Monthly Archives: September, 2003

RIM posts 2Q profit despite legal overhang

Wireless enterprise company Research In Motion Ltd. announced it turned the corner and posted a profit for its second quarter-a major move for the...

Nokia announces reorganization

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...

NextWave bankruptcy court approves Cingular license buy

Cingular Wireless L.L.C. moved even closer to completing its previously announced deal to acquire 34 PCS licenses from bankrupt license holder NextWave Telecom Inc....

Companies join to offer U.S. troops holiday communications

COSTA MESA, Calif.-SkyFrames Inc. is enlisting the help of companies interested in joining its effort to provide U.S. military personnel in Iraq the ability...

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...

Two strikes and do-not-call appears to be out on constitutional grounds

WASHINGTON-It looks like 50 million Americans who were looking forward to Wednesday to have an uninterrupted dinner with their families will have to wait...

Billing structure changes for data must be made quickly

CAMBRIDGE, U.K.-Wireless operators have less than 24 months to define, design and implement new charging architectures for mobile data services, according to a new...

Alcatel wins contract in Kazakhstan

PARIS-Alcatel Corp. said it will supply a $23 million network to Kazakhstan's second-largest mobile operator Kar-Tel. The upgrade will increase the operator's transmission capacity...

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...

Labor Department sues Meade Communications over 401(k) plan

CHICAGO-The U.S. Department of Labor has sued wireless company Meade Communications Inc., of Berkeley, Ill., for failing to remit employee contributions and loan repayments...

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...

Avaya to buy Vista software, business units

BASKING RIDGE, N.J.-Avaya Inc. said it has entered into an agreement with Vista Information Technologies Inc. to acquire its software tools and service business...

Symbian agreement with DoCoMo could boost future revenues

Operating system consortium Symbian signed a development agreement with Japan's leading mobile operator, NTT DoCoMo Inc. The agreement gives NTT DoCoMo access to Symbian...

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...

Wireless’ role in USF debated in House

WASHINGTON-Wireless carriers currently finance about 30 percent of the universal-service fund, but only get about 2 percent of the money available, John Stanton, chairman,...

MobiNil launches MMS service

CAIRO, Egypt-The country's first carrier, MobiNil, said it has launched a mobile multimedia messaging service using Nokia's solutions."The service, MobiNil Life, will enable MobiNil's...

‘Fear Factor’ content coming to mobile phones

SEATTLE-Fans of the TV show "Fear Factor" will be able to download music, images and sounds-including screams from the show's contestants-to their mobile phones,...

FCC rejects Northrop Grumman request for broadband spectrum

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission Wednesday rejected Northrop Grumman Corp.'s request for broadband spectrum to support emergency and homeland security wireless applications.Northrop Grumman filed a...

EC commissions study on spectrum trading

LONDON-The European Commission has commissioned a study on trading radio spectrum within the EC. The study begins this fall and will be completed in...

Global fuel-cell market to reach $35B in 10 years

OYSTER BAY, N.Y.-The global fuel-cell market could be worth $35 billion in 10 years, but first it has several hurdles to overcome, according to...

Lucent, Nokia sign contracts with China Unicom

BEIJING-Lucent Technologies Inc. and Nokia Corp. both signed contracts with divisions of China Unicom. Lucent said it has signed a CDMA contract worth more...

Agilent sells network-planning line to Setram

PALO ALTO, Calif.-Agilent Technologies Inc. said it has sold its wireless network planning design tools known as Wizard to Setram International, a software company.The...

VeriFone releases CDMA POS product

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Electronic payment company VeriFone Inc. released a new CDMA point-of-sale payment product, which the company said the State of Wisconsin will use...

Flextronics ordered to pay $934M in lawsuit

SINGAPORE-A jury ordered contract manufacturer Flextronics to pay more than $934 million to Beckman Coulter, which makes medical equipment.Flextronics said it would appeal the...

U.S. Cellular expands in-building coverage with Spotwave repeaters

OTTAWA-U.S. Cellular Corp. said it will use Spotwave Wireless Inc.'s SpotCell adaptive repeater to provide in-building coverage. The repeater will allow U.S. Cellular to...
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