2003

NEW YORK-In two separate moves in the market, Lucent Technologies Inc. announced plans to sell, while Motorola Inc. bought. Lucent said it filed to sell up to $1.75 billion of common stock, preferred stock, debt, warrants, stock purchase contracts and …

It appears PictureIQ Corp. is shutting down its operations, making the company perhaps the first casualty of the picture messaging market. A message on the company’s Web site said PictureIQ is shutting down. The company’s telephone lines have been disconnected, …

WASHINGTON-The Bush administration Tuesday said it opposed new grant money for the deployment of wireless enhanced 911. “The administration believes Congress should consider more efficient and more cost-effective means to address this issue, rather than establishing a new grant program,” …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-TeliaSonera AB said it will invest in EDGE technology to improve the speed of its Finnish mobile network. The company said it EDGE technology will be available this fall. TeliaSonera, which owns mobile subsidiaries in several Nordic and Baltic …

LONDON-In the second such European alliance aiming to gain power in numbers, nine second- and third-tier mobile operators joined forces in a new mobile alliance to provide seamless, enhanced voice and data solutions for businesses and consumers across the Continent. …

WASHINGTON-The Nebraska Public Service Commission said it will ask the state legislature next year for authority to regulate wireless service and billing. “As the wireless industry grows and users become more dependent on them, it is important that we ensure …

TOKYO-Two former Sprint Corp. executives have been named to the board of Japan Telecom Co. William Esrey, former Sprint chief executive officer, has been named chairman of the board, and Ronald LeMay, former Sprint chief operating officer, has been named …

WASHINGTON-Nov. 24 is the day for wireless local number portability, and carriers need to be technically capable of porting numbers on that day, or they face enforcement action, said FCC Chairman Michael Powell. The Federal Communications Commission will give the …

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia-A Russian operator has begun a trial of CDMA2000 1X technology at 450 MHz using equipment from Nortel Networks Ltd. The trial is being conducted in Yekaterinburg, Russia’s fourth-largest city, by UralWestcom, a joint venture between Russian Telecommunications …

HOLTSVILLE, N.Y.-Symbol Technologies Inc. said it scored another favorable ruling in its Wi-Fi patent battle with Proxim Corp., this time with a jury deciding Symbol’s technology does not infringe on Proxim’s patents. The ruling was part of a counterclaim suit …

Siemens AG said it has completed its first investment in the United States with V-Enable, a wireless startup that focuses on multi-modality technology. The investment was executed by Siemens Mobile Acceleration, the vendor’s wireless venture capital arm. V-Enable said it …

GUATEMALA CITY-Guatemalan mobile operator SERCOM has selected Nortel Networks Ltd. to deploy a nationwide GSM network. Nortel will overlay SERCOM’s current CDMA2000 1X network, also supplied by Nortel, with the GSM technology. Nortel said the new network will also be …

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-The Wi-Fi Alliance said it has certified more than 900 products from 116 companies for each or a combination of the four protocols, including 802.11a, b, g and Wi-Fi Protected Access. “The increased demand for certification is a …

HILVERSUM, The Netherlands-Lucent Technologies Inc. said it has won a contract to supply ATM infrastructure and software for KPN Mobile’s third-generation network in the Netherlands. “Lucent will deliver equipment and services for a core ATM backbone network that will enable …

YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, N.Y.-IBM Corp. said it has demonstrated what it describes as the world’s first silicon germanium transistor that can improve performance four times and reduce power consumption five times more than what is currently available in wireless devices. “As …

ISSY-LES-MOULINEAUX, France-Wireless technology company Wavecom SA announced it will open a research laboratory for the world’s handset makers, a development studio that the company said will include all the latest handset technologies. The lab, which is essentially a computerized testing …

Cingular Wireless L.L.C.’s GSM network failed last weekend, affecting thousands of customers nationwide. The outage affected Cingular’s GSM overlay network in the southern, northeastern and midwestern United States, preventing about 880,000, or 4 percent, of Cingular’s 22 million customers from …

LONDON-Telecommunications infrastructure company Alan Dick & Co. announced the opening of a new office in Innsbruck, Austria, to better service customers in Europe. “This local support strategy really works,” said David King, group marketing manager for the company. “That’s the …

OYSTER BAY, N.Y.-Although Bluetooth technology is an early favorite of the automotive industry for telematics and wireless applications, it will compete with a range of other offerings, according to research firm Allied Business Intelligence Inc. The firm said Bluetooth will …

WASHINGTON-Enforcement of the constitutionally disputed Do-Not-Call Registry will continue notwithstanding the current legal uncertainties. However, there will be only manual enforcement rather than the automated enforcement envisioned when the registry was created this summer, said Michael Powell, chairman of the …

Nokia Corp. and Sprint PCS continued to make nice, as the carrier announced it will sell a second mobile phone from the world’s No. 1 phone maker. Sprint said it will sell the Nokia 3588i for $150, a device that …

TAIPEI, Taiwan-Nortel Networks Ltd. said it has won a contract worth $64 million to supply GSM equipment to Chunghwa Telecom to cover more than 7.5 million subscribers. Nortel will supply radio, core switching and intelligent network equipment for wireless voice …

NEW YORK-SandCherry Inc. announced it has entered several partnerships to address the increased demand for advanced speech services. Through partnerships with Apptera, Fortegra, speechvantage, Voxpilot, Voice Objects and 8Hertz, SandCherry plans to develop pre-packaged and customized application solutions to allow …

MUNICH, Germany-Siemens AG said it has won a contract worth $84 million to supply GSM equipment to the networks of China Unicom in Beijing, Shangdong, Liaoning and Jilin. Siemens said the project will be completed by the end of this …

SAN JOSE, Calif.-Bankrupt mobile satellite service provider Globalstar L.P. and its subsidiaries have filed a joint plan of reorganization, according to a recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The plan follows news earlier this year that ICO Global …