2001

SUNNYVALE, Calif.—Mirapoint announced China Telecom purchased the company’s messaging products and will offer the services to customers in the Guangxi province. The announcement comes just weeks after Mirapoint released new versions of its messaging products.

RESTON, Va.—Nextel Communications Inc. launched Amdocs customer and billing platform Ensemble, which the carrier expects will improve customer service and reduce customer retention costs. The implementation is part of a seven-year outsourcing agreement between the two companies. The platform provides …

CHICAGO—Motorola Inc. said it has created a new subsidiary called Thoughtbeam Inc. to commercialize its chip technology, which combines low-cost silicon with speed-of-light. The company’s corporate vice president Padmasree Warrior will head the subsidiary as general manager.

ATLANTA—Cingular Wireless announced its Be Sensible partnership with theater exhibition company Loews Cineplex Entertainment encouraging wireless courtesy in movie theaters. As part of the deal, Cingular produced a 15-second on-screen movie trailer designed to run before each feature presentation on …

BURLINGTON, Mass.—Envoy Networks announced it has completed testing of its advanced cellular network architecture by linking an IS-95 air interface with SIP. According to Envoy, the technology will allow wireless carriers to reduce capital expenses because it enables the use …

SAN FRANCISCO—Long-distance, credit card and online services company Working Assets has chosen Sentori Inc. to provide its new wireless billing solution, Sentori 3G, which will be hosted by billing and revenue assurance company EUR Systems. “Working Assets is constantly looking …

SAN DIEGO—Leap Wireless International Inc. won the “Most Innovative Wireless Service” award from Andrew Seybold’s Outlook 4Mobility during the organization’s 11th Annual Wireless Dinner in Las Vegas.

FRANKFURT, Germany—Siemens AG reported a fourth-quarter loss of $968 million, although it exceeded analysts’ estimates. However, the company which attributes its loss to the down market in telecom equipment, said it posted a profit of $1.84 billion for the full …

SAN FRANCISCO—OmniSky Corp.’s stock dropped by about 30 percent in trading after the company said it has been unable to raise additional capital and that it is “evaluating the potential benefits of a reorganization, sale or other form of restructuring …

BOCA RATON, Fla.-SBA Communications Corp. reported revenues for the third quarter ended Sept. 30 of $63 million, an increase from the $45.4 million reported for third-quarter 2000. The company reported a net loss of $49.1 million, or $1.03 per share, …

WOODBURY, N.Y.—Comverse has been chosen to provide its unified messaging solution to Portugal’s Vodafone, a mobile operator that has 2.6 million cellular customers and holds 35 percent of the market share in the country. Comverse’s solution gives consumers a “one-stop” …

OKLAHOMA CITY—Dobson Communications Corp. added 41,500 net wireless subscribers during the third quarter, compared with 30,300 net additions last year, ending the quarter with 1.05 million wireless customers. Customer churn increased slightly from 1.8 percent the previous quarter to 1.9 …

ATLANTA-AirGate PCS Inc. reported $62.2 million in total revenue for its fourth fiscal quarter ended Sept. 30, compared with $16.6 million last year. While revenues increased, net loss dropped from $29.1 million, or $2.30 per share, to $25 million, or …

RAPID CITY, S.D.—Verizon Wireless launched digital wireless service in the Rapid City, S.D., area, covering Interstate-90 from Deadwood to Ellswoth Air Force base and the cities of Piedmont, Sturgis, Deadwood and Rapid City.

WASHINGTON—Senate majority leader, Sen. Tom Daschle (D-S.D.), said on Thursday he is recommending President George W. Bush nominate his telecommunications aide, Jonathan Adelstein, to fill the Democratic seat on the Federal Communications Commission vacated in September by Gloria Tristani. If …

ATLANTA—EMS Technologies Inc. is providing Atlanta’s Henry Medical Center with Mobile Clinical Workstations, patient care carts that allow hospitals to use wireless applications at the patient point of care. “Utilizing the Mobile Clinical Workstation, nurses can input their nursing notes, …

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Use of wireless devices is skyrocketing, according to the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association’s recently released mid-year 2001 data survey results. According to the survey, total billable minutes of use hit almost 200 billion, up 77 percent from June …

TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo Inc. reported it will launch a video-clip distribution service over its FOMA third-generation network November 19. The carrier said the I-motion service will allow users to obtain video content from sites accessed via its official I-mode portal with …

SARASOTA, Fla.-Pinnacle Holdings Inc. reported revenues for the third quarter ended Sept. 30 of $46.5 million, just slightly more than the $45.3 million the company reported in revenues for the same period the previous year. Pinnacle felt the impact of …

WASHINGTON—The Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday launched a rulemaking to consider making mobile phones hearing-aid compatible. The action, prompted by a petition filed last year by a group of hearing disability groups, is a major setback for industry. Wireless carriers …

LAS VEGAS-AOL Time Warner Inc. and Sony Corp. announced they will explore a range of initiatives for the broadband home networking environment. The companies said they will work together to develop easy-to-use home networking technologies that will enable consumers to …

WHEATON, Md.—Sales in the telecommunications industry will begin to rise in the first quarter of 2002, a new Shosteck Group study optimistically predicts. “However, this does not mean that things will go back to the way they were prior to …

LAS VEGAS-Texas Instruments threw its support behind the open mobile architecture initiative launched by Nokia Corp. and other industry leaders. “TI is pleased to support Nokia and other industry leaders in order to ensure a balanced business ecosystem, which is …

TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo Inc. and Nokia Corp. launched a joint action plan to accelerate the development of the open mobile architecture initiative announced by wireless companies earlier this week. The two companies will cooperate in promoting open mobile architecture for W-CDMA-based …

MIAMI—Brightstar Corp. announced its third-quarter revenues showed it remains the market share leader in Latin American wireless outsourcing. The company’s $161.5 million in revenues was well above competitors CellStar Corp.’s and Brightpoint Inc.’s respective $69.5 and 33.7 million third-quarter revenues. …