Monthly Archives: February, 2002

Palm license Colligo apps

CANNES, France—Colligo Networks Inc. announced Palm Inc. has licensed two of its Portable Collaborative Networking (PCN) applications to offer a new Bluetooth short-range wireless...

European Friends of 3GPP formed

CANNES, France—A new initiative, "European Friends of 3GPP" (EF3), was founded at this week's 3GSM World Congress to fund the organization and support of...

CellPoint launches MLS 6.0

CANNES, France—CellPoint Inc. launched its Mobile Location System 6.0 Platform this week in Cannes at the 3GSM World Congress."MLS 6.0 is the successor to...

Glenayre to use Philip’s speech engine

ATLANTA—Glenayre Technologies Inc. announced it will integrate Philips Speech Processing's SpeechPearl speech recognition engine into its Versera Voice Services suite.Glenayre's Versera suite offers users...

Content not sole answer to 3G success

CANNES, France—Content alone will not bring prosperity to the wireless industry, according to comments made by Michael C. Pousti, chairman and chief executive officer...

Nextel closes 2001 with 1.99M new subs.

RESTON, Va.—Nextel Communications added 1.99 million subscribers during 2001, ending the year with 8.7 million wireless subscribers and said it expects to add another...

Lawmakers side with industry, oppose wireless local number portability

WASHINGTON—More than 30 members of Congress have sent a letter to the Federal Communications Commission siding with the bulk of the wireless industry in...

TA Orange to offer airtime discounts

NEW DELHI, India—TA Orange has decided to offer airtime discount coupons to fixed-line subscribers of its affiliate, TelecomAsia, in the second phase of its...

Smart system set to handle 10 million subscribers

MANILA, The Philippines—Smart Communications, one of the Philippines' biggest mobile-phone operators, recently reported that its network would be able to handle a 10-million subscriber...

Ericsson wins W-CDMA contract from Sunrise

STOCKHOLM, Sweden—L.M. Ericsson said it has won a multi-year contract to supply wideband-CDMA radio network solution for Swiss operator Sunrise. The agreement, whose amount...

Elisa enters collaboration agreement with Vodafone

HELSINKI, Finland—Elisa Communications, Finland's second-largest carrier, has entered a long-term collaboration with Vodafone in the area of mobile telephone services. The initiative will boost...

Entel Chile increases profits

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—Entel Chile had a US$51 million turnover during 2001, 21-percent more than last year, due to an increase of 32 percent in...

Regulators called to solve South Africa, Lesotho frequency spillover

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa—The regulating bodies of South Africa and land-locked neighbor Lesotho have entered an agreement to resolve such issues as frequency interference and...

Sony Ericsson aims for top handset position

Regardless of not having a product portfolio, the Sony Ericsson joint venture has declared that it aims to take the top market position for...

Logica, FunMail demonstrate animated messaging at 3GSM

DUBLIN—Logica is demonstrating the delivery of full color animated images, based on FunMail's wireless animated messaging technology, over a GPRS network via the Logica...

OpenPath offers SMS Testing Suite

ANNAPOLIS, Md.—OpenPath Products announced its SMS Testing Suite, a collection of tools that support SMS application developers, testers, and carriers, is now available."The SMS...

Rural Cellular to use Openet solution

RESTON, Va.—Openet Telecom announced that its recently unveiled FusionWorks wireless convergent mediation platform will be deployed by Rural Cellular Corp. to enable it to...

Shenandoah adds 26,000 users in 2001

EDINBURG, Va.—Shenandoah Telecommunications Co. said it added 26,000 wireless customers last year, more than doubling its customer base to 49,000 subscribers.Company revenues increased more...

India’s Wipro in Bluetooth alliance with Austrian firm

NEW DELHI, India—The Bangalore-based Wipro Technologies has announced a partnership with Graz, Austria-based Austriamicrosystems to jointly produce and market chipsets for the emerging Bluetooth...

NTT DoCoMo, Nissan tie up for telematics services

TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo, the leading mobile carrier in Japan, and Nissan, the second-largest automobile company in Japan, on 19 February announced they plan to jointly...

Qualcomm proposes use of its chips in cdma2000, UMTS handsets

After announcing an aggressive business strategy at last year's GSM Congress, Qualcomm would appear to have backtracked to something more achievable.The company's prior plans...

Nokia calls for open 3G architecture

In an effort to hasten the rollout of third-generation networks, Nokia has announced an initiative by inviting other 3G infrastructure developers to share and...

Manufacturers start MMS interoperability group

HELSINKI, Finland—Nokia, CMG Wireless Data Solutions, Comverse, L.M. Ericsson, Logica, Motorola, Siemens AG and Sony Ericsson Communications have joined to found an Interoperability Group...

Microsoft, KT Freetel to develop wireless Web browser

SEOUL, South Korea—Microsoft said it has agreed to jointly develop a wireless Web browser with KT Freetel Co., using Microsoft's Mobile Explorer or wireless...

Qualcomm patents validated

SAN DIEGO, United States—Qualcomm Inc. said the patent offices in Europe, Korea and Japan have validated four of its CDMA patents."The confirmation of these...
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