2002

BEIJING-China Mobile plans to buy 300,000 General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) handsets to promote its multimedia messaging service (MMS), which the company will launch in the coming days, following a …

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Paging and messaging provider Metrocall Inc. announced its plan of reorganization was confirmed by the United States Bankruptcy Court and that the company expects to emerge from the restructuring …

BRAMPTON, Ontario-Speculations of takeover and delisting continue to swirl around Nortel Networks Ltd. as the Canadian telecom equipment maker lowered its third-quarter outlook by 15 percent, driving its shares down …

HELSINKI, Finland-Sonera said it has awarded Nokia Corp. a contract to supply an advanced delivery server for downloading mobile content such as Java games, polyphonic ringing tones and Symbian applications …

SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Endwave Corp. has acquired certain wireless infrastructure assets of Signal Technology Corp.’s Wireless Group, including customer contracts, equipment, inventory, product designs and other intellectual property and personnel needed to …

NEW DELHI, India-The booming Thai mobile market is showing early signs of a slowdown, a top industry leader has said. The market is “almost saturated” with sales slowing after hitting …

BUCHAREST, Romania-Romanian GSM operator Connex and Zapp Mobile, the country’s CDMA 450 MHz operator, announced that users of the two networks now can send each other text messages. The new …

FREMONT, Calif.-@Road, which provides location-enhanced wireless Internet solutions for mobile resource management, announced it acquired the majority of the assets of ConnectBusiness, which offers wireless timekeeping and project management solutions. …

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.-Hewlett-Packard Co. plans to cut 1,800 more jobs in addition to the 15,000 people it laid off in the aftermath of its merger with Compaq. In an internal …

ATLANTA-Glenayre Technologies Inc. lowered its revenue expectations for the third quarter from $17 million to $19 million to between $13 million and $14 million. The company also cut its work …

CINCINNATI-Billing solutions provider Convergys Corp. opened a regional office in Beijing to cater to clients in the People’s Republic of China, including Hong Kong, and the Republic of Korea. “We …

NEW YORK-Radiant Telecom and Comstar Interactive Corp. have teamed up to allow for the wireless sale of prepaid communications products. By integrating Radiant’s Prepaid POS application with Comstar’s CHARGE ANYwhere …

SAN JOSE, Calif.-RadioScape’s RadioLab 3G 2.1, the latest version of its system-level design toolset, is now available. The toolset offers third-generation systems designers new functionality, including support for the simulation …

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-M-Cell, the holding company of mobile network operator MTN, has lashed out at allegations that the company’s Nigerian operation is struggling, reporting that it would be profitable by …

DUBLIN, Ireland-Mobile games aggregator nGame has been acquired by its U.S. partner Mforma. The Cambridge, U.K.-based company will become part of what its new owners claim will be the largest …

MILPITAS, California, United States-GRIC Communications said that Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel) is extending its relationship with the supplier to include wireless Internet roaming capabilities for customers in Singapore. The agreement will …

LONDON-Logica said it deployed its prepaid solution for Greek operator Cosmote. The system will allow Cosmote to migrate from 2.5-generation (2.5G) to third-generation (3G) technologies. The system offers customer care, …

TORONTO-Canadian and U.S. wireless carriers are planning soon to offer text messaging services across all their networks. Since April, Canadian cell-phone subscribers have been able to send text messages to …

DUBLIN, Ireland-A new initiative launched by the major U.K. mobile operators and retailers will, it is hoped, reduce the environmental impact of the 15 million mobile phones replaced in the …

TORONTO-VoiceGenie Technologies Inc. and Vesta Corp. are joining to offer customer relationship management services for prepaid wireless. Now, VoiceGenie’s VoiceXML Gateway, which has been integrated into Vesta’s suite of applications …

Beijing-Nortel Networks Ltd. said it has signed a $40 million contract to expand GSM wireless networks in the autonomous regions of Xinjiang Uygur and Ningxia Hui, the Shanxi province and …

VIENNA, Austria-Mobilkom Austria, the largest Austrian mobile operator, has become one of the first European operators to deploy a UMTS network. About 25 percent of Austria, including most major urban …

MANILA, The Philippines-The Ayala group, one of the Philippines’ biggest conglomerates, plans to limit capital spending for mobile-phone subsidiary Globe Telecom to US$500 million for the next two years, as …

TOKYO-In its continuing fight against phone scams, NTT DoCoMo Inc. said it will begin offering a new ring tone that will remain silent for a few moments at the beginning …

VIENNA, Va.-Systems integrator TRW will integrate software from Cramer Systems into MmO2’s Airwave public-safety wireless service in Britain. Cramer’s software will be part of the Network Management Center used by …