Monthly Archives: September, 2003

RealNetworks wins Asian carrier contracts

SINGAPORE-Wireless streaming video company RealNetworks Inc. announced two Asian carriers purchased the company's Helix server and technology, a move to offer streaming video services...

Global Briefs

FRANCENortel Networks Ltd. has won a $200 million, 15-year GSM-Railway contract with French railway operator SNCF. The new system will handle all voice and...

Universal service heats up Washington

WASHINGTON-Universal service was a hot topic in Washington last week with two House panels hearing testimony, a think-tank seminar and an ad campaign by...

Crisis at the ITU: Council wants secretary-general to resign

LONDON-ITU Secretary-General Yoshio Utsumi has been accused of "atrocious financial management" and threatened with dismissal, according to a report in the respected Swiss business...

Nextel continues legal tit-for-tat with Verizon Wireless

RESTON, Va.-Citing false and unsubstantiated advertising claims, Nextel Communications Inc. filed a lawsuit in a New York federal court against Verizon Wireless seeking unspecified...

Wireline-to-wireless porting will be reality, says Verizon

WASHINGTON-Verizon Wireless broke with its industry brethren again when it said it had signed a service-level agreement with its wireline parent, Verizon Communications Inc.,...

U.S. Army awards $11M contract to M/A-COM

LOWELL, Mass.-M/A-COM Inc. has been awarded an $11 million contract by the U.S. Army to deploy and link critical communications to 10 Army installations,...

Japan telecoms dancing with debt devil

Loss has become a constant feature in the telecom world, and Japan offers a chilling example, according to a study by Plimsoll Publishing Ltd.The...

Iraq licenses to be awarded shortly

WASHINGTON-L. Paul Bremer, head of the U.S.-led occupational authority in Iraq, told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week that mobile-phone licenses in the...

Group forms to negotiate cell-phone rates for consumers, businesses

SAN FRANCISCO-Cellular-phone users are uniting via the Cellular Telecom Users Alliance Inc., a newly formed organization that plans to negotiate cell-phone rates on behalf...

Motorola: The next steps

Having cast his shadow over the company for more than half a decade, the resignation of Christopher Galvin as chief executive officer of Motorola...

Vodafone, Telstra test network sharing in Australia

SYDNEY, Australia-Australian mobile operators Vodafone Australia and Telstra Wholesale announced a network-partnering trial that will see the operators share mobile base-station infrastructure in areas...

3-judge panel hears testimony on Blake’s dismissal of brain-cancer case

RICHMOND, Va.-A three-judge federal appeals court panel wrestled with arguments over whether U.S. District Judge Catherine Blake abused her discretion or appropriately carried out...

Camera phones click with consumers

New research shows global sales of camera phones hit 25 million in the first half of this year, surpassing digital camera sales and marking...

Brazil commission approves stringent tower bill

BRASILIA, Brazil-Brazil's lower house social and family safety commission has approved a bill to create rules for the installation of wireless communications towers.The bill...

House telecom subcommittee OKs E911 bill

WASHINGTON-The House telecommunications subcommittee passed the E911 Implementation Act of 2003, changing the rural provisions and making it possible for public-safety answering points to...

Centennial quits stock offer plan

WALL, N.J.-Centennial Communications Corp. said it is withdrawing its previously announced public offering of common stock due to the offer's inability to garner the...

Business Briefs

Alan Dick & Co. has acquired telecommunications infrastructure service company EXi Ltd., making Alan Dick & Co. a single-source supplier for the telecommunications industry....

AirFlow system to simplify Voice over WLAN

Wireless local area network infrastructure company AirFlow Networks has developed a system intended to simplify the installation and administration of WLANs, a critical need...

IEEE to boost WLAN throughput with new standard

A new wireless local area network standard is being developed by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers-the 802.11n protocol. According to the standards...

UTStarcom expects 3Q handset sales to hit 4.5 million

ALAMEDA, Calif.-UTStarcom Inc. said it expects its third-quarter handset sales to leap above 4.5 million units, representing approximately 50 percent of revenues.The company describes...

Phone/TV combo cool, but niche

Hollywood, meet wireless.It seems the Boob Tube is the latest mobile phone add-on for the world's wireless industry, a business constantly hunting the next...

Calif. bill-of-rights vote likely put off until November

WASHINGTON-The California Public Utilities Commission again will postpone a vote on a controversial bill of rights for telecom consumers, increasing prospects for either major...

Nokia to reorganize

Nokia Corp. said it will reorganize the company into four divisions to focus on convergence, new mobility markets and growth.The four segments include mobile...

Verizon says Motorola delays camera-phone introduction: Device will miss critical holiday season

Motorola Inc. will miss out on the critical camera-phone rush during the holiday season, a spokesman for Verizon Wireless said.Jim Gerace, a spokesman for...
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