Monthly Archives: June, 2002

FCC provides consumer handbook

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...

Certicom beats revenue guidance, reports $32.1 million loss

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...

Nokia gets AT&T Wireless contract

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...

Nokia signs $75M GSM contract in China

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,...

TI expects 50% GPRS chip sales increase

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...

Ericsson demonstrates MMS over cdma2000, GPRS

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...

China’s CITIC and ChinaSat join hands

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...

FCC qualifies 128 bidders for lower 700 MHz auction

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...

Teleca to represent Sweden’s 3G operators in rollout issue

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...

Lack of U.S. broadband policy could hinder 3G spectrum pursuit

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...

PCS auction cleared in Chile

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...

Philippines calls for inquiry into Nextel buyout

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...

Australia warns operators on early termination fees

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...

Qualcomm still expects 4 million Chinese CDMA subscribers by year-end

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...

Lucent warns of quarterly revenue drop

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...

Vodacom wins license in Mozambique

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...

South Africa’s Cell C to study cell-phone spending

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...

Uruguay, Paraguay cancel telecom privatizations

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...

Satellite links remote Canadian native community

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...

NTT to launch 5 GHz wireless service in July

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...

A new lease on life for paging in China

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...

NTT DoCoMo’s networks congested due to World Cup Games

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...

Siemens, China Mobile offer soccer news on handsets

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...
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