Monthly Archives: May, 2002

Gabriel Electronics restructures

SCARBOROUGH, Maine—Gabriel Electronics Inc.'s chief executive officer, Robert Cameron, has announced plans to restructure his company to emphasize its areas of strengths, which include...

Hollings to introduce legislation to promote broadband Internet in rural areas

WASHINGTON—Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ernest Hollings (D-S.C.) is expected today to introduce legislation to foster broadband Internet deployment in rural and unserved areas. On...

O2 to establish digital media content platform

DUBLIN, Ireland—O2 has announced plans to establish a new content platform that will encourage digital media firms to create "viable business models" based on...

Markets begin to open in Eastern Caribbean

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts—St. Kitts and Nevis has announced two telecommunications licenses as Eastern Caribbean governments continue to make good on a pledge to liberalize...

Nortel secures T-Mobile UMTS contract

DUBLIN, Ireland—Following similar deals signed earlier this year with Nokia and Siemens, T-Mobile International has chosen Nortel Networks to supply Universal Mobile Telecommunications System...

Siemens confirms Belarussian contract

MUNICH, Germany—Siemens has confirmed that it won an order to supply the equipment for the second GSM network in the Republic of Belarus owned...

LocatioNet wins Austrian contracts

NEW YORK—U.S. supplier LocatioNet Systems Ltd. announced it received two contracts from Austrian mobile operator One. LocatioNet will supply its location-based services middleware platform,...

TDK adds three software apps for its Bluetooth products

BOSTON—TDK Systems announced it has added three new software applications for its Bluetooth products: TDK Mobile, TDK Dialer and TDK blueDial, which all allow...

LGC names Sugarbroad CEO

SAN JOSE, Calif.—LGC Wireless announced Ian Sugarbroad has been named president and chief executive officer. "I'm confident about my ability to steer this company...

Utilities study offers hope for telecom equipment vendors

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The United Telecom Council's recently released report "What Utilities Buy: Evaluating the Market for Telecom Equipment and Services Sold to Utilities" covers the...

South Africa’s Cell C claims 450,000 subscribers

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa—South Africa's third mobile network operator Cell C has announced that the company has nearly doubled the number of subscribers it originally...

China Unicom gains ground on China Mobile

BEIJING—Reports of China's Ministry of Information Industry (MII) indicate that China Mobile's revenue and market share account for 79.8 percent and 70.4 percent respectively...

Smartcom PCS plans to overtake BellSouth in Chile

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—The Smartcom PCS objective is to overtake Chile's third-largest operator, BellSouth, this year in subscriber numbers and move from its last-place position...

Motorola wins spam lawsuit against Paging America

BOYNTON BEACH, Fla.—Motorola Inc. emerged the victor in its lawsuit against Paging America, which used Motorola's brand name and products in its e-mail spam...

Verizon Wireless offers multimedia for BREW handsets

BEDMINSTER, N.J.—Verizon Wireless introduced Summus Inc.'s Exego suite of multimedia applications for its BREW-enabled handsets, allowing users to send photos, multimedia messaging, e-mail, and...

Melissa virus creator sentenced

WASHINGTON—A federal judge in New Jersey sentenced 33-year-old David Lee Smith to 20 months in jail and fined him $5,000 for creating the "Melissa"...

Downturn in SMS predicted for European operators

OXFORD, United Kingdom—The boom in European short message service (SMS) traffic is forecast to peak in 2003 as other messaging technology bites into the...

Eastern European governments tinker with 3G licenses

OXFORD, United Kingdom—The Polish telecom regulator, URTiP, has conceded that the three operators that purchased third-generation (3G) licenses will not be held to the...

Conflicting reports over cell-phone radiation fears

OXFORD, United Kingdom—A new report from the Finnish radiation authority has said cellular base stations are safe, as long as they are properly installed....

Ericsson takeover rumors swirl in Sweden

STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Ericsson has dismissed market speculation in Sweden that its latest swing of the downsizing ax is driven by a need to attract a...

Consumer complaints dropped at arbitration

WASHINGTON—A new report claims the costs of arbitration—billed as a low-cost alternative to lawsuits and required in service contracts for mobile phones and...

Metrocall delays reorganization filing

ALEXANDRA, Va.—Metrocall Inc. announced it is working on a pre-negotiated plan for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and is pushing back the date it plans to...

Nokia signs GSM deal with Thai operator

HELSINKI, Finland—Nokia Corp. said it has signed a $50 million deal to supply GSM infrastructure equipment to Thailand operator Advanced Info Service Plc."Under the...

Alltel prices equity offering

LITTLE ROCK, Ark.—Alltel Corp. priced an offering of $1.25 billion in publicly traded equity units at $50 with a yield of 7.75 percent and...
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