Yearly Archives: 2002

RCC gets ETC status in Washington

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-RCC Holdings Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Rural Cellular Corp., has been designated an Eligible Telecommunications Carrier in the state of Washington...

Powell derides consumer electronics’ response to DTV transition

WASHINGTON-A response by the Consumer Electronic Association regarding the pace of the digital TV transition was met with derision by Michael Powell, chairman of...

Strigl again calls for the C-block re-auction to be voided

BOISE, Idaho-One way to solve the capital crisis facing wireless companies today would be for the Federal Communications Commission to void the re-auction of...

Kyocera names Speaks CEO

SAN DIEGO-Kyocera Wireless Corp. announced Howard "Skip" Speaks will serve as its new chief executive officer, an addition to his existing role as the...

Mercury chosen as consultant for SDR

CHELMSFORD, Mass.-Mercury Computer Systems said it has been chosen by the U.S. military's Joint Tactical Radio Systems (JTRS) Joint Program Office (JPO) to serve...

Nextel reports $123 million net income

RESTON, Va.-Nextel Communications Inc. reported one of its best quarters ever highlighted by its first ever positive net income of $123 million compared with...

WDS opens service center

KIRKLAND, Wash.-Wireless Data Services (WDS) opened a service center in Kirkland, Wash., to further serve its North and South American customers. "Since 1994, we've...

DoCoMo launches digital library on Web

TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo announced the launch of the DoCoMo Digital Library on its Web site in commemoration of the company's tenth anniversary of operation.The library,...

DoCoMo launches Netherlands consulting firm

TOKYO-In support of the launch of its I-mode service in Europe, NTT DoCoMo Inc. said it will establish a consulting firm in the Netherlands....

XtremeSpectrum demos Trinity chipset

SAN FRANCISCO-XtremeSpectrum Inc. said it demonstrated the "wire-like" video quality of its ultra-wideband Trinity chipset using the MPEG2 video format to stream content to...

WaterCove, Telcordia team up for prepaid solution

CHELMSFORD, Mass.-WaterCove Networks and Telcordia Technologies have teamed to create a CAMEL (Customized Applications for Mobile Network Enhanced Logic) Phase 3 solution that delivers...

DTV transition ‘falling into place,’ Powell says

WASHINGTON-"Many of the key elements of the digital TV transition are beginning to fall into place," said Michael Powell, chairman of the Federal Communications...

Alcatel to supply 3G backbone in Italy

PARIS-Alcatel said it won a contract with Italian third-generation license holder H3G to supply its backbone and metropolitan transmission networks.Under the terms of the...

Ericsson to supply GSM equipment in Nicaragua

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson said it signed a contract to be the sole supplier to Nicaraguan carrier Enitel for GSM 1900 equipment, software and services."Our...

Good partners with Microsoft for corporate e-mail

SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Good Technology Inc. said it will partner with Microsoft Corp. to promote the GoodLink wireless corporate e-mail and data system to Microsoft industry...

Alcatel has $30M exposure to WorldCom

PARIS-Rating agency Standard and Poor's said French vendor Alcatel has a $30 million exposure to WorldCom Inc."The quality of receivables is good following some...

FCC dismisses PCIA siting petition

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission dismissed a petition from the Personal Communications Industry Association that called for a siting rulemaking.The petition was filed in July...

PDA makers win first round in patent dispute

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-In the latest round of patent disputes, a district court in Delaware ruled in favor of personal digital assistant makers Handspring Inc....

Schmid could go lower on MobilCom stake

FRANKFURT, Germany-Gerhard Schmid, former chief executive of German company MobilCom, is likely to lower the price at which he would agree to sell his...

Lawmakers urge FCC to waive UWB rules to allow ground-penetrating radar

WASHINGTON-A bipartisan group of members of the House Commerce Committee urged the Federal Communications Commission to waive the ultrawideband rules with respect to ground-penetrating...

Cingular launches flagship store in New York coinciding with service launch

NEW YORK-Cingular Wireless, which launched service in the New York metropolitan area, opened its flagship store here July 11 on Fifth Avenue and East...

PSB, CETECOM ally for Bluetooth testing in Asia

JAKARTA, Indonesia-Singapore's PSB Corporation is leading the provision of full Bluetooth compliance testing services in the Southeast Asia region. Centro de Technologia de las...

Chinese join SMS craze

BEIJING-Li Yue, vice president of China Mobile, announced at the GSM China 2002 conference that China Mobile's customers are expected to send 50 billion...
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