Monthly Archives: June, 2003

NTT DoCoMo plans FOMA expansion

TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo Inc. said it plans to expand the service area for its FOMA service to an additional 43 towns and villages in the...

Movil Access to acquire Grupo Iusacell

MEXICO CITY-Verizon Communications Inc. and Vodafone Americas BV, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Vodafone Group plc, plan to sell their approximately 74 percent stake in...

Cingular Wireless to pay fine for missed E-911 deadline

ATLANTA-Cingular Wireless L.L.C. has reportedly agreed to pay a $675,000 fine to the Federal Communications Commission for failing to meet deadlines for installing E-911...

Wal-Mart to implement RFID program

CHICAGO-Wal-Mart Stores announced plans to implement a radio-frequency identification (RFID) compliance program that brings wireless inventory tracking to the retail industry. Wal-Mart said it...

LGC Wireless solution deployed by Texas insurance company

SAN JOSE, Calif.-LGC Wireless announced the deployment of its InterReach Unison Accel in-building wireless network solution in a major international insurance company's three-story building...

Nokia ships 6650 in Europe, Asia

HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia has begun shipping the Nokia 6650-according to Nokia, the world's first dual-mode GSM/WCDMA mobile phone-to operators and retailers in Europe and Asia,...

XO continues efforts to acquire Global Crossing

RESTON, Va.-Broadband service provider XO Communications Inc. continues to pursue its previously announced plans to acquire bankrupt telecommunications company Global Crossing.XO said it is...

Senate confirms Hewitt Pate to be assistant attorney general for antitrust

WASHINGTON-The Senate confirmed Hewitt Pate on Friday to be the assistant attorney general for antitrust by a vote of 71-0.Pate was formerly the deputy...

UbiquiTel subsidiary sells towers

SAN RAMON, Calif.-Sprint PCS affiliate UbiquiTel Inc. announced its Calif.-based subsidiary VIA Wireless L.L.C. sold 100 wireless communications towers to GoldenState Towers L.L.C. for...

Motorola to get piece of WorldCom’s Iraq contract

WASHINGTON-Motorola Inc. is getting a slice of the $34 million contract held by WorldCom Inc. to provide mobile phone service to U.S. civilian and...

PeopleSoft enhances CRM, targets telecom operators

PeopleSoft has enhanced its PeopleSoft Customer Relationship Management Solution for Communications with a new Customer Profitability Management solution. The enhanced solution offers PeopleSoft's telecommunications...

Fujitsu, Advanced Media developing speech recognition products for Japan

TOKYO-Fujitsu Limited said it will collaborate with Advanced Media Inc. to develop chips that use distributed speech recognition software for the Japanese language in...

FTC seeks authority over telecommunications carriers

WASHINGTON-The Federal Trade Commission wants to regulate telecommunications companies, but current law enacted in 1938 won't allow it, so the commissioners went to Congress...

Lawmakers want firm deadline for broadcasters to give back spectrum

WASHINGTON-Lawmakers on Wednesday called for making firm the mandate that TV broadcasters give back spectrum in the 700 MHz band by the end of...

802.11g receives final nod

It's official. The 802.11g protocol, which has been touted as God's gift to 802.11b, received the final nod from the Institute of Electrical and...

Clinton, Burns introduce bill to give states grants for E911

WASHINGTON-Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) and Conrad Burns (R-Mont.), co-chairs of the E911 Congressional Caucus, introduced a bill on Thursday that will provide for...

Tele2 signs MVNO agreement in Finland

NEW YORK-Tele2 AB said it signed a mobile virtual network operator agreement with Radiolinja, the Finnish mobile operator. Tele2 recently purchased 100 percent of...

AT&T Wireless shareholders to vote on rights plan

REDMOND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. reported that a majority of its shareholders approved a proposal at the carrier's annual shareholders meeting this week calling...

Legislation planned to include wireless in Emergency Alert System

WASHINGTON-Rep. Carolyn Maloney (N.Y.) on Wednesday said she plans to introduce legislation to integrate wireless and Internet technologies into the nation's emergency warning system....

Enterprise wireless ROI based on employee productivity boost

CAMBRIDGE, U.K.-Corporations are cautious about the return on investment that potential wireless business applications represent, according to new research from Analysys. Analysys, however, suggests...

Lucent signs services contracts with China Unicom, Netcom

BEIJING-Lucent Technologies Inc. said it has signed contracts with China's Unicom Horizon and China Netcom to provide network services like technical support, management consulting,...

Econ One study finds small drop in service costs

Wireless service costs dropped 9 cents in the nation's top 25 markets last month compared with April, according to a report from economic research...

U.K. court dismisses Uzan appeals

Motorola Inc. said the Court of Appeals of England and Wales dismissed a number of appeals brought by Cem Uzan and Aysegul Akay, members...

Defense supports spectrum review, but stresses military needs

WASHINGTON-The Department of Defense today said it supports the spectrum review announced last week by the Bush administration, but stressed that military wireless requirements...

Delegations debate outdoor unlicensed operations at WRC-03

WASHINGTON-The head of the U.S. delegation to the World Radiocommunication Conference today said that while there is support for a global 5 GHz allocation...
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