Monthly Archives: June, 2002
Bell Canada buys back 4-percent stake from SBC
SAN ANTONIO-Bell Canada Holdings repurchased approximately 4 percent of SBC Communications Inc.'s 20-percent interest in the company for $870 million.The companies also entered an...
Tecnomen begins MMS trials in Dominican Republic, Indonesia
HELSINKI, Finland-Finnish supplier Tecnomen said it will begin multimedia messaging service trials in two countries, The Dominican Republic and Indonesia.The Dominican Republic trial will...
Eizel secures $4M in funding
PITTSBURGH-Eizel Technologies Inc., which offers technology to connect mobile devices to corporate information programs, announced it closed a seed round of investment funding totaling...
Marconi shares to delist from Nasdaq
LONDON-U.K. telecom player Marconi plc said on Friday that the company would be delisted from the Nasdaq on July 3. The company said its...
No cell phones in Pa. prisons
HARRISBURG, Pa.-Pennsylvania attorney general Mike Fisher, praised the General Assembly for passing Senate Bill 820, sponsored by Sen. Jake Corman, which would prohibit prison...
Nortel wins Edge Wireless GSM/GPRS contract
DALLAS-Edge Wireless L.L.C., a member of the AT&T Wireless network, signed a three-year contract with Nortel Networks to upgrade its current TDMA network to...
Zi garners Humax contract
CALGARY, Alberta-Zi Corp., which provides software for device interfaces, announced Humax Co. Ltd. licensed the company's eZiText for its digital set-top box products."Humax represents...
Autodesk releases new version of location platform
SAN RAFAEL, Calif.-Autodesk Location Services announced the third release of its Autodesk LocationLogic, a development platform for location-based services.Autodesk said LocationLogic 3 includes new...
U.S. Denso cuts jobs
SOUTHFIELD, Mich.-Denso International America Inc., North American headquarters for Japan-based Denso Corp., cut 177 U.S. jobs, citing delays in their customers' commercial telematics plans.The...
SFR to offer BlackBerrys in France
TORONTO-BlackBerrys will soon be available in France through Research In Motion Ltd.'s latest carrier deal.The company said it will sell the BlackBerry wireless e-mail...
Lightbridge shares suffer on lowered revenue expectations
BURLINGOTN, Mass.-Shares of Lightbridge Inc. took a hit Friday after the mobile business solution provider released new, lower-than-anticipated revenues for the second quarter ending...
Alcatel establishes 3G center in China
PARIS-Alcatel said it launched a 3G Reality Center in Shanghai, China, to develop and test advanced mobile applications and data services in the country.Alcatel...
Cellus licenses music rights from BMI
NEW YORK-Short message service company Cellus licensed music rights from BMI, giving the company access to 4.5 million musical works."We look forward to bringing...
South African mobile network opts for local software solution
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-South Africa's third cellular network operator Cell C has reportedly implemented a suite of locally developed business critical software solutions. The suite,...
China’s mobile subscribers top 170 million
BEIJING-China's Ministry of Information Industry (MII) announced the country had 170 million mobile subscribers and 196 million fixed-line users at the end of May.During...
Airtel, Escotel offer high-powered SIM cards in India
NEW DELHI, India-After consolidation of operations and brands, Indian GSM players are now turning to more competitive services by adding new features. This week,...
First GSM service launches in Brazil
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil-Oi, the new GSM operator owned by fixed-line operator Telemar, entered the country's mobile market on Tuesday, offering the country's first...
Mobile-phone output doubles in Shanghai
BEIJING-During the first five months of the year, output of mobile phones jumped 108 percent in Shanghai. Exports of information technology products by foreign-invested...
Indonesian cellular operator expands to WLAN services
JAKARTA, Indonesia-Confronting the fierce competition in its core business, Excelcomindo, Indonesia's GSM 900/1800 operator, spread its wings to provide wireless local area network (WLAN)...
Russian MTS launches in Belarus
MOSCOW-The biggest Russian carrier Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) finally launched a GSM 900/1800 MHz network in Belarus, thus making its first step into the Commonwealth...
Motorola to cut 7,000 more jobs, take US$3.5 billion charges
SCHAUMBURG, Illinois, United States-Motorola said it will shed 7,000 jobs and take charges of about US$3.5 billion, 90 percent of which will come out...
Philippine NTC asks to proceed with new mobile billing scheme
MANILA, The Philippines-The National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) has asked the Philippine Supreme Court (SC) to affirm a Court of Appeals decision allowing it to...
Telecom Argentina declares complete default on its debt
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-Telecom Argentina announced on Monday it cannot pay even the interest on its debt of US$2.4 billion, further extending the default declared...
First MVNO in South America launches in Bolivia
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-The Telecommunications Cooperative of Santa Cruz (Cotas) has become the first mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) in the region by launching its...
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