2002

SAN DIEGO-Novatel Wireless Inc. announced the City of Westminster, the historic heart of London, has rolled out a mobile IT solution powered by Novatel’s Merlin G201 wireless PC card modem …

NEW YORK-WorldCom Inc. and Cingular Wireless L.L.C. reached a tentative agreement yesterday settling the dispute between the two companies over the possible transfer of approximately 300,000 WorldCom wireless customers to …

BEIJING-China’s largest wireless operator China Mobile selected Nortel Networks Ltd. to expand its GSM network in Shaanxi Province as part of a $26.8 million contract. The expansion is expected to …

NEW YORK-WorldCom and Cingular Wireless reached a tentative agreement yesterday, settling the dispute between the two companies over the possible transfer of approximately 300,000 WorldCom wireless customers to Cingular’s network. …

LONDON-The Tunisian mobile market has received a significant boost from the rollout of prepaid services, a recent report from Arab Advisors Group revealed. The study showed a substantial increase in …

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-The National Telecommunications Council in Ecuador assigned two of the three national 3.4 GHz to 3.6 GHz bands for wireless local loop (WLL) services to TV Cable and …

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-Speaking at a recent technology and communications summit in Johannesburg, executives from South Africa’s mobile and fixed operators reiterated their calls that the local regulator, the Independent Communications …

NEW DELHI, India-Idea Cellular said it will launch its services in the Indian capital next month, taking the total number of GSM players to four. The company has already invested …

DUBLIN, Ireland-Europe’s largest mobile-phone retailer shows no signs of relinquishing its market-leading position, with Carphone Warehouse announcing a 16-percent increase in connections during the past four months. These 1.16 million …

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-The Venezuelan cell-phone operator Movilnet presented a new service that allows new clients to receive mobile-phone messages without actually owning their own cellular phones. The “Virtual Cellular” service …

BEIJING-Expansion of China’s PHS network called Little Smart in the suburbs of Beijing and Tianjin has been put on hold by the Ministry of Information Industry (MII), which fears a …

OXFORD, United Kingdom-While outsiders have praised Sonera and Telef

OXFORD, United Kingdom-In an effort to calm the nerves of the third-generation (3G) community, Canning Fok, Hutchison’s managing director, said reports of call handover problems between current-generation and 3G networks …

TOKYO-Gartner Japan, a Japanese business unit of Gartner Group, has predicted the mobile handset market on a unit basis will expand at an annual increasing rate of 5.3 percent between …

HELSINKI, Finland-The Finnish government hinted on 31 July at a possible delay in the finalization of merger arrangements between Nordic telecom companies Sonera and Telia. The delay emerged following confirmation …

BOULDER, Colo.-MapInfo Corp. is combining its miAware location-based services platform with Intrado Inc.’s location technologies and services, said the companies. “Together we will help carriers offer their subscribers differentiating and …

BATH, United Kingdom-Cramer Systems said it will supply a strategic network inventory system for Norwegian operator NetCom’s next-generation network. NetCom will use the system to consolidate disparate systems used to …

HELSINKI, Finland-Sonera has sold a stake in SmarTrust to venture capital funds the Carlyle Group, GE Equity and Eqvitec Partners for US$34.3 million. Sonera will retain a 39.3-percent stake in …

REDMOND, Washington, United States-AT&T Wireless Services and Microsoft said they will develop and distribute end-to-end solutions for Microsoft Windows Powered Pocket PCs, smart phones and laptops designed to provide wireless …

MANILA, The Philippines-Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. (PLDT) is expected to post continued gains for the second quarter of the year amid the slowdown in growth of both the wireless …

MELBOURNE, Australia-Vodafone New Zealand has chosen Ericsson to provide end-to-end multimedia messaging service (MMS) services between New Zealand and Australia. Vodafone New Zealand plans to launch extended MMS services in …

DUBLIN, Ireland-Vodafone and consumer groups in Ireland are once again at odds over the price of calls following the publication of figures showing that average revenue per user (ARPU) in …

ATLANTA-BellSouth Corp. launched a new bundled service offering combining local, long distance and data services with Cingular Wireless L.L.C.’s wireless services. BellSouth said its Answers packages will start as low …

SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Advanced Micro Devices, Fujitsu Corp. and Saifun Semiconductors Ltd. say they plan to collaborate to cross-license patents, settle outstanding litigation and work toward developing next-generation non-volatile memory technology. “By …

OTTAWA, Canada-Atsana Semiconductor Corp. said it has licensed ARM core for multimedia applications in mobile phones, personal digital assistants and network digital cameras. “By licensing the ARM922T core, we are …