July 2003

TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo Inc. said it signed an agreement with AT&T Wireless Services Inc. to send five employees to provide technical support for AT&T Wireless Services Inc.’s planned network trial of …

WASHINGTON-The Senate Commerce Committee Thursday sent to the Senate floor a bill to reauthorize the National Telecommunications and Information Administration without considering a Bush administration proposal to reorganize the Department …

Sprint PCS affiliate Horizon PCS said it plans to cut 293 jobs or nearly three-fifths of its work force and close 19 of its 41 retail stores in an attempt …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson said SingTel selected it as the sole supplier for its W-CDMA network in Singapore. Ericsson will expand and upgrade SingTel’s current nationwide system under a $125 million …

TOKYO-In its fiscal first-quarter results, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co Ltd. reported an operating profit of $166.9 million, a 27.4-percent increase from a year ago. Revenues, however, dropped to $14.7 billion, …

Telecommunications infrastructure provider Andrew Corp. has been busy this week with announcements regarding recent acquisitions and new contracts. The company has acquired the assets of ScoreBoard Inc., which supplies radio …

Sprint PCS launched Samsung Telecommunications America’s SPH-A600 camera-enabled handset featuring a rotating screen that allows the color display to swivel 180 degrees and face outward to serve as an external …

WASHINGTON-The Senate Commerce Committee Thursday passed a permanent ban on Internet access taxes after committee members agreed to separate the more controversial issue of state sales and use taxes. The …

VANCOUVER, British Columbia-In Motion Technology said it has introduced the industry’s first in-vehicle third-generation-based wireless Hot Spot known as onBoard Mobile Gateway. “By creating a proprietary, accelerated bridge between 3G …

ISSY-LES-MOULINEAUX, France-Wavecom SA will supply its WISMO wireless technology for use in CEC Telecom Co. Ltd.’s new multimedia camera phone, scheduled to launch in China this fall. “Wavecom’s extensive wireless …

InterDigital Communications Corp. said it has acquired all the assets of Tantivy Communications Inc., which develops data-enabling products. The assets cover patents, patent applications, know-how, state-of-the-art laboratory facilities and other …

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-The wireless local area network market will grow from $1.5 billion in 2002 to $3.1 billion in 2007, according to new research from the Dell’Oro Group. The group …

LONDON-Christopher Gent stepped down as the leader of the world’s largest mobile-phone operator Wednesday after a six-and-a-half-year stint as chief executive. His tenure overall is viewed as one of the …

NEW YORK-Motorola Inc. savored a victory in its fraud lawsuit against Turkish carrier Telsim as a U.S. federal judge ordered the Uzan family to pay the vendor $4.26 billion, plus …

Verizon Wireless ranked as the highest-quality network among the seven largest wireless operators, according to the J.D. Powers and Associates 2003 Wireless Network Quality Assessment Study released earlier this week. …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission and Canadian telecom regulator Industry Canada have reached an interim agreement that will allow for the deployment of wireless communications service-mostly fixed broadband-to be offered along …

FRANKFURT, Germany-ComArch said O2 Germany will use its flagship platform to supervise network elements from L.M. Ericsson, Marconi and Alcatel Corp. The contract is valued at $2.8 million. The system …

RESTON, Va.-NII Holdings Inc., which was formerly known as Nextel International Inc. and operates wireless networks in four Latin America countries, said it added 42,300 subscribers during the second quarter, …

SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Motorola Inc. declared a quarterly dividend of 4 cents per share, payable Oct. 15, to stockholders of record at the close of business Sept. 15.

NEW YORK-Cingular Wireless L.L.C. has reportedly agreed to purchase $1.4 billion worth of wireless spectrum licenses from bankrupt license holder NextWave Telecom Inc., according to Bloomberg News, citing people familiar …

FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla.-POSA Tech Inc. recently launched Freedom to Speak, a nationwide prepaid wireless program. “We created a program that pays the retailer up to $100 for each activation, along …

DALLAS-Western Wireless Corp. said it has awarded Nortel Networks Ltd. a $90 million contract to deploy networks for CDMA, GSM roaming and wireless data. Nortel will deploy cdma2000 core and …

WASHINGTON-The Pentagon on Tuesday bowed to political and public pressure and stopped a proposed terrorism future market from being established by the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency. “The FutureMAP research …

BERLIN-Siemens AG said it plans to cut 2,300 jobs in its mobile communications division, and 500 of the cuts will take place in Germany. The company, however, said it plans …

Nextel Partners Inc. reported second-quarter results in line with analysts and company estimates and reiterated its previously announced guidance for full-year results. During the second quarter, Nextel Partners said it …