2002

CUPERTINO, Calif.—Vodafone’s Sweden business announced it will replace its old billing system with Portal Software Inc.’s Infranet Wireless convergent billing software, for use with its messaging and voice services. Separately, …

RICHMOND-UPON-THAMES, United Kingdom—Norwood Systems has announced the commercial availability of EnterpriseMobility, a software platform that offers employees wireless connectivity within the workplace. The new platform uses Bluetooth technology to link …

CHANTILLY, Va.—InTouch USA, which provides wireless handset rentals to business travelers, said it is now offering a phone that can be used in China, Japan, South Korea, Australia, Canada and …

HONG KONG—Sprint PCS and China Unicom have formed a strategic alliance for cdma2000 services, Sprint PCS’ Bill Blessing told attendees Wednesday at the 3G World Congress here. As part of …

HONG KONG—Verizon Wireless Inc. is the first customer for Lightbridge Inc.’s Mobile Data Manager, a new service that enables carriers to allow users to self-provision data services. Mobile Data Manager …

CALGARY, Alberta—Wireless Matrix Corp. said it has received an order from Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) for 2,400 mobile base station units to be used in deployment of SAIC’s FleetOptimizer …

WASHINGTON—Telecommunications research and analyst firm The Strategis Group ceased operations today. The firm was founded in 1964 by Martin Malarkey and Archer Taylor. It was known as Malarkey, Taylor and …

ALISO VIEJO, California, United States—SMS Media Group said it signed a deal with European mobile entertainment company Jippii Group that enables SMS Media to provide its subscribers with a large …

HELSINKI, Finland—Tecnomen said it was awarded a contract valued at 700,000 euros (US$662,900) by Kuwait’s Mobile Telecommunications Company (MTC) for paging system expansions in the country. Tecnomen will replace old …

MUNICH, Germany—Swedish vendor Ericsson announced the sale of its microelectronic unit to Infineon Technologies for US$379 million in stock, ending industry speculation. “This transaction makes Infineon a strategic supplier of …

NEW YORK—Motorola said it will meet or beat its guidance for the second quarter of a loss of 4 cents per share. Motorola President and Chief Operating Officer Edward Breen …

PARIS—Alcatel said it will provide maintenance and service to Austria’s Tele.ring under a three-year US$37.8 million contract. Alcatel supplied parts of the network, and the contract covers all network elements, …

VIENNA, Austria—Mobilkom Austria said it acquired a 5-percent stake in Croatia’s VIPnet from Ingra, increasing its stake to 71 percent from 66 percent. The value of the transaction was not …

ARLINGTON, Va.—IoWave Inc. acquired the assets of multichannel multipoint distribution services equipment provider Hybrid Networks Inc., which ceased operations at the end of April, IoWave announced. Terms of the agreement …

MELBOURNE, Australia—Singapore Telecommunications Ltd. signed a deal with Iridium Satellite L.L.C. to become a service provider, Iridium said. SingTel will focus on delivering Iridium mobile satellite services to commercial customers, …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Telecom gear maker Ericsson AB has confirmed that it is in talks with German chipmaker Infineon over a possible sale of or partnership with Ericsson’s microelectronics unit. Ericsson’s microelectronics …

LONDON—Austrian carrier Mobilkom Austria will use Logica’s multimedia messaging product, along with its Prepaid Service Agent, which will ensure pre-delivery charging. Mobilkom launched multimedia messaging services this week. “We are …

KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.—InterDigital Communications Corp. announced it is playing host to the General Assembly of the UMTS Forum and its members for a two day conference on 3G wireless …

NEW YORK—Nortel Networks Corp. said it will earn $1.3 billion from two public offerings of 25,000 equity units and 550 million of its common shares. The company, which is scheduling …

ATLANTA—Consolidation moves across the wireless data industry continue to hit in waves, this time with three companies announcing sales or mergers. O2wireless Solutions Inc., which offers outsourced telecommunications services, announced …

GREENSBORO, N.C.—RF Micro Devices Inc. released revised guidance for the current quarter ended June 30, 2002. The company now expects revenues to range from $98 million to $101 million and …

LEDBURY, United Kingdom—Cellular operators must do more to promote their gaming services or risk stunting the growth of the mobile entertainment market, according to a new study from international telecommunications …

NEW YORK—Following AirGate PCS’s release of a revised quarterly outlook, which quickly resulted in a tumbling of its stock value which reverberated throughout the wireless sector Thursday, Standard & Poor’s …

SAN DIEGO—Qualcomm Inc. said it has placed what it described as the world’s first live wideband CDMA and GSM calls using its complete radioOne direct conversion radio-frequency dual-mode solution. “These …

WASHINGTON—Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell Thursday announced the creation of a Spectrum Policy Task Force to help the agency deal with increased demands for dwindling radio frequencies. The formation …