Japan's Kyocera Corporation recently announced that the company has integrated its Kyocera- and Sanyo-branded wireless device businesses for North and Latin America into a new company headquartered in San Diego, United States, according to a press release by the company on April 1. Named Kyocera Communications, the new company incorporates the sales, marketing, and service functions of Kyocera Wireless, a subsidiary formed by acquiring Qualcomm's wireless phone business in 2000, and Kyocera Sanyo Telecom, another unit established through the purchase of Sanyo Electric's wireless phone business in April 2008. At present, Kyocera's global communication equipment product headquarters is located in Yokohama, Japan. The Yokohama headquarters will remain in charge of global coordination and engineering operations, according to the press release.

The newly formed Kyocera Communications also announced that it has joined the ng Connect Program, a multi-industry organization dedicated to pushing the next-generation mobile broadband LTE (Long Term Evolution) services and other broadband technologies. Spanning five major application and solution categories - consumer media and entertainment, enterprise collaboration/e-healthcare and productivity, automotive connectivity, digital signage, and broadband computing - ng Connect Program numbers Alcatel-Lucent and Samsung among its members.