Yearly Archives: 2002

Nextel groups donate phones to gov’s convention

RESTON, Va.-Nextel Communications Inc. and Nextel Partners Inc. donated $70,000 of wireless phones and service to enhance security efforts and event coordination during the...

SFR to trial voice platform for Tour de France

FRAMINGHAM, Massachusetts, United States-NMS Communications said it will supply its HearSay voice services on a trial basis to mobile operator SFR in France. Th...

New mobile data network moves forward in Australia

MELBOURNE, Australia-Commercial interest is growing in wireless Internet in Australia with news of a $A25 million (US$14 million) national rollout of an i-BURST mobile...

African mobile operators begin tariff hikes

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-Mobile network operators in Nigeria, Kenya and Zimbabwe announced various tariff hikes expected to impact consumer spending.In Nigeria, mobile operator MTN Nigeria...

SMS spam on the increase

OXFORD, United Kingdom-The U.K. Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) reported an increase in the number of consumers complaining about unsolicited text messages. The organization said...

Spanish cell-phone sales fall by 50%

OXFORD, United Kingdom-Saturated market conditions are being blamed by cell-phone operators for a 50-percent drop in handset sales for the first six months of...

WLAN and 3G are complementary, says German regulator

OXFORD, United Kingdom-Regardless of concerns expressed by European third-generation (3G) license holders, the German telecom regulator, RegTP, expects wireless local area networks (WLAN) networks...

Colombia to hold PCS auction on 18 October

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-The Colombian government, headed by Andr

GPRS taking off faster than CDMA in China

BEIJING-Following the launch of its General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) services on 17 May, China Mobile Communications has signed 1.3 million users, but a...

Nordic governments push three-way merger to include Telenor

HELSINKI, Finland-Telenor's dream of creating a Scandinavian telecom giant through a merger with Sweden's Telia and Finland's Sonera is very much "a live aspiration,"...

Extended Systems says conservative spending will affect results

BOISE, Idaho-Extended Systems Inc. released preliminary results for the fourth quarter that repeated an all-too-familiar story for companies trying to sell wireless services to...

Cingular sinks teeth into Big Apple

NEW YORK-Cingular Wireless L.L.C. officially launched its GSM service in New York City today, placing the nation's second-largest carrier in 43 of the top...

LCC U.K. acquires Dutch consultancy

MCLEAN, Va.-LCC International Inc. said its U.K. subsidiary, LCC U.K. Ltd. has acquired 51 percent of Detron Network Services B.V., a privately held telecommunications...

Verizon adds Forbes.com to BREW offerings

BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Verizon Wireless Inc. said it is offering its subscribers BREW-enabled mobile phones access to Forbes.com Wireless, a financial information source powered by SmartServ...

WorldCom board withholds MCI stock dividend

CLINTON, Mass.-Adding to investor fears concerning the future of WorldCom Inc., the company's board of directors said it would not pay the 60 cents...

Nortel signs optical contract in Japan

TOKYO-Nortel Networks Corp. said it signed an optical network contract to expand KDDI's metro access network and support the carrier's cdma2000 1x offering."We will...

Motorola wins Qatar GSM contract

DOHA, Qatar-Motorola said it signed a US$25 million GSM contract expansion with Qatar Telecommunications. The expansion will allow the operator to offer enhanced coverage...

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...

China’s largest paging manufacturer stops production

BEIJING-Ningbo Bird, China's largest manufacturer of pagers, phased out its pager production this month. When the paging business was at its peak in 2000,...

DoCoMo loses domain conflict with AT&T

TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo, the largest mobile operator in Japan, lost a legal battle with its U.S. partner AT&T Wireless Services over a domain name issue....

AT&T eyes Philippines expansion partner

MANILA, The Philippines-International telecommunications giant AT&T is considering telecommunications companies like Philippine Long Distance Telephone (PLDT), Smart Communications and Ayala-owned Globe Telecom as partners...

Pakistan installs frequency management system

NEW DELHI, India-Pakistan has installed a modern national frequency management system with World Bank assistance, officials stated in the country's capital of Islamabad.The National...

Econet Nigeria extends coverage

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-Econet Nigeria announced it extended its network coverage by connecting the town of Eket in the Akwa Ibom state to its network.The...

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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