December 2002

OWINGS MILLS, Md.-Wireless enterprise company Aether Systems Inc. announced it will equip the 5,500-vehicle fleet of trucking company U.S. Xpress Enterprises Inc. with its MobileMax wireless communications and tracking product. …

NEW YORK-Motorola Inc. said it will buy back $825 million in so-called Puttable Reset Securities (PURS) under a purchase agreement to be executed with Goldman Sachs & Co. Feb. 3. …

IRVING, Texas-Nokia Corp. will bypass carrier sales efforts with a new online store, where Internet surfers can compare and buy phones and wireless services. The site is managed by LetsTalk, …

NEW YORK-Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services lowered its corporate credit ratings on Dobson Communications Corp. from B+ to B, citing the impact of lower roaming yield on revenue growth, lower …

CINCINNATI, United States-Convergys said it will supply an integrated billing system to Qatar Telecom. The company will use the service to bill General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) and Universal Mobile …

BEDMINSTER, New Jersey, United States-Flarion Technologies announced a field trial with Korean Internet service provider Hanaro Telecom using Flarion’s Flash-OFDM wireless broadband system. This will be Flarion’s second trial in …

FOREBU, Norway-Telenor Mobile said it will end its NMT 450 MHz service at the end of 2004. The company’s NMT 450 MHz license expires 31 December, 2004, and it will …

TOKYO-J-Phone said it has requested permission from the Japanese regulator to unify its regional company price plans into six national price plans and seven discount services for its PDC networks, …

NEW YORK-Business professionals are interested in receiving business-related news and breaking news via mobile phones, according to research from Forbes.com. The study, conducted with SmartServ in November, polled more than …

TORONTO-Canadian carrier Bell Mobility announced it will begin offering basic location-based services through its new MyFinder application and that it plans to expand the service with additional features. The service …

OXFORD, United Kingdom-Perhaps wanting to recapture some of their “lost” wireless revenues due to 3G delays, Europe’s major telecom companies have launched wireless local area network (WLAN) hot spot services. …

CAMBRIDGE, U.K.-Market research firm Analysys has released a new report warning European operators against a price war between fixed and mobile carriers as fixed-to-mobile service substitution continues. Such a battle …

MILPITAS, Calif.-GRIC Communications announced NEC and Sony Communications Network (SoNet) will offer its wireless Internet roaming service to customers, and Excite Japan will offer its wireless and dial-up roaming service …

ROME-Telecom Italia began trials this week of a public Wi-Fi service operating at 2.4 GHz. Italy’s largest fixed and mobile operator will trial the service in public locations in Rome …

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia-St. Petersburg-based Delta Telecom, an NMT 450 MHz carrier, launched the first commercial cdma2000 1x network based on the International Mobile Telecommunications-Multi Carrier (IMT-MC) standard and operating in …

WICHITA, Kansas-IFR has upgraded its 2975 radio test set to include new test patterns, the ability to control 2975 tests via the Internet and the ability to test P25 trunked …

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SAN BRUNO, Calif.-IPWireless Inc. announced Walker Wireless, New Zealand, will deploy its mobile broadband technology in major New Zealand markets, following a commercial trial in the Auckland market. “Our initial …

INDIANA, Pa.-YourInter.Net, a regional Internet service provider, has deployed Navini Networks Inc. nomadic wireless technology to provide broadband access to its customers. The Navini Ripwave 2.4 GHz system deployment covers …

SUNNYVALE, Calif.-RadioShack Corp. said it will sell new wireless data access products from FutureDial in its 5,100 stores nationwide. FutureDial’s SnapSync software allows mobile-phone users to edit phonebook information directly …

DENVER-Cambridge Silicon Radio, Intersil Corp. and Smart Modular Technologies are cooperating on development of a mini-PCI board that combines 802.11b wireless local area network and Bluetooth technology, according to published …

TORONTO-With a view to better financial flexibility, Nortel Networks said it will terminate its $1.8 billion in undrawn credit that expires in April next year. The wireless vendor said it …

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. has filed patent infringement law suits against Maxim Integrated Products Inc. in federal court over inventions that cover transmission, reception and processing of radio signals by wireless …

WASHINGTON-Rather than relying on industry-supplied data-much of it from the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association-the Federal Communications Commission is seeking comment on the state of competition in the mobile phone …

CAMPBELL, California, United States-P-Com announced more than US$1 milion in orders for its point-to-point products to customers in China. The orders are from system integrators serving Chinese telecom companies, P-Com …