June 2002

WASHINGTON—The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday announced the availability of a wireless consumer handbook on its Web site, FCC.gov. The handbook, titled “What You Should Know About Wireless Phone Service,” …

MISSISSAUGA, Ontario—Certicom Corp. released results for its fourth quarter and fiscal year 2002, ended April 30, and it announced its fiscal 2003 growth strategy and guidance for the first quarter. …

HELSINKI, Finland—Nokia Corp. says it has signed an agreement to deliver GSM/GPRS/EDGE radio network systems for AT&T Wireless Services Inc. The deal will cover AT&T Wireless affiliate TeleCorp markets including …

HELSINKI, Finland—Nokia Corp. says it has signed a $75 million contract to expand the GSM networks of Yunnan MCC in China. Under the contract terms, Nokia will supply core and …

NEW YORK-Exuding good fortune in a time of stress, Texas Instruments says it expects to ramp up sales of GPRS chips by up to 50 percent in the next quarter. …

HONG KONG—Ericsson demonstrated cross-technology MMS over cdma2000 and GPRS technologies at this week’s 3G World Congress in Hong Kong. In its demonstration, Ericsson sent MMS from a cdma2000-enabled PDA to …

BEIJING—China International Trust and Investment Corporation (CITIC) and China Satellite Communications Corporation (ChinaSat) reached an agreement to reorganize their assets to make use of each other’s advantages. Lacking a terrestrial …

WASHINGTON—The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) qualified 128 bidders to participate in the scheduled 19 June auction of 758 licenses in the lower 700 MHz band (698-746 MHz). Qualified bidders made …

HELSINKI, Finland—The uphill battle to meet Sweden’s December 2003 national rollout deadline for third-generation (3G) networks has taken a significant new twist, after Sweden’s leading mobile operators assigned Stockholm-based telecom …

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WASHINGTON—The Bush administration likely will not pursue a comprehensive national broadband policy, a development that could hurt industry efforts to secure additional spectrum for third-generation (3G) wireless systems. For months, …

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—The Supreme Court of Chile has resolved to exclude Smartcom, owned by Endesa of Spain, from the 30 megahertz personal communications services (PCS) auction after two years of …

MANILA, The Philippines—The Philippines’ House committee on transportation and communications through its chairman Representative Jacinto Paras favors an inquiry into the planned Nextel buyout by a private consortium allegedly led …

MELBOURNE, Australia—Australia’s telecommunications industry ombudsman (TIO) has placed the country’s mobile-phone operators on notice following a spate of “unreasonable early termination fees on mobile-phone contracts” this year. Already this year, …

BEIJING—Qualcomm Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Irwin Jacobs expects China Unicom’s CDMA network to have 3 to 4 million users by the end of the year. Subscribers are slow …

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NEW YORK—Still smarting from low operator demand, Lucent Technologies Inc. said it expects its quarterly revenue to fall by 10 percent to 15 percent from the previous quarter’s $3.52 billion, …

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa—South African mobile network operator Vodacom announced that it has won a license to operate a GSM network in Mozambique. The expansion drive has been part of the …

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa—South Africa’s third mobile network operator Cell C announced it joined forces with the Unilever Institute of Strategic Marketing and the School of Management studies at the University …

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—One of the effects of the Argentine crisis on the region is the recent rejection by Uruguay and Paraguay of the option to privatize their telephony companies. The …

CALGARY—An isolated native-Indian community has obtained its first solid link—without wires—to the outside world. Quick Link Communications of Calgary, a satellite services provider, has connected the Wasagamack community to wireless …

TOKYO—NTT Communications, a long-distance and international business unit of NTT Group, announced it would launch wireless service based on the 5 GHz band in July on an experimental basis. Under …

BEIJING—China Unicom plans to significantly upgrade its paging service with new information and data services, such as e-mail. The number of paging subscribers in China is constantly dropping as more …

TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo, the leading mobile operator in Japan, limited the use of mobile phones for two hours in the afternoon of 7 June due to World Cup ticket sales. From …

BEIJING—Siemens IC Mobile is collaborating with China Mobile to offer Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) and short message service (SMS) services to inform subscribers when goals are made in the FIFA …