MELBOURNE, Australia-Vodafone announced it will launch its Vodafone Live! service from 21 April. The service offering will include multimedia messaging service (MMS) and polyphonic ring tones. At the same time, …
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-Porta, owned by Am
OXFORD, United Kingdom—In the event of a terror attack on London, the government said it is planning to swamp cell-phone users with short message services (SMSs) in the style of …
BEIJING—Hong Kong is suffering from a mysterious illness called Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). On 1 April, a rumor surfaced that the whole city would be quarantined and cut off …
TOKYO-Oki Electric, a leading electronic manufacturer in Japan, plans to expand sales for semiconductors for PHS handsets to meet far-expanding demand for PHS units in Asia, the firm said Wednesday. …
BOSTON-Speech technology provider SpeechWorks International Inc. announced Bob Kellegrew has joined as vice president and general counsel. Kellegrew joins the company from American Tower Corp. where he served in a …
OXFORD, United Kingdom-In what is being seen as an ill-disguised attempt to combat the European coverage afforded by Vodafone, three of Europe’s largest cell-phone operators have clubbed together to offer …
OXFORD, United Kingdom-Following the acquisition in March of wireless local are network (WLAN) operators Megastream and Munich-based WLAN, fixed-line carrier Swisscom, which now has more than 800 WLAN access points, …
BEIJING—In a report entitled “Management and Development of China Telecom in 2003,” equipment manufacturer Zhongxing Telecom (ZTE) predicted fixed-line carrier China Telecom will adopt W-CDMA technology as its third-generation (3G) …
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DUBLIN, Ireland-Scottish firm Eurosource Europe announced plans to establish a presence in the United States, having carved a lucrative niche in Europe. The company said it has recycled 150,000 mobile …
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-The National Telecommunications Commission in Honduras prequalified BellSouth, Entel Chile and Megatel-EMCE for the band A personal communications services (PCS) cellular telephone license for which 18 companies had …
The promise of the converged wireless device is a reality, although exactly what it will look like is still being debated. Those in the industry have long preached the inevitable …
China’s homegrown technology, TD-SCDMA, may not enjoy the kind of traction its proprietors dream. Datang Mobile Communications Equipment, one of TD-SCDMA’s major supporters, fears the technology will not be chosen …
HELSINKI, Finland-NRJ International has withdrawn from its previous commitments for $14.4 million in shares of troubled Finnish handset maker Benefon. Investor Philippe Frangie, who had previously committed to a $12.9 …
LAKE CHARLES, La.-US Unwired Inc. reported $148.8 million in revenues for the fourth quarter of 2002 and $534.1 million for the full-year compared with $81.2 million and $259.2 million respectively …
WARREN, N.J.-Anadigics Inc. said it has acquired the complete wireless local area network power amplifier and module product lines from RF Solutions Inc. “Our new WLAN PA team brings to …
TOKYO-Japanese carriers J-Phone and NTT DoCoMo will begin selling camera phones in May with resolution four times that of current camera phones, according to Reuters. The move would put mobile …
Arabic news network Al Jazeera said it will offer a breaking news service to mobile phone users. The text messaging service, operated through content company PervasiveEdge, will feature around 60 …
NEW YORK-Vernier Networks, Mountainview, Calif., will make commercially available in late April two new 6500p products, Access Manager and Integrated System, which are based on a draft wireless local area …
PARIS-Alcatel has announced a much-needed third-generation contract win with Austria’s Tele.ring for a turnkey UMTS network. The deployment will begin in May, with the first phase covering mainly Vienna, Graz …
SAN DIEGO-Leap Wireless International Inc. filed an extension with the Securities and Exchange Commission noting its 10-K report filing would be delayed until the middle of April. The company noted …
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. has declared IBM Corp. supplier of the year as a key contributor in making the CDMA proprietor exceed its business objectives for the calendar year. “This award …
HOUSTON-Crown Castle International Corp. earlier this week filed an 8K announcing it has deferred a portion of the $78 million site access payment it was scheduled to pay British Telecom …
EDINBURGH, Scotland-Orange announced it is using voice service solutions from Rhetorical for an upgrade to its text-to-speech service. The new system will use two voices from Rhetorical’s rVoice text-to-speech technology …
