2001

TEMPE, Ariz.—Making headway in the development of miniature fuel cells that may someday power cellular phones, Motorola Labs researchers announced they have demonstrated a prototype of a methanol fuel cell …

CUPERTINO, Calif.—Wireless communications product developer Tropian Inc. has closed $45 million in Series D equity funding, its largest funding round to date. Merrill Lynch Ventures LLC led the financing and …

PARIS—French vendor Alcatel has announced it will cut over 3,000 jobs in its undersea network cable and fiber-optic units in reaction to the current economic downturn. The company, which said …

BRAMPTON, Ontario—Nortel Networks has named Frank A. Dunn to succeed John A. Roth as president and chief executive officer of the company effective November1. Dunn was the company’s chief financial …

LONDON—Location-based information service provider WCities announced a global distribution agreement with Nokia under which Nokia will market WCities’ mobile-location applications to mobile operators globally as part of its mPosition and …

MURRAY HILL, N.J.—Lucent Technologies has inked a five-year TDMA agreement with Cingular Wireless to cover 30 markets, including Atlanta, Boston, Dallas, Philadelphia and Washington D.C. Under the pact, Lucent will …

NEW YORK—Emblaze Systems Ltd. announced it is conducting a trial of its Wireless Multimedia Platform for handheld devices over Spanish wireless carrier Telefonica Moviles Espana’s network. The trial, over the …

HOLMDEL, N.J.—Unified communications provider uReach Technologies and wireless technology and services provider GiantBear Inc. announced a partnership that will allow GiantBear to offer its customers personal information management services powered …

MANSFIELD, Vt.—The EMR Network asked the Federal Communications Commission to launch a rulemaking to re-examine radiation safety guidelines for mobile phones and base stations. “The pertinent regulations were revised in …

SAN DIEGO, United States—Qualcomm said that Korea Telecom Freetel is the first carrier worldwide to introduce data application services based on its Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless (BREW) mobile Internet …

LONDON—U.K. telecom regulator Oftel imposed price controls on the country’s four mobile operators, saying British consumers would save $1.2 billion during the next four years. The controls will reduce revenues …

PARIS—Alcatel said it won two separate GSM network expansion contracts with China Mobile subsidiaries valued at US$70 million total. Shanghai Mobile’s eighth GSM expansion will include Alcatel’s Evolium series products. …

DALLAS, United States, and STOCKHOLM, Sweden—VoiceStream Wireless signed contracts with both Nortel Networks and Ericsson for its next-generation services. Nortel said it signed a US$300 million GSM contract to upgrade …

AUSTIN, Texas—SchlumbergerSema announced it will offer mobile commerce services to wireless carriers through a deal with Microcell i5, a subsidiary of Microcell Telecommunications. Under the deal, SchlumbergerSema will integrate i5’s …

HELSINKI, Finland—Nokia said it signed an agreement with Indonesian carrier Telkomsel to supply radio access network equipment and services to expand its GSM dual-band network. Under the pact, Nokia will …

NEW YORK—Stockholm-based Columbitech began a full-scale commercial launch Sept. 28 in Europe of its wireless virtual private network product, which allows mobile device users to access their corporate databases quickly …

BADEN, Germany—Intel Corp. introduced the Intel Telematics Design Center, a program that provides Web-based development and technical support for designing navigation, multimedia, hands-free and other in-car Internet products and applications …

BOSTON—The Yankee Group predicts that wireless infrastructure spending will increase from $99.4 billion in 2001 to a maximum of $120.2 billion in 2004 before declining to $114.6 billion in 2006, …

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia—Nokia said it has won a contract from Saudi Telecom Company (STC) to supply a GSM network valued at US$200 million. The network will include a GSM 900 …

PARIS—Alcatel said it completed the supply and installation of a GSM network for Tunisie Telecom, which covered the sports infrastructure during the XIVth Mediterranean Games, which took place 2-5 September. …

ATLANTA, United States—EMS Wireless said its Brazilian subsidiary achieved two operational milestones. Its three product lines have received certification by Brazil’s national telecom agency, Anatel. In addition, EMS Wireless products …

WASHINGTON—The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) must eliminate the spectrum cap as an interim measure while government and industry representatives attempt to find harmonized spectrum for third-generation (3G) wireless services, said …

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—SAP Regi

CAPE TOWN, South Africa—ITWeb users will be able to access the company’s news portal wirelessly through a deal with Clickatell. “This new wireless service offers our readers yet another tool …

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico—MoviStar Puerto Rico, a joint venture between Clearcomm and Telef