2001

HELSINKI, Finland—Nokia Corp. has agreed with Twentieth Century Fox International to offer its mobile-phone users in Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom screensavers and logos of the movie Planet of …

SAN JOSE, California, United States—Analyst firm Gartner Dataquest said worldwide semiconductor revenue this year will be $168.1 billion, a 26-percent drop from last year.“There are few signs of growth in …

SILVER SPRING, Maryland, United States—Wireless service provider IMC WorldCell announced it now offers Iridium Satellite phones and service, expanding WorldCell coverage to hard-to-reach places across the globe. Traveling WorldCell customers …

SAN DIEGO, United States—Device makers Hanwha and Synertek have signed a memoranda of understanding to port Qualcomm’s Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless platform to their handheld devices.“More than 3,300 developers …

SUFFERN, New York, United States—Acticon Technologies, Suffern, N.Y., developer of PC card modems and other PCMCIA form factor communications, has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Ositech Communications Inc., a …

FALLS CHURCH, Virginia, United States—Motorola said it has sold its Integrated Information Systems Group to defense contractor General Dynamics for US$825 million in a deal expected to close within 60 …

TABY, Sweden—Aspiro has agreed to deliver GlobalDining’s mobile restaurant directory and reservation network to its customers throughout Europe, the Middle East and Asia.According to Aspiro, the agreement, which is subsidized …

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NEW YORK—Celltick Technologies, an Israeli interactive mobile broadcasting solution developer founded in March 2000, received US$10 million in follow-on venture financing it will use to accelerate marketing in Europe and …

LONDON—Saudi Telecommunications Company (STC) has announced it has awarded a joint contract to Swedish telecom heavyweight Ericsson and Finnish mobile giant Nokia. Under the terms of the deal the two …

LONDON—Saudi Business Machines (SBM), the general marketing and services representative for IBM WTC in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, announced it has completed the installation of the largest-ever computer project …

NEW YORK—KPMG will conduct a survey to measure smart card use in North America, according to a 6 August announcement of The Smart Card Alliance, formed earlier this year by …

MCLEAN, Virginia, United States—Cramer Systems, a provider of provisioning software, announced a partnership with Evolving Systems that it said will help North American wireless and wireline carriers improve network efficiency …

OXFORD, United Kingdom—In what appears to have been a politically motivated decision, the France Telecom-owned mobile operator Orange has dropped handsets developed by Ericsson and Siemens while retaining cell phones …

MINSK, Belarus—Russian carriers for the first time participated in a foreign wireless communications tender and three of them qualified for the final stage of the auction for the second GSM …

BUCHAREST, Romania—Joseph C. Grioli, managing director of Vodafone Malta, officially launched the General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) pilot project, which is available to all Vodafone subscribers in Malta.“It is my …

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Illinois, United States—Motorola has agreed to supply the equipment for the BT Wireless network initiative called Expidas to launch applications for present and next-generation services.“External developers will be …

BUCHAREST, Romania—Romanian GSM operator CONNEX announce that it has set the record high number of 1.5 million GSM customers and 100,000 XNET users.“These milestones are significant in many ways,” said …

FRANKFURT, Germany—As the company grapples with a slackening economy, Siemens may slash 3,000 more jobs to save money in its telecommunications divisions, according to the Wall Street Journal.“This is one …

LONDON—Standard and Poor’s has downgraded U.K. telecom equipment maker Marconi to “BBB-” from “BBB+”, just on the edge of junk bond status.The credit ratings agency said it could downgrade the …

BUCHAREST, Romania—The Jordanian GSM operator Jordan M.T.S. launched a new service for its prepaid customers.The new service, called Mobile Internet (WAP), allows customers to access the Internet from a WAP-enabled …

BUCHAREST, Romania—Thuraya Satellite Telecommunications concluded a service provider agreement with Mobile Telecommunications Company of Kuwait, a telecommunications operator in the region.As part of the new service provider agreement, MTC will …

WOODBURY, New York, United States—Wireless technology is entering the home, as evidenced in Comverse’s announcement that its interactive TV platform, which provides messaging and unified communications services for cable television, …

BANJUL, Gambia—Siemens has signed a US$6.6 million contract to build a GSM network for carrier Africell in the 900 MHz band.Africell expects between 15,000 and 50,000 subscribers within three years.

LAGOS, Nigeria—The Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC) said it will open 1 million GSM lines within six months, more lines than the rest of all of West Africa.“The month of August …