Motorola is likely to introduce its first mobile TV handset supporting the DVB-H (digital video broadcasting-handheld) standard in 2007, according to Kinson Loo Kin Sang, Motorola’s vice president and general manager of its mobile devices business for Taiwan and Hong Kong.
Motorola has joined a consortium to bid for a trial operation license to provide [...]
Cingular Wireless, the largest U.S. mobile phone service carrier, said on Wednesday it will start selling Research in Motion’s new BlackBerry “Pearl” handheld device on Friday as both companies seek to boost sales during the holiday season.
The Pearl, the latest version of the BlackBerry handheld device used by thousands of corporate customers, has a digital [...]
Alcatel SA completed its acquisition of Lucent Technologies Inc. on Thursday, creating one of the world’s biggest suppliers of network equipment for mobile phones and high-speed Internet.
The deal, valued at around $11.5 billion and approved by President George W. Bush earlier this month, is expected to help both companies boost their competitive clout.
Their combined [...]
In October, subscriptions to all forms of communication technology increased, with the exception of mobile telephony subscriptions, the National Statistics Office reported yesterday.
The internet subscription index rose by 0.3 per cent as at end October. Narrowband and broadband subscriptions were recorded at 58,362 and 36,674 respectively.
In the month under review, the cable and digital television [...]
They may once have looked like the Keystone Cossacks. But Russia’s troika of top wireless operators — Mobile Telesystems , Vimpel Communications and Megafon — have delivered mobile phones to most of the country’s 143 million citizens in a few years.
The trio have tripped each other up repeatedly. They have frustrated investors with a shell [...]