Monthly Archives: February, 2003

Nextel promotes Kelly to COO

RESTON, Va.-Nextel Communications Inc. promoted Thomas Kelly Jr. from executive vice president and chief marketing officer to executive vice president and chief operating officer.

Smart introduces Microsoft-powered smart phone

MANILA, The Philippines-Smart Communications Inc. has become the second operator worldwide and the first in Asia to offer a Microsoft-powered smart phone, following Orange...

M1 offers free trial of wireless broadband service

SINGAPORE-M1, a cellular and paging carrier in Singapore, has commenced a free trial through March 31 of its new SunSurf wireless broadband service, available...

CPS to show Cursor location system at 3GSM

CANNES, France-Cambridge Positioning Systems Ltd. will showcase Cursor Matrix, location software for GSM phones, for the first time at the 3GSM World Congress."Cursor Matrix...

U.S. to work toward electronic numbering

WASHINGTON-The United States should work toward formally opting in on a standard for electronic numbering, which could allow a single number to be used...

Semotus reports revenue declines, smaller net loss

SAN JOSE, Calif.-Wireless enterprise company Semotus Solutions reported declining revenues and a shrinking net loss, moves the company said are due to its streamlined...

Mobility infrastructure market shows mixed revenues results

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-Mobility infrastructure revenues involving GSM/GPRS/EDGE, TDMA, CDMA and all variants of wideband CDMA dropped 16 percent to $28.8 billion in 2002 compared...

Western Wireless reports increased net adds

BELLEVUE, Wash.-Western Wireless Corp. said it added 21,700 domestic subscribers during the fourth quarter of 2002, compared with 19,000 net additions for the fourth...

Comverse releases new wireless data gateway version

WOODBURY, N.Y.-Messaging and data company Comverse released a new version of its wireless data gateway product, which the company said supports WAP 2.0 standards.Comverse...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Motorola introduces GSM/GPRS smart phone reference design

AUSTIN, Texas-Motorola Inc. said it has introduced a new GSM/GPRS smartphone reference design known as i.Smart, based on its i.250 innovative convergence platform and...

Motorola debuts handset targeted at women

NEW YORK-Motorola Inc. said it has introduced a new handset known as i95cl for women, a pearlized pink device with sleek looks and the...

Ericsson to cut 1,200 IT jobs

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Wireless vendor L.M. Ericsson said it will lay off 1,200 workers in its information technology units.The sharp reduction in total staff from 107,...

Verizon Wireless converts North Dakota to digital

MINOT, N.D.-Verizon Wireless said it completed the conversion of all of its local wireless service in North Dakota from analog to digital technology. The...

MoBiTai to use Comverse for MSM services

WOODBURY, N.Y.-Messaging company Comverse announced Taiwanese mobile carrier MoBiTai will use its server to offer multimedia messaging services."Our agreement with MoBiTai emphasizes that our...

Seven adds Orange to customer list

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-Wireless corporate e-mail company Seven announced it scored Orange as a new customer, and that the carrier will offer Seven's unique network-based...

Cingular Wireless provides polling application for car racing

ATLANTA-Cingular Wireless L.L.C. introduced its Virtual Crew Chief polling program designed to allow subscribers to submit text message votes on various stock car race...

Intel launches GSM/GPRS chipset

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Intel Corp. launched its Manitoba PXA800F chipset for GSM/GPRS devices that the company claimed provides "wireless-Internet-on-a-chip" functionality and was the first to...

S&P affirms Verizon credit rating

NEW YORK-Standard & Poor's Ratings Services affirmed its 'A+' corporate credit rating on Verizon Communications Inc. and revised its outlook on the telecommunications company...

IBM to use Trolltech software in reference design

OSLO, Norway-IBM Corp. said it will use software from Trolltech to offer a reference design for building Linux-based mobile devices."With an increasingly mobile work...

Motorola combines Linux, Java in multimedia PDA

LIBERTYVILLE, Ill.-Motorola Inc. has unveiled what it describes as the world's first handset that combines a Linux operating system and Java Technology, with multimedia...
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