2002

BEIJING-In China’s biggest corporate debt sale, China Mobile issued 8 billion yuan (US$968 million) worth of fixed-rate bonds, divided into a 5 billion yuan (US$605 million) 15-year tranche and a …

SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Proxim Corp., which acquired Western Multiplex Corp. in March, reported third-quarter losses of $35.1 million, or 29 cents per share, on revenues of $24.12 million. By comparison, the company’s …

PITTSBURGH-Akustica Inc., which has patented acoustic MEMS technology, has raised $2.25 million in Series A financing from Chamberlain Investments. Akustica was founded by the former director of the Carnegie Mellon …

TORONTO-Rogers Wireless Communications reported its fourth consecutive quarter of double-digit operating profit, with a 31-percent increase to C$158.2 million (US$100.6 million) from C$123.8 million (US$78.8 million) a year earlier. The …

NEW DELHI, India-Dialog GSM, a leading mobile operator in Sri Lanka, recently launched multimedia messaging service (MMS) on a pre-commercial trial basis. In partnership with OmniBiz, the Dialog GSM network …

TOKYO-The Japanese wireless local area network (WLAN) service market is expected be 71.9 billion yen (US$575 million) by 2006, nearly four times as much as the market in 2001, according …

BEIJING-In an interview with China Central Television (CCTV), Minister of Information Industry (MII) Wu Jichuan said it is not the right time for China to introduce more mobile-phone licenses. “It …

LAS VEGAS-Wavecom SA announced it will launch two new dual-band wireless modules by the end of 2002 at this week’s CTIA Wireless I.T. & Internet show in Las Vegas. The …

OSLO, Norway-Mobile operator Orange may appeal the ruling by Swedish national telecom regulator PTS, which rejected any changes to the conditions of its third-generation (3G) license. Orange asked for a …

LAS VEGAS-Vendors TTPCom, 7 Layers and Analog Devices and carriers AT&T Wireless, Cingular Wireless, and T-Mobile will take part in a seminar called “Making EDGE Real-Out of Development and into …

LAS VEGAS-Businesses in the United States and Europe have a great demand for high-speed data, especially for e-mails with data-heavy attachments and Internet and corporate Intranet access, according to a …

WOBURN, Mass.-Verizon Wireless Inc. is testing a new service that will allow wireless uses to replenish prepaid wireless service via automatic teller machines (ATMs). To immediately replenish minutes, users swipe …

CINCINNATI-Billing solutions provider Convergys Corp. has been awarded a patent for its System and Method for Performance Monitoring of Application Code. The company’s patents and patents-pending now total 59.

LAS VEGAS-Personal technology retail giant Gateway Inc. launched its Mobile Wireless Solution that uses Verizon Wireless’ Express Network this week at CTIA Wireless I.T. & Internet 2002. The service will …

WASHINGTON-The Senate last night passed cyber-security legislation, clearing the way for final approval by the House after Congress returns for a lame duck session later next month. The measure, crafted …

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-A new black-owned subsidiary of Sebros Telecoms Solutions, called E’Voucher, has announced it will launch a prepaid recharge service for the GSM platform in South Africa. Lesego Mosupye, …

HELSINKI, Finland-Jorma Ollila, chairman of Helsinki-based Nokia, has questioned the ability or willingness of mobile telecom companies to strengthen their European operations through strategic mergers and takeovers aimed at market …

SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif.-Starfish Software said LapLink will offer Starfish’s TrueSync Plus for PDAs and Mobile Phones to its end users and enterprise customers. The software provides data synchronization between PDAs, …

TOKYO-Dentsu, the largest advertising company in Japan, is going to launch an advertising business targeting mobile terminals in China. In cooperation with JCD, a Tokyo-based information technology (IT) venture, Dentsu …

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-Openwave Systems Inc. announced alliances with Digital Bridges, End2End, InfoSpace IN-FUSIO and MForma as part of its new Openwave Mobile Connect Program, the newest branch of the Openwave …

DENVER-BVRP Software USA will bundle its Mobile PhoneTools software with Mobicom Corp.’s line of GSM/GPRS PCMCIA cards. Mobile PhoneTools offers users a connectivity Wizard, an interface that enables voice calls …

CINCINNATI-Convergys Corp. announced BT Retail, a U.K.-based communications service provider for residential and business markets, has chosen Convergys’ Geneva software as its billing platform. Geneva will be used to bill …

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-The Nigerian Communication Commission (NCC) has ordered the incumbent network operator Nigerian Telecommunications (Nitel) to interconnect its mobile network with that of MTN Nigeria Limited and Econet Wireless …

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.-Sandbridge Technologies has made commercially available its new Sandblaster Baseband Processor, which uses software defined radio to enable multimode, multiplatform and multifunction wireless terminals. The company said its …

CHICAGO-U.S. Cellular Corp., which is running a customer trial of Binary Runtime for Wireless Environment in its Knoxville, Tenn., market, will offer those customers two new BREW games distributed by …