Yearly Archives: 2003

SARS costs Motorola plenty

SCHAUMBERG, Ill.—The SARS situation in China may cost Motorola Inc. up to $500 million, according to a new research note from investment banking firm...

Electronic Entertainment Expo yields variety of wireless gaming news

LOS ANGELES-Wireless watchers were inundated with news on the wireless gaming front coming out of the Electronic Entertainment Expo video game trade show, with...

Samsung releases Matrix phone

DALLAS-A day before the highly anticipated release of "The Matrix: Reloaded" movie, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. said it will begin selling its unique n270...

SEC filing reveals Nextel Partners class-action lawsuits

KIRKLAND, Wash.-In its quarterly Securities and Exchange Commission filing, Nextel Partners Inc. reported it is currently involved in a pair of class-action lawsuits.The first...

Reliance Infocomm launches 1x service in India

NEW DELHI, India-After a one-month delay, Reliance Infocomm rolled out nationwide commercial cdma2000 1x "limited mobility" services in India. The operator has coverage in...

Dell’Oro Group reports 1% growth of 802.11 market

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-The worldwide 802.11 market grew 1 percent sequentially in the first quarter of 2003, generating $411 million in revenues, according to a...

Lucent upgrades MiLife product suite

MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Lucent Technologies Inc. introduced enhancements to its MiLife SurePay Solutions Suite, a group of prepaid solutions for wireline and wireless operators.Version 8...

Pannon makes EDGE call

HELSINKI, Finland-Hungarian operator Pannon GSM Telecommunications plc announced it made a successful call using an EDGE phone and network. The carrier also said it...

Mobile-phone carriers warned about unlicensed

WASHINGTON-Just as in 1993 when the current wireline industry probably didn't expect its customers to be cutting the cord in favor of mobile phones,...

Gaming steps into mobile spotlight

LOS ANGELES-The wireless industry is looking to make a major show at the Electronic Entertainment Expo, the main trade conference for the video game...

Good to expand enterprise biz with Neomar buy

SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Wireless e-mail company Good Technology Inc. is acquiring the assets of wireless enterprise software provider Neomar Inc. Financial details of the deal were...

ART provides speech solution to TI

ATLANTA-Advanced Recognition Technologies Inc.'s SmARTspeak XG phonemic speech recognition solution has been ported to the latest additions to Texas Instruments' TCS line of antenna-to-applications...

Wayport opens business center in Philly airport

AUSTIN, Texas-Public Wi-Fi access provider Wayport opened a new Laptop Lane airport business center at Philadelphia International Airport.The business center's private offices include Internet...

Standards group consolidation continues

SAN RAMON, Calif.-The PAM Forum plus Parlay Group now equals the Parlay Group. Both standards groups are merging into the Parlay Group in a...

Verizon activates 150 NYC hot spots

NEW YORK-Verizon Communications Inc. activated 150 of a planned 1,000 Wi-Fi transmission stations throughout New York City, which the company said would allow its...

Carriers dedicated to moving to packet-based networks

SAN RAMON, Calif.-A recent Yankee Group study of global wireline and wireless carriers commissioned by the International Packet Communications Consortium, showed that both groups...

Russia’s mobile penetration tops 15%

MOSCOW, Russia-The overall mobile penetration in Russia reached 15.3 percent of the population, or 22.23 million users, in April, according to newly released statistics...

Rural Cellular reports revenue increase: Both CDMA, GSM likely in TDMA migration

ALEXANDRIA, Minn.-Rural Cellular Corp. reported $112.7 million in total revenues for the first quarter of 2003 compared with the $103.8 million the carrier reported...

NTT DoCoMo acquires 100% of Sentsu

TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo Inc. entered a share exchange agreement making Sentsu Inc., which is currently a consolidated subsidiary of NTT, a wholly owned subsidiary of...

Verizon Wireless to offer multi-language chatting

BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Verizon Wireless reported an agreement to join Latin American wireless "infotainment" provider Blah!'s multilanguage mobile chat service. Verizon Wireless said the agreement will...

Hop-On appoints new interim president

IRVINE, Calif.-Disposable phone maker Hop-On announced it appointed Samuel Demissie as its interim president. Demissie joined Hop-On in February 2003 as president of its...

Forsee takes on chairman post at Sprint

OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-Sprint Corp. announced Gary Forsee, recently named president and chief executive officer, will replace William Esrey as chairman of its board of...

InterDigital 1Q revenue rise attributed to Ericsson, Sony Ericsson agreements

KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.-InterDigital Communications Corp.'s first quarter results reflected an improved financial performance during the past year.InterDigital reported revenues of $37.3 million, a...

Nokia continues MasterCard m-commerce trial in U.S.

DALLAS-Nokia Corp. announced it is continuing its mobile-commerce trial with credit card company MasterCard International through a new trial in Nokia's home base of...

Siemens signs expansion contract with China Mobile

MUNICH, Germany-Siemens AG said it has signed a $36 million contract to expand GSM networks for China Mobile in Shanghai and Anhui provinces."Following this...
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