2003

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm’s financial results for the second quarter of fiscal 2003 reflect improvements in revenues, income and earnings. The company reported revenues of US$1 billion, up 50 percent since last …

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SURABAYA, Indonesia-The path toward the next generation of mobile services has pushed carriers to provide various applications and related content to enrich their mobile data offerings and give their customers …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission on Monday certified that bankrupt NextWave Telecom Inc. has met the five-year build-out requirement on its licenses. “The construction notifications that [NextWave] they have supplied to …

DENVER-A class-action lawsuit filed in Denver against AT&T Wireless Services Inc. is scheduled for mediation this week, according to the Rocky Mountain News. The class-action lawsuit, filed by Denver-based Hill …

MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Lucent Technologies Inc. posted its 12th consecutive quarterly loss, reflecting a soft market and conservative spending by service providers. Lucent lost $351 million, or 14 cents per share …

MILPITAS, Calif.-Palm Inc. introduced a number of upgrades to its personal digital assistant line-up including multimedia upgrades to its consumer-oriented Zire PDA and adding Wi-Fi and more memory to its …

RESTON, Va.-Nextel Communications Inc. reported $2.4 billion in revenues for the first quarter of this year compared with just under $2 billion in revenue the carrier reported for the first …

PHILADELPHIA-Cingular Wireless L.L.C. appointed James Flynn vice president and general manager of the carrier’s Philadelphia region where he will oversee all wireless retail sales and staff operations for the greater …

ORLAND PARK, Ill.-Andrew Corp. has added new 1.8-meter diameter single and dual polarized low profile antennas to its family of ValuLine terrestrial microwave antennas. The antennas will be used mainly …

HARTFORD, Conn.-Cingular Wireless L.L.C. introduced its “7-7-7” rate plan option in the Connecticut area allowing customers to roll back the starting time of their Home rate plan night and weekend …

NAPERVILLE, Ill.-Tekno Telecom L.L.C. reported that U.S. Cellular Corp. deployed its NetQuest SS7 monitoring system to enhance wireless network efficiency and provide customers with expanded service and billing capabilities.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-Nokia Corp. said it has extended its reseller alliance with F5 Refine to better differentiate their product offerings, offer bundled solutions and cut costs. “Customers will benefit through …

NEW YORK CITY-LocatioNet said it will supply a location-based services middleware platform and geographic information system (GIS) to Telcel, Mexico’s largest operator. Telcel will be the first mobile operator in …

HELSINKI, Finland-Tecnomen said it won a contract to deliver mobile voice mail systems and upgrades for Telecom Am

ATLANTA, United States-Turning around two consecutive quarters of net customer losses Cingular Wireless reported 189,000 customer additions during the first three months of 2003, ending the quarter with 22.1 million …

HELSINKI, Finland-The four mobile operators in Finland have jointly formed a new company to manage the mobile number portability (MNP) solution in the country. Swedish consultancy Northstream worked with the …

TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo, the largest mobile operator in Japan, announced it will grant a 37.8 billion yen (US$315 million) loan to Hutchison 3G U.K. Holding. NTT DoCoMo holds 20 percent of …

TOKYO-Sharp, a leading mobile handset manufacturer in Japan, announced it will provide mobile handsets with built-in tiny cameras to China Mobile. Sharp has been providing mobile handsets with cameras to …

DUBLIN, Ireland-The European Union Competition Commission is about to hand U.K. and German operators some unexpected breathing space by delaying until at least August the report of its investigation into …

TOKYO-Sharp Corp., through an agreement with Datang Telecom Technology Co. Ltd., will supply the Chinese market with camera-equipped GSM mobile phones. The device, which marks Sharp’s entry into the Chinese …

BOSTON-Sonic Network Inc. has licensed its Embedded Audio Synthesis technology to Micronas for use in its MAS family of digital signal processors. The technology will add high quality polyphonic MIDI …

ATLANTA-Turning around two consecutive quarters of net customer losses Cingular Wireless L.L.C. reported 189,000 customer additions during the first three months of 2003 ending the quarter with 22.1 million wireless …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission today said it will allow public safety entities to share spectrum in the 4.9 GHz band with commercial entities but all shared operations must be in …

RESTON, Virginia, United States-Nextel Communications reported US$2.4 billion in revenues for the first quarter of this year compared with just less than US$2 billion in revenue the carrier reported for …