January 2002

NEW DELHI, India—The regional mobile satellite operator Thuraya Satellite Communications Company has signed a license agreement in Pakistan to provide its dual-mode GSM/satellite telephony services. Pak Telecom, Thuraya’s service provider …

BEIJING—Most mobile-phone users in China, the world’s biggest cellular market, use prepaid phone cards. Three million end up in landfills each month. Professor Gu Mingyuan of the Material Science & …

BEIJING—InterDigital Communications said it has been elected as a member at large and council member of the TD-SCDMA Forum, the forum representing China’s proprietary third-generation (3G) wireless air interface technology. …

MURRAY HILL, New Jersey, United States—Telecom Equipment maker Lucent Technologies posted a first-quarter operating loss of US$757 million in contrast with US$1.4 billion in the year-earlier period. The results beat …

TOKYO—NEC, a leading telecom vender in Japan, started a sample shipment of a 64-Megabit Random Access Memory (RAM) device for cellular phones and personal digital assistants (PDAs). NEC has been …

BEIJING—The China Mobile Group forecasts revenues of 48.8 billion yuan (US$17.98 billion) this year, 10.5 percent up from last year. Revenue growth has slowed from 30.9 percent in 2000 and …

LONDON—The Malaysian government is set to issue tender documents for third-generation (3G) license applicants. The three licenses that are due to be awarded will be based on wideband-CDMA (W-CDMA) technology. …

SEATTLE—Canada’s Bell Mobility announced it will offer a service through ViAir Inc. that will allow mobile professionals to wirelessly access their personal and corporate e-mail, calendar and contact information. The …

WASHINGTON—A new report calls on the U.S. government to make an additional 200 megahertz of spectrum available to the marketplace by 2010 to foster the development of high-speed, wireless broadband …

CINCINNATI—TeleCorp PCS signed a contract with Convergys Corp. to use its Atlys end-to-end billing and customer care products in TeleCorp’s service bureau environment. The contract replaces an agreement signed in …

PALO ALTO, Calif.—The mobile-commerce industry gained yet another standards body, the PayCircle consortium, which is aimed at creating interfaces that will allow all m-commerce applications to work with various proprietary …

TORONTO—Motorola Inc. launched the company’s new V101 personal communicator in an exclusive deal with Rogers AT&T Wireless in Canada. The carrier will offer the device, which features phone and text …

INDIANAPOLIS—Fortune Diversified Industries Inc. (FDVI) has acquired the telecommunications unit of DicksonHughes Group (DHG), a move through which FDVI expects to add $3 million to $4 million to its annual …

MURRAY HILL, N.J.—Hutchison Telecom, Telstra and Optus are among the companies in talks with Lucent Technologies Inc. to buy parts of One.Tel Network, which has collapsed. Last May the company …

SUNNYVALE, Calif.—Internet giant Yahoo announced it is working to bring the wireless Internet to the nation’s oldest form of mass transit—the train. Under a deal between Yahoo and Amtrak, three …

ST. LOUIS—Amdocs Ltd. reported first-quarter earnings after the trading close January 22 of $4.3 million, or 2 cents per share, on revenues of $422.6 million. For its 2002 first quarter, …

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—The privatization of the Paraguayan fixed telephony monopoly, which includes a personal communications services (PCS) license, will likely be postponed. The privatization was initially scheduled to take place …

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa—Zimbabwean telecommunications company TeleAccess is reported to be involved in negations to purchase Telecel International, the mobile network operator with services in 13 African countries including Zimbabwe. TeleAccess …

SEOUL, South Korea— Yasuo Nishiguchi, Kyocera’s chief executive, said his company will settle its patent dispute with Nortel Networks without rancor. “We have violated some of Nortel’s technology patents, and …

WOODBURY, New York, United States—Dutch wireless carrier Dutchtone, a subsidiary of Orange Group, continued to flesh out its wireless music service by purchasing Comverse’s VoiCD music portal product. Comverse said …

MOSCOW—The biggest Russian carrier Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) officially confirmed it has reached an agreement on the purchase of a controlling stake in the fourth-biggest regional carrier Kuban GSM in the …

HONG KONG—Software solution provider iMerchants and Diversinet have partnered to make iMerchants’ wireless banking solution for personal digital assistants (PDAs) available with Diversinet’s Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) security technology. Diversinet’s …

HERNDON, Va.—Teligent Inc.’s lenders have agreed to resurrect and fund the company under a new name and business plan. In November it seemed the bankrupt local multipoint distribution services carrier …

MANILA, Phillipines—Short message service (SMS) technology remains a dominant force in the growth of data services in Asia, despite the availability of more advanced technologies, such as the Wireless Application …

HELSINKI—Nokia Corp. reported decreased profits for the fourth quarter ended Dec. 31, but increased sales for the year, helped along by an increase in worldwide mobile-phone market share, which now …