Moody’s today announced that it has downgraded the long-term credit rating of Ericsson from Ba1 to Ba2, removing the Credit Watch status, but leaving the Outlook Negative.

Our short-term rating was not under review and is not affected by this a…

French telecoms equipment maker Alcatel said on Thursday it saw bright growth prospects in South East Asia and named Malaysia as its regional launch pad for its third-generation (3G) mobile communications products. Alcatel, one of the world’s bigg…

Australia’s largest mobile operator Telstra may switch to CDMA2000 1x as its 3G standard. Currently 10% of the company’s 5.9 million mobile customers are on a CDMA network, which is relatively easy to upgrade to 3G.

Telstra is currently testing…

Intel emphasised its commitment to the wireless technology industry with the announcement of broad initiatives at its Developer Forum event. Building on its Personal Client Architecture (PCA), which is already used in XScale-powered devices such a…

The European Commission has reached a preliminary decision on the future of 3G network sharing, bringing good news for two international mobile operators. The UK-based O2 group and Germany’s T-Mobile proposed a scheme some time ago which would see…

Richard Owen has announced that he will resign as CEO of AvantGo from 30th September 2002, the close of the company’s current financial quarter. AvantGo also expects to transfer trading of its shares to the Nadaq Small Cap market following a susta…

Sales of Nokia Mobile Phones in the third quarter are expected to grow by 4% – 9%, compared with the third quarter 2001. Nokia sees mobile phone profitability in line, if not exceeding, earlier expectations. Pro forma operating margins are expecte…

Metrowerks has announced the availability of CodeWarrior Development Suite for Symbian OS Professional Edition, Version 2.0.

The development tool is the first to support on-device debugging for handsets running Symbian OS 7.0. SonyEricsson’s P8…