Yearly Archives: 2003

SandCherry announces partners at Speechtek event

NEW YORK-SandCherry Inc. announced it has entered several partnerships to address the increased demand for advanced speech services. Through partnerships with Apptera, Fortegra, speechvantage,...

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...

Symbian deal with DoCoMo could boost future revenues

LONDON-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...

Phone/TV combo cool, but niche

Hollywood, meet wireless.It seems the Boob Tube is the latest mobile phone add-on for the world's wireless industry, a business constantly hunting the next...

Vodafone, Telstra test network sharing in Australia

SYDNEY, Australia-Australian mobile operators Vodafone Australia and Telstra Wholesale announced a network-partnering trial that will see the operators share mobile base-station infrastructure in areas...

U.S. Army awards $11M contract to M/A-COM

LOWELL, Mass.-M/A-COM Inc. has been awarded an $11 million contract by the U.S. Army to deploy and link critical communications to 10 Army installations,...

Vodafone signs exclusive content agreement to offer Tomb Raider game

LONDON-European carrier Vodafone Group plc announced a deal with video game company Eidos for the exclusive rights to the Tomb Raider game across 22...

UTStarcom expects 3Q handset sales to hit 4.5 million

ALAMEDA, Calif.-UTStarcom Inc. said it expects its third-quarter handset sales to leap above 4.5 million units, representing approximately 50 percent of revenues.The company describes...

Centennial quits stock offer plan

WALL, N.J.-Centennial Communications Corp. said it is withdrawing its previously announced public offering of common stock due to the offer's inability to garner the...

RealNetworks wins Asian carrier contracts

SINGAPORE-Wireless streaming video company RealNetworks Inc. announced two Asian carriers purchased the company's Helix server and technology, a move to offer streaming video services...

S&P gives B+ rating to Nextel debt issue

NEW YORK-Standard & Poor's assigned its B+ rating to Nextel Communications Inc.'s offering of $1 billion of 7.375-percent senior serial redeemable notes due 2015,...

Business Briefs

Alan Dick & Co. has acquired telecommunications infrastructure service company EXi Ltd., making Alan Dick & Co. a single-source supplier for the telecommunications industry....

Camera phones click with consumers

New research shows global sales of camera phones hit 25 million in the first half of this year, surpassing digital camera sales and marking...

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...

Japan telecoms dancing with debt devil

Loss has become a constant feature in the telecom world, and Japan offers a chilling example, according to a study by Plimsoll Publishing Ltd.The...

Nextel continues legal tit-for-tat with Verizon Wireless

RESTON, Va.-Citing false and unsubstantiated advertising claims, Nextel Communications Inc. filed a lawsuit in a New York federal court against Verizon Wireless seeking unspecified...

AirFlow system to simplify Voice over WLAN

Wireless local area network infrastructure company AirFlow Networks has developed a system intended to simplify the installation and administration of WLANs, a critical need...

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...

3-judge panel hears testimony on Blake’s dismissal of brain-cancer case

RICHMOND, Va.-A three-judge federal appeals court panel wrestled with arguments over whether U.S. District Judge Catherine Blake abused her discretion or appropriately carried out...

House telecom subcommittee OKs E911 bill

WASHINGTON-The House telecommunications subcommittee passed the E911 Implementation Act of 2003, changing the rural provisions and making it possible for public-safety answering points to...

Execution the sticking point in Motorola handset strategy

Motorola Inc. has largely laid out its mobile-phone strategy to the industry-it plans to take advantage of key growth markets like China, while diversifying...

Global Briefs

FRANCENortel Networks Ltd. has won a $200 million, 15-year GSM-Railway contract with French railway operator SNCF. The new system will handle all voice and...

Iraq licenses to be awarded shortly

WASHINGTON-L. Paul Bremer, head of the U.S.-led occupational authority in Iraq, told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week that mobile-phone licenses in the...

TelASIC chip works on all major standards

EL SEGUNDO, Calif.-TelASIC Communications said it has rolled out what it calls the world's first cost-effective wideband radio chipset, baseFlex, which supports major standards,...

Calif. bill-of-rights vote likely put off until November

WASHINGTON-The California Public Utilities Commission again will postpone a vote on a controversial bill of rights for telecom consumers, increasing prospects for either major...
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