Monthly Archives: March, 2002

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...

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...

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...

E-plus picks Lucent billing system

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...

Telefónica selects Nortel for UMTS rollout

MADRID, Spain—Telef

UM in Europe could reach US$4.1 billion by 2008

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...

3G operators face security threats

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...

Webraska to supply location information for Hong Kong MVNO

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...

Alcatel signs GSM contract in China

PARIS—French vendor Alcatel signed a GSM expansion contract estimated at US$76 million with Zhejiang Mobile Communication Company in ChinaUnder the deal, Alcatel will deliver...

DoCoMo launches video-conference feature for FOMA

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...

3G equipment manufacturing company launched in China

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...

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),...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

Deutsche Telekom teams with Microsoft for business market

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...

Motorola to transition MyMail sales functions to Notify

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...

Nokia forms alliance with RealNetworks

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...

Telefonica selects Nortel for UMTS rollout

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...

Parthus to integrate ART products

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'...

Ceragon adds to FibeAir line

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...

GSM Association counts 100M subscribers to high-speed data services

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...

Zi Bluetooth headset meets 1.1 qualification standard

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...
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