Monthly Archives: August, 2002

Spice offering targets Indian women

NEW DELHI, India-The ongoing tariff war in Indian cellular markets is seeing operators designing new packages to attract customers. Spice Telecom in Karnataka has...

Australia’s Orange on course for record profit, 3G launch

MELBOURNE, Australia-Mobile operator Orange announced this week it is on course to record a profit by the fourth quarter of 2002. A subsidiary of...

35.2% of Japan’s mobile handsets recycled

TOKYO-The recycling rate for Japanese mobile phones, including PHS units, in fiscal year 2001 was up 5.5 percent on the year to 35.2 percent,...

Arch says paging declines are slowing

WESTBOROUGH, Mass.-Paging and messaging carrier Arch Wireless Inc. reported consolidated net income of $1.7 billion for the second quarter, ended June 30, 2002. The...

MTS Holdings buys American Tower units

WATERBURY, Conn.-MTS Holdings L.L.C. announced it has purchased American Tower Corp.'s MTS Wireless Components, Vancomm, Site Advantage and S&S Dynamic operations throughout the United...

Japan Telecom sells engineering unit to Australian company

TOKYO-Japan Telecom, a Vodafone company in Japan, announced it sold a base station business unit to Bovis Lend Lease, an Australian company. It is...

Alcatel wins contract in Pacific Islands

PARIS-Alcatel said it signed a GSM expansion contract with OPT in New Caledonia. The expansion will increase OTP's network, which operates under the Mobilis...

TIW shares fall on loss

TORONTO-Telesystem International Wireless (TIW) shares fell to a record low after the company posted a large second-quarter loss and took a charge against its...

SkyOnline buys Diveo in Argentina, Uruguay

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-SkyOnline signed a letter of intent stating that it will buy Diveo Broadband Networks' Argentine and Uruguayan branches for about US$7 million....

AirIQ says gross profit, revenue growth up from last year

TORONTO-Mobile resource management company AirIQ said its second quarter 2002 results reflect its gross profit growth and revenue growth are way up from the...

Lucent, Novatel enter modem agreement

SAN DIEGO, Calif.-Lucent Technologies Inc. said it has signed a deal with Novatel Wireless to develop and market wireless modems for next-generation, high-speed data...

US Unwired doubles revenues, net loss increases

LAKE CHARLES, La.-Sprint PCS affiliate US Unwired Inc. posted $144.4 million in revenues for the second quarter of this year, more than double the...

Report cites voice functions still key to next-generation terminals

CEDAR KNOLLS, N.J.-A new report from Probe Research identified several characteristics of next-generation broadband mobile terminals that are at odds with the current preferences...

ERIS4 releases enterprise platform

ROME-ERIS4 s.r.i. released its ERIS4 Enterprise Platform and WARP4, the first in a series of products to use the platform.ERIS4 said the ERIS4 Enterprise...

MmO2 confirms Irish 3G license

LONDON-MmO2 confirmed that it accepted a third-generation license in Ireland for $112.4 million.The "B" license includes minimum requirements of 33-percent demographic coverage by the...

Minorplanet meets expectations for 2Q

RICHARDSON, Texas-Minorplanet Systems USA Inc., which provides telematics-based fleet management solutions, reported second quarter revenues of $15.6 million, in line with expectations but still...

Horizon customer additions drop

CHILLICOTHE, Ohio-Sprint PCS affiliate Horizon PCS Inc. said it added 12,400 net customers during the second quarter, which was nearly half the 21,600 customers...

Lucent denies it is target of SEC investigation

MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Lucent Technologies Inc. said it is not the target of the U.S. Attorney's office investigation of a 2000 accounting error on a...

Nextel execs certify SEC filing

RESTON, Va.-Nextel Communications Inc. said both chief executive officer Tim Donahue and chief financial officer Paul Saleh certified the accuracy of the company's recent...

Ntelos improves revenues

WAYNESBORO, Va.-Telecommunications provider Ntelos Inc. reported $38.5 million in wireless operating revenues for the second quarter compared with $30.3 million reported for the same...

Agere cuts one-third of staff

ALLENTOWN, Pa.-Agere Systems Inc. said it plans to slash 4,000 jobs, which amounts to a third of its staff. The company also plans to...

Kyocera, Wireless Knowledge partner for mobile email solution

SAN DIEGO, Calif.-Kyocera Wireless Corp. and Wireless Knowledge said they will work together to deliver a mobile email solution based on the new Kyocera...

Jinny signs SMS contract in Yemen

DUBLIN, Ireland-Jinny Software signed a messaging contract with Yemen's GSM operator Sabafon. Jinny will provide its short message service center solution, along with sub-systems.

Siemens Mobile Acceleration launches first investment in China

BEIJING-Siemens Mobile Acceleration, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Siemens Information and Communication Mobile Group, announced its first investment in China in Beijing-based Magus...

Cyprus to auction GSM license

ATHENS, Greece-Greek Cyprus will end its mobile monopoly held by CyTA this year by auctioning a second GSM license, with the process set to...
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