Monthly Archives: April, 2001

Handset market battle revs up

As the economy slackens and competition revs up, the handset market may set the stage for a battle between big names and their smaller...

KPN, Interpay complete WAP financial transaction

HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia, KPN Mobile and Interpay Nederland have successfully made a financial transaction on a mobile network based on WIM technology, a part of...

Calif. studies cell-users’ rights: State PUC may not have authority to implement return policy

WASHINGTON-In a development with national implications for a wireless industry increasingly hit with complaints about service quality and billing problems, a California telecom regulator...

Motorola sends message of hope after reporting first loss in 16 years

Motorola Inc. mixed memory with some cheer in its first-quarter results last week as it reported its first loss in 16 years amid hopes...

Late News

China undecided on technology selectionOnly months after the Chinese Ministry of Information signed a memorandum of understanding to allow the country's second-largest company, China...

Alltel partners

LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-Alltel Corp. partnered with LookSmart, a provider of Web directories, to offer a wireless Internet search and directory feature for its Web-Unwired...

Telecommunications industry questions payments for FCC consultant

WASHINGTON-The telecommunications industry is questioning whether the nearly half-million dollars it has paid to a nonprofit consultant to the government on numbering issues is...

Senate and House clash on auction dates: Bush budget slashes NTIA funding

WASHINGTON-House and Senate budget leaders are at odds over President Bush's plan to delay auctions of valuable broadcast spectrum, a dispute that arises at...

Wireless goes to school

While most wireless companies are targeting either the consumer or the business market with their technology, a select few are targeting a new and...

ADC reorganizes

MINNEAPOLIS-ADC Telecommunications Inc. announced it is reorganizing to better meet its operational and financial objectives.Rick Roscitt was appointed the company's new chairman and chief...

Japanese vendors likely to follow outsourcing trend

NEW YORK-With NEC Corp. and Sony Corp. serving as "trend setters" among their in-country peers, Japanese electronics equipment companies are poised to follow the...

Sprint, Lucent test cdma2000 1xEV-DO

LENEXA, Kan.-Sprint PCS and Lucent Technologies Inc. completed an over-the-air data call using cdma2000 1xEV-DO, with transmission speeds up to 2.4 Megabits per second.Sprint,...

Telefonica buys Iberdrola’s Brazil stakes

MADRID, Spain-Telefonica and Spanish utility company Iberdrola signed an agreement under which Telefonica will acquire all Iberdrola shareholdings in the Brazilian telecom operators in...

Siemens cuts temporary workers

LEIPZIG, Germany-Phone maker Siemens AG has laid off 2,000 temporary workers in Leipzig, Bottrop and Kamp-Lintfort, Germany.The company, which expects its handset sales to...

Kennard joins Handspring board

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-The former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, William E. Kennard, made his first step into the private sector by joining the...

RAM Hawaii now Arch

HONOLULU-RAM Paging Hawaii, a Hawaiian paging company, said it will start operating under the name of its parent company, Arch Wireless Inc."Arch Wireless has...

Alcatel wins $80M Chinese GSM contract

PARIS-Alcatel signed a GSM expansion contract with China's Shanghai Mobile Communication Company Ltd. Valued at more than $80 million, the expansion contract will bring...

ArrayComm leads effort to create TDD Coalition

SAN JOSE, Calif.-ArrayComm Inc. said it joined with 11 other companies to create the TDD Coalition, which will advocate specific U.S. spectrum allocations for...

China Mobile to close analog network

BEIJING-China's largest wireless carrier, China Mobile, said it plans to close its analog wireless network by the end of the year, according to international...

W-CDMA standard ready for commercial service, Nokia says

HELSINKI, Finland- Nokia Corp. said that the decision in a March meeting of the Third-Generation Partnership Project to establish future compatibility between versions of...

TIW sells Brazilian stakes interests

MONTREAL-Telesystem International Wireless Inc. has closed the sale of its interests in Brazilian cellular operations Americel S.A. and Telet S.A. to an affiliate of...

Corrections

In the RCR Wireless News article, "Omvia intended to aid in customer retention," (March 19, page 40) the story incorrectly states the relationship between...

T-Mobil to test PacketVideo technology

HANNOVER, Germany-The wireless multimedia company PacketVideo Corp., and T-Mobil, which provides mobile telecommunication services in Germany, announced they will conduct trials of PacketVideo's end-to-end...

Service costs drop 0.3 percent in March

LOS ANGELES-A recent study by Econ One, an independent economic research and consulting firm, said the average cost of cell-phone service across U.S. cities...
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