Monthly Archives: October, 2002

Wi-Fi Alliance lays out security guidelines

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...

3G costs blamed for France Télécom woes

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

Metawave gets more time to comply with Nasdaq requirements

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...

Tellular net income drops

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...

PT/Expo Comm China 2002 opens in Beijing

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...

Sharp expands market share riding on Sha-mail boom

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...

Korea slaps business suspension order on mobile firms

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...

U.K.’s TTPcom opens Shanghai office

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...

Ericsson wins Latin American contracts

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...

CTIA: Wireless data revenues grow by 135 percent

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...

Europe sees outbreak of MMS pricing war

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...

Wireless data revenues grow by 135 percent

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...

Leegur Oy receives financing from Nokia, Alafi

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...

724 gateway interoperable with Access browser technology

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...

Korean carriers banned from accepting new subscribers

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...

AudioCodes launches mid-sized wireless gateway

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...

Verizon, Re-route migrating wireless Web users to MSN service

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...

Bell Canada launches wireless LAN services

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...

Atos Origin, Telisma partner for speech solutions

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...

Study examines OMA role in wireless industry

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

Government cracks down on prepaid card providers in the Philippines

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...

Siemens enables Vodacom’s MMS service in South Africa

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...

Indian telecom consortium to offer WLL services in Nepal

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...

Telus, SmartServ launch Forbes.com Wireless service

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...

NeoSpeech teams with Conversay on text-to-speech solutions

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...
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