Yearly Archives: 2002

China Mobile in US$968 million bond issue

BEIJING-In China's biggest corporate debt sale, China Mobile issued 8 billion yuan (US$968 million) worth of fixed-rate bonds, divided into a 5 billion yuan...

Proxim reports larger 3Q loss

SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Proxim Corp., which acquired Western Multiplex Corp. in March, reported third-quarter losses of $35.1 million, or 29 cents per share, on revenues of...

Akustica secures financing

PITTSBURGH-Akustica Inc., which has patented acoustic MEMS technology, has raised $2.25 million in Series A financing from Chamberlain Investments.Akustica was founded by the former...

Rogers Wireless Communications reports profit

TORONTO-Rogers Wireless Communications reported its fourth consecutive quarter of double-digit operating profit, with a 31-percent increase to C$158.2 million (US$100.6 million) from C$123.8 million...

Dialog launches MMS in Sri Lanka

NEW DELHI, India-Dialog GSM, a leading mobile operator in Sri Lanka, recently launched multimedia messaging service (MMS) on a pre-commercial trial basis.In partnership with...

Yano says Japanese WLAN market to reach 71.9 billion yen by 2006

TOKYO-The Japanese wireless local area network (WLAN) service market is expected be 71.9 billion yen (US$575 million) by 2006, nearly four times as much...

Timing not right for more mobile licenses in China

BEIJING-In an interview with China Central Television (CCTV), Minister of Information Industry (MII) Wu Jichuan said it is not the right time for China...

Wavecom to launch dual-band modules

LAS VEGAS-Wavecom SA announced it will launch two new dual-band wireless modules by the end of 2002 at this week's CTIA Wireless I.T. &...

Swedish 3G development continues, despite setbacks

OSLO, Norway-Mobile operator Orange may appeal the ruling by Swedish national telecom regulator PTS, which rejected any changes to the conditions of its third-generation...

Carriers, vendors participate in EDGE seminar at Wireless IT

LAS VEGAS-Vendors TTPCom, 7 Layers and Analog Devices and carriers AT&T Wireless, Cingular Wireless, and T-Mobile will take part in a seminar called "Making...

Report says U.S., European businesses have data demands

LAS VEGAS-Businesses in the United States and Europe have a great demand for high-speed data, especially for e-mails with data-heavy attachments and Internet and...

Verizon tests prepaid replenishment service

WOBURN, Mass.-Verizon Wireless Inc. is testing a new service that will allow wireless uses to replenish prepaid wireless service via automatic teller machines (ATMs).To...

Convergys wins patent for performance monitoring

CINCINNATI-Billing solutions provider Convergys Corp. has been awarded a patent for its System and Method for Performance Monitoring of Application Code. The company's patents...

Gateway launches wireless solution with Verizon

LAS VEGAS-Personal technology retail giant Gateway Inc. launched its Mobile Wireless Solution that uses Verizon Wireless' Express Network this week at CTIA Wireless I.T....

Senate passes cyber-security legislation

WASHINGTON-The Senate last night passed cyber-security legislation, clearing the way for final approval by the House after Congress returns for a lame duck session...

New company to offer South African prepaid solutions

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-A new black-owned subsidiary of Sebros Telecoms Solutions, called E'Voucher, has announced it will launch a prepaid recharge service for the GSM...

Nokia chairman questions consolidation

HELSINKI, Finland-Jorma Ollila, chairman of Helsinki-based Nokia, has questioned the ability or willingness of mobile telecom companies to strengthen their European operations through strategic...

LapLink to offer Starfish product

SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif.-Starfish Software said LapLink will offer Starfish's TrueSync Plus for PDAs and Mobile Phones to its end users and enterprise customers.The software...

Dentsu to launch mobile ad business in China

TOKYO-Dentsu, the largest advertising company in Japan, is going to launch an advertising business targeting mobile terminals in China. In cooperation with JCD, a...

Openwave aligns with five companies for Mobile Connect Program

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-Openwave Systems Inc. announced alliances with Digital Bridges, End2End, InfoSpace IN-FUSIO and MForma as part of its new Openwave Mobile Connect Program,...

BVRP to bundle software with Mobicom PCMCIA cards

DENVER-BVRP Software USA will bundle its Mobile PhoneTools software with Mobicom Corp.'s line of GSM/GPRS PCMCIA cards.Mobile PhoneTools offers users a connectivity Wizard, an...

BT Retail selects Convergys billing platform

CINCINNATI-Convergys Corp. announced BT Retail, a U.K.-based communications service provider for residential and business markets, has chosen Convergys' Geneva software as its billing platform.Geneva...

Nitel ordered to interconnect

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-The Nigerian Communication Commission (NCC) has ordered the incumbent network operator Nigerian Telecommunications (Nitel) to interconnect its mobile network with that of...

Sandbridge introduces new baseband processor

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.-Sandbridge Technologies has made commercially available its new Sandblaster Baseband Processor, which uses software defined radio to enable multimode, multiplatform and multifunction...

U.S. Cellular to offer BREW games to trial customers

CHICAGO-U.S. Cellular Corp., which is running a customer trial of Binary Runtime for Wireless Environment in its Knoxville, Tenn., market, will offer those customers...
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