Monthly Archives: March, 2002

Orascom wins GSM license in Tunisia

BOSTON, United States—The Egyptian carrier Orascom Telecom has been granted the license for a second GSM network in Tunisia, the Tunisian Ministry of Communications...

Motorola licenses GSM/GPRS platform to Eastcom

AUSTIN, Texas, United States—Motorola said it licensed its i.250 GSM/General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) mobile phone platform to Eastcom Communications, one of China's biggest...

Nokia scores 3G agreements

HELSINKI, Finland—Nokia Corp. announced two third-generation contract wins this week, the first with Germany's E-Plus Mobilfunk and the second with T-Mobile International.Nokia will be...

KDDI to report 200 billion yen special loss

TOKYO—KDDI, the second-largest operator in Japan, is going to report a 200 billion yen (US$1.6 billion) special loss for the fiscal year which will...

Gloom surrounds CeBIT

OXFORD, United Kingdom—Despite upbeat statements from equipment manufacturers and the organizers, this year's CeBIT exhibition would seem to have been hit with bad news,...

MTN South Africa suspends free Web-based SMS service

JOHANNNESBURG, South Africa—South African mobile network operator MTN reported that it suspended its free PC-to-mobile short message service (SMS) on Mtnsms.com following an unsustainable...

KDDI to launch nationwide 3G service on 1 April

TOKYO—KDDI, the second-largest operator in Japan, will launch its third-generation (3G) service based on cdma2000 on 1 April, the carrier announced.In Japan, NTT DoCoMo...

Mitsubishi, Toshiba enter handset collaboration

TOKYO—Mitsubishi Electric and Toshiba, two leading electronic manufacturers in Japan, partnered for third-generation (3G) handsets and will begin collaborating next month on the development...

Thuraya subscriber base reaches 32,000

NEW DELHI, India—Thuraya mobile satellite services, being offered by Thuraya Satellite Telecommunications Company of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE), has reached a subscriber...

Lucent, Nokia cut estimates

NEW YORK and HANOVER, Germany—Lucent Technologies and Nokia cut their estimates, owing to what the network equipment makers described as weak demand for telecom...

Mobile-phone unit sales drop in 2001 for first time

SAN JOSE, California, United States—For the first time in its history, the mobile-phone industry experienced a drop in unit sales in 2001, according to...

Sony Pictures forms Wireless Services group

CULVER CITY, California, United States—Sony Pictures Digital Entertainment formed Wireless Services, a new group that will focus on developing and distributing new mobile-specific entertainment...

SMS is growing contributor to carrier ARPU

LONDON—Currently representing 10 percent of total carrier revenues, short message service (SMS) is the dominant data contributor to carrier average revenue per user (ARPU),...

German operators differ over 3G launch timing

OXFORD, United Kingdom—Having heard that T-Mobile plans to launch third-generation (3G) services in 20 German cities during the third quarter, Vodafone D2 responded this...

Vodafone subsidiary signs agreement with Siemens

LONDON—Vodafone Group subsidiary Vodafone Global Products and Services signed an agreement with Siemens to supply a global location enabling server platform allowing Vodafone and...

Unifón negatively impacts Telefónica Móviles

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—Unif

China Unicom to issue shares in Shanghai

BEIJING—The China Unicom Group has received approval to issue A-shares, denominated in the local currency and reserved for Chinese citizens. The issue may...

NTT DoCoMo to launch WLAN service in April

TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo. the leading mobile carrier in Japan, plans to launch a wireless local area network (WLAN) service in April. According to the firm,...

RPG Cellular announces network expansion

NEW DELHI, India—RPG Cellular Services, operating in the Chennai circle, plans to invest 500 million rupees (US$10.3 million) by June this year to expand...

Digital Bridges purchases GR8 software assets

LONDON—Digital Bridges, a mobile entertainment services provider, purchased the software assets of GR8, a supplier of mobile ring tones and logos.Financial details were not...

Nokia forms alliance with RealNetworks

HANOVER, Germany—Nokia formed an alliance to integrate RealNetworks' digital media technology on its mobile devices and network solutions."Under the alliance, Nokia will include the...

Compaq partners with Lucent on corporate wireless applications

MURRAY HILL, New Jersey, United States—Compaq Computer signed an agreement with Lucent Technologies to collaborate in speeding up wireless capabilities in Compaq iPAQ Pocket...

Benefon to license Ericsson GPRS, 3G technologies for telematics

STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Ericsson said it licensed its General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) and third-generation (3G) technologies to Swedish company Benefon, which is developing telematics products...

Qualcomm signs BREW agreement with KDDI

SAN DIEGO, United States—Qualcomm signed an agreement with Japanese carrier KDDI to enable the carrier's handsets with Qualcomm's Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless (BREW)...

Vendors see negative ratings, estimates

TORONTO and LONDON—Several vendors say negative downgrades and estimates from analysts this week.Nortel Networks suffered a debt downgrade from Moody's Investors Service barely a...
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