Yearly Archives: 2003

Microcell to launch P800

MONTREAL-Canadian operator Microcell said it will become the latest operator to launch the Sony Ericsson P800 smart phone. The phone first became available in...

Cisco may conquer WLAN before battle even starts

Battle won, even before the first shot is fired.Early in the life of the technology, industry analysts and players already regard Cisco Systems Inc....

Paging association adds 100 members

ST. PAUL, Minn.-The American Association of Paging Carriers said it added more than 100 members during its first year of operation, and it hopes...

Probe criticizes telecom investment fund

WASHINGTON-A watchdog group said a quasi-governmental corporation set up to fund small telecom startups spends nearly as much on executive salaries and overhead as...

Microcell to bundle service with Sprint Canada

TORONTO-A Canadian wireless operator is getting into the telecom bundling game, with Canada's Microcell announcing an agreement with Sprint Canada Inc. to offer a...

Lobbying on LNP ‘fast and furious’

WASHINGTON-Local number portability lobbying has been fast and furious of late as the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association tries to get legislation passed to...

Europe to see more Bluetooth than Wi-Fi

AMSTERDAM-In Europe, Bluetooth technology will outpace wireless local area network hot spots by 2008, according to a new report from Forrester Research."We believe that...

Consumer advocate says wireless should pay more to USF

WASHINGTON-Wireless carriers should pay more into the universal-service fund, said a consumer advocate."It is time for cellular and the Internet to bear their share...

Moviso scores ‘Hulk’ licensing amid summer movie craze

Moviso scored an exclusive, one-year licensing agreement in the United States to offer wireless content based on the highly touted summer movie "The Hulk."...

S&P downgrades Motorola outlook

NEW YORK-Standard and Poor's has downgraded its ratings outlook on Motorola Inc. to negative from stable, reflecting the company's slower-than-expected profit improvements."If Motorola does...

France Telecom divests Sprint PCS stake

PARIS-France Telecom said it sold 56 million shares, or approximately its entire 5.4-percent stake, in Sprint PCS on the New York Stock Exchange for...

M-commerce news keeps cashing in

NEW YORK-A series of diverse mobile commerce announcements show the industry is still interested in the technology, with Japanese operator NTT DoCoMo Inc., start-up...

Polish company offers mobile gaming console details

OLOWIANA, Poland-A research company said it developed a design for a new mobile phone that doubles as a gaming device, news that follows on...

J-Phone hits 10M camera-phone sales

TOKYO-J-Phone Company Ltd. said yesterday that the number of users of its Sha-mail picture messaging handsets exceeded 10 million. The Japanese operator was the...

IEC: Seamless roaming between cellular, WLAN necessary

CHICAGO-Demand for ubiquitous connectivity between mobile devices and access technologies, including wireless wide area networks and local area networks is growing, indicating roaming between...

Nortel’s European operations certified by QMI

PARIS-Nortel Networks Ltd. said it has received registration with Quality Management Institute for multi-national telecommunication quality standard for its customer care operations in Europe...

Nextel trademarks push to talk

RESTON, Va.-Nextel Communications Inc. announced the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has trademarked its push-to-talk service. The news follows the rollout of Nextel's Nationwide...

Nokia allies with conservation group for employee training

HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. has signed a three-year agreement with conservation group WWF to conduct training workshops and seminars for Nokia employees."As part of our...

Bankruptcy court OKs NextWave partnership plan

The U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York approved NextWave Telecom Inc.'s partnership plan with venture capital firm Clarity Partners in...

Symbol exec pleads guilty to fraud

HOLTSVILLE, N.Y.-The former chief accounting officer of wireless and mobile device maker Symbol Technologies Inc. pled guilty to a "vast fraudulent scheme" aimed at...

Judge says Leap ‘double counted’ debt

SAN DIEGO-A bankruptcy court judge in San Diego said Leap Wireless International Inc. improperly prepared schedules of assets and liabilities that were filed with...

RCR Wireless News wins national ASBPE award

WASHINGTON-RCR Wireless News took home a coveted national award in the annual American Society of Business Publication Editors 2002 awards ceremony held Thursday night...

LNP amendment makes little headway in Senate

WASHINGTON-A rumored effort to amend a bill dealing with media ownership restrictions to delay the implementation of wireless local number portability did not come...

Investigation criticizes telecom investment fund

WASHINGTON-A watchdog group said a quasi-governmental corporation set up to fund small telecom start-ups spends nearly as much on executive salaries and overhead as...

Partnership to allow video to be sent to Java phones

NEW YORK-Action on the wireless Java front continues, with streaming media company HelloNetwork and wireless ring tones company Zingy announcing a unique partnership to...
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