November 2002

MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Shares of Lucent Technologies surged early this week on rumors of a potential takeover by aerospace and defense equipment vendor General Dynamics. Tuesday afternoon, shares of Lucent were …

SINGAPORE-Cable & Wireless subsidiary Great Eastern Telecommunications Ltd. plans to sell between 57 percent and 66 percent of its 30-percent holding in MobileOne Ltd. (M1), as part of Cable & …

TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo said sales of its i-shot handsets have topped 3 million after six months of availability. I-shot is NTT DoCoMo’s picture messaging service, which it launched to compete with …

TOKYO, Japan-104.com said Orange’s group of companies will use its Xme (Kiss me) platform in launching several new multimedia services during the next six months. “Orange is committed to providing …

By Mike Dano Motorola scrapped its instant-messaging server business earlier this year and plans to focus solely on providing instant-messaging software in its handsets, a move that comes amid drastic …

NEW YORK-Anite, Arlington Heights, Ill., and IFC Credit Corp., Morton Grove, Ill., have entered into an agreement under which Anite’s customers nationwide can obtain wireless test and measurement equipment under …

NEW YORK-The Telecommunications Development Fund, a Washington, D.C.-based venture capital fund investing in early-stage communications companies nationwide, has made available an online tutorial on good corporate governance for entrepreneurs launching …

TOKYO-Japanese supplier 104.com said Orange’s group of companies will use its Xme (Kiss me) platform in launching several new multimedia services during the next six months. “Orange is committed to …

IRVING, Texas-Cingular Wireless L.L.C. will begin selling three new Nokia Corp. phones that support the carrier’s moves toward a GSM/GPRS network. The carrier will sell the Nokia 6340i phone, a …

NEW YORK-Vyyo Inc., a Cupertino, Calif., supplier of broadband fixed wireless systems, said its chief financial officer, David Aber, has taken a sabbatical for personal reasons. Arik Levi, vice president …

CAMBRIDGE, U.K.-Text-entry company Co-operwrite Ltd. said it will integrate its flagship Mytext product into TTPCom Ltd.’s mobile phone designs. Mytext allows users to write text messages with a mini-joystick, jogball …

SAN JOSE, Calif.-Nokia Corp. and Samsung Corp. came out ahead of the curve in worldwide mobile phone sales during the third quarter, according to Gartner Dataquest. However, Motorola Inc. and …

LONDON-Damovo said it won the Nabarro Nathanson Most Effective Use of Technology in a Project award for developing the Metropolitan Police Service’s Silent Solution which routes silent 999-the U.K. version …

WASHINGTON-Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association President Thomas Wheeler today urged Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell to auction spectrum of financially troubled mobile satellite service providers.The FCC is expected to …

WASHINGTON-Financially-troubled wireless companies and high-tech firms could face severe delays in emerging from bankruptcy, owing to a record number of bankruptcies this year, insufficient funding of bankruptcy courts and the …

ALAMEDA, Calif.-U.S.-based PHS vendor UTStarcom signed a strategic partnership with Chinese vendor Datang Mobile to jointly develop and promote the TD-SCDMA third-generation standard. The companies said they will provide a …

MANILA, The Philippines-Philippine mobile operator Smart Communications and America Online (AOL) have forged a deal that will provide the operator access to an instant messaging service known as ICQ (pronounced …

It is time to choose RCR Wireless News’ 2002 Person of the Year. This year, RCR Wireless News, the sister print publication of GlobalWirelessNews.com, decided to let you voice an …

NEW YORK-Telemac Corp., Los Angeles, said it has received a patent covering a method of prepaid wireless services “where the accounting functions are performed within network-edge devices, i.e. mobile phones, …

In spite of mammoth debt, operators are beginning to loosen their purse strings to buy equipment again, according to a report by market research firm Dell’Oro Group. The report said …

WASHINGTON-Financially troubled wireless companies and high-tech firms could face severe delays in emerging from bankruptcy, owing to a record number of bankruptcies this year, insufficient funding of bankruptcy courts and …

TEL AVIV, Israel-Israeli wireless operator Cellcom and start-up SpeechView launched LipCcell, a patented software to allow deaf and hard-of-hearing citizens to use mobile phones. LipCcell is installed on a user’s …

WASHINGTON-Efforts to crack down on identity theft were successful when federal prosecutors announced the arrest of a man thought to be the ring-leader in a scheme that illegally obtained the …

GOLDEN, Colo.-nReach will deploy new digital vending ports, private label Web sites and prepaid card locations in seven wireless retail chains in the U.S. on Nov. 29. With the new …

WASHINGTON-The FCC’s Enforcement Bureau on Friday said it wanted to evaluate test results by the Wireless Consumers Alliance that claimed that none of the 33 mobile phones tested by the …