Monthly Archives: May, 2000

Handsets with SIM cards to facilitate roaming

DENVER, United States-The CDMA Development Group said it expects handset makers to introduce commercial CDMA handsets with subscriber identity modules by the end of...

BellSouth, SBC announce `painless’ merger

DENVER, United States- BellSouth and SBC Communications finally ended weeks of speculation, announcing plans to create a wireless joint venture that will become the...

VIEWPOINT: Great Aunt Agatha

Great Aunt Agatha has never really come to terms with electricity. She keeps buying dummy plugs to insert into any unused electricity socket she...

Russian wireless carriers fire shots in tariff war

MOSCOW-Three nationwide Russian wireless carriers, which control close to 75 percent of the market, have launched a fierce battle for new clients as mobile...

PCS licenses set to be awarded by October

SAO PAULO, Brazil-Anatel, Brazil's telecommunications regulatory agency, will not divulge the frequency band-either 1.8 GHz or 1.9 GHz-that band C cellular telephony operators will...

GSM standard makes Latin American inroads

Although GSM technology has scant market share in Latin America, the 2000 GSM Association Plenary in Santiago, Chile, in late April was the stage...

Singapore’s paging operators diversify services

SINGAPORE-Falling margins, cheaper alternatives and technological obsolescence have combined to deal a major blow to Singapore's four paging operators.From an all-time high of 1.36...

Phone.com assails Geoworks’ IPR claims

Phone.com Inc. fired the first shot against Geoworks' claim that it holds intellectual property rights to Wireless Application Protocol technology by suing the company.Geoworks...
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