Monthly Archives: March, 2001

vVault enhances productivity for mobile business professionals

If professionals need to be productive on the go, vVault thinks it has a platform on which they can walk.A mobile productivity applications provider,...

Westchester County bans driving and dialing

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.-The Westchester County Legislature voted unanimously last Monday to prohibit drivers from talking on handheld cellular phones.The measure authorizes fines of up...

HFCL wins contract in Nepal

NEW DELHI, India-HFCL, a leading Indian telecom equipment manufacturer, has bagged a contract in Nepal to supply 5000 wireless local loop (WLL) lines. The...

SkyGo study shows promise of wireless ads

The results of a wireless advertising study released today show consumers are extremely open to receiving advertisements on their wireless devices, and that wireless...

AT&T Wireless bond sale highest in U.S. history

AT&T Wireless Group jumped into the very active debt capital market last week selling off $6.5 billion worth of senior unsecured notes, the largest...

Authorities approve Russian 3G trial zones

MOSCOW-The Russian Agency for Radio Frequencies (GKRCh) decided to allow the creation of 3G trial zones in Moscow and St. Petersburg.GKRCh passed the decision...

European WLL operators battle stormy market

DUBLIN, Ireland-Having paid handsomely for their licenses at a time when wireless auctions were the flavor of the month around Europe, wireless local loop...

Huawei suspected of violating U.N. sanctions

WASHINGTON-Huawei Technologies is reportedly suspected of violating U.N. sanctions by supplying Iraq with fiber optic cable to improve its air defense capability.The Washington Post,...

Cell phones threaten China’s paging sector

BEIJING-While China's mobile-phone subscribers nearly doubled to 85.26 million last year, the country's paging manufacturers and operators fought a rearguard battle. With continuing price...

Huawei aims to become a global force: Vendor makes mobile-industry push

BEIJING-Huawei Technologies, based in China's southern boomtown of Shenzhen, is poised to become a global player in the telecommunications field. Already China's largest producer...

Cell C selected again in South Africa

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-The many delays that have beset South Africa's third mobile network license process could be at an end. In February, the Minister...

TDMA-based technologies to maintain presence

What is the future of the TDMA wireless interface? The issue is far from trivial. TDMA serves more than 60 million digital and 15...

M-commerce takes flight in Japan

TOKYO-Mobile Internet shopping is no longer a futuristic idea, but a daily practice, at least for early adopters in the browser phone-advanced nation of...

MMDS group formed

SAN JOSE, California, United States-Top executives from several multichannel multipoint distribution services (MMDS) operators throughout Latin America announced the creation of Latin American Networking...

Out of favor

The fact that the telecom sector, including the mobile industry, is shivering in the cold right now after months of basking in the sun...

Passing by on the other side

Mobile phones are an effective comfort blanket for many people. The knowledge that help and support is just a phone call away no matter...

Bush spectrum plan could speed up U.S 3G services

WASHINGTON-The Bush administration has proposed to delay key spectrum auctions and to phase out past Internet programs, as components of the president's US$1.96 trillion...

MVNOs begin to infiltrate Europe’s mobile market

BUCHAREST, Romania-Mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) are a new and hopeful concept in the European communications market. The region's mobile market is growing, with...

Contentious issues remain for Kosovo’s mobile market

UTICA, New York, United States-Nearly two years since cessation of hostilities on 10 June, 1999, numerous roadblocks still stand in the way of any...

New cellular license pending in Barbados

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados-Barbados has identified wireless and the Internet as the first segments of its telecommunications market to be opened to competition. A three-phase timetable...

Agility rolls out LMDS network Down Under

MELBOURNE, Australia-Cable & Wireless Optus established a subsidiary, Agility Networks, responsible for rolling out Australia's first tail-end broadband wireless network using local multipoint distribution...

Central American markets lag behind rest of region: Lack of privatization, competition are hinderances

DENVER, United States-While some countries in Latin America are moving forward with advanced wireless networks, Central American nations are not likely to see commercial...

Psion exits smart-phone space

Mobile computing company Psion shook the European wireless market-and sent its stocks rocketing to a new 27-month low-with news that it is dropping out...

Matsushita puts final touches on 3G terminals

TOKYO-Matsushita Communications Industrial, the leading cellular vendor in Japan, is putting the final touches on its new third-generation (3G) mobile terminals for NTT DoCoMo....

Business case still a question mark for services in South America: First GPRS network in Americas laucnhes in Bolivia

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-A year after the launch of mobile Internet services in South America, almost all the cellular telephony operators are offering Internet services,...
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