2003

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-BellSouth’s Latin American operation saw a fall in income of US$2.23 billion in 2002, a 23-percent drop compared with the previous year. These results form 10 percent of …

MELBOURNE, Australia-Latest subscriber figures for Vodafone Australia show the mobile carrier is having some success with its strategy of targeting the prepaid market with an increase of 188,000 new connections …

OXFORD, United Kingdom-Looking to break into the European cell-phone market has proved harder than expected for the Far Eastern manufacturer Daewoo. The company, which had intended to launch two handsets …

TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo, the largest mobile carrier in Japan, said it will stop selling the latest mobile handset manufactured by NEC because the handset might generate heat. According to NTT DoCoMo, …

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-With the appointment of Mauricio Mesa Londo

HELSINKI, Finland-TDC, the Copenhagen-based Danish operator in which U.S. telecom group SBC Communications holds a 42-percent equity holding, has made an outright bid to acquire all shares in its Swiss …

OSLO, Norway-Sales of handheld computing devices, including personal digital assistants (PDAs) and smart phones, rose 3.5 percent in the final quarter of 2002 in Sweden, reversing a slide that began …

BEIJING-China’s Ministry of Information Industry (MII) estimates the production capacity of the 36 mobile-phone manufacturers in China will reach 250 million this year, up from 100 million last year, while …

OXFORD, United Kingdom-Following last week’s decision from cell-phone operator MmO2 that it will delay the deployment of its U.K. third-generation (3G) service until the latter half of 2004, other European …

PARIS-French Telecom equipment maker Alcatel said it has acquired Aravox Technologies Corp., which makes real-time packet technology for Internet Protocol. “The acquisition of this technology by Alcatel will significantly enhance …

ATLANTA-BellSouth filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Glenayre Technologies Inc. and Call Sciences Inc. alleging that the companies are infringing on BellSouth’s patent on call routing technology, used for “one …

PARIS-Maporama has partnered with Danem, a mobile software editor and reseller, to develop and market new generation mobile applications for mobile personnel in the retail and services industries. The companies …

SAN DIEGO-In One Voice Technologies Inc.’s recent comments on its corporate outlook for 2003, Dean Weber, chairman and chief executive officer, acknowledged the economic downturn of late, but he optimistically …

MIAMI-Prepaid wireless service provider TracFone Wireless Inc. said it has reached a company milestone in having served more than 2 million customers nationwide. “This rapid growth is evidence that our …

MISSION VIEJO, Calif.-Bird-B-Gone Inc. released its Bird Spike 2000, a solution for eliminating power outages caused by birds and animals interfering with wireless communications towers. Bird Spike is a non-conductive, …

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-A range of big-name wireless players within the Java Community Process released what they call the road map for dealing with Java technology within the wireless industry, specifications …

WASHINGTON-A Swedish-funded study published in a journal of a U.S. health agency says mobile phone exposure causes brain damage in rats. The study, published yesterday in the online edition of …

WASINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission today authorized mobile satellite service providers the flexibility to integrate ground-based transmitters into their operations, but it also reallocated 30 megahertz from the troubled satellite sector …

LONDON-British Telecommunications said it has rolled out new wireless hot spots across Hilton hotels, airports and motorway service stations in the United Kingdom. The operator said it has installed 80 …

TOKYO-NTT East and NTT West said telephone fees from fixed-line users to mobile-phone users should be determined by fixed-line operators. In Japan, the fee has been traditionally decided by mobile …

SURABAYA, Indonesia-Indosat-M3 (IM3), the pioneer of General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) services in Indonesia, has encountered a 90-percent drop in GPRS traffic after beginning fees for the service. I Made …

WASHINGTON-A U.S. government-sponsored study said mobile-phone exposure causes brain damage in rats. The study, published yesterday in the online edition of the journal Environmental Heath Perspectives, is said to represent …

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TOKYO-Toshiba Corp. posted a net loss of $58 million for the third quarter compared with a loss of $718 million during the same time last year, although the company expects …

WASHINGTON-White House adviser Richard Clarke, according to published reports, will step down next month after completing a final report on a cybersecurity plan that is bound to attract sharp criticism …