2002

HORSHAM, Pa.—Two new reports researching the future market for wireless products and services draw directly opposite conclusions as to who wireless companies should target. According to Taylor Nelson Sofres’ “Wireless …

LONDON—Moody’s investor services changed its outlook for German telecommunications company Deutsche Telekom and its guaranteed subsidiary DT Finance B.V., as well as its American subsidiaries VoiceStream Wireless Corp. and Cook …

NEW YORK—Standard & Poor’s downgraded its long-term and short-term corporate credit ratings on telecommunications provider Qwest Communications International Inc. due to an increasing risk profile of the company over the …

MUNICH, Germany—Malaysian operator Celcom selected Siemens to supply its General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) technology. The value of the contract was not disclosed. TTI to supply performance software to MobilCom …

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—U.K.-based company Logica has just inaugurated its new office for South America in Buenos Aires, with the aim to promote its applications for mobile services. “Operators are increasingly …

BEIJING—The Hebei provincial subsidiary of China Mobile has chosen Nortel Networks to expand the capacity of its GSM network in the provincial capital Shijiazhuang and surrounding areas with 322,000 subscribers. …

BEIJING—In the first four months of 2002, China added 21,836,000 mobile-phone subscribers, the People’s Telecommunications newspaper reported in its 22 May edition. The total number of mobile subscribers is now …

OXFORD, United Kingdom—A joint venture between Orange and U.K.-based cable operator NTL should soon enable Orange cell-phone users to order digital content and have it downloaded via NTL’s broadband connection …

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa—Nigerian Communications Minster Bell Haliru Mohammed has said that the US$306 million in proceeds from the fixed wireless access (FWA) license auction will be used to develop rural …

HELSINKI, Finland—Telecom Italia Mobile (TIM), the Italian mobile operator, has met its May deadline for the launch of multimedia messaging services (MMS) over its General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) network …

JAKARTA, Indonesia—StarHub, Singapore’s third-largest mobile operator, said it has enriched content for its General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) and short message service (SMS) services with the coming of the 2002 …

OXFORD, United Kingdom—Looking to build on the runaway success of short message service (SMS), two more European mobile operators have joined in the rush to be among the first to …

BEIJING—South Korea’s LG Electronics hopes to sell 128,000 CDMA handsets to China Unicom this year. It plans to produce CDMA handsets in a joint venture with Shandong Langchao, in which …

ATLANTA—Wireless broadband provider Sanswire Inc. announced it merged with Pear Technologies Inc. in an all-stock transaction. Under the deal, Pear will change its name to Sanswire, and will trade its …

TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo Inc. said it will develop next-generation FOMA handsets equipped with a dual browser capable of handling both i-mode-compatible HTML and WAP 2.0-compatible XHTML by the end of this …

BEDMINSTER, N.J.—Verizon Wireless and Microsoft Corp. announced a strategic alliance to deliver co-developed and jointly marketed wireless data services featuring MSN services and content, Windows Powered devices and enterprise solutions. …

HOBOKEN, N.J.—TTI Telecom announced it will implement its performance and service management solutions in MobilCom’s German third-generation network, which is expected to be launched by the end of this year. …

HONG KONG—MSN announced a new initiative to bring its Hotmail Web-based e-mail service to mobile phones in Asia. MSN has partnered with U.S.-based Mobileway to allow mobile operators in Asia …

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—Handspring Inc. next week plans to release a color version of its highly acclaimed Treo mobile phone/personal digital assistant. The Treo 270, which operates much like the currently …

TOKYO—NEC Corp. said it received an order from Taiwan’s KG Telecommunications for mobile handsets for KG Telecom’s i-mode service. NEC said the delivery will make it the first supplier of …

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa—South African mobile network operator Vodacom is currently in the process of launching its cellular network in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). As an indication of expected …

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—BellSouth introduced the first integrated mobile Internet service in Per

MELBOURNE, Australia—As part of its expanding mobile data strategy, Telstra announced this week a three-month trial in which customers can pay for parking using their GSM mobile phones. “Our customers …

OXFORD, United Kingdom—The continued downturn in mobile communications has caused Benefon and Openmobile, both based in Finland, to close their operations or dramatically restructure their businesses. Benefon, one of the …

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