Yearly Archives: 2001

Brightstar takes lead in Latin America

MIAMI, United States—Brightstar announced that its recently released second quarter 2001 revenues show it has captured the market share lead in Latin American wireless...

Primal wins prepaid contract in Guyana

TORONTO—Primal Technologies, intelligent specialized network applications provider, announced it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to provide Caribbean Telecommunications of Guyana with its PSN450...

Telesp Celular selects Samung as ‘best handset supplier’

SEOUL, Korea—Samsung said Brazilian operator Telesp Celular recently chose Samsung as the best among its handset suppliers. The carrier assessed all its supplier companies,...

Orascom Telecom to spend US$500 million in Algeria

LONDON—African mobile operator Orascom Telecom announced it plans to invest US$500 million during the next five years in building its GSM infrastructure in Algeria,...

Siemens wins Oman contract covering rural areas

LONDON—German vendor Siemens has won a contract, worth about US$17.6 million, to design, install and integrate a GSM network and telecommunications services for rural...

Verizon upgrades some East Coast networks to 1x

BEDMINSTER, New Jersey, United States—While cdma2000 1x handsets are not expected to be available until the fourth quarter, Verizon Wireless upgraded its network in...

Mobile-phone users offered pizza on the go

SCHAUMBURG, Illinois, United States—Motorola and pizza giant Domino's Pizza announced they will deploy the first phase of Pizzacast, which the companies said is a...

New kids on the block: PCS challenges cellular duopoly

The cellular industry was barely 10 years old when competitors started knocking on the door. In the early 1990s, Nextel Communications Inc. was...

News Briefs

Hewlett-Packard Co., Telefonica Moviles, Ericsson Espana and the Generalitat of Catalonia in Spain announced a joint venture company, called Tempos 21, which will develop...

Palm lays out plans to strengthen OS position

Palm Inc. last week announced a deal with some of the country's biggest chip makers to design a pre-packaged chip architecture for Palm OS-based...

Hop-On phone aims to solve several problems of wireless

If the issue is brain cancer, this new comer is hands-free. To those who fear the environmental nightmare of dumping them in landfills, well,...

Adaptive Broadband files Chapter 11

SUNNYVALE, Calif.-The troubles of Adaptive Broadband Corp. came to an expected conclusion when the company announced it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in...

Four Indiana families file tower complaint

In another twist in the cellular phone legal health battle, a complaint has been filed jointly by four families in the St. Joseph Circuit...

Pure Matrix aims to simplify customization of mobile data

NEW YORK-The mission of Pure Matrix Inc., a Boulder, Colo., start-up, is to make mass customization of mobile data nice and easy so customers...

Sprint tests youth waters with prepaid

CLEVELAND-Sprint PCS is joining the movement to market wireless technologies to young adults with its new Cube, an easy-to-manage prepaid wireless phone.The phone, marketed...

Arch teeters on bankruptcy: Outdated billing system blamed for revenue miscalculation

A billing discrepancy is to blame for a disastrous subscriber and revenue miscalculation that could potentially force Arch Wireless Inc., the nation's largest paging...

Nortel, Ericsson, Siemens take hold of European market

Nortel Networks Corp., L.M. Ericsson and Siemens AG may be the major vendors to improve their harvests from the new balance of power that...

Jaber, Antepo enter partnership

DENVER-Instant messaging company Jabber Inc. and Antepo Inc., a mobile messaging provider, announced a partnership to bundle Antepo's short message service and WAP gateway...

Fla.’s simplified tax law forerunner to federal effort

NEW YORK-Florida has codified into its own law a sweeping overhaul and simplification of telecommunications taxation that responds, in part, to a new federal...

Qwest raises $12 billion in debt offering

NEW YORK-Qwest Capital Funding Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Denver-based Qwest Communications International Inc., was pleasantly surprised last week to find it had...

Opinion: Bush/Gore, Act 2

The offer last week by a handful of wireless carriers to pay off NextWave Telecom Inc.'s debts in exchange for the company's disputed wireless...

Motorola move to source handsets, semiconductors risky business

Analysts wonder whether Motorola Inc. can reconcile its handset and semiconductor businesses in light of its announcement to sell its semiconductor technology to other...

World Briefs

Republic of GeorgiaMagticom said it has completed its first GPRS call within its wireless network in the Republic of Georgia with Motorola's end-to-end solution....

Network design laborious as Leap readies Denver launch

Editor's Note: As Leap Wireless International Inc. prepares to launch its Cricket wireless service in RCR Wireless News' home market in Denver, we thought we...
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