Monthly Archives: June, 2002

Damax develops new antenna technology

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...

Qwest director resigns

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...

Mobile-phone output doubles in Shanghai

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...

Motorola to cut 7,000 more jobs, take $3.5B charges

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...

Despite CDMA advantages, Chinese still not convinced

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...

Motorola’s DragonBall certified for Palm OS

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...

CMG names Nelon president for North America region

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...

China’s mobile subscribers top 170 million

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...

FieldCentrix delivers FX e-Service

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...

South African mobile network opts for local software solution

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,...

Telecom Argentina declares complete default on its debt

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...

Fonix announces speech offerings based on OMAP

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...

Indonesian cellular operator expands to WLAN services

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)...

Intel CEO to speak at CES

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...

China Unicom selects Nortel for optical networks

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...

Gurian forms management advising company

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...

First MVNO in South America launches in Bolivia

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...

Cingular opens Cingular Zone in New York City

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...

Ericsson wins contract in Yugoslavia

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...

BellSouth rejects Telenor offer

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,...

US Unwired launches unlimited monthly calling plan

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...

Formula completes MobilTel installation

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...

NetCom launches location-based SMS services

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,...

Comverse releases MMS developer kit

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...

Russian 3G licenses likely in 2003

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...
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