Yearly Archives: 2002

Summus, ZIO game receives TRUE BREW designation

RALEIGH, N.C.-Summus Inc. and ZIO Interactive announced their jointly developed mobile billiard game, Nineball, has received the TRUE BREW designation from the National Software...

Price completes assets sales to Verizon Wireless

NEW YORK-Price Communications Corp. reported the sale of its wireless assets to Verizon Wireless Inc. is complete. In exchange for its sixteen licenses covering...

Xybernaut receives CMRS message patent

FAIRFAX, Va.-Xybernaut Corp. announced it has received a patent for leaving and retrieving messages and data within a commercial mobile radio service (CMRS) provider...

U.S. Cellular launches Voice Services

CHICAGO-U.S. Cellular Corp. launched a nationwide service, which it calls Voice Services, providing its subscribers with voice activated dialing and voice information services.Customers who...

Sega releases Monkey Ball for Vision network

SAN FRANCISCO-Video game giant Sega.com Inc. released its first ever mobile phone game, Sega Monkey Ball, which will work over Sprint PCS' newly launched...

TTP, Siemens partner on GSM phones

CAMBRIDGE, U.K.-TTP Communications plc announced a new partnership with Siemens Information and Communication Mobile that will put TTPCom's GSM platform in new Siemens products."This...

Arch says paging declines are slowing

WESTBOROUGH, Mass.-Paging and messaging carrier Arch Wireless Inc. reported consolidated net income of $1.7 billion for the second quarter, ended June 30, 2002. The...

MTS Holdings buys American Tower units

WATERBURY, Conn.-MTS Holdings L.L.C. announced it has purchased American Tower Corp.'s MTS Wireless Components, Vancomm, Site Advantage and S&S Dynamic operations throughout the United...

Japan Telecom sells engineering unit to Australian company

TOKYO-Japan Telecom, a Vodafone company in Japan, announced it sold a base station business unit to Bovis Lend Lease, an Australian company. It is...

Alcatel wins contract in Pacific Islands

PARIS-Alcatel said it signed a GSM expansion contract with OPT in New Caledonia. The expansion will increase OTP's network, which operates under the Mobilis...

Tele2 signs MVNO agreement in Austria

NEW YORK-Tele2 said it signed a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) agreement with Connect Austria, allowing it to use Connect's network to provide an...

Ricochet to launch in Denver this week

DENVER, United States-Metricom will be officially reincarnated on Thursday when Ricochet Networks launches high-speed wireless Internet service in Denver.Ricochet will charge US$45 per month...

TIW shares fall on loss

TORONTO-Telesystem International Wireless (TIW) shares fell to a record low after the company posted a large second-quarter loss and took a charge against its...

SkyOnline buys Diveo in Argentina, Uruguay

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-SkyOnline signed a letter of intent stating that it will buy Diveo Broadband Networks' Argentine and Uruguayan branches for about US$7 million....

35.2% of Japan’s mobile handsets recycled

TOKYO-The recycling rate for Japanese mobile phones, including PHS units, in fiscal year 2001 was up 5.5 percent on the year to 35.2 percent,...

Australia’s Orange on course for record profit, 3G launch

MELBOURNE, Australia-Mobile operator Orange announced this week it is on course to record a profit by the fourth quarter of 2002. A subsidiary of...

Spice offering targets Indian women

NEW DELHI, India-The ongoing tariff war in Indian cellular markets is seeing operators designing new packages to attract customers. Spice Telecom in Karnataka has...

Vodafone blames handset shortage for 3G delay

OXFORD, United Kingdom-Trying to divert criticism about its third-generation (3G) strategy away from itself, Vodafone said the shortage of fully capable 3G handsets will...

Vodafone still undecided on Irish 3G license

DUBLIN, Ireland-While its major competitor O2 Ireland has accepted the terms of its third-generation (3G) mobile license, Ireland's largest mobile operator, Vodafone, has further...

European i-mode adoption disappoints

OXFORD, United Kingdom-KPN Mobile looks likely to miss its target for i-mode subscribers in the Netherlands and Germany by a considerable margin. The company,...

J-Phone’s picture phone users exceed 6 million

TOKYO-J-Phone, a Vodafone Group company in Japan, announced the number of users of its popular picture phone service exceeded 6 million as of the...

Nextel likely to delay Chilean service for a year

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-Pyramid Research does not expect Nextel to launch its digital service in Chile within the next 12 months, according to a report...

Ericsson to pump more cash into cell-phone joint venture

OXFORD, United Kingdom-Ericsson has warned the financial market that it may need to invest another 530 million euros (US$520 million) into its cell-phone joint...

Lucent denies it is target of SEC investigation

MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Lucent Technologies Inc. said it is not the target of the U.S. Attorney's office investigation of a 2000 accounting error on a...
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