …

MADRID, Spain—Spanish mobile operator Telef

MAISONS-LAFFITTE, France—Webraska announced it is going to supply Orange U.K. with upgrades to Orange’s existing multimedia location-based services. The upgraded service will allow users to be automatically located by the …

MUNICH, Germany—Polish mobile operator PTC-Era has chosen a location-based services platform from Siemens and SignalSoft for delivery via Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) and short message service (SMS). PTC-Era is the …

HELSINKI, Finland—Nokia has signed an agreement with Omnitel, a Lithuanian GSM operator, for the supply and installation of additional switching capacity to expand Omnitel’s network capacity and modernize its switching …

TOKYO—KDDI, the second-largest mobile operator in Japan, announced it will launch location services using the global positioning system (GPS) satellite system and motion picture services with 64 kilobits per second …

BELLEVUE, Washington, United States—InfoSpace and Vodafone Australia announced they are extending their business agreement in a move to continue to work together to offer wireless Internet services in Australia. The …

LONDON—The WAP Forum and the GSM Association announced they will formalize and strengthen their cooperative alliance, collaborating on projects such as the GSM Association’s M-Services initiative, which is based on …

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—The WAP Forum, which works to foster the growth of the Wireless Application Protocol standard, named Robert L. Brown, the former chairman of the GSM Association North American …

HELSINKI, Finland-Scandinavia has long been the most fertile and concentrated spawning ground for technology innovation in Europe. The torchbearers for this culture have been led by global names such as …

DUBLIN, Ireland-European mobile operators realize they must work much harder to sell new subscriptions as GSM market penetration reaches saturation point, with no immediate sign of commercial third-generation (3G) applications …

VILNIUS, Lithuania—Lithuania’s Omnitel introduced a virtual chat service called Plepek!, which allows communications via short message service, the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) and the Internet. The open chat groups include …

BURLINGTON, Massachusetts, United States—CTI Squared said Israel’s Bezeq has begun a unified messaging trial called OneMail using CTI’s unified messaging application. Access to the service will be available by fixed …

PARIS—Telfort and Postbank in Norway have selected SchlumbergerSema’s Subscriber Wireless Application Protocol Identify Module (SWIM) card to provide public key infrastructure for their m-banking service. The service, which launched earlier …

BUCHAREST, Romania—MobileCom announced it will showcase some of its latest mobile services at METS 2001, being held from 23-27 October. MobileCom will offer hands-on demonstrations of its information-on-demand service, Clickit; …