September 2003

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 to wireless users. MobileOne Ltd. (M1) …

FRANCE Nortel 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 data communications for train operations …

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 TracFone Wireless. “The Federal Communications Commission’s …

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 magazine L’Hebdo. The revelations come just …

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 damages and an injunction prohibiting 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., to enable numbers to be ported …

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, including more than 5,000 Army base …

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 report, which covers all of …

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 war-torn country are close to being …

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 of its members. The group hopes …

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

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 where duplicate coverage exists. If the …

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 her gate-keeping role in rejecting scientific …

New research shows global sales of camera phones hit 25 million in the first half of this year, surpassing digital camera sales and marking perhaps the most notable event in …

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 calls for wireless operators to …

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 go forward with Phase II wireless …

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 company’s “valuation requirements.” Centennial had originally …

Alan Dick & Co. has acquired telecommunications infrastructure service company EXi Ltd., making Alan Dick & Co. a single-source supplier for the telecommunications industry. “Acquiring the resources and expertise that …

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

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 body, the new 802.11n protocol will …

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 the estimate as its highest …

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 new technology to astound and …

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 changes to the current draft or …

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 phones, multimedia, networks and enterprise …

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 the nation’s largest carrier, said …