October 2002

NEW YORK-Wi-Fi Alliance has laid out new mechanisms for security for the technology to address concerns about possible hacking. The specifications, known as Wireless Protected Access, covers 802.11i standard for …

OXFORD, United Kingdom-As the French government struggles to find a face-saving solution to the 70 billion euro (US$69.1 billion) debt owed by France T

REDMOND, Wash.-Metawave Communications Corp. has been granted an additional 180-day grace period to regain compliance with the $1 per share minimum bid price requirement of the Nasdaq SmallCap Market. The …

VERNON HILLS, Ill.-Wireless equipment maker Tellular Corp. said its fourth-quarter net income dropped to $10,000, or breakeven earnings per share, as against $906,000, or 7 cents per share. Its revenue …

BEIJING-Nearly 600 companies from 24 countries are participating in PT/Expo Comm China 2002, which opened in Beijing on 30 October. The central theme of the show is third-generation (3G) development. …

TOKYO-The top two Japanese mobile handset manufacturers-NEC and Matsushita Communications Industrial-have lost market share, while Sharp, which is the leading maker for picture phone handsets, has expanded its market share, …

SEOUL, Korea-In a surprising move, the Korea Communications Commission, South Korea’s top telecom regulator, decided Monday to place business suspension orders on three mobile carriers and KT Corp. for violating …

BEIJING-The U.K. supplier of wireless communication technologies TTPcom has opened an office in Shanghai. Ten percent of the company’s US$60.5 million of sales in the first nine months of the …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson said it has signed two separate mobile network contracts in Latin America. The value of the contracts was not released. Ericsson signed a contract to supply GSM/GPRS …

WASHINGTON-U.S. wireless data revenues have grown by 135 percent, and voice revenues have increased 19 percent since last year, according to the semi-annual survey by the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet …

OXFORD, United Kingdom-As many mobile operators around the world install and trial their multimedia message service (MMS) infrastructure, those that have launched services have already commenced a pricing war. Two …

WASHINGTON-Wireless data revenues have grown by 135 percent and voice revenues have increased 19 percent since last year, according to the semi-annual survey by the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association. …

HELSINKI, Finland-Leegur Oy, which provides analysis and software tools, said it has received a new round of funding amounting to $1.5 million from Nokia Corp and San Francisco-based Alafi Capital. …

TORONTO-724 Solutions’ X-treme Mobility Gateways and Access’ NetFront v3.0 browser technology are now interoperable, so mobile network operators can use NetFront-enabled handsets powered by 724’s WAP-based infrastructure. “Having NetFront v3.0 …

SEOUL, South Korea-The Korea Communications Commission banned the country’s three mobile-phone carriers, SK Telecom, KTF and LG Telecom, from accepting new subscribers for up to 30 days, according to the …

BEIJING-AudioCodes Ltd. said it has unveiled a new mid-sized wireless gateway to address the cost, feature and fault tolerance requirement of both service providers for small to medium cellular switching …

BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Verizon Wireless Inc. and Re-route Corp. said they have begun migrating current Verizon Wireless Mobile Web customers to its Mobile Web by VZW with MSN service offering that was …

TORONTO-Bell Canada announced its official entry into the wireless local area network (WLAN) market, through partnerships with U.S.-based Cisco Systems and Symbol Technologies . Using the 802.11b or Wi-Fi standard, …

PARIS-IT services firm Atos Origin and speech technology company Telisma have partnered to market speech recognition products to businesses and telecommunications firms. According to their agreement, Atos Origin will use, …

The Open Mobile Alliance (OMA), formed in June 2002, will either greatly help or hinder the future of wireless industry, according to a new study from the Shosteck Group. According …

MANILA, The Philippines-The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) is set to issue next month new regulations cracking down on providers and distributors of prepaid cards for mobile phones suspected of …

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-Siemens Telecommunications recently announced it has been awarded a 1 million Euro contract to supply South Africa’s mobile service provider, Vodacom, with the infrastructure and applications for its …

NEW DELHI, India-United Telecom Limited (UTL), an Indo-Nepalese joint venture, will offer basic services using wireless local loop in the Himalayan kingdom. The company has deposited US$1.3 million as a …

VANCOUVER, British Columbia-Canadian wireless operator Telus Mobility and SmartServ Online Inc. launched Forbes.com Wireless as part of Telus’ Wireless Web Premium Services providing subscribers with access to real-time Canadian and …

FREMONT, Calif.-Voice-enabled solutions provider NeoSpeech is teaming with speech technology company Conversay to offer next-generation text-to-speech solutions. The companies will combine NeoSpeech’s VoiceText technology with Conversay’s Distributed Speech Recognition architecture …