SAN RAMON, Calif.- U.S. Wireless Corp. announced its South Korean joint venture, Wireless Technology Inc., signed a memorandum of understanding with SK Telecom, Korea's largest wireless carriers, to trial U.S. Wireless' RadioCamera system.RadioCamera is a network-based geolocation system that locates callers through a pattern...
WOODBURY, N.Y.-Comverse Network Systems, a division of Comverse Technology Inc., signed an agreement with AT&T Wireless Services to provide its unified messaging solution for AT&T Wireless' recently announced third-generation network.Comverse said its unified messaging platform will enable AT&T to provide its customers with a...
Like the old dog that would not die, digital subscriber line and cable services continue to dwarf wireless in the house of the end user. Yet wireless, the new dog that is at once nimble and naive, must frail aimlessly about for a share...
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. has expanded its CDMA license contract with Rohde & Schwarz to include using its patents and purchasing its integrated circuits and system software to manufacture and supply test equipment products for current and third-generation applications."Qualcomm is pleased to amend Rohde &...
SAN DIEGO-Leap Wireless International Inc. launched its Cricket Comfortable Wireless service in Albuquerque and Santa Fe, N.M.Leap said customers of its flat rate, all-you-can-talk local wireless service could receive service in both markets for an additional monthly charge.
CARLSBAD, Calif.-Denso Wireless, a manufacturer and supplier of wireless phones, and Unitech Industries, a manufacturer of phone accessories, signed a strategic alliance to jointly develop accessories for phones supplied to Sprint PCS.The companies said they expect to jointly develop digital hands-free car kits, single-slot...
WASHINGTON-Despite uneven progress of fixed wireless broadband carriers in recent years, the ability of newcomers to the local market-small and large alike-to offer voice, data, video and Internet services competitively hinges on key policy decisions confronting regulators, the courts and the Bush administration.2001 will...
HONG KONG-Hong Kong plans to award four third-generation (3G) licenses by the middle of 2001 using a hybrid beauty contest and auction process.Companies must go through a qualification process based on network rollout, investment and financial stability followed by an auction. License winners will...
A variety of wireless operators released fourth quarter results last week, including national carrier VoiceStream Wireless Corp., regional operator Western Wireless Corp. and flat rate, local calling provider Leap Wireless International Inc.VoiceStreamVoiceStream, which is in the midst of a takeover by Germany's Deutsche Telekom,...
Like most other paging companies, PNI Technologies Inc. is working to pull itself out from under the shadow of the flagging paging industry. But while most carriers are tying to distance themselves from everything paging, PNI is redesigning technology it created for its paging...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc. won two GSM infrastructure contracts valued at $13 million from China Mobile Communication Corp. to expand its networks in two major cities in Heilongjiang Province in China.In other news, DMC Stratex Networks announced it received contracts totaling approximately $4 million...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-French telecom manufacturer Alcatel has relaunched its GSM micro base station concept that it claims will work with PBXs from other developers. The success of the micro base station concept, which was unveiled two years ago, has been patchy with few operators...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-Airflash, a wireless location technology developer, unveiled an interactive short message service location service that it claims is the first within the wireless industry. The firm said that, given the majority of GSM/personal communications service cell phones can support SMS, compared with...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-Despite the formation last September of the Location Interoperability Forum (LIF), which is dedicated to developing global interoperability between mobile positioning systems, technology developers are complaining that nothing has happened.The forum, which was launched by Nokia Corp., L.M. Ericsson and Motorola Inc.,...
TORONTO-Rogers Wireless Communications Inc. posted less-than-spectacular fourth-quarter results with average revenue per user falling from $32.06 during the fourth quarter of 1999 to $30.39 during the fourth quarter of 2000, and customer churn rising from 2.37 percent to 2.76 percent during the same time...
CALGARY, Canada-The Canadian government put up a $142,000 grant to study the feasibility of using technology created by location-services provider Cell-Loc to develop a traffic monitoring system.The project will use Cell-Loc's Cellocate wireless location technology to monitor cellular devices in vehicles to determine traffic...
MONTREAL-Canadian personal communications services provider Microcell Telecommunications Inc. released fourth-quarter 2000 results showing the company added 134,654 customers to its Fido wireless service, bringing its total customer base to 922,527 subscribers. Of its customers, 51 percent were reported as postpaid with the remaining 49...
ST. LOUIS-Deutsche Telekom selected Amdocs to implement a fraud management solution for local, long-distance and international traffic, as a value-added service for DT's entire customer base.Amdocs said its Fraud Management System detects potential fraud, issues alerts, gathers evidence of fraud and facilitates the work...
MELBOURNE, Australia-Vodafone Pacific said it will transfer at least 1 million mobile-phone customers and distribution assets to Hutchison Telecommunications if it wins regulatory approval for its proposed acquisition of Cable & Wireless Optus, according to the Wall Street Journal.Under the deal, Vodafone's share of...
SINGAPORE-Pacific Century CyberWorks Executive Chairman Richard Li announced in Davos, Switzerland, that his company expects to bid for a third-generation mobile-phone network license in Singapore.He said, "Singapore is such an important market for the region that we cannot afford not to consider bidding for...
TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo, the leading carrier in Japan, is going to recall more than 100,000 cellular terminals that may have some defects in software, the firm announced. The recall will cover four types of terminals manufactured by Sony, Japan Radio, Hitachi Kokusai Electric and L.M....
SINGAPORE-Singapore's smallest paging operator, Hutchison Intrapage, has quit the sector four years after it began operations. The shareholders-Hong Kong's Hutchison Telecommunications (40 percent), Intraco (30 percent) and its subsidiary Teledata (30 percent)-looked for a buyer for the loss-making operations for two years, and after...
NTT DoCoMo, announced that it set the public offering prices for new shares at $17,500 per share for 400,000 shares. If the additional 60,000 shares are issued at the same price, the issue amount will total $8.1 billion, the firm said. The payment due...
