2002

RESTON, Va.-Nextel Communications Inc. and Nextel Partners Inc. donated $70,000 of wireless phones and service to enhance security efforts and event coordination during the National Governors Association annual meeting scheduled …

FRAMINGHAM, Massachusetts, United States-NMS Communications said it will supply its HearSay voice services on a trial basis to mobile operator SFR in France. Th offering will provide detailed Tour de …

MELBOURNE, Australia-Commercial interest is growing in wireless Internet in Australia with news of a $A25 million (US$14 million) national rollout of an i-BURST mobile wireless broadband network beginning in Sydney. …

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-Mobile network operators in Nigeria, Kenya and Zimbabwe announced various tariff hikes expected to impact consumer spending. In Nigeria, mobile operator MTN Nigeria announced it may increase its …

OXFORD, United Kingdom-The U.K. Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) reported an increase in the number of consumers complaining about unsolicited text messages. The organization said it upheld six complaints about SMS-based …

OXFORD, United Kingdom-Saturated market conditions are being blamed by cell-phone operators for a 50-percent drop in handset sales for the first six months of 2002 compared with last year. According …

OXFORD, United Kingdom-Regardless of concerns expressed by European third-generation (3G) license holders, the German telecom regulator, RegTP, expects wireless local area networks (WLAN) networks to complement 3G services and plans …

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-The Colombian government, headed by Andr

BEIJING-Following the launch of its General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) services on 17 May, China Mobile Communications has signed 1.3 million users, but a spokesman for China Mobile (Hong Kong) …

HELSINKI, Finland-Telenor’s dream of creating a Scandinavian telecom giant through a merger with Sweden’s Telia and Finland’s Sonera is very much “a live aspiration,” Norway’s Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik …

BOISE, Idaho-Extended Systems Inc. released preliminary results for the fourth quarter that repeated an all-too-familiar story for companies trying to sell wireless services to corporations. “Due to the current economic …

NEW YORK-Cingular Wireless L.L.C. officially launched its GSM service in New York City today, placing the nation’s second-largest carrier in 43 of the top 50 markets nationwide and covering 217 …

MCLEAN, Va.-LCC International Inc. said its U.K. subsidiary, LCC U.K. Ltd. has acquired 51 percent of Detron Network Services B.V., a privately held telecommunications consultancy firm based in Den Bosch, …

BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Verizon Wireless Inc. said it is offering its subscribers BREW-enabled mobile phones access to Forbes.com Wireless, a financial information source powered by SmartServ Online Inc. Through Forbes.com Wireless, users …

CLINTON, Mass.-Adding to investor fears concerning the future of WorldCom Inc., the company’s board of directors said it would not pay the 60 cents per share dividend to MCI group …

TOKYO-Nortel Networks Corp. said it signed an optical network contract to expand KDDI’s metro access network and support the carrier’s cdma2000 1x offering. “We will work closely with KDDI to …

DOHA, Qatar-Motorola said it signed a US$25 million GSM contract expansion with Qatar Telecommunications. The expansion will allow the operator to offer enhanced coverage and features. Commercial deployment began in …

JAKARTA, Indonesia-Singapore’s PSB Corporation is leading the provision of full Bluetooth compliance testing services in the Southeast Asia region. Centro de Technologia de las Communicaciones (CETECOM), a global supplier of …

BEIJING-Ningbo Bird, China’s largest manufacturer of pagers, phased out its pager production this month. When the paging business was at its peak in 2000, Ningbo Bird’s market share was second …

TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo, the largest mobile operator in Japan, lost a legal battle with its U.S. partner AT&T Wireless Services over a domain name issue. NTT DoCoMo in April lodged a …

MANILA, The Philippines-International telecommunications giant AT&T is considering telecommunications companies like Philippine Long Distance Telephone (PLDT), Smart Communications and Ayala-owned Globe Telecom as partners for its US$300 million network expansion …

NEW DELHI, India-Pakistan has installed a modern national frequency management system with World Bank assistance, officials stated in the country’s capital of Islamabad. The National Frequency Monitoring and Management System …

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-Econet Nigeria announced it extended its network coverage by connecting the town of Eket in the Akwa Ibom state to its network. The operator’s network coverage is now …

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BEIJING-Li Yue, vice president of China Mobile, announced at the GSM China 2002 conference that China Mobile’s customers are expected to send 50 billion short messages this year, up from …