2002

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.—Wireless Internet giant Openwave Systems Inc. announced it expects its loss for the second quarter to be on the low end of its outlook, but that its revenues …

SAN FRANCISCO—Wireless application and software infrastructure provider vVault announced it will integrate its products with those of Genient, which provides a Web services integration platform that builds composite applications. vVault …

LAS VEGAS—Infowave Software launched a new enterprise product that bypasses the corporate information-technology department and puts wireless deployment decisions in the hands of individual employees. The company’s new software, Symmetry …

NEW YORK—Subscriber growth for U.S. wireless services companies for fourth quarter 2001 may fall below previous Wall Street expectations, according to analysts from Merrill Lynch. The research company cut its …

NEW YORK—Lucent Technologies Inc. said it has sold 80 percent of its New Ventures Group portfolio to British-based Coller Capital. The portfolio will be called New Venture Partners 11 L.P. …

CALGARY, Alberta—Wi-Lan Inc. said it sold its controlling interest in Digital Transmission Systems to a DTS employee stock ownership program. “DTS was a good acquisition in January 2000, but the …

QUITO, Ecuador—According to Conatel, Ecuador’s national telecom regulator, AT&T and Mexico’s Telmex have expressed a formal interest in Ecuador’s upcoming April auction of three wireless telecommunications bands. At least six …

DENVER, United States—Nothing demonstrates that the sun will eventually set on TDMA technology as strongly as the decision by its supreme advocates, the Universal Wireless Communications Consortium (UWCC), to dissolve …

NEW YORK—The planned 5 January completion of the merger between SK Telecom and SK Shinsegi Telecom, which together control 52 percent of South Korea’s mobile-phone customers, hit a roadblock at …

BUCHAREST, Romania—Slovakia’s Telecommunication Office announced it will invite interested companies to submit bids for three Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) licenses and one GSM license. The licenses offered are in …

BALA CYNWYD, Pennsylvania, United States—The law offices of Marc Henzel and Cauley Geller Bowman & Coates filed class action lawsuits in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of …

NEW YORK—AT&T announced last week it has sold the last of its interest, approximately US$3 billion worth of shares, in AT&T Wireless, leaving the company to fend for itself, five …

PURCHASE, New York, United States—Pepsi-Cola North America will deploy a wireless technology system that will allow customers to use their credit cards to make vending machine purchases. The system currently …

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, United States—Mobile services overtook fixed-line services in Latin America during 2001, according to data released by U.S.-based Pyramid Research. Mobile penetration in the region reached 17 percent. The …

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—Motorola inaugurated its first Software Development Center in South America, in the province of C

PARIS—Alcatel has won a contract to expand the capacity of Turkish operator Aycell’s GSM 1800 MHz network. The three-year, US$144 million contract will allow the operator to offer enhanced services, …

BEIJING—Smart cards solutions maker Gemplus said it has won a contract to supply its first live card-based CDMA network to China Unicom. “The launch of smart cards for CDMA networks …

SAN JOSE, California, United States—Globalstar said it began service throughout Central Asia, including Afghanistan, through its Russian service provider, GlobalTel. The company said its satellite communications service is already being …

BOSTON—Asia is poised for strong growth in mobile handsets, according to a new report from the Yankee Group. The report projects that the Asia-Pacific region will see total handset shipments …

NEW YORK—Lucent Technologies said it has sold 80 percent of its New Ventures Group portfolio to British-based Coller Capital. The portfolio will be called New Venture Partners 11 L.P. The …

NEW YORK—The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) held its first smart card interoperability event in mid-December at its headquarters in Sophia Antipolis, France, bringing together 35 industry experts to address …

BUCHAREST, Romania—Austrian operator One said it will launch third-generation (3G) services in the second half of 2002 once sufficient handsets are available. In addition, the operator said it managed to …

MOSCOW—Despite a recent Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) test by one of Russia’s largest operators, Russian Communications Minister Leonid Reiman refused to disclose the timeline for issuing the first third-generation …

SEOUL, South Korea—Samsung SDI said it has developed the world’s thinnest lithium-ion rechargeable cell phone batteries, which can store 355-watt hours in a space of a 2.8mm-thin, 34mm-wide and 58mm-high …

PALO ALTO, Calif.—Hewlett-Packard Co. introduced two new wireless notebooks, offering embedded 802.11b or Bluetooth connectivity and digital home networking features. HP’s Pavilion zt1000 notebook comes embedded with 802.11b connectivity and …