June 2002

WATSONVILLE, Calif.-Damax International announced it has developed a new antenna technology that doubles handset range and reduces handset radiation up to 95 percent below the levels permitted in the U.S. …

DENVER-Qwest Communications International Inc., which relinquished its title as the most embattled telecommunications company to WorldCom this week, reported the resignation of Marilyn Nelson as a director of the company. …

BEIJING-During the first five months of the year, output of mobile phones jumped 108 percent in Shanghai. Exports of information technology products by foreign-invested companies in Shanghai showed the fastest …

SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Motorola Inc. said it will shed 7,000 jobs and take charges of about $3.5 billion, 90 percent of which will come out of its second quarter. The wireless giant, …

BEIJING-A story in the Chinese language Economic Daily on 27 June analyzed the advantages of CDMA, but none had anything to do with benefits for end users. China Unicom’s CDMA …

AUSTIN, Texas-Motorola Inc. said its DragonBall MXI microprocessor has been certified for the recently delivered Palm OS 5, enabling the semiconductor company to provide solutions to licensees of the Palm …

ADDISON, Texas-CMG Wireless Data Solutions announced DeWayne A. Nelon, formerly vice president and general manager at XO Communications Inc. has been hired as president for the company’s North American region. …

BEIJING-China’s Ministry of Information Industry (MII) announced the country had 170 million mobile subscribers and 196 million fixed-line users at the end of May. During the first five months of …

IRVINE, Calif.-FieldCentrix announced it is now offering FX e-Service to allow customers of field service companies using FieldCentrix systems to request service and access work order status over the Internet. …

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-South Africa’s third cellular network operator Cell C has reportedly implemented a suite of locally developed business critical software solutions. The suite, developed by PM Ora Software, monitors, …

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-Telecom Argentina announced on Monday it cannot pay even the interest on its debt of US$2.4 billion, further extending the default declared 2 April on its capital debt. …

SALT LAKE CITY-Fonix announced it will offer automatic speech recognition and text-to-speech capabilities on devices using Texas Instruments’ OMAP platform. Fonix Speech Solutions, to be rolled out in Europe this …

JAKARTA, Indonesia-Confronting the fierce competition in its core business, Excelcomindo, Indonesia’s GSM 900/1800 operator, spread its wings to provide wireless local area network (WLAN) services. Excelcomindo’s new services, called “Xlnet,” …

ARLINGTON, Va.-The International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) announced Craig Barrett, chief executive officer of Intel Corp. will deliver a keynote address on the opening day of the 2003 show in …

BEIJING-China Unicom said it has selected Nortel networks to deploy an optical solution based on Nortel’s OPTera Metro multiservice platform to support the carrier’s GSM and CDMA networks for voice, …

BRADENTON, Fla.-Mal Gurian, formerly of OKI Telecom-the first company to receive FCC Type Certification for a cellular telephone-has formed Mal Gurian Associates, a management advising company for the telecommunications industry. …

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-The Telecommunications Cooperative of Santa Cruz (Cotas) has become the first mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) in the region by launching its Cotas M

ATLANTA-Ahead of its planned launch of wireless service in New York City next month, Cingular Wireless opened a Cingular Zone in Rockefeller Center allowing potential customers to try out the …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Ericsson AB said it has won a $105 million contract to supply Yugoslavian major carrier Serbian Mobtel with GSM network equipment, targeting 2 million subscribers. “The enhancements this contract …

HELSINKI, Finland-BellSouth has rejected a US$650 million cash offer from the Norwegian state-controlled Telenor to acquire the U.S. corporation’s 46.5-percent equity interest in Sonofon, Denmark’s second-largest mobile telephone operator. BellSouth …

LAKE CHARLES, La.-Wireless operator US Unwired launched its Big Mouth calling plan allowing customers to make unlimited monthly calls for $35 per month. Customers can also purchase additional features, including …

HERZELIA, Israel-Formula Telecom Solutions said it completed installation of its billing and customer relationship management software for Bulgarian operator MobilTel. MobilTel is Bulgaria’s largest GSM operator with more than 1.3 …

OSLO, Norway-Pocket IT said Norwegian operator NetCom launched a portfolio of location-based short message service (SMS) services using its technology. The services include information, navigation and community offerings.

AMSTERDAM, the Netherlands-Messaging company Comverse Technology Inc. released a new developer took kit for multimedia messaging services, which the company said would help developers build, test and bring MMS-compatible applications …

MOSCOW-Russia will not issue third-generation (3G) licenses this year, and the earliest possible award date is the beginning of 2003. However, everything will depend on the presence of the necessary …