2001

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 outsourcing.Brightstar’s consolidated revenues came to US$102.6 million and its income was US$2.8 million for the quarter, …

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 solution.The PSN450 will allow Caribbean Telecommunications to offer Guyana’s population of 1 million with prepaid wireless …

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, including handset manufacturers and advertising agencies, Samsung said.Telesp rated each supplier on such categories as delivery …

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, a report from the Egyptian news agency, APS, reveals.Cairo-based Orascom won Algeria’s second GSM license on …

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 areas of Oman. The deal with OmanTel is the latest in a recent string of successes …

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 parts of New York and northern New Jersey to support the next-generation technology. The carrier said …

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 mobile commerce application that allows users with Web-enabled phones to order pizzas on the go.Users will …

The cellular industry was barely 10 years old when competitors started knocking on the door. In the early 1990s, Nextel Communications Inc. was amassing specialized mobile radio licenses and formulating a digital plan to make it a serious threat to …

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 and market mobile applications and e-services. The company will focus on mobile phone-related products for current …

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 personal digital assistants, a move Palm said will speed up the design and development time for …

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, it is disposable. You don’t need to wait for your monthly bill because it’s prepaid. Welcome …

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 the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in San Jose, Calif. Adaptive said it planned to pursue an “orderly …

In another twist in the cellular phone legal health battle, a complaint has been filed jointly by four families in the St. Joseph Circuit Court for the State of Indiana alleging that their proximity to cellular towers, owned by defendants …

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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 will use it more and place greater value on its delivery and the carriers that transmit …

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 to people between the ages of 14 and 24, offers voice, e-mail, Internet access and …

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 and messaging company, into bankruptcy. Arch announced last week it is retracting its last-ditch-effort plan to …

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 the third generation of technologies will generate in the European GSM infrastructure space, according to a …

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 components with Jabber’s platform.

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 statute that becomes effective next year. This month, the Florida Department of Revenue began accepting registration …

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 investors willing to purchase nearly $12 billion of its debt securities. The company, which had planned …

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 spectrum reminds me of some negotiations I have watched my four-year-old daughter try to make with …

Analysts wonder whether Motorola Inc. can reconcile its handset and semiconductor businesses in light of its announcement to sell its semiconductor technology to other manufacturers, including its rivals. “That’s where the confusion comes in,” noted Jane Zweig, chief executive officer …

Republic of Georgia Magticom said it has completed its first GPRS call within its wireless network in the Republic of Georgia with Motorola’s end-to-end solution. Motorola said it hopes to launch the services commercially to Magticom’s 140,000 mobile subscribers in …

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 would use the opportunity to take a closer look at what’s involved in launching service …