2002

SCARBOROUGH, Maine—Gabriel Electronics Inc.’s chief executive officer, Robert Cameron, has announced plans to restructure his company to emphasize its areas of strengths, which include licensed and unlicensed broadband antenna solutions …

WASHINGTON—Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ernest Hollings (D-S.C.) is expected today to introduce legislation to foster broadband Internet deployment in rural and unserved areas. On Tuesday, Sens. John Breaux (D-La.) and …

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The United Telecom Council’s recently released report “What Utilities Buy: Evaluating the Market for Telecom Equipment and Services Sold to Utilities” covers the results of a survey of utility …

SAN JOSE, Calif.—LGC Wireless announced Ian Sugarbroad has been named president and chief executive officer. “I’m confident about my ability to steer this company through one of the biggest economic …

BOSTON—TDK Systems announced it has added three new software applications for its Bluetooth products: TDK Mobile, TDK Dialer and TDK blueDial, which all allow users to back up and transfer …

NEW YORK—U.S. supplier LocatioNet Systems Ltd. announced it received two contracts from Austrian mobile operator One. LocatioNet will supply its location-based services middleware platform, geographic information system and open set …

MUNICH, Germany—Siemens has confirmed that it won an order to supply the equipment for the second GSM network in the Republic of Belarus owned by Russia-based Mobile Telesystems (MTS) and …

DUBLIN, Ireland—Following similar deals signed earlier this year with Nokia and Siemens, T-Mobile International has chosen Nortel Networks to supply Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) equipment for its third-generation (3G) …

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts—St. Kitts and Nevis has announced two telecommunications licenses as Eastern Caribbean governments continue to make good on a pledge to liberalize their telecommunications markets. The Cable, established …

DUBLIN, Ireland—O2 has announced plans to establish a new content platform that will encourage digital media firms to create “viable business models” based on selling content to mobile operators. The …

BEIJING—Hong Kong’s CSL and Hutchison Telecom started offering services that enable corporate customers to use mobile phones and personal digital assistants (PDAs) to access intranets, e-mail and contacts. Users can …

BEIJING—China Unicom has purchased mobile-Internet technology from Openwave Systems to make its CDMA services more attractive. The company is counting on data services to lure high-end customers to its CDMA …

BEIJING—Despite an official ban, China Mobile’s subsidiary in southwestern Guizhou Province launched a trial run of a controversial calling-party-pays billing system. China is officially still using a two-way billing system, …

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—The Smartcom PCS objective is to overtake Chile’s third-largest operator, BellSouth, this year in subscriber numbers and move from its last-place position to third place. To achieve the …

BEIJING—Reports of China’s Ministry of Information Industry (MII) indicate that China Mobile’s revenue and market share account for 79.8 percent and 70.4 percent respectively of total Chinese mobile telecom revenues …

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa—South Africa’s third mobile network operator Cell C has announced that the company has nearly doubled the number of subscribers it originally forecast for the first five months …

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OXFORD, United Kingdom—The boom in European short message service (SMS) traffic is forecast to peak in 2003 as other messaging technology bites into the service from 2004 onward, claims new …

OXFORD, United Kingdom—The Polish telecom regulator, URTiP, has conceded that the three operators that purchased third-generation (3G) licenses will not be held to the contractual launch date due to the …

OXFORD, United Kingdom—A new report from the Finnish radiation authority has said cellular base stations are safe, as long as they are properly installed. The government-funded watchdog, S

STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Ericsson has dismissed market speculation in Sweden that its latest swing of the downsizing ax is driven by a need to attract a takeover suitor. Nokia is being linked …

WASHINGTON—A new report claims the costs of arbitration—billed as a low-cost alternative to lawsuits and required in service contracts for mobile phones and other electronic contracts—are so expensive that consumers …

ALEXANDRA, Va.—Metrocall Inc. announced it is working on a pre-negotiated plan for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and is pushing back the date it plans to file for reorganization. The company said …

HELSINKI, Finland—Nokia Corp. said it has signed a $50 million deal to supply GSM infrastructure equipment to Thailand operator Advanced Info Service Plc.“Under the agreement, Nokia will supply to AIS …

LITTLE ROCK, Ark.—Alltel Corp. priced an offering of $1.25 billion in publicly traded equity units at $50 with a yield of 7.75 percent and a conversion premium of 22 percent, …