Monthly Archives: February, 2003

Nguyen returns to lead Seven

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...

EximSoft releases products

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...

Intrado, Mobilaris team for location solution

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...

Agere board approves reverse stock split

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...

Tektronix extends China partnership

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'...

InterDigital chooses Anite’s test case

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...

Matsushita to launch handset train experiment

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

Nextel posts $1.7B in income

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...

TD-SCDMA to benefit from Chinese gov’t R&D

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...

National Semiconductor to trim 500 jobs

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...

Wireless Valley unveils PDA measurement products

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...

Judge in Telsim trial says Uzans likely guilty of fraud

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...

Telemar group acquires Sonera MSS unit

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...

Ntelos rating lowered by S&P

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...

FCC opposes deregulation plan

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...

Network suppliers look to outsourcing for hope

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...

GSM group patient, determined in 3G waiting game

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...

Little Smart to reach Beijing

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...

China Mobile to double investment in wireless data networks and GPRS

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...

Mozambique mobile tariffs under pressure

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...

MobileOne uses Web camera service to boost MMS

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...

Tokyo venture to provide remote mail tech to Chinese carrier

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...

Japanese mobile handset shipments decline

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...

LogicaCMG to resell LightSurf software

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...

Movicom Bellsouth defaults on interest payments

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...
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