2001

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, …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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

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. …

TORONTO—Non-line-of-sight fixed wireless equipment provider WaveRider Communications Inc. announced a restructuring plan under which the company arranged for new short-term financing, initiated a shareholders rights offering for longer term financing …

OWINGS MILLS, Md.—Aether Systems Inc. announced partnerships with Handspring Inc. and EON InfoTech Pte Ltd., moves furthering the company’s Fusion software layer. Under its deal with personal digital assistant maker …

HELSINKI, Finland—Nokia Corp. said it plans to team with other wireless industry leaders to found the Liberty Alliance Project to streamline easy single Internet sign-on by creating an open, standards-based …

KIRKLAND, Wash.—Nextel Partners Inc. launched digital wireless service in the Grand Island, Neb., area. The service combines digital cellular, Nextel Direct Connect two-way radio, wireless Internet access and text/numeric messaging.

OTTOWA—Spotwave Wireless unveiled its new SpotCell 100, an in-building coverage product that it said provides “always-on” cell phone coverage. According to Spotwave, the SpotCell 100, which is based on smart …

MCLEAN, Va.—LCC International Inc., a provider of wireless voice and data turn-key technical consulting services, said it sold all of its approximately 1.6 million class B common shares of NextWave …

BOYNTON BEACH, Fla.—Motorola Inc. has teamed with Outr.Net to launch Overnight Apps, which assists business in launching custom, real-time applications and reduces development time by two to three months. “Many …

IRVINE, Calif.—Toshiba Corp. said it has introduced a family of chips it calls Silicon Germanium Heterojunction Bipolar Transistor for cellular phones and other wireless devices with wideband CDMA and wireless …

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

BELLEVUE, Wash.—Cellular One reported it will invest nearly $800 million in four states by the end of the year to upgrade the wireless infrastructure and expand digital services. The states …

PLANO, Texas—Cyneta Networks, a company developing a resource-aware adaptive switch, released information about its executive team, which includes former executives from Taleria Ventures, Nortel Networks and IntegraTRAK. Doug Smith, a …

RESTON, Va.—Nextel Communications Inc. has partnered with Major League Baseball Advanced Media L.P., the interactive media and Internet company of MLB, to sponsor Nextel Direct Connect Live Event Chat on …

BRISBANE, Calif.—ViaFone Inc. announced it acquired XML technology provider IdeaCon Software, a move ViaFone said will extend its mobile applications with real-time and off-line capabilities on a range of mobile …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Telia Mobile announced it is streamlining its mobile portal business by phasing out its various existing platforms and replacing them with one joint technical platform. The company said it …

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 reader yet another tool …

DALLAS—Nortel Networks has signed a $300 million GSM contract to upgrade VoiceStream Wireless’ national networks for deployment in the first quarter of 2002. Under the pact, Nortel Networks will supply …

BELLEVUE, Wash.—Sonera Zed Ltd., the wireless Internet arm of Finnish telecommunications company Sonera Corp., will add a unique mass messaging function to its Wireless Entertainment Network offering through a deal …