2002

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LONDON—Bahrain’s Batelco announced a further round of tariff cuts on its MobilePlus services. The rate cuts have been applied to a range of services, including registration, per-minute rates, monthly rental …

MONTREAL—Telesystem International Wireless (TIW) announced it has sent the maturity notice for the 7-percent Equity Subordinated Debentures (ESD) due 15 February, 2002, and has advised registered ESD holders that it …

MCLEAN, Virginia, United States—LCC International has acquired Transmast Italia SRL, a wireless infrastructure, deployment, civil engineering and project management firm in Milan, Italy, from its parent company Transmast, which provides …

CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom—Smart antenna developer Antenova and Cambridge Consultants signed a memorandum of understanding to jointly market advanced antenna solutions. Under the terms of the agreement, Cambridge Consultants will have …

WASHINGTON—Motorola filed last week with U.S. regulators to sell up to US$2 billion in debt securities, common and preferred stock and other securities. The company said it will use the …

NEW YORK—NTT DoCoMo, which has the largest market value of any company trading on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, hopes to list its shares on the London and New York stock …

DENVER, United States—Orange U.K. has completed its transition of its GSM network to an Internet Protocol (IP)-based signaling network. Orange U.K. has replaced 90 percent of its Time Division Multiplex …

PARIS—The tender to sell France’s remaining two Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) licenses opened on 1 January, with bids due by 16 May. The government’s first attempt to sell four …

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

LONDON—Mobile entertainment company Cash-U Mobile Technologies released the second-generation versions of its products, the Pecan mobile entertainment platform and the Pistachio software developers kit. The company said the new versions …

ORLANDO, Fla.—The disposable phone market is getting a little more crowded with the launch of another company, New Horizons Technologies International, which plans to introduce its disposable product at the …

ANN ARBOR, Mich.—Network access management software provider Interlink Networks announced it developed a wireless data authenticator based on the emerging Diameter protocol. The company said the authenticator allows wireless data …

WASHINGTON—The Federal Communications Commission said on Dec. 28 that it was re-allocating 27 megahertz of spectrum for new flexible services. The spectrum is being made available as part of the …

RESTON, Va.—NII Holdings Inc., a subsidiary of Nextel Communications Inc., revealed it failed to make an $8.3 million payment on Dec. 31 under its Argentine credit facility and could be …

BALA CYNWYD, Pa.—The law offices of Marc Henzel in Bala Cynwyd, Pa., and Cauley Geller Bowman & Coates L.L.P. in Little Rock, Ark., joined several other firms in filing class …

MORRISVILLE, N.C.—Orange U.K. has completed its transition of its GSM network to an IP-based signaling network. Orange U.K. has replaced 90 percent of its Time Division Multiplex-based signaling network with …

MCLEAN, Va.—LCC International Inc. has acquired Transmast Italia SRL, a wireless infrastructure, deployment, civil engineering and project management firm in Milan, Italy, form its parent company Transmast Ltd., which provides …

SANTA CRUZ, Calif.—Plantronics Inc. has acquired Ameriphone Inc., a company that develops telephones and accessories for the hearing impaired. Ameriphone will join Plantronics’ Walker Division, which supplies amplified phones, specialty …

BOSTON—2002 will probably offer up the same struggles the wireless industry saw in 2001, according to a recent Yankee Group study. The Yankee Group highlighted next-generation networks, including the deployment …

NEW YORK—NTT DoCoMo Inc., which has the largest market value of any company trading on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, hopes to list its shares on the London and New York …

NEW YORK—The planned Jan. 5 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 …

LOS ANGELES—USIntellicom’s prepaid wireless system infringes Telemac Corp.’s patent for a network-independent prepaid billing system, according to a recent Federal District Court ruling. Pre-Cell Solutions Inc. and its subsidiaries, USIntellicom …

VANCOUVER, British Columbia—The Federal Communications Commission and Industry Canada have issued regulatory approvals for Sierra Wireless’s AirCard 710 Wireless Network Card, the first GSM/GPRS product in the company’s AirCard product …

BEIJING, China—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 …