March 2002

MELBOURNE, Australia—The mobile-phone operations of Telstra have largely helped the Australian communications giant post a 2-percent lift in sales across the company in the first half of the financial year. …

HOUSTON—Compaq Computer Corp. said its shareholders approved the company’s merger with Hewlett-Packard Co. yesterday in a vote carried by a nine-to-one margin. “At the end of the day, this merger …

LONDON—Mobile commerce is poised for a take-off within the next few years, according to a new Frost & Sullivan study. The consulting firm expects trade worth $25 billion to be …

NEW YORK—Standard & Poor’s revised its outlook for SpectraSite Holdings Inc. to negative from stable due to the tower company’s dependence on external funding. “The current economic environment increases the …

DUBLIN, Ireland—Messaging company Logica continued to expand its range of messaging products with the release of its Mobile Community Messaging services, which the company said will allow users to form …

SUDBURY, Mass.—Carl Yankowski, the former chief executive officer of Palm Inc., and Abbot Gilman, founder of Broadband Access Systems, joined the advisory board of Thinmail Inc., the company announced. Thinmail’s …

LONDON—724 Solutions Inc. gained a major vote of confidence from Radiolinja Eesti, an Estonian carrier with 146,600 subscribers. The carrier purchased 724 Solutions’ extensive data services platform and will use …

NEW YORK—Cell phone ownership has gone up 29 percent in the past two years, and currently about 62 percent, or two-thirds, of American adults own cell phones, according to a …

ORLANDO, Florida, United States—Lucent Technologies and Verizon Wireless will begin a Washington, D.C., area trial next month of a data-optimized, cdma2000 network. The network, also known as 1xEV-DO, will provide …

ORLANDO, Fla.—Cingular Wireless announced at CTIA’s Wireless 2002 conference and exhibition its plans to roll out its advanced wireless services in California by the end of the second quarter and …

TORONTO—Wireless carriers and other telecommunications service providers could face a permanent slump, according to the investment firm UBS Warburg. In a recent report, it said the industry’s incredible growth during …

ORLANDO, Florida, United States—The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association (CTIA) wrapped up U.S. mobile industry event CTIA Wireless 2002 on Wednesday with a final keynote address by Mikhail Gorbachev, former …

LONDON—Deutsche Telekom announced it will implement a four-point plan to keep its debt reduction program on track: A dividend US$0.37 for 2001, which is 40 percent lower than last year, …

SAN JOSE, Calif.—Globalstar and small satellite provider AeroAstro are developing a low-cost data modem for remote sensing and asset tracking via satellite, the companies announced. The new modems will be …

ALEXANDRIA, Va.—The Personal Communications Industry Association (PCIA) announced John Sherlock, its chief operating officer, will give the morning keynote address at the Wireless Arena Marketplace Strategies 2002 conference, scheduled for …

PARIS—Online location-centric application provider Maporama launched its i-mode platform, which allows Maporama customers to integrate i-mode based location-centric solutions into their Internet services. “Location-centric solutions are at the strategic core …

ALBANY, N.Y.—Sprint PCS network partner IWO Holdings Inc. announced its results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2001. Total revenue for the fourth quarter was $33.2 …

LOS ANGELES—SchlumbergerSema and Telemac Corp. plan to collaborate to develop and market a SchlumbergerSema Telemac-enabled SIM card for GSM wireless devices. The card, which will be available to Telemac-licensed networks …

RESTON, Va.—America Online Inc., continuing its wireless strategy of partnering with carriers to distribute its content, announced a deal with Nextel Communications Inc. to offer its popular AOL instant messaging …

LITTLE ROCK, Ark.— Cauley Geller Bowman & Coates L.L.P. announced a class action lawsuit has been filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington on behalf …

MINNEAPOLIS-ST. PAUL—The Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport now is equipped with a neutral-host wireless network system, giving travelers with laptops or handheld devices outfitted with a Wi-Fi network card the ability …

ORLANDO—Amdocs unveiled ClarifyCRM, its new end-to-end solution that offers integrated customer relationship management and billing applications to service providers, this week at CTIA Wireless 2002. Amdocs said the new CRM …

ATLANTA—BellSouth Corp. announced it sold its entire stake, or 234.7 million shares, in Dutch telecommunications provider Royal KPN. The sale will give the company an after-tax gain of $850 million …

ORLANDO—Sierra Wireless announced at this week’s CTIA Wireless 2002 show that it will provide Rogers AT&T Wireless with the AirCard 750 GSM/GPRS PC Card. Now with the AirCard 750, wireless …

ORLANDO—The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association wrapped up CTIA Wireless 2002 today with a final keynote address by Mikhail Gorbachev, former leader of the Soviet Union. Gorbachev encouraged companies to …