Monthly Archives: May, 2003

Redline says product will reduce T1/E1 dependence

TORONTO-Redline Communications Inc. announced its AN-30T, a long-range, non-line-of-sight broadband wireless product with a view to helping wireless carriers reduce their dependence on T1/E1...

UTStarcom acquires CommWorks assets from 3Com

ALAMEDA, Calif.-UTStarcom Inc. said it has acquired selected CommWorks' assets from 3Com, including voice and data products, customer support and professional services."CommWorks' products complement...

Nokia releases Mobile Internet Toolkit 4.0

HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. released a new version of its Mobile Internet Toolkit for developing wireless applications, a product the company said includes support for...

Irish Broadband to offer wireless service in Ireland

RICHARDSON, Texas-Irish Broadband will use Navini Networks Inc.'s Ripwave wireless wide area broadband equipment to provide broadband services to customers in Ireland.Beginning in June,...

Virgin partners with prepaid card companies

WARREN, N.J.-Virgin Mobile USA L.L.C. reported a partnership with four prepaid wireless phone card distributors, including CellCards, GTS Prepaid, PRE Solutions and InComm, which...

Vodafone reports increase in sales, free cash flow

LONDON-Vodafone Group plc reported growing revenues and earnings in its full-year results. Sales were up 14 percent to $55.7 billion, and free cash flow...

Amplefuture invests in Macrospace

LONDON-Mobile entertainment company Amplefuture said it invested an unspecified amount of money in fellow wireless gaming company Macrospace."This investment represents a great vote of...

Agere unveils new high-speed chips

ALLENTOWN, Pa.-Agere Systems said it has unveiled three high-speed chips and software reference design for both current and next-generation multiservice telecom equipment pieces, including...

RIM shares fall on continuing legal losses

Investors bemoaned Research In Motion Ltd.'s further legal losses resulting from its patent dispute with NTP Inc., sending the company's stock down about 11...

SBC targets Wi-Fi

SAN ANTONIO-SBC Communications Inc. is aggressively rolling out plans for a public Wi-Fi network, said company spokesman Michael Coe."We know we are going to...

Roaming pacts provide stop-gap measure since consolidation on hold

After years of claiming there are too many competitors in the wireless industry for anyone to make a profit, the federal government finally pulled...

Paging splits as carriers find niche or try to expand beyond core

The U.S. paging and messaging industry is still declining. Nationwide carriers are still losing thousands of customers every month-both one- and two-way subscribers-and there...

Value-added MMS to yield $8.3B by 2008

FALLS CHURCH, Va.-Value-added services on mobile messaging networks will generate more than $8.3 billion by 2008, compared with almost $5 million in 2003, according...

Qualcomm positions in chip game with impact in all protocols

In an apparent counter-punch to a recent Nokia Corp.-backed initiative with Texas Instruments Inc. and STMicroelectronics, Qualcomm Inc. has seized the spotlight with a...

Bush shakeup puts spectrum issues at risk

WASHINGTON-As the Bush administration shifts gears from overseas battles to domestic issues and the president's 2004 re-election bid, key personnel changes and political shakeups...

Inouye blasts Bush administration for eliminating TOP grants

WASHINGTON-The Bush Administration was berated Thursday by a powerful lawmaker for cutting and eliminating funding for telecommunications grants that could be used by Native...

Tropos Networks unveils technology for Wi-Fi ‘hot zones’

Tropos Networks Inc., formerly operating in stealth mode as FHP Wireless Inc., has unveiled its new Tropos technology, products and services to enable metro-scale...

Northpoint gets friendly hearing by Senate communications subcommittee

WASHINGTON-Northpoint Technology Ltd. is again pushing its plan to offer wireless broadband using digital broadcast satellite spectrum, and it has received some powerful support...

Webraska, Tower Semi get funds

PARIS-Webraska Mobile Technologies has received an additional investment of $5.26 million from its current investors. The company said the capital will be used to...

World Briefs

Finnish company Comptel Corp. said it won a global contract with Telefonica Moviles for Comptel's mediation and provisioning software. Under the agreement, Comptel's technology...

Legislation to curb spam introduced

WASHINGTON-The chairmen of the House commerce and judiciary committees introduced legislation on Friday to curb Internet spam. The legislation would allow consumers to opt...

Broadband tax break stripped from economic package

WASHINGTON-Lawmakers stripped out a broadband tax break in the economic growth package passed by Congress Friday, but kept intact incentives designed to stimulate equipment...

Alcatel Chinese center to focus on SARS

SHANGHAI, China-Alcatel said it plans to open a center to enable application developers in the Asia-Pacific region to jointly create mobile multimedia medical applications...

Psion releases new rugged handheld for North American market

MISSISSAUGA, Ontario-Psion Teklogix introduced a Windows CE .NET-based rugged handheld computer to the North American market. The 7537 is suited for traditional supply chain...

Suppliers anxiously await 802.11g ratification

With the approval of the 802.11g standard by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, a number of companies have started to announce plans...
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