2002

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission officially relieved the winning bidders of 156 licenses totaling more than $14 billion in its ill-fated attempt to re-auction personal communications services licenses during its Auction …

CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom-Research and advisory firm Analysys predicted that downloadable wireless games will become so popular in Western Europe that in just three years they will replace ring tones as …

BEIJING-China’s largest telecom equipment vendor China Putian Corporation, plans to build a 500 million yuan (US$60.41 million) plant to produce Xiaolintong wireless handsets to be used on China Telecom’s and …

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SURABAYA, Indonesia-PT Telkom, Indonesia’s state-owned telecom company, launched its limited mobility service to retail customers this week. The so-called TelkomFlexi service employs cdma2000 1x technology and comes with two pricing …

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-Mobile network operator MTN Group announced it has resumed its positive growth driven by strong performance across all its African operations. Revenue increased by 68 percent from 5.17 …

NEW DELHI, India-The wireless market in India could be set for an upheaval. As large basic service operators plan to roll out economical CDMA-based wireless local loop (WLL) services across …

KIEV, Ukraine-The biggest Ukrainian carrier Kyivstar entered the international finance market for the first time to borrow US$100 million by placing bonds against a three-year syndicated credit at a yield …

WASHINGTON-The Wireless Communications Association announced Loea Corp.’s president and chief executive officer, Louis Slaughter, will be a featured general session speaker on Jan. 13, the opening day of the Ninth …

NEW YORK-Leading industry players have teamed together to form a new company called Cometa Networks to provide wireless Internet access nationwide to telecom companies, Internet service providers, cable operators and …

OYSTER BAY, N.Y.-The market for advanced computing devices is still staking itself out, according to a new report from Allied Business Intelligence, but it has the potential to increase to …

BETHLEHEM, Pa.-Padcom Inc. said it has unveiled a software solution, known as Version 3.60 of the Connectivity Suite, that enables seamless roaming between cdma2000 1xRTT and other wireless data networks …

WASHINGTON- National Communications System official John Graves said today T-Mobile USA will be awarded a government contract by early next week to provide basic wireless priority access service to federal, …

SANTA CLARA-Newbury Networks Inc. released its Wi-Fi Watchdog security solution for wireless LAN implementations at the 802.11 Planet Conference this week. Wi-Fi Watchdog detects locations of 802.11 traffic in a …

SAN JOSE, Calif.- Matsushita Communication Industrial Co. Ltd. will license over-the-air application provisioning technology from DoOnGo Technologies Inc. for use in the company’s Panasonic FOMA mobile phones. Using the new …

OXFORD, United Kingdom-Having deployed several thousand Panasonic GD87 cell phones, Vodafone Germany has confirmed the handsets can make billable calls without users being aware. The company said the software bug …

TOKYO-Broadband Mobile Communications (BMC), a Tokyo-based venture company, announced it will launch an experiment for mobile Internet Protocol (IP) telephony service with five convenience stores in December. According to the …

BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Verizon Wireless Inc. said it intends to offer Research In Motion Ltd.’s voice-enabled BlackBerry 6750 handheld device on its cdma2000 1x-based Express Network during the first quarter of next …

RICHARDSON, Texas-Navini Networks Inc. and Pronto Networks will partner to provide a solution for service providers deploying numerous hot spots in large coverage areas, referred to by the companies as …

TOKYO-J-Phone, a Vodafone Group company in Japan, will launch third-generation (3G) service in Japan on 20 December, J-Phone announced. By launching a dual terminal that will be able to be …

DUBLIN, Ireland-There was some bad news this week for supporters of greater competition in the Irish mobile-phone market, when the latest sectoral report revealed that third operator Meteor has lost …

MELBOURNE, Australia-Telstra announced it launched Australia’s first fully operational third-generation (3G) mobile service aimed at business users. In particular, it has upgraded base stations on its CDMA digital cellular network. …

SANTA BARBARA, Calif.-Somera Communications said it will realign its North American operations and work force by cutting 10 percent of jobs and consolidating certain operations in an effort to strengthen …

BEIJING-Zhou Huan, chairman and president of the Datang Telecom Technology Group, told Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post that China should back its home-grown third-generation (3G) standard, TD-SCDMA. “As the …

BEIJING-Following complaints from rival China Mobile, China Unicom is scaling back price cuts to attract customers to its CDMA service. The company promised to focus more on profitability and less …