2001

WEST MELBOURNE, Florida, United States—Relm Wireless, which manufactures, develops and distributes wireless land mobile radio products, announced an original equipment manufacturer agreement with Shenzhen HYT Science & Technology for the …

BEIJING—Moxze released a new interactive short message service (SMS) game for Chinese mobile users, hoping to tap into the potentially huge Chinese mobile market. Moxze’s game, Sheiya, which means “Who …

LONDON—Banda 26, a subsidiary of broadband provider Jazztel Group, said it is evaluating technology from Radiant Networks for broadband fixed wireless access.

OXFORD, United Kingdom—The 50 short message service (SMS) content channels being offered by the German cell-phone operator D2 Vodafone are being seen as the precursor for other service providers looking …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

TORONTO—Canadian household Internet accounts will average annual growth of 16 percent between year-end 2000 and 2003, down from a yearly growth of more than 30 percent in the late 1990s. …

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 …

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. …

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 …

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

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 …

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 …

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, …

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. …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-The Finnish Competition Authorities have given the green light for Nokia Networks and TietoEnator to collaborate in developing mobile network products.Under the arrangement, TietoEnator, which supplies value-added IT services, …

LONDON—British Telecommunications (BT) said it will take a charge of US$728 million on investments in its half-year results. In addition, BT said it may incur costs if it closes its …

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

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 …

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 …

SARATOGA, Calif.—Webraska, a provider of wireless navigation services and technologies, and AirFlash, a provider of location-based technologies and services, announced they are merging. The new company will be called Webraska. …

WASHINGTON—The Customs Service arrested two men and charged another with conspiring to smuggle encryption technology into China. The technology, embodied in two devices known as KIV-7HS units, is used to …

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