Monthly Archives: February, 2003

Ericsson update from Cannes

CANNES, France-L.M. Ericsson flexed its muscles within and outside the 3GSM Congress with a series of announcements from interoperability testing to deals with carriers...

GSM group announces new board

CANNES, France-The GSM Association announced its new board members and said it will now position itself as a global trade organization for the mobile...

Powerwave shows amplifier technology

CANNES, France-Powerwave Technologies Inc. said it is demonstrating its multicarrier power amplifier technology for UMTS networks, which it claims delivers 22 percent efficiency."Powerwave's next-generation...

Crown Castle to pay dividend

HOUSTON-Crown Castle International Corp. said it will pay the quarterly dividend on its 12 3/4-percent senior exchangeable preferred stock on March 17 to holders...

Institut Eurecom releases UMTS software

CANNES, France-The Mobile Communications Department of the Institut Eurecom announced the release of UMTS TDD software under a GNU public license developed within the...

RealNetworks announces mobile media partnerships

CANNES, France-RealNetworks Inc. announced two mobile media-related partnerships at this week's 3GSM World Congress in Cannes, France. The company said Hong Kong wireless operator...

Actix supplies software for Agilent solutions

LONDON-Actix Solutions said it will develop and supply optimization and analysis software for Agilent Technologies Inc.' s portfolio of wireless solutions."The combined solution illustrates...

BellSouth appeals ruling on Forsee noncompete clause

PHILADELPHIA-BellSouth Corp. asked an appeals court to overturn a ruling voiding a clause in current Vice Chairman Gary Forsee's employment contract that would make...

Anadigics debuts switches, power amp modules

CANNES, France-Anadigics Inc. announced a new family of switch products and what it describes as the world's smallest GSM/GPRS quad-band power amplifier modules at...

Vodafone wins several GSM awards

CANNES, France-The 2003 GSM Association Awards were presented this week in conjunction with the 3GSM World Congress being held in Cannes, France. In the...

ICQ messaging service aims to expand to mobile users

CANNES, France-ICQ, an instant messaging and online community owned by America Online Inc., announced it is working with wireless carriers across the world to...

Lucent elevates Russo to Chairman, reiterates goals

DALLAS-Lucent Technologies Inc.'s board of directors has announced that president and chief executive officer Patricia Russo will replace Henry Schact as chairman of the...

SmarTone Mobile, ViAir enter wireless e-mail partnership

CANNES, France-Asian carrier SmarTone Mobile Communications Ltd. will offer wireless e-mail services through a new partnership with ViAir, the companies announced.Under the deal, SmarTone...

Qwest’s wireless revenues fall in 4Q

DENVER-Qwest Communications International Inc. reported a 15.7 percent drop in wireless revenues for the fourth quarter of 2002, falling from $198 million during the...

Sonus extends architecture to wireless market

WESTFORD, Mass.-Sonus Networks, whose Open Services Architecture supports 4 billion minutes of wireline network user traffic monthly, has extended its offering to mobile operators...

AirGate reports increased revenue, larger net loss

ATLANTA-AirGate PCS Inc. posted $133.1 million in revenue for its first fiscal quarter of 2003 ended Dec. 31, 2002, an increase from the $81.7...

Katahdin mobile device integration design under development

BURLINGTON, Mass.-Kada Systems plans to offer a mobile device integration design, code named Katahdin, that will allow mobile original device manufacturers (ODMs) to develop...

Alcatel, NTT DoCoMo enter cooperative agreement

DALLAS-Alcatel and NTT DoCoMo Inc.'s DoCoMo Engineering Inc. subsidiary signed an agreement on consulting and cooperation for UMTS indoor mobile communication network design, operations...

Rogers Wireless appoints eastern region president

TORONTO-Canadian wireless operator Rogers Wireless Inc. appointed Jean Laporte president of its Eastern Region where he will be responsible for all sales, distribution, customer...

Siemens releases handset using Nokia platform

CANNES, France-Siemens Information and Communication Mobile released an advanced new mobile phone to be sold in the next few months in Europe and Asia,...

Partner selects Niragongo system

HERZLIYA, Israel-Israeli supplier Niragongo said Israeli operator Partner Communications launched Niragongo's Lava Smart Proxy for its Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) services.The new solution will...

Tecnomen to upgrade messaging in Kuwait

HELSINKI, Finland-Kuwaiti operator Mobile Telecommunications Company (MTC) has selected a messaging system upgrade from Tecnomen under a 1 million euro contract (US$1.1 million). Tecnomen...

Bangkok’s PCT service to be expanded

NEW DELHI, India-Thai fixed-line operator, TelecomAsia, has decided to expand and improve the quality of its personal cordless telephone (PCT) network. The company will...

Numerex warns of larger-than-expected losses

ATLANTA-Telemetry company Numerex Corp.'s stock dove 30 percent after the company said its losses for its fourth quarter will be more than the previous...

Nextel Partners to report 2002 results

NEW YORK-Nextel Partners Inc. said it will report positive cash flow for last year, that it added more customers than expected and spent less...
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