Yearly Archives: 2002

Logica reports contracts, SMS trials

LONDON—Short message service (SMS) company Logica said it scored two multimedia messaging contracts and is trialing the product with five additional wireless carriers. The...

TI makes bid for Germany’s Condat

FRANKFURT, Germany—Texas Instruments said it is bidding for German telecom equipment maker Condat in a deal valued at about US$93 million. According to the...

DoCoMo partners with Oracle for enterprise solutions

TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo and Oracle said they plan to collaborate on the technology and development of advanced mobile enterprise solutions, as well as sales and...

Sprint, Nortel trial CDMA smart antenna technology

OTTAWA—Sprint PCS and Nortel Networks completed trials using Nortel's CDMA smart antenna technology, which Nortel said is designed to provide double the voice capacity...

Hong Kong operators to gain new spectrum

HONG KONG—Hong Kong telecom regulator Office of the Telecommunications Authority (OFTA) said it plans to give unused spectrum to mobile operators. The unused spectrum,...

Hong Kong MVNO selects billing software

HONG KONG—Indian company Lifetree Convergence said it supplied its billing and operations system for Shell, which launched a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) service...

NTT DoCoMo lists on New York, London exchanges

TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo, the leading mobile carrier in Japan, listed on both the New York Stock Exchange and the London Stock Exchange simultaneously on 1...

Pakistan’s Ufone to upgrade to GPRS

NEW DELHI, India—Pak Telecom Mobile Limited, a fully owned subsidiary of Pakistan Telecommunications Corporation offering GSM 900 MHz services under the Ufone brand in...

Accenture says Indonesian operators must increase ARPUs

JAKARTA, Indonesia—Heru Prasetyo, Indonesia's Accenture country manager, suggested cellular operators should increase their average revenue per user (ARPU) from its current less than US$20...

Smart Communications profits from data in 2001

MANILA, The Philippines—Short message service (SMS) technology, more popularly known as text messaging among Filipino mobile users, proved to be a substantial source of...

Mobile users surpass fixed-line numbers in Australia

MELBOURNE, Australia—For the first time, there are more mobile phones in Australia than there are fixed telephone lines, the Australian Communications Authority announced in...

Telefónica Movistar of Perú launches 2.5G service

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—Telef

Japanese mobile Internet users exceed 50 million

TOKYO—The number of mobile Internet users in Japan exceeded 50 million riding on the country's i-mode boom. The Telecommunications Carriers Association, an industry association,...

Sony Ericsson releases smart phone based on Symbian OS

OXFORD, United Kingdom, and TOKYO—Hidden within the first cell-phone announcements from Sony Ericsson was the fact that the joint venture's P800 smart phone device...

European operators at odds over 3G

OXFORD, United Kingdom—French and British cell-phone operators would appear to be adopting opposite third-generation (3G) investment strategies. Bouygues, the French telecom company, said it...

Cell-Loc selects Brazilian company for beacon manufacturer

CALGARY—Cell-Loc, a developer of network-based wireless location technology, contracted Brazilian manufacturer PST Industria Eletronica de Amazonia to manufacture Cellocate beacon devices.Under the agreement, PST...

Mexican mobile revenues to overtake switched access revenues in 2006

BOSTON, United States—Market research firm Yankee Group said although Mexican mobile subscriber numbers surpassed fixed-line subscribers in 2000, revenues from mobile services will not...

Puerto Rico to see first Cingular TDMA-GSM overlay

ATLANTA, United States—Cingular Wireless signed a $500 million supply agreement with Nortel Networks for GSM/General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) infrastructure upgrades in the United...

Honduras to award 2 new wireless licenses

WASHINGTON—The government of Honduras plans to assign two new mobile telephony licenses. The licenses are planned for two of five frequency bands—in 800 MHz...

Chilean competitors accuse Smartcom PCS of anti-competitive pricing

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—BellSouth lodged a complaint with the Fiscal

Mexican mobile revenues to overtake switched access revenues in 2006

BOSTON—Market research firm Yankee Group said although Mexican mobile subscriber numbers surpassed fixed-line subscribers in 2000, revenues from mobile services will not overtake switched...

Sprint projects subscriber adds

KANSAS CITY, Mo.—Sprint Corp. said it expects its wireless division to add between 700,000 and 750,000 net subscribers during the first quarter of this...

Qualcomm scores BREW deal

NORTH HOLLYWOOD, Calif.—Qualcomm's BREW platform scored another major developer deal, this time with Walt Disney and its ESPN-branded sports games.Under the deal, Walt Disney...

Motorola chooses Centerpost solution for enterprise alerts

CHICAGO—Centerpost Corp. said it has been chosen to provide Motorola Inc. with an enterprise alerting solution that will allow Motorola's IT organization employees to...
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