France Telecom is this week expected to walk away from future obligations at MobilCom, condemning the German mobile operator to bankruptcy. MobilCom shares yesterday lost more than half their value despite reassuring statements from the company an…

Fonix, developer of natural interface technology, has announced that it will port its applications to XScale processors and take advantage of Intel’s MMX extensions.

Users will be able to control mobile devices such as smartphones and PDAs with…

The US Federal Communications Commission is set to free several major operators from their commitments to pay up for spectrum licences. Several mobile companies in the US had bid a total USD 16 billion for the spectrum licences owned by bankrupt m…

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…