2001

BEIJING—Ericsson is to deliver a Mobitex mobile Internet network to the Sky Networks Communication Group to serve 500,000 subscribers in Beijing and northern China. The network is expected to be …

LONDON—Diederik Karsten, chief executive of KPN’s mobile-phone division, intends to leave the company next month, according to a report by The Financial Times. Board director Paul Smits, who recently stepped …

LONDON—Although European awareness of application service providers (ASPs) is growing, enterprises still seem cautious to implement the services, according to a recent Frost & Sullivan survey. Of the companies surveyed, …

TOKYO—NTT East and NTT Corporation announced that they will launch a high-speed wireless local area network (LAN) service with a data transmission speed of 36 Megabits per second (Mbps) in …

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Illinois, United States—Motorola said it will lay off 7,000 more workers as it announced a third-quarter loss of US$1.4 billion, its third consecutive loss. The job cuts will …

TOKYO—NEC said it will supply a mobile Internet platform to Taiwan’s KG Telecom, which will begin its i-mode-like mobile Internet service in mid-2002. The contract value is 1 billion yen …

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LONDON—Vodafone Multimedia, part of Vodafone U.K., selected SeeBeyond and its integration partner Ect to develop infrastructure to allow event-based or two-way text messaging. “By leveraging the benefits of the SeeBeyond …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Allgon said it signed a US$6 million agreement with Vimpelcom to provide a coverage solution for Moscow’s subway network. Allgon will provide a repeater-based coverage solution.

HELSINKI, Finland—Vattenfall and Swedish power sector ally Birka Energi have reached a preliminary agreement to use their combined electricity systems as springboards to build new stations for third-generation (3G) networks, …

SINGAPORE—SingTel Mobile has halved talk time from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. to US$0.05, making it the first operator in Singapore to offer such a discount. This could start a …

PARIS—Malaysia’s Telekom Cellular contracted Alcatel to expand the capacity of the operator’s existing GSM 1800 MHz network and prepare it for General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) service by 2002. The …

BEIJING—China Unicom has published an advertisement in China’s English-language newspaper China Daily seeking candidates for 16 managerial posts from general manager of the general affairs department to deputy general manager …

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Illinois, United States—Motorola said it won a contract to deploy a cdma2000 1x network for CST Invest in the Ukraine for an undisclosed value. “Network deployment is under …

OSLO, Norway—Telenor Mobile launched an accelerator that it said will make surfing the Internet faster when using a portable PC, personal digital assistant (PDA) and mobile phone. The speed will …

HONG KONG—Security technology vendor Diversinet said the Hongkong Post launched the Mobile e-Cert service to facilitate secure stock trading, banking, gaming and digitally signed messages over mobile devices. Hongkong Post …

BEIJING—Sixteen foreign mobile-phone suppliers spent 196.47 million yuan (US$23.77 million) on advertisements in China during the first half of the year, accounting for 89 percent of the industry’s total expenditure …

GLOUCESTERSHIRE, United Kingdom—Chronos Technology began offering Globalstar’s packet data satellite service in Europe, with the main applications being remote measurement and telemetry in remote regions where data must be collected …

FRANKFURT, Germany—Nortel Networks said it has a contract with T-Mobil to supply it with its high-performance frame relay core network consisting of Passport 7480 for General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) …

BEIJING—Hong Kong-listed China Mobile (HK) and its parent company China Mobile Communications expect to have a combined 100 million subscribers by year-end. China Unicom, which is also listed in Hong …

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—Five companies have applied to participate in the privatization of the Paraguayan National Telecommunications Administration (Administraci

SAN SALVADOR, EL SALVADOR—Wireless carrier Digicel signed an agreement with Velocitel to develop its GSM network in El Salvador. The “build-to-suit” lease arrangement will allow Velocitel to invest in transmission …

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia—The Mayalsian government has said it likely will award third-generation (3G) licenses in the country through a beauty contest rather than an auction to help ensure carrier profitability. …

SINGAPORE—Virgin Mobile launched service in Singapore on Friday, the first Asian market in which it has launched its mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) service. Virgin Mobile partnered with SingTel Mobile …

MANILA, Philippines—Philippine Long Distance Telephone (PLDT) said it may sell part of its mobile-phone unit to help pay off its debt. The company plans to reduce or liquidate half of …