March 2002

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 that will combine mobile access, mobile …

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 PC and Compaq Evo notebooks, which …

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 mobile version of the RealOne …

HANOVER, Germany—E-plus, Germany’s third largest wireless operator, selected Lucent Technologies to provide its MiLife SurePay real-time billing system for its GSM network. Lucent said the solution will allow E-plus to …

MADRID, Spain—Telef

LONDON—The combined European market for unified messaging and communications that raked in US$358.4 million in 2001 is expected to be worth US$4.11 billion in 2008 according to recent Frost & …

OXFORD, United Kingdom—The GSM Association has warned third-generation (3G) cell-phone operators that they need to reshape their organizations to provide security similar to that offered by Internet service providers (ISPs). …

MAISONS-LAFFITTE, France—Webraska said it will supply Chinese and English location-based services to Shell Mobile, a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) service in Hong Kong targeted at motorists. Motorists will be …

PARIS—French vendor Alcatel signed a GSM expansion contract estimated at US$76 million with Zhejiang Mobile Communication Company in China Under the deal, Alcatel will deliver its Evolium infrastructure, comprising base …

TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo launched its FOMA mobile communications platform, enabling numerous people to participate in a mobile video conference. If four people or less are involved in a video conference, the …

BEIJING—Datang Telecom launched China’s first manufacturing company for third-generation (3G) mobile-phone equipment on 8 March. Datang invested 150 million yuan (US$18.14 million) in its new Beijing-based subsidiary Datang Mobile Communications …

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), and its value is expected to …

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 disclosed. Digital Bridges said the …

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 network capacity. The expansion will see …

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, DoCoMo will develop a datacard-type mobile …

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 take place in the coming months on …

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 end in March 2002, because the …

HANNOVER, Germany—Deutsche Telekom and Microsoft Corp. are presenting mobile solutions for business customers at this week’s CeBIT trade show in Germany and announced the companies will cooperate in developing devices …

SAN JOSE, Calif.—Motorola Inc. announced it will transition the sales and support of Motorola MyMail Desktop, Desktop Plus and Motorola MyMail Enterprise ReFLEX-based product lines to Notify Technology Corp. Notify, …

HANOVER, Germany—Nokia Corp. formed an alliance to integrate RealNetworks’ digital media technology on its mobile devices and network solutions. “Under the alliance, Nokia will include the mobile version of the …

MADRID—Telefonica Moviles SA selected Nortel Networks to supply radio access equipment for its UMTS rollouts in Germany and Spain in a contract valued at about $250 million over three years. …

ATLANTA—Advanced Recognition Technologies Inc. (ART) has joined with mobile Internet IP solution provider Parthus to integrate ART’s speech and handwriting recognition engines to Parthus’ InfoStream platform. For its platform, Parthus …

TEL AVIV, Israel—Ceragon Networks Ltd. has added a fixed wireless SONET/SDH system with a built-in add-drop-multiplexer for cellular metropolitan infrastructure networks to its FibeAir product family. According to Ceragon, SONET/SDH …

HANNOVER, Germany—More than 100 million customers across 27 countries in Europe, Asia Pacific, South Africa and Israel enjoy GSM high-speed data service, including international roaming. The networks use high-speed circuit …

HANNOVER, Germany—Zi Corp. reported its Bluetooth headset offered by its Zi Services business unit achieved the Bluetooth 1.1 qualification standard established by the Bluetooth Special Interest Group. To obtain the …