Yearly Archives: 2001

Nokia owns 37 percent of phone market

Transition is the word of the year, according to UBS Warburg's analysis of mobile handset sales for the first quarter and forecast for the...

Powell says third in 3G race is OK for now

WASHINGTON-The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission last week said he only partially agreed with an exhortation by the secretary-general of the International Telecommunication...

Centerpost, Infotriever form alliance

CHICAGO-Centerpost Corp. and Infotriever Inc. announced an alliance to combine and co-market their technologies in order to offer businesses a new communication product.Centerpost, which...

GAO: DoD interference program too new to tell

The General Accounting Office said a new procurement program established by the Department of Defense to ensure that new weapons systems do not interfere...

FCC may drop analog set-aside rule

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission proposed rules that could lead to the eventual end of analog cellular service, a move that could hurt telematics and...

CTIA expected to move on MSS spectrum petition

WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association late Friday petitioned the Federal Communications Commission to reallocate spectrum assigned to struggling mobile satellite firms to cellular...

WAVE message: We need apps

LAS VEGAS-For an industry obsessed about the future, to the point where it often forgets to tackle the issues of today, Cingular's Wireless Alliances...

Spectrum policy, MVNOs on the `Wireless Agenda’ in Dallas

DALLAS-Among the ever-present winds of Eastern Texas, The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association last week hosted a somewhat intimate Wireless Agenda 2001 conference that...

Palm, Extended Systems break off engagement

Citing the slowdown in the U.S. economy and market conditions, personal digital assistant stalwart Palm Inc. and Extended Systems Inc., which provides mobile information...

Intel, BT to cooperate on mobile Internet apps

AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands-Intel Corp. and British Telecommunications plc's BTexact Technologies and BT Wireless businesses said they will work together to develop applications and services...

RIM ready to branch out

While seven-digit numbers are usually reserved for a company's bottom line or telephone number, the seven digits in 6,219,694are of extra importance to Canadian-based...

Coltan controversy: Phone component illegally mined, hurts environment, people

WASHINGTON-The wireless industry may be an unwitting accomplice to mass-scale looting of an African mineral used in mobile-phone capacitors, a situation some believe is...

Chances faint for WebLink-Metrocall connection

Just days before embarking on an unprecedented merger under concurrent Chapter 11 bankruptcy filings, Metrocall Inc. pulled out of its deal with WebLink Wireless...

China opens to cdma2000

With four big CDMA infrastructure contracts ramped up last week by China Unicom, the country's second-largest operator, the Asian nation is on pace to...

Alcatel, Lucent link?

As the news swirls around Wall Street, analysts think a possible merger between Alcatel Alsthom of France and Lucent Technologies Inc. may not only...

GSM reaches 500 million

LONDON-Supporters of GSM, including the Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA) and the GSM Association, celebrated as the technology's subscriber base reached 500 million last...

Telecom New Zealand allies with Hutchison on 3G

WELLINGTON, New Zealand-Hutchison has teamed with Telecom New Zealand to launch third-generation services in the Australian market and in New Zealand. New operating companies...

Subcommittee agrees mobile phones distract, wants more data

WASHINGTON-Wireless phone use while driving is a distraction, but should phone use while driving be banned? Not unless more data proves they are the...

AT&T, Nextel must supply more E911 data

WASHINGTON-The FCC's Wireless Telecommunications Bureau on Thursday denied a request from AT&T Wireless Services Inc. to keep confidential test results showing some enhanced 911...

Nortel COO resigns

Illness and retirement at Nortel Networks Corp.'s leadership level has set in motion a search for a successor for John Roth, the telecom equipment...

Teligent forced to cut more jobs

The roller-coaster ride local multipoint distribution services provider Teligent Inc. is on took an unwelcome dip last week when the company announced it cut...

Omnisky reports increased revenue

SAN FRANCISCO-OmniSky Corp.'s first-quarter results reflected an increase in revenue as well as net loss, though the loss was not as extreme as some...

Wi-Lan technology OK’d by FCC

CALGARY-The Federal Communications Commission ruled Wi-Lan Inc.'s wideband-Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing technology will be authorized for use in the unlicensed 2.4 GHz frequency band,...

DoCoMo suspends sales of Sony i-mode phones

Japan's premier operator NTT DoCoMo has suspended sales of its i-mode-enabled Sony phones because of glitches that will make it possible for third-party providers...

GAIT to open GSM-TDMA door

Top players in both the vendor and carrier space are pitching in to advance GAIT-GSM ANSI Interoperability Team-a new network standard that fuses TDMA...
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