2001

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.—Oracle Corp. released its earnings report on schedule Thursday but without comment. The company said it is missing seven employees in the World Trade Center in New York …

NEW YORK—NextWave Telecom Inc.’s Wednesday bankruptcy hearing was postponed as federal courts were closed after the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, D.C, and a new date has not …

SAO PAULO, Brazil—NTT DoCoMo Inc. said it plans to partner with Telefonica S.A. work on third-generation telephony projects, according to Brazil newspapers. The papers cited NTT DoCoMo Brazil’s technical director …

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—The Paraguayan Communications Company (CPC) was granted a license by the National Telecommunications Commission (Conatel) to offer cellular telephony in Paraguay on the 900 MHz frequency using GSM …

BEIJING—Ericsson’s joint venture Nanjing Ericsson Panda Communications will deliver US$100 million of GSM mobile network equipment to China Mobile’s subsidiary in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of China.

MADRID, Spain—Ipse 2000, an Italian mobile-phone operator controlled by Spanish Telef

SAO PAULO, Brazil—In the opinion of Qualcomm Brazil’s general director, Valerijonas Seivalos J

BEIJING—Hong Kong listed China Unicom’s first-half earnings surged to CNY2.19 billion (US$265 million), but fell short of analysts’ predictions of CNY2.25 billion (US$272 million). Mother company China Unicom reported a …

TOKYO—J-Phone Group, a mobile business unit of Japan Telecom on 1 October will start providing a variety of services using Disney characters for its J-Sky service users, J-Phone announced on …

OXFORD, United Kingdom—European competition commissioner Mario Monti has indicated that his commission is not planning to prohibit third-generation (3G) network sharing through new legislation and would assess proposals on a …

MOSCOW—Sonic Duo, which has the third GSM license in Moscow, finally launched a test operation of its network in the Russian capital. After several delays caused by the absence of …

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—During this year’s first semester, the BellSouth branch in Chile obtained a higher growth rate than the company’s average in Latin America. With a 66-percent increase in quantity …

BEIJING—Datang Telecom obtained the first CDMA handset manufacturing license issued in China. The company also produces network equipment. Together with Germany’s Siemens, Datang has developed the TD-SCDMA 3G standard.

TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo plans to triple the data transmission speed (for downlinks) of i-mode service from current 9.6 kbps to 28.8 kbps in the spring of 2002, NTT DoCoMo announced on …

OXFORD, United Kingdom—Despite the marketing hype, fewer than 200,000 of the 1 million U.K. online banking customers are using a WAP cell phone to access their accounts, according to new …

TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo, the leading mobile carrier in Japan, will launch cellular phone bill settlement service via i-mode on 22 October, NTT DoCoMo announced on 13 September. Using the service, NTT …

MADRID—Telefonica Moviles S.A. announced that due to the terrorist events of September 11 and their effect on international capital markets, it plans to cancel the public exchange offer announced February …

NEW DELHI—Saboori Communications launched SaMoSa, which it called the world wide web of short messaging service (SMS). It is the first user configurable SMS service with micro-billing support. The SaMoSa …

PRAHA, Czech Republic—Eurotel Praha on 14 September began offering all of its Eurotel GSM banking customers access to bank services through a mobile telephone. New, more up-to-date and safer multibanking …

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia—The St. Petersburg-based North-Western GSM carrier was licensed by the communications ministry of the Central Asian republic of Tajikistan to create a second GSM network in the country. …

OXFORD, United Kingdom—By the end of 2003, Chris Gent, the chief executive officer of Vodafone, expects 3G handsets to be available that will enable its customers to seamlessly roam between …

Austria’s GSM operator One allowed customers to make mobile and fixed-line calls to the United States until the end of the day 12 September in the wake of the terrorist …

CINCINNATI, United States—Convergys announced Austrian mobile operator One will use its Geneva Active Revenue Management (ARM) software to replace its legacy billing system. One, which is owned by E.ON, Telenor, …

NEW YORK—Nasdaq and the New York Stock Exchange, whose headquarters could have been crushed had the World Trade Center buildings collapsed sideways, at press time was scheduled to reopen for …

MONTREAL—Telesystem International Wireless (TIW) said the holders of its senior discount notes due 2007 have tendered 99.9 percent of the outstanding notes in exchange for a combination of cash and …