November 2001

REDWOOD CITY, California, United States—SkyGo has been chosen to provide Japan Mobile Communications (J-Mobile) with the wireless marketing technology to deliver advertisements across J-Sky, J-Phone’s mobile Internet service. J-Mobile, a …

HAMAMATSU City, Shizuoka, Japan—Yamaha said it will distribute a range of single-tone ringing melodies for subscribers of KG Telecommunications igogo service in Taiwan beginning 3 December. Yamaha is a leading …

BUCHAREST, Romania—Albania’s newest mobile telephone operator, Vodafone Albania, said it is building out its network at record speed. Vodafone Albania has extended its coverage since its August launch and is …

NEW DELHI, India—Thailand’s ACT Mobile, the GSM 1900 MHz company floated by government telecom agencies TOT and CAT, has decided to appoint a marketing partner to market its soon-to-be-launched services …

BEIJING—The number of mobile-phone subscribers in China increased to 136 million in the first 10 months of the year. The country also has 175 million fixed-line subscribers. China Mobile’s fixed-asset …

BELLEVUE, Washington, United States—MobileGIS announced the availability of GeoMobilIT, its single platform for development and deployment of location-based services. According to MobileGIS, the new platform geographically covers the entire Earth; …

BEIJING—NEC is having talks with Matsushita Communications Industrial to explore details of establishing an advanced cellular phone handset joint venture focusing on the Chinese market. “Consideration is under way to …

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados-Centennial Digital Jamaica has become the third company to bring mobile cellular service to Jamaicans. Chief Operating Officer James Beneda said the company’s use of CDMA technology will allow …

HELSINKI, Finland-LPG Innovations announced that as a result of a recent partnership agreement with IBM, its fixed and mobile Internet service brokering platform, sBroker, will be integrated into IBM’s WebSphere …

MONTREAL—Telesystem International Wireless Inc. (TIW) announced its investors have agreed to a recapitalization plan including the restructuring of its subordinated debentures and an increase in its economic ownership in ClearWave …

AUSTIN, Texas—Broadband technology company Bandspeed Inc. and Bluetooth protocol stack provider Open Interface North America announced a new product that combines Bandspeed’s AFH HubMaster with Open Interface’s BlueMagic AFH protocol …

BURNABY, British Columbia—Telus announced it is currently conducting a trial of a voice portal service that delivers location-based information on businesses, restaurants, events, movies and directions, as well as more …

DALLAS—IVB Network Solutions, a division of InterVoice-Brite, introduced its Omvia Advantage strategic initiative to provide multi-tiered value propositions for network operators designed to promote profitability by increasing revenue and reducing …

HELSINKI, Finland—Nokia has signed an agreement with Omnitel, a Lithuanian GSM operator, for the supply and installation of additional switching capacity to expand Omnitel’s network capacity and modernize its switching …

HAYWARD, Calif.—Certicom announced its Digital Rights Management and content protection security technology and services are being used to provide secure data transmissions in new wireless applications from Honeywell and XM …

TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo Inc. said it will begin marketing Personal Handyphone System handsets compatible with Bluetooth technology beginning Dec. 3. The wireless carrier said the browser-enabled phone, dubbed Paldio 633S, will …

SANTA CLARA, Calif.—Personal assistant maker Palm Inc. said it would report second-quarter revenues of between $250 and $280 million—meeting the upper end of its prior guidance and significantly beating analyst …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Appear Networks announced the delivery of its Appear Provisioning Server 2.0 for enterprises and wireless service providers. According to Appear, the server extends the scope of wireless deployments and …

HELSINKI, Finland—Nokia Corp. has allied with companies with banking and financial expertise to produce and market software for mobile and online financial services using open standards. The companies are 3I, …

TOKYO—Fujitsu Ltd. licensed Symbian’s operating system for use in the company’s third-generation mobile phones, further adding to the long list of Symbian licensees. Fujitsu joins Nokia, Ericsson, Motorola, Kenwood, Panasonic …

SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y.—Rovenet Inc. has released the latest version of its P-Fax software, which permits users of handheld computers to send, receive and, for the first time, view faxes on these …

UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif.—Fans of the “Jurassic Park” movie series will soon be able to get their hands on what is likely a wireless industry first—branded disposable mobile phones. The phones, …

NAPA, Calif.—eONE Global has completed it acquisition of the M-Business division of Brokat Technologies, and it announced plans to operate it as Encorus Technologies, which it said will focus on …

OSLO, Norway—Norway’s Telenor Mobile said it will open its third-generation network on Dec. 1 according to its license conditions. The Universal Mobile Telecommunications System network will initially cover central areas …

SINGAPORE—SchlumbergerSema announced that its Hong Kong smart card manufacturing facility has been certified by the GSM Association’s Security Accreditation Scheme (SAS). SchlumbergerSema is the first smart card supplier in Asia …