Yearly Archives: 2002

Carriers, industry bodies to set up content evaluation organization

TOKYO—Three Japanese carriers and three industry associations are going to set up an organization to evaluate mobile Internet content on 28 February. The organization,...

Indonesian mobile satellite company’s assets sold

JAKARTA, Indonesia—Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency (BPPN) decided to sell the assets of Pacific Satellite Nusantara (PSN) and its subsidiary Asian Cellular Satellite (ACeS) to...

J-Phone to launch motion picture mail on 1 March

TOKYO—J-Phone, the third-largest mobile carrier in Japan, announced it will launch a new e-mail service with motion pictures. According to J-Phone, which is now...

BPL Mobile sees soaring non-voice revenues

NEW DELHI, India—BPL Mobile, India's leading GSM service provider, hopes to increase substantially its revenues from non-voice services with its recently launched General Packet...

Verizon to launch BREW applications

BEDMINSTER, N.J.—Verizon Wireless signed an agreement with Qualcomm Inc. to commercially launch applications based on Qualcomm's Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless platform. The BREW...

Morgan Stanley upgrades Motorola

NEW YORK—Motorola Inc. enjoyed a ratings upgrade from Morgan Stanley to "outperform" from "neutral.""We believe handset introductions, semi industry recovery and government sales strength...

Numerex expands wireless strategy

ATLANTA—Numerex Corp. announced its new expanded long-term wireless strategy, which involves introducing products for machine-to-machine communications working over a variety of technologies.Numerex said its...

Foreign handsets still favorites in China

BEIJING—Based on responses from 243,260 people across China, the China Telecommunications Association and Englewings Public Relations Corporation said Motorola was voted China's most favored...

Middle East operators push GPRS offerings

LONDON—General Packet Radio Service (GPRS)-based mobile Internet services are being rolled out across the Middle East, with Jordan and the United Arab Emirates (UAE)...

Germany’s Viag tracks data services through Redknee technology

MISSISSAUGA, Ontario, Canada—Canadian vendor Redknee said it partnered with Germany's mobile operator Viag Interkom to deploy real-time short message rating services.Redknee said Viag has...

MmO2 announces job cuts in UK, Germany

LONDON—MmO2, the mobile phone unit spun off from British Telecommunications last year, said it plans to cut 1,900 jobs in the United Kingdom and...

Siemens overtakes Nokia in Russian 2001 handset sales

MOSCOW—German vendor Siemens overtook Finland's Nokia, the worldwide mobile-phone sales leader, in handset sales in Russia in 2001, according to a report by International...

FileMaker Mobile to enter Japanese market

TOKYO—FileMaker Mobile, which allows instant database publishing on i-mode smart phones, was introduced in Japan.FileMaker includes a Mobile Groupware solution, which includes a scheduler,...

GPRS faces slow adoption in China

BEIJING—China Mobile is not satisfied with the slow adoption of its General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) services. At the end of 2001, only 1.5...

Taiwan 3G auction nets US$1.4 billion

TAIPEI, Taiwan—Taiwan awarded five third-generation (3G) licenses following a 19-day auction that saw bid totals much higher than analysts had expected. Total bids in...

Taiwan 3G auction nets $1.4B

TAIPEI, Taiwan—Taiwan awarded its five third-generation licenses following a 19-day auction that saw bid totals much higher than analysts had expected. Total bids in...

SiRF, NEC sign licensing agreement

SAN JOSE—SiRF Technology and NEC Electronics announced a licensing agreement that will integrate SiRF's SiRFstarII GPS technology into NEC's integrated circuits for the automotive...

Plextec unveils multimode PC card

MISSISSAUGA, Ontario—Technology consultancy Plextec Ltd. unveiled a dual-band GSM900/DCS1800 GPRS/Bluetooth multimode PC card.The card, which comprises an always-online GPRS system combined with Bluetooth technology,...

WatchMark forms integration partnership with AU-Systems

BELLEVUE, Wash.—Service assurance product supplier WatchMark reported a strategic system integration partnership with European systems integrator AU-Systems to distribute WatchMark's performance management and network...

Nextel Partners launches in West Virginia markets

CHARLESTON, W.Va.—Nextel Partners Inc. launched wireless service in Charleston, Huntington, Parkersburg, Clarksburg, Morgantown, Fairmont and the greater Central West Virginia region.In conjunction with the...

Sonera scraps fixed monthly connection

HELSINKI, Finland—Sonera, the Helsinki-based telecom company, has abandoned its fixed monthly connection charge for its consumer General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) offering in a...

Tower firms face tough times

BOCA RATON, Fla.-SBA Communications Corp. is going to reduce capital expenditures and new tower development activities in 2002, and suspend any material new investment...

Nokia to integrate Macromedia Flash Player

HELSINKI, Finland—Nokia Corp. said it will integrate Macromedia Inc.'s Flash Player into its Mediaterminal, which combines digital video broadcast, full Internet access, personal video...

MoreMagic reports funding

NEWTON, Mass.—MoreMagic Software announced it scored $9 million in its second round of funding, which was led by Vision Capital and Battery Ventures."These additional...

Aligo announces new partners

SAN FRANCISCO—Java-based wireless application server software provider Aligo Inc. announced it added Applied Systems Analysis & Processing Inc. and Caribou Lake Software to its...
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