Yearly Archives: 2002

Crown Castle dividend to be paid Nov. 15

HOUSTON-Crown Castle International Corp. announced the quarterly dividend rate for its 6.25-percent Convertible Preferred Stock will be paid on Nov. 15 to holders of...

Vivendi, Vodafone standoff for Cegetel control continues

LONDON-Vivendi Universal is still convinced that Vodafone Group plc will come back with an improved offer for its stake in French operator Cegetel, after...

Uzbek carrier to launch CDMA 450 MHz network

TASHKENT, Uzbekistan-The Uzbektelecom landline national operator received a CDMA 450 MHz license and launched the construction of a wireless network with a capacity of...

CTIA backs away from call for merger guidelines

WASHINGTON-The president of the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association last Friday stepped back from comments he made to the press earlier in the week...

Moody’s downgrades Lucent to ‘junk,’ SEC widens accounting probe

NEW YORK-Moody's Investors Service Inc. said it downgraded Lucent Technologies to "junk" status, even as the Wall Street Journal reported the U.S. Securities and...

Moody’s downgrades Lucent, Nortel debt

NEW YORK-Moody's Investors Service downgraded the debt of Lucent Technologies Inc. and Nortel Networks Corp. Nov. 1 and assigned a negative outlook to the...

Judge Blake moves on health lawsuits

BALTIMORE-U.S. District Judge Catherine Blake Thursday dismissed the $800 million brain cancer lawsuit against the mobile phone industry.Today, Blake heard oral argument on industry's...

CPS offers details of new E-OTD tests

CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom-Cambridge Positioning Systems Ltd. said it filed a report with the Federal Communications Commission with details of new tests of enhanced observed...

Study: New entrants won’t shake traditional handset vendors’ position

CEDAR KNOLLS, N.J.-Although Microsoft Corp. wields tremendous power and has made several major recent forays into the market for mobile-phone software, the wireless industry's...

Brightpoint completes sale of Mexican assets

INDIANAPOLIS, United States-Brightpoint said it has completed the sale of certain operating assets of Brightpoint Mexico to Soluciones Inteligentes para el Mercado Mobile, which...

Wireless Knowledge, Novatel team on product promotions

SAN DIEGO-Wireless Knowledge Inc. and Novatel Wireless Inc. have paired to jointly promote their products.According to the marketing agreement, Novatel will push Wireless Knowledge's...

Senators urge FCC to allow NextWave re-auction winners to opt-out

WASHINGTON-Three senators have urged the Federal Communications Commission to allow the re-auction winners of bankrupt NextWave Telecom Inc.'s licenses to opt-out of their bids."We...

FCC fines AT&T Wireless for tower safety violations

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission today fined AT&T Wireless Services Inc. $117,000 for safety-related violations involving antenna structures. The FCC said AT&T Wireless committed seven...

724 gateway interoperable with Access browser technology

TORONTO-724 Solutions' X-treme Mobility Gateways and Access' NetFront v3.0 browser technology are now interoperable, so mobile network operators can use NetFront-enabled handsets powered by...

Wi-Fi Alliance lays out security guidelines

NEW YORK-Wi-Fi Alliance has laid out new mechanisms for security for the technology to address concerns about possible hacking.The specifications, known as Wireless Protected...

Tellular net income drops

VERNON HILLS, Ill.-Wireless equipment maker Tellular Corp. said its fourth-quarter net income dropped to $10,000, or breakeven earnings per share, as against $906,000, or...

Brightpoint completes of Mexican assets

INDIANAPOLIS-Brightpoint Inc. said it has completed the sale of certain operating assets of Brightpoint Mexico to Soluciones Inteligentes para el Mercado Mobile S.A. de...

Europe sees outbreak of MMS pricing war

OXFORD, United Kingdom-As many mobile operators around the world install and trial their multimedia message service (MMS) infrastructure, those that have launched services have...

CTIA: Wireless data revenues grow by 135 percent

WASHINGTON-U.S. wireless data revenues have grown by 135 percent, and voice revenues have increased 19 percent since last year, according to the semi-annual survey...

PT/Expo Comm China 2002 opens in Beijing

BEIJING-Nearly 600 companies from 24 countries are participating in PT/Expo Comm China 2002, which opened in Beijing on 30 October. The central theme of...

Chinese government favors TD-SCDMA in spectrum allocation

BEIJING-According to Zhou Huan, president of Datang Telecom Technologies, co-developer with Siemens of the TD-SCDMA third-generation (3G) technology, the Chinese government has allocated broader...

China’s mobile subscribers to surpass fixed-line users soon

BEIJING-China's Ministry of Information Industry (MII) announced that the country's two mobile-phone operators added 45.17 million new users in the first three quarters of...

Orsus acquires assets of Speedwise

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-Orsus Solutions has acquired the intellectual property and other assets of Speedwise Technologies Ltd. in a cash and stock transaction.The acquisition enables...

Sharp expands market share riding on Sha-mail boom

TOKYO-The top two Japanese mobile handset manufacturers-NEC and Matsushita Communications Industrial-have lost market share, while Sharp, which is the leading maker for picture phone...

U.K.’s TTPcom opens Shanghai office

BEIJING-The U.K. supplier of wireless communication technologies TTPcom has opened an office in Shanghai. Ten percent of the company's US$60.5 million of sales in...
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