Monthly Archives: August, 2002

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...

TTP, Siemens partner on GSM phones

CAMBRIDGE, U.K.-TTP Communications plc announced a new partnership with Siemens Information and Communication Mobile that will put TTPCom's GSM platform in new Siemens products."This...

Sega releases Monkey Ball for Vision network

SAN FRANCISCO-Video game giant Sega.com Inc. released its first ever mobile phone game, Sega Monkey Ball, which will work over Sprint PCS' newly launched...

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....

U.S. Cellular launches Voice Services

CHICAGO-U.S. Cellular Corp. launched a nationwide service, which it calls Voice Services, providing its subscribers with voice activated dialing and voice information services.Customers who...

Xybernaut receives CMRS message patent

FAIRFAX, Va.-Xybernaut Corp. announced it has received a patent for leaving and retrieving messages and data within a commercial mobile radio service (CMRS) provider...

Price completes assets sales to Verizon Wireless

NEW YORK-Price Communications Corp. reported the sale of its wireless assets to Verizon Wireless Inc. is complete. In exchange for its sixteen licenses covering...

Summus, ZIO game receives TRUE BREW designation

RALEIGH, N.C.-Summus Inc. and ZIO Interactive announced their jointly developed mobile billiard game, Nineball, has received the TRUE BREW designation from the National Software...

SBC sells unsecured notes to repay outstanding debt

SAN ANTONIO, Texas-SBC Communications Inc. sold a $1 billion issue of 10-year senior unsecured notes Aug. 14 that the company will use primarily to...

Chinese vendor to ship Cellon-powered handsets

GUANDONG, China-Qiao Xing Universal Telephone, the second-largest telephone manufacturer in China, announced it signed a five-year preferred customer agreement with wireless design house Cellon...

RIM supplies NBA with BlackBerry devices

NEW YORK-Research In Motion Ltd. announced it has supplied the National Basketball Association with BlackBerry devices so employees can communicate throughout the organization, obtain...

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...

Ericsson to pump more cash into cell-phone joint venture

OXFORD, United Kingdom-Ericsson has warned the financial market that it may need to invest another 530 million euros (US$520 million) into its cell-phone joint...

European i-mode adoption disappoints

OXFORD, United Kingdom-KPN Mobile looks likely to miss its target for i-mode subscribers in the Netherlands and Germany by a considerable margin. The company,...

Vodafone still undecided on Irish 3G license

DUBLIN, Ireland-While its major competitor O2 Ireland has accepted the terms of its third-generation (3G) mobile license, Ireland's largest mobile operator, Vodafone, has further...

Vodafone blames handset shortage for 3G delay

OXFORD, United Kingdom-Trying to divert criticism about its third-generation (3G) strategy away from itself, Vodafone said the shortage of fully capable 3G handsets will...

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,...

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...

Ricochet to launch in Denver this week

DENVER, United States-Metricom will be officially reincarnated on Thursday when Ricochet Networks launches high-speed wireless Internet service in Denver.Ricochet will charge US$45 per month...

Tele2 signs MVNO agreement in Austria

NEW YORK-Tele2 said it signed a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) agreement with Connect Austria, allowing it to use Connect's network to provide an...
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