2001

HELSINKI, Finland—Nokia said it has reduced to 130 the number of workers it intends to cut at its Salo, Finland, plant because some of the workers agreed to retire or …

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BEIJING—New York’s CI Wave and Beijing’s Taiji Computer are jointly planning, developing and building a nationwide 3.5 GHz broadband fixed wireless access (BFWA) data network. CI Wave is also offering …

MOSCOW—The CDMA technology, which must abandon the 470 MHz to 872 MHz band in Russia by 2010, began to move down to the 450 MHz band, and a second carrier …

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 …

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 …

WAKEFIELD, Massachusetts, United States—In an effort to spur mobile commerce, four credit card giants joined forces to create the Mobile Payment Forum, which will work to address key issues like …

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—UTStarcom has signed a contract worth US$11 million with fixed-line operator China Telecom to expand a local wireless network in Henan province. China Telecom does not have a wireless operator …

OXFORD, United Kingdom—The staff at Deutsche Telekom-owned One 2 One, one of the United Kingdom’s four cell-phone operators, has been warned that a major strategic review is under way within …

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia—Ericsson announced a contract of an unspecified amount to supply wireless broadband equipment to Russian operator Combellga. “The contract includes base station hubs covering the major parts of …

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 …

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 …

TAMPA, Florida, United States—China Unicom signed a contract with Telecommunication Services Incorporated (TSI) to provide international CDMA roaming services, allowing China Unicom customers to roam on a number of CDMA …

WASHINGTON—The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted 3-1 to relax the spectrum cap in urban markets to 55 megahertz and to completely dissolve the cap in January 2003. The move likely …

HELSINKI, Finland—Denmark’s TDC has blamed “technical problems” for its decision to delay the launch of its third-generation (3G) mobile-phone network in Switzerland. The launch, which had originally been scheduled to …

WOODBURY, New York, United States—Comverse, a unit of Comverse Technology, announced T-Mobile International’s wireless German subsidiary, T-Mobil, selected the company’s voice portal to deliver a range of voice-activated commercial services. …

LONDON—The WAP Forum and the GSM Association announced they will formalize and strengthen their cooperative alliance, collaborating on projects such as the GSM Association’s M-Services initiative, which is based on …

BEIJING—Motorola will invest an additional US$6.6 billion in China in the next five years to reach a cumulative investment of US$10 billion and double its production capacity in the country. …

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 …

TORONTO—In a major joint announcement, four of Canada’s wireless carriers said they are joining forces in an effort to stimulate short messaging service (SMS) use by creating an interoperable messaging …

WHITE PLAINS, New York, United States—NextWave Telecom reached an agreement with the federal government to relinquish its personal communications services (PCS) licenses to the government, but the documents have not …

BEDMINSTER, N.J.—Verizon Wireless Inc. filed an updated registration statement relating to its potential initial public offering of common stock with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The statement notes that upon …