2002

WASHINGTON-By combining its rugged mobile computing applications with offerings from other providers, Itronix Corp. of Spokane, Wash., said on Wednesday that it will be supplying equipment to the U.S. military …

HELSINKI, Finland and OSLO, Norway-Hutchison Whampoa and Investor-backed Hi3G, which will operate under the brand name “3,” will join Swedish third-generation (3G) license holders seeking rollout extensions. Hi3G has confirmed …

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OXFORD, United Kingdom-As many mobile operators around the world install and trial their multimedia message service (MMS) infrastructure, those that have launched services have already commenced a pricing war. Two …

HELSINKI, Finland-Leegur Oy, which provides analysis and software tools, said it has received a new round of funding amounting to $1.5 million from Nokia Corp and San Francisco-based Alafi Capital. …

CHICAGO-The Securities and Exchange Commission may file civil charges against Lucent Technologies Inc. over sales accounting practices, according to a report by USA Today. The report said the SEC sent …

WASHINGTON–FCC Chairman Michael Powell on Wednesday called for the Federal Communications Commission to set an “interference temperature” as a way of using underutilized spectrum. “The time has come to consider …

BEIJING-The U.K. supplier of wireless communication technologies TTPcom has opened an office in Shanghai. Ten percent of the company’s US$60.5 million of sales in the first nine months of the …

BEIJING-Nearly 600 companies from 24 countries are participating in PT/Expo Comm China 2002, which opened in Beijing on 30 October. The central theme of the show is third-generation (3G) development. …

MELBOURNE, Australia-The explosive growth of short message service (SMS) in Australia has prompted the Australian Communications Authority (ACA) to consider reserving new telephone number ranges for SMS. At the moment, …

TOKYO-The top two Japanese mobile handset manufacturers-NEC and Matsushita Communications Industrial-have lost market share, while Sharp, which is the leading maker for picture phone handsets, has expanded its market share, …

DALLAS-A Texas jury has asked L.M. Ericsson to pay $61 million to Harris Corp. for infringing on the company’s patent, which allows handsets to receive a variety of digital signals. …

SEOUL, Korea-In a surprising move, the Korea Communications Commission, South Korea’s top telecom regulator, decided Monday to place business suspension orders on three mobile carriers and KT Corp. for violating …

INDIANAPOLIS-Brightpoint Inc. said it has completed the sale of certain operating assets of Brightpoint Mexico to Soluciones Inteligentes para el Mercado Mobile S.A. de C.V., which is wholly owned and …

BEIJING-According to Zhou Huan, president of Datang Telecom Technologies, co-developer with Siemens of the TD-SCDMA third-generation (3G) technology, the Chinese government has allocated broader spectrum resources for TD-SCDMA than for …

OXFORD, United Kingdom-Having consistently stated that it would be the first to launch a third-generation (3G) service in the United Kingdom, Hutchison has now commented that the timing, always set …

WASHINGTON-Three senators have urged the Federal Communications Commission to allow the re-auction winners of bankrupt NextWave Telecom Inc.’s licenses to opt-out of their bids. “We continue to be concerned as …

INDIANAPOLIS, United States-Brightpoint said it has completed the sale of certain operating assets of Brightpoint Mexico to Soluciones Inteligentes para el Mercado Mobile, which is wholly owned and operated by …

WASHINGTON-U.S. wireless data revenues have grown by 135 percent, and voice revenues have increased 19 percent since last year, according to the semi-annual survey by the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet …

TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo, the largest mobile operator in Japan, will launch a flat rate mobile service in the second quarter of 2003, the company said on Thursday. According to the firm, …

BEIJING-China’s Ministry of Information Industry (MII) announced that the country’s two mobile-phone operators added 45.17 million new users in the first three quarters of the year, bringing the total to …

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-Orsus Solutions has acquired the intellectual property and other assets of Speedwise Technologies Ltd. in a cash and stock transaction. The acquisition enables Orsus to speed the delivery …

WASHINGTON-Ultra-wideband technology will not meet its full potential without a definable standard, according to a report released last week by Allied Business Intelligence, a think tank based in Oyster Bay, …

MANILA, The Philippines-The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) is set to issue next month new regulations cracking down on providers and distributors of prepaid cards for mobile phones suspected of …

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Canada and STAMFORD, Conn.-Telus Mobility and SmartServ Online Inc. launched Forbes.com Wireless Powered by SmartServ giving Telus consumers the ability to access real-time Canadian and U.S. stock-market …