February 2003

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.

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 U.K. last year. Smart is the …

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 at 60 hot spots to consumers …

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 builds on our expertise and …

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 for a wide variety of communications, …

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 business and focus on reaching positive …

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 to 2001, according to Dell’Oro Group. …

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 quarter of 2001, and it ended …

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 said the Mobile Data Gateway …

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 mediate between the services, devices …

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 quarter and that its full-year growth …

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 money to expand its network then …

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 invest 500 million baht (US$11.6 million) …

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 said it will deliver the latest …

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 the i.MX media extension applications processor. …

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 “color of the season.” The launch …

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, 000 to 64,000 necessitated the …

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 conversion included adding two new digital …

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 platform is configurable, open and …

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 corporate information product in the United …

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 topics. The wireless platform, which is …

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 combine key components for cellular phones …

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 and its related entities from negative …

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 force, corporations are looking into …

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 PDA functionality. The device, known as …