February 2003

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.- Bill Nguyen, the entrepreneur who sold Onebox.com (now Openwave Systems Inc.) to Phone.com for $850 million, is back at the head of wireless e-mail company Seven, just …

NEW YORK-EximSoft Technologies Inc., Mississauga, Ontario, has released commercially two new products, one to enable secure corporate intranet access via mobile phone, the other to provide security and authentication for …

CANNES, France-Intrado Inc. said it teamed with location-services provider Mobilaris to offer a bundled location-service solution, which the companies said will be capable of sophisticated service-based billing and support new …

PHILADELPHIA-Agere Systems Inc. shareholders have followed recent industry trends to approve proposals allowing the board of directors to undertake a reverse stock split. The board may institute the split, which …

BERVERTON, Ore.-Tektronix Inc. said it has agreed to extend its partnership with China’s Research Institute of Telecommunications Transmission to develop GPRS networks and elements. “Tektronix’ history in China and its …

FLEET, United Kingdom-InterDigital Corp. said it has chosen Anite Telecom’s test cases to deliver 3GPP-validated protocol stacks for mobile phones, personal digital assistants, mobile computing devices, other terminal-end wireless devices …

Matsushita Electric Industries, the leading consumer electronics company in Japan, has launched an experiment of a cashless train riding system in Hokkaido, a Northern Island in Japan. For the month-long …

RESTON, Va.-Nextel Communications Inc. reported record year-end results for 2002, including $8.7 billion in revenue, compared with $7 billion in 2001, and $1.7 billion in income available to shareholders, or …

BEIJING, China-Homegrown technology TD-SCDMA will be one of the major beneficiaries of the Chinese government plan to spend $84.6 billion for research and development. Fixed-line carriers China Telecom and China …

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -National Semiconductor Corp. said it will cut 500 jobs from the company’s worldwide 10,000 workforce as part of its plan to save cost and reach profitability. “The …

AUSTIN, Texas-Wireless Valley Communications Inc. released its new InFielder and InFielder PDA measurement products, capable of measuring the performance of third-generation wide-band CDMA and iDEN networks. The new products allow …

NEW YORK -The Uzan family, which controls Telsim, Turkey’s second-largest mobile carrier, will most likely be found guilty of fraud for borrowing and never repaying $2.7 billion in equipment vendor …

HELSINKI, Finland-Sonera’s mobile satellite division has been acquired by an international business group led by Italy’s Compagnia Generale Telemar S.p.A. and Sweden’s Laumar Marine AB. Telemar Finland, a branch of …

NEW YORK-STANDARD & Poor’s Ratings Services lowered its corporate credit rating on telecommunications provider Ntelos Inc. from ‘CCC+’ to ‘SD’ and removed the rating from CreditWatch. The ratings agency cited …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission Thursday opposed Chairman Michael Powell’s deregulation plan that would lift the network-sharing requirement except in the most sparsely populated rural areas. The majority of the commission …

CANNES, France-With the infrastructure market continuing to remain in the doldrums, most of the major infrastructure vendors are turning to ‘managed services’ as a fresh source of urgently needed revenue. …

CANNES, France-Operators and vendors alike expressed a quiet optimism for the upcoming year as the GSM community gathered for its annual global meeting last week in the south of France. …

BEIJING-Fixed-line carrier China Netcom plans to launch its Little Smart or ‘xiaolingtong’ service in selected areas of China’s capital Beijing in May, using UTStarcom equipment. Netcom plans to install 30 …

BEIJING-China Mobile will double its investment in wireless data networks and GPRS this year, but reduce its investment in GSM networks. The forecast was made by CCID Consulting, affiliated with …

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-The Mozambique Transport and Communications Minister Tomas Salomao has lashed out at claims that the government is placing pressure on the publicly owned telecommunications company, TDM, and its …

JAKARTA, Indonesia-After launching multimedia messaging services in August last year, Singapore’s MobileOne (M1) asked its subsidiary Wireless Intellect Labs to boost the use of MMS among MobileOne customers by delivering …

TOKYO-Netvillage, a Tokyo-based venture, on 17 February announced it plans to provide remote mail technologies to Linkage Technology in China. China Mobile, the leading mobile carrier in China, in June …

TOKYO-The number of Japanese mobile handset shipments in 2002 numbered 405 million units, a 20.2-percent decrease from a year ago, according to statistics compiled by Japan Electronics and Information Technology …

CANNES, France-Messaging giant LogicaCMG announced it will resell LightSurf Technologies Inc.’s picture messaging management software in its line of multimedia messaging services products. LightSurf’s technology integrates third-party content and allows …

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-Movicom Bellsouth in Argentina suspended payment of interests and capital of its debt, which is around US$ 500 million, and designated BroadSpan Capital as its financial adviser in …