2001

HELSINKI, Finland—Nokia Corp. says it has agreed to supply KPN with its Nokia Gateway products for the operator’s wireless LAN networks. “With the Nokia WLAN ADSL Home Gateway we can …

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.—TeleComputing has released its new Mobile Services Powered by TECOS, a hosted application solution that enables service providers to deploy services that offer PDA users secure access to …

ATLANTA—The University of South Florida plans to use Air2Web’s wireless platform to extend wireless services to students, faculty and staff beginning in January 2002. The University’s IT department is developing …

MIAMI—AT&T Wireless launched GSM/GPRS service in several markets in Florida covering more than 11 million potential customers from Daytona Beach through South Dade County and in areas surrounding Orlando, St. …

WOODBURY, N.Y.—Comverse Technology says it has agreed to provide NEC System Integration & Construction Ltd. with network communications products in Japan. “When selecting a system integration partner, Comverse was a …

ALEXANDRIA, Va.—The Personal Communications Industry Association (PCIA) announced six annual awards given to individuals and companies for outstanding contributions to their communities through the use of mobile technology. The Albert …

WASHINGTON—The Federal Communications Bar Association will hold its 12th annual charity auction this week to benefit inner city schools here. Auction proceeds will go to the STEP/I Have a Dream …

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.—Wireless marketing company SkyGo Inc. announced five additional content providers have joined the SkyGo Mobile Advertising Network, including CBS MarketWatch.com, ESPN.com, Hoover’s Online, nGame and Funcaster.com.

MIAMI—Brightstar Corp. announced its third-quarter revenues showed it remains the market share leader in Latin American wireless outsourcing. The company’s $161.5 million in revenues was well above competitors CellStar Corp.’s …

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.—Japanese mobile operator KDDI announced the 10 millionth mobile subscriber on its cdmaOne network has registered. The network, Japan’s first CDMA digital cellular network, and the infrastructure were …

LAS VEGAS—Nokia Corp. and Sony Corp. announced they are developing an open and common middleware platform with the intent of achieving interoperability between mobile handsets and consumer devices, and between …

SAN FRANCISCO—Telephia Inc. will acquire Mspect and add the company’s short messaging service QoS monitoring capabilities to the Telephia Wireless Data Network and Application Performance (Wireless DNA Performance) service, which …

TORONTO—Go Prepaid Inc. announced it has added Telus’ Talk & Surf Card to its line of prepaid card solutions. The Telus Talk & Surf Card includes toll-free North American internet …

ARLINGTON, Va.—Iridium Satellite L.L.C. and Icarus Instruments Inc. announced the availability of the SatTalk II, a satellite-based aeronautical voice and data communications system. All voice and data communications are transmitted …

BEIJING—Nortel Networks said it won an approximately US$18 million contract to provide optical long-haul backbone networks to enhance the speed of China Mobile’s GSM coverage and speed. “China Mobile plans …

BEIJING—U.K.-based Vodafone opened a representative office in Beijing on 9 November. Foreign operators must have a representative office for three years before they can set up a joint venture with …

OXFORD, United Kingdom—News International, the vast media organization with outlets in most major countries, is preparing to unveil its proprietary mobile content delivery platform and a new strategy of forming …

BEIJING—By the end of the year, China will set up a new telecom carrier, the China Telecommunications Satellite Group Corporation, by merging the satellite subsidiaries of several existing companies, including …

MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, United States—Luxxon announced Hutchison Telecommunications (Hong Kong) purchased its Mediator Streaming System, which Luxxon said will allow the carrier to demonstrate to the public the next-generation wireless …

BROOMFIELD, Colo.—Level 3 Communications Inc. signed an agreement with AT&T Wireless to provide network services, including private line circuits to provide transport for its GPRS network. Financial terms of the …

BEIJING—Australia’s Telstra and China Unicom have signed a memorandum of understanding to further explore business opportunities covering fixed and wireless services, including voice and data. Telstra hopes to exploit its …

LAKE CHARLES, La.-US Unwired Inc. added 35,107 personal communications services subscribers during the third quarter, ahead of the 14,574 customers added last year and 28,000 added during the previous quarter. …

BEIJING—Qualcomm expects that 4 million to 8 million CDMA-based handsets will be sold in China in 2002. Worldwide, the figure is forecasted to be 85 million to 95 million. A …

RALEIGH, North Carolina, United States—Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications and MobileAria announced a partnership to promote in-vehicle Bluetooth adoption. MobileAria said it will support and market Sony Ericsson’s handsets with MobileAria’s …

NEW DELHI, India—The Indian government has decided to award licenses for Global Mobile Personal Communication by Satellite (GMPCS) services for a period of 20 years on a nonexclusive basis. The …