Monthly Archives: August, 2001

Brightpoint to distribute Motorola accessories in Australia

INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, United States—Brightpoint announced its Brightpoint Australia subsidiary has signed an agreement to sell and distribute Motorola mobile-phone accessories in Australia.

Alcatel, Intrinsic to install mobile infrastructure in China

PARIS—Alcatel has signed a memorandum of understanding with Intrinsic Technology to set up a complete end-to-end mobile infrastructure in China for advanced data services."The...

Motorola (China) and China Unicom agree to long-term cooperation

BEIJING—Motorola (China) and China Unicom recently signed a long-term cooperation agreement. Both companies want to cooperate on data communications, network optimization and unified management...

J-Phone selects Nokia for W-CDMA equipment

TOKYO—Nokia has signed a contract to supply a wideband-CDMA (W-CDMA) mobile packet switching system and radio-access network to Japanese carrier J-Phone Group.The J-Phone group,...

Alcatel to expand GSM network in Tibet

PARIS—Alcatel has signed a contract to expand Tibet's GSM network for Mobile Communications Co. of Tibet, a subsidiary of China Mobile. It targets 280,000...

Legend, Siemens form alliance

BEIJING—China's computer vendor Legend Holdings has entered a deal with Siemens AG to roll out GPRS-enabled wireless devices in China.According to the terms of...

Nokia to expand networks in the Philippines

HELSINKI, Finland—Nokia has signed a US$200 million contract with Smart Communications Inc. to expand GSM networks in the Philippines.Under the deal, Nokia will supply...

Shanghai Mobile plans capacity increases

BEIJING—At the end of last year, Shanghai Mobile, China Mobile's subsidiary in the East-China metropolis of Shanghai, had 2.83 million subscribers and a network...

China to add 15 million mobile subscribers in second half of 2001

BEIJING—Xu Xiaotian, director of the department of electronics and information product administration at China's Ministry of Information Industry told a technology fair in Shanghai...

India’s Tata mobitel and Hughes Tele.com to merge

NEW DELHI, India—The continuing consolidation trend in India's cellular industry is now spilling over to basic service providers as well. Tata Teleservices—provider of CDMA-based...

Jordan M.T.S launches WAP services for prepaid customers

BUCHAREST, Romania—The Jordanian GSM operator Jordan M.T.S. launched a new service for its prepaid customers.The new service, called Mobile Internet (WAP), allows customers to...

KPMG to study smart card use

NEW YORK—KPMG will conduct a survey to measure smart card use in North America, according to a 6 August announcement of The Smart Card...

Cramer partners with Evolving Systems

MCLEAN, Virginia, United States—Cramer Systems, a provider of provisioning software, announced a partnership with Evolving Systems that it said will help North American wireless...

Telus to use Lucent prepaid service

MARKHAM, Ontario—Telus Mobility said it has agreed to use Lucent Technologies' SurePay Prepaid Service for Mobile Networks to standardize its prepaid calling management platform."Standardizing...

Nigeria to open GSM lines

LAGOS, Nigeria—The Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC) said it will open 1 million GSM lines within six months, more lines than the rest of all...

Siemens to build GSM network for Africell

BANJUL, Gambia—Siemens has signed a US$6.6 million contract to build a GSM network for carrier Africell in the 900 MHz band.Africell expects between 15,000...

Matav Digital selects Comverse interactive TV platform

WOODBURY, New York, United States—Wireless technology is entering the home, as evidenced in Comverse's announcement that its interactive TV platform, which provides messaging and...

Thuraya Satellite signs agreement with Kuwait operator

BUCHAREST, Romania—Thuraya Satellite Telecommunications concluded a service provider agreement with Mobile Telecommunications Company of Kuwait, a telecommunications operator in the region.As part of the...

Marconi downgraded

LONDON—Standard and Poor's has downgraded U.K. telecom equipment maker Marconi to "BBB-" from "BBB+", just on the edge of junk bond status.The credit ratings...

Siemens may cut 3,000 more jobs

FRANKFURT, Germany—As the company grapples with a slackening economy, Siemens may slash 3,000 more jobs to save money in its telecommunications divisions, according to...

Romanian operator announces 1.5 million customers on GSM network

BUCHAREST, Romania—Romanian GSM operator CONNEX announce that it has set the record high number of 1.5 million GSM customers and 100,000 XNET users."These milestones...

Motorola to supply BT Wireless initiative

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Illinois, United States—Motorola has agreed to supply the equipment for the BT Wireless network initiative called Expidas to launch applications for present...

Vodafone Malta launches GPRS

BUCHAREST, Romania—Joseph C. Grioli, managing director of Vodafone Malta, officially launched the General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) pilot project, which is available to all...

Three Russian companies lead second Belarussian GSM license tender

MINSK, Belarus—Russian carriers for the first time participated in a foreign wireless communications tender and three of them qualified for the final stage of...

Orange drops Ericsson and Siemens handsets

OXFORD, United Kingdom—In what appears to have been a politically motivated decision, the France Telecom-owned mobile operator Orange has dropped handsets developed by Ericsson...
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