2001

SAN DIEGO—Verizon Wireless and Lucent Technologies demonstrated an over-the-air data call using CDMA 1xEV-DO technology at the CDMA Americas Congress. The companies noted they already completed a field trial of …

ALLENTOWN, Pennsylvania, United States—Agere Systems announced its wireless platform and semiconductor will be used in Beijing-based PTIC Capitel’s new small C76088 and C6288 models, which recently began selling to the …

MANILA, Philippines—Smart Communications has chosen SchlumbergerSema’s Java subscriber identity module (SIM) smart cards as its platform for data services, SchlumbergerSema said. Smart handles about 45 million outgoing short message service …

TOKYO—NEC won an order for more than 1 million units of third-generation (3G) video phones from Hutchison Whampoa. NEC is going to provide the terminals based on both wideband-CDMA (W-CDMA) …

BEDMINSTER, New Jersey, United States—Verizon Wireless signed definitive agreements to acquire certain Dobson Communications wireless operations in California, Georgia, Ohio and Tennessee for approximately US$465 million. The Tennessee market, which …

HELSINKI, Finland—Springtoys said SingTel Mobile and Globe Telecom of the Philippines adopted its games, which will reach a potential customer base of more than 5 million mobile-phone users.

READING, United Kingdom—Nokia Corp. has taken the lead in the European handheld device market, beating out such big names as Palm Inc. and Compaq Computer Corp, a new survey shows. …

MUNICH, Germany—Siemens partnered with Beyond Solutions Europe (BSE) to provide games for mobile networks. Based on BSE’s gaming platform and a catalog of games, Siemens will compile customer-specific packages for …

TOKYO—J-Phone Group on 1 November consolidated four companies of the group into one company to compete with its two rivals NTT DoCoMo and KDDI. Due to the reorganization, the new …

PRAGUE, Czech Republic—All three incumbent mobile operators in the Czech Republic have refused to pay the minimum US$180 million price set for the country’s third-generation (3G) licenses, sending the licensing …

OSLO, Norway—Norway’s Telenor Mobile signed a final agreement to acquire 100 percent of Hungarian mobile-phone operator Pannon GSM for about US$905 million. Finland’s Sonera and the Netherlands’ KPN, two debt-laden …

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BEIJING—Siemens and the China Academy of Telecommunications Technology (CATT) signed an agreement during German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder’s visit to Beijing this week. It is one of 29 agreements signed between …

LUXEMBOURG—Millicom International Cellular (MIC) confirmed it is in talks with Tele2 regarding the possible sale of MIC’s Russian cellular assets to Tele2. “It is no secret that our Scandinavian competitors …

TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo, the largest mobile carrier in Japan, is going to report about a 300 billion yen (US$2.5 billion) special loss in its first half (1H) of fiscal year (FY) …

BUCHAREST, Romania—According to the Swedish financial newspaper Finanstidningen, Skanska is exercising its option to sell its 10-percent shareholding in Orange Sweden, which won a third-generation (3G) license in Sweden last …

SINGAPORE—Motorola said sales of new products have led its global market share to jump to 18 percent in the third quarter, an increase from the 14.8-percent market share it recorded …

GAITHERSBURG, Maryland, United States—ACE*COMM announced that Mexico’s Grupo Iusacell has selected its Convergent Mediation platform to collect and process use records to produce billable record formats. According to ACE*COMM, the …

SAN DIEGO—The Mobile Wireless Internet Forum (MWIF) announced its strategic intentions for the coming year, which include plans to focus on standardizing core network architectures, communicating the advantage of wireless …

LONDON—British Airways passengers in New York’s JFK Airport can connect to online services through a deal with Compaq. The service is available from 22 October through 18 November and allows …

TOKYO—Matsushita Communication Industrial, the largest mobile handset manufacturer in Japan, announced it will cease production of handsets at its U.K. factories in March 2002. Upon ceasing its production at its …

CAMBRIDGE, U.K.—Cambridge Positioning Systems (CPS) announced it has begun a trial of Antenova’s steerable directional antenna to test its capability of improving the accuracy, while reducing the cost of deploying …

Bucharest, ROMANIA—HE Shaikh Mohammed bin Khalifa Al Khalifa, Ministry of Transport under-secretary and Batelco board director, signed a nearly 9.8 million dinar (US$26 million) contract with Ericsson to undertake the …

TOKYO—Mitsubishi Electric and Samsung Electronics announced they have standardized specifications for random access memory modules (RAMs) for use in mobile devices to provide higher density, smaller packaging and lower prices. …

OXFORD, United Kingdom—Orange, one of the leading innovators of cell-phone services, has confirmed that it will delay the introduction of General Packet Radio Service (GPRS)-based technology, originally due in the …