October 2002

MANKATO, Minn.-Rural telecommunications provider HickoryTech Corp. reported $4.4 million in wireless revenues for the third quarter, a slight drop from the $4.5 million the company reported for the same quarter …

RESTON, Va.-Ztango Inc. signed a service agreement with U.S. Cellular Corp. to provide downloadable wireless media services including ring tones, graphics and greeting card services.

NEW YORK-The law firm of Stull, Stull & Brody has lodged a shareholder class-action lawsuit against XO Communications Inc., Salomon Smith Barney and its former research analyst Jack Grubman. The …

NEW YORK-Verizon Wireless Inc. reported 1.2 million net customer additions for the third quarter of this year compared with 752,000 net customer additions for the same quarter last year. The …

WASHINGTON-As the wireless industry prepares for oral argument in class-action headset and brain-cancer litigation this Friday, it was reminded that the health issue is not about to go away even …

with CollectiveGood on recycling programSAN FRANCISCO-Working Assets, which sells phone, wireless, credit card and Internet services, announced it will team with mobile phone recycling company CollectiveGood to get its customers …

SAN JOSE, Calif.-Wireless provisioning company Pixo Inc. announced Sun Microsystems Inc.’s Southern Europe, Africa & Middle East business will resell the company’s Mobile Download Server. The download system server software …

MOSCOW-Russian wireless carriers joined the effort to help resolve the unprecedented hostage drama in Moscow where Chechen terrorists held some 700 theatergoers hostage. Wireless traffic in the area of the …

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DUBLIN, Ireland-Vodafone has unveiled the latest stage in its data strategy. Vodafone Live is a menu of services accessible from camera phones, which will allow customers to receive and send …

The second Worldwide Wardrive, a movement that poses risks to the security of WLAN access points and networks, is scheduled to occur from Oct. 26 through Nov. 2. Wardriving, according …

SAN DIEGO-CDMA giant Qualcomm Inc. announced its chief information officer, Norm Fjeldheim, will take over the reigns of the company’s Wireless Knowledge subsidiary, which works to sell wireless products and …

OKLAHOMA CITY-Dobson Communications Corp. signed a non-binding letter of intent with AT&T Wireless Services Inc. to exchange its two remaining wireless properties in California for two of AT&T Wireless’ properties …

SEOUL, South Korea-The Mobitex Operators Association (MOA) said two new wireless data networks will begin operation in China. Telecom Digital has officially launched its Mango Mobitex-based network and service in …

LONDON-Sasken Communication Technologies entered an agreement with Chinese company Datang Mobile Communications regarding a TD-SCDMA software module. The companies plan to jointly collaborate on TD-SCDMA protocol stack development for the …

VANCOUVER, British Columbia-Wireless enterprise company Infowave Software reported third quarter revenues of $676,415, up from the $517,977 in its previous quarter. The company’s net loss was just over $1 million. …

SHANGHAI, China-Last year, Siemens announced big plans to increase its mobile telecom market share in China. But Lothar Pauly, board member of the Information and Communication Mobile Group of Siemens, …

DUBLIN, Ireland-It appears that an agreement on site sharing between the three Irish third-generation (3G) license holders might have been reached only days after the first meeting of a working …

WASHINGTON-The transition to digital TV is progressing, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission told a gathering of broadcasters Tuesday. “Comparing today with where we were one short year ago, …

OXFORD, United Kingdom-A new study by the Italian-based National Research Council (NRC) has reawakened the long-running debate over cell-phone health hazards by claiming that radio frequency (RF) transmissions cause cancerous …

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-Movicom BellSouth was the only operator that presented the prequalification documents to participate in the spectrum auction that will take place on 18 November in Uruguay. As it …

RESTON, Va.-Nextel Communications Inc. posted $2.3 billion in revenues for the recently completed third quarter, an increase over the $1.8 billion reported for the same quarter last year. Net income …

OXFORD, United Kingdom-Having built a wireless network covering nearly 20 percent of the German population, the beleaguered operator MobilCom is now said to be negotiating the sale of its infrastructure …

MELBOURNE, Australia-Consumers contacted Australia’s Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman 62,275 times to complain about telephone and Internet services last financial year, a drop of 13 percent on the previous year, the organization’s …

TOKYO-KDDI and J-Phone continue to expand their subscriber bases of next-generation services. KDDI, the second-largest mobile operator in Japan, announced that the number of subscribers for the carrier’s third-generation (3G) …