Yearly Archives: 2001

Tellabs cuts another 1,000 jobs, closes 2 facilities

NEW YORK—Tellabs is planning to cut 1,000 jobs and shut down two facilities in an effort to cut costs, the company announced 16 November.The...

Spanish operators contest wireless fee

OXFORD, United Kingdom—Three Spanish mobile operators are expected to make an appeal before Spain's National Court over a government-imposed fee for using cell-phone spectrum....

Qualcomm partners with Eutelsat for European fleet management

SAN DIEGO, United States—Qualcomm Wireless Business Solutions Europe and satellite provider Eutelsat signed a five-year agreement to implement fleet management solutions in the European...

Motorola hopes for Olympic windfall in China

BEIJING—Motorola is expected to supply China with Terrestrial Trunked Radio (TETRA) and iDEN digital dispatch systems in preparation for the organization of the 2008...

Nokia, Motorola vie for supremacy in China

BEIJING—There is some controversy over which foreign vendor has sold the most handsets in China so far this year. According to International Data Corporation,...

NTT DoCoMo to launch location service next week

TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo said it will launch a nationwide position-information service based on its Location Platform, dubbed the DLP service, on 27 November.The service uses...

Sonic Duo brings Megafon project to Moscow

MOSCOW—Sonic Duo, which has the third GSM license in Moscow, finally went on air in the capital this month after numerous delays caused by...

German E-commerce developer sells mobile arm

OXFORD, United Kingdom—The much troubled German e-commerce developer Brokat Technologies has agreed to sell its mobile business unit to EOne Global, a U.S. company...

Nordea report says no Swedish 3G until 2003

HELSINKI, Finland—A sectoral report by Nordea, the largest commercial bank in the Nordic countries and Baltic-rim region, has concluded that Swedish investment in third-generation...

SiteSafe completes CET acquisition

ARLINGTON, Va.—SiteSafe Inc. announced it completed the acquisition of Communications Engineering Technology Inc., a provider of database and engineering services to the private land...

Winstar auction planned in December

NEW YORK—Winstar Communications Inc. intends to file with the Bankruptcy Court in the District of Delaware a motion to establish procedures for an auction...

Inquam to develop CDMA-based services in Indonesia

JAKARTA, Indonesia—Inquam, a venture company backed by Qualcomm, has marked its presence in Indonesia through an acquisition of Mobile Selular Indonesia (Mobisel) shares.Prior to...

TeleCorp, AT&T Wireless deal gets antitrust approval

ARLINGTON, Va.—TeleCorp PCS Inc. said it received early approval under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act for its acquisition by AT&T Wireless. TeleCorp announced...

Tele2 launches first wireless project in Russia after MIC assets purchase

MOSCOW—Swedish company Tele2 launched a wireless communications project in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don just weeks after the company announced the purchase of...

RIM acquires graphics software company

TORONTO—Research in Motion (RIM) of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, has acquired Plazmic, a closely held Toronto company that makes software for wireless devices. Financial terms...

2Roam closes doors

REDWOOD CITY, California, United States—The board of directors for privately held wireless Web site enabler 2Roam voted to shut down the company and sell...

UWCC says TDMA subscribers now reach 82 million

BELLEVUE, Washington, United States—The Universal Wireless Communications Consortium (UWCC) said TDMA subscribers have increased 53 percent during the past 12 months, reaching 82.1 million...

China Netcom expected to receive mobile license

BEIJING—Broadband telecom network provider China Netcom is expected to be awarded a mobile license by the Chinese government soon.The company will start promotion of...

Siemens cell-phone business slips to fifth place

OXFORD, United Kingdom—As speculation continues about what Siemens will do with its mobile-phone business, the research firm Gartner said that its latest study into...

Sierra Wireless announces AirCard distribution agreement

LONDON—Sierra Wireless has announced a distribution agreement with Peripheral Corner, a division of Fracom Components International Ltd., a U.K.-based component distributor, for the Sierra...

Mobilocity targets executives with Blackberry trial

NEW YORK—Mobilocity Inc. announced its has launched its Mobile First Step promotion, in conjunction with Research In Motion's Blackberry Enterprise Edition, allowing executives to...

Indian firm to supply WLL lines to Brazilian operator

NEW DELHI, India—Nortelpa, a "mini-mirror" telecom service provider in Brazil, has selected the CorDECT wireless local loop (WLL) system of Midas Communication Technologies of...

China Unicom to announce the start of CDMA services

BEIJING—China Unicom is expected to announce in the coming days that it will start CDMA services in January. The listed arm of the China...

Vimpelcom chooses Comverse solution

WOODBURY, New York, United States—Comverse said it deployed its Intelligent Network (IN)-based prepaid solution to Vimpelcom, one of Russia's main wireless carriers.Comverse said the...
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