Yearly Archives: 2001

Oracle releases earnings, comments on tragedy

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.—Oracle Corp. released its earnings report on schedule Thursday but without comment. The company said it is missing seven employees in the...

NextWave hearing postponed following tragedy

NEW YORK—NextWave Telecom Inc.'s Wednesday bankruptcy hearing was postponed as federal courts were closed after the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, D.C,...

NTT DoCoMo, Telefonica to partner on 3G

SAO PAULO, Brazil—NTT DoCoMo Inc. said it plans to partner with Telefonica S.A. work on third-generation telephony projects, according to Brazil newspapers.The papers cited...

New cellular operator in Paraguay

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—The Paraguayan Communications Company (CPC) was granted a license by the National Telecommunications Commission (Conatel) to offer cellular telephony in Paraguay on...

Ericsson clinches US$100 million deal

BEIJING—Ericsson's joint venture Nanjing Ericsson Panda Communications will deliver US$100 million of GSM mobile network equipment to China Mobile's subsidiary in the Guangxi Zhuang...

Ipse 2000 signs network-sharing agreement with Omnitel Vodafone

MADRID, Spain—Ipse 2000, an Italian mobile-phone operator controlled by Spanish Telef

Qualcomm wants symbolic price for 3G in Brazil

SAO PAULO, Brazil—In the opinion of Qualcomm Brazil's general director, Valerijonas Seivalos J

China Unicom’s profit surges but falls short of estimates

BEIJING—Hong Kong listed China Unicom's first-half earnings surged to CNY2.19 billion (US$265 million), but fell short of analysts' predictions of CNY2.25 billion (US$272 million)....

J-Phone to provide services with 3-D Disney characters

TOKYO—J-Phone Group, a mobile business unit of Japan Telecom on 1 October will start providing a variety of services using Disney characters for...

EU gives OK to 3G network sharing

OXFORD, United Kingdom—European competition commissioner Mario Monti has indicated that his commission is not planning to prohibit third-generation (3G) network sharing through new legislation...

Sonic Duo finally goes on air in Moscow

MOSCOW—Sonic Duo, which has the third GSM license in Moscow, finally launched a test operation of its network in the Russian capital.After several delays...

BellSouth expands in Chile

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—During this year's first semester, the BellSouth branch in Chile obtained a higher growth rate than the company's average in Latin America....

Datang obtains China’s first CDMA handset manufacturing license

BEIJING—Datang Telecom obtained the first CDMA handset manufacturing license issued in China. The company also produces network equipment.Together with Germany's Siemens, Datang has developed...

NTT DoCoMo to triple i-mode service speed to 28.8 kpbs

TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo plans to triple the data transmission speed (for downlinks) of i-mode service from current 9.6 kbps to 28.8 kbps in the spring...

WAP fails to stimulate M-banking

OXFORD, United Kingdom—Despite the marketing hype, fewer than 200,000 of the 1 million U.K. online banking customers are using a WAP cell phone to...

NTT DoCoMo to launch telephone bill settlement service via i-mode

TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo, the leading mobile carrier in Japan, will launch cellular phone bill settlement service via i-mode on 22 October, NTT DoCoMo announced on...

Telefonica cancels offering

MADRID—Telefonica Moviles S.A. announced that due to the terrorist events of September 11 and their effect on international capital markets, it plans to cancel...

Saboori launches user-configurable SMS service

NEW DELHI—Saboori Communications launched SaMoSa, which it called the world wide web of short messaging service (SMS). It is the first user configurable SMS...

Eurotel offers GSM banking

PRAHA, Czech Republic—Eurotel Praha on 14 September began offering all of its Eurotel GSM banking customers access to bank services through a mobile telephone....

Russian carrier to become second GSM operator in Tajikistan

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia—The St. Petersburg-based North-Western GSM carrier was licensed by the communications ministry of the Central Asian republic of Tajikistan to create a...

Vodafone calls for dual standard 3G handsets

OXFORD, United Kingdom—By the end of 2003, Chris Gent, the chief executive officer of Vodafone, expects 3G handsets to be available that will enable...

Austria’s One allows free calls to United States

Austria's GSM operator One allowed customers to make mobile and fixed-line calls to the United States until the end of the day 12 September...

One to use Convergys software

CINCINNATI, United States—Convergys announced Austrian mobile operator One will use its Geneva Active Revenue Management (ARM) software to replace its legacy billing system.One, which...

NASDAQ, NYSE set to reopen Monday

NEW YORK—Nasdaq and the New York Stock Exchange, whose headquarters could have been crushed had the World Trade Center buildings collapsed sideways, at press...

TIW reports on note tender

MONTREAL—Telesystem International Wireless (TIW) said the holders of its senior discount notes due 2007 have tendered 99.9 percent of the outstanding notes in exchange...
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