Yearly Archives: 2003

France Telecom to take full control of Orange

PARIS-In addition to its first-half operating results released Monday, France Telecom said it will buy the remaining 13.7-percent stake in mobile subsidiary Orange that...

Iraq mobile-phone bids under review

WASHINGTON-Bids for mobile-phone licenses to serve three regions of Iraq are currently being reviewed by a panel established by the Coalition Provisional Authority with...

T-Mobile to delay UMTS launch until 2004

BERLIN-German wireless provider T-Mobile, which is a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom AG, is reportedly pushing off the launch of UMTS services until next year...

Rural carriers ask for wireless enhanced 911 waiver

WASHINGTON-The Rural Telecommunications Group is urging the Federal Communications Commission to give rural wireless carriers more time to comply with wireless enhanced 911 rules...

WorldCom names five independent directors, faces new AT&T charges

WASHINGTON-WorldCom Inc., which is doing business under the name MCI, named five independent directors to its board late last month.Laurence Harris is a partner...

Motorola note holders can force purchase through Sept. 29

SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Motorola Inc. said holders of its liquid yield option notes due Sept. 27, 2013, can surrender the notes for purchase today through Sept....

Post-SARS, race resumes to capture Chinese customers

With the SARS epidemic now out of sap, the land of wonton soup and TD-SCDMA technology is regaining its place on the front burner...

Blind woman in settlement talks with carrier, vendor

WASHINGTON-Audiovox Communications Corp. and Verizon Wireless are in settlement talks with a blind woman who earlier this year filed a complaint against the two...

CTIA’s consumer code to include coverage maps

WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association expects to make news when it unveils its voluntary consumer code of conduct next week, but how consumers...

Messaging uptake shows potential in Latin America

PALO ALTO, Calif.-Although the Latin American unified messaging market has developed more slowly than expected, potential still exists, especially in enterprise solutions, according to...

Nextel slips, Cingular improves in rankings

With nearly all wireless carriers having reported second-quarter results, or at least filing an extension with the Securities and Exchange Commission, N. Moore Capital...

Startups, stalwarts target enterprise space

"No one ever got fired for buying IBM."It's a saying that has been floating around the business world for years. It highlights both the...

Ghosts of OBRA

Ten-years-old now, the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 still casts a long shadow over the wireless telecom industry and remains a powerful symbol...

Patent office will decide who owns ‘push to talk’

Whether generic or proprietary, the phrase "push to talk" may become the words of war in the wireless industry in the next few years....

O’Brien compares public-safety interference problems to Pompeii natural disaster

DENVER-Nextel Communications Inc.'s Chairman Morgan O'Brien stressed there may not be time to consider every possible alternative to solving the complicated 800 MHz interference...

Clarification

An Aug. 25 news brief on Page 7 regarding a patent lawsuit between Boston Communications Group Inc. and Freedom Wireless Inc. was incorrect. It...

Qualcomm announcement signals growing storage need for mobile phones

SAN DIEGO-CDMA giant Qualcomm Inc. announced it will add support for removable miniSD and SD cards in its line of Mobile Station Modem chipsets....

Mobile gaming space revs up

HELSINKI, Finland-Due to a rash of deals in recent days, wireless users the world over will soon have access to games and content ranging...

WLAN vendor Mobility Networks closes doors

Privately held Mobility Networks, which sold technology to wireless carriers that linked wide area networks with Wi-Fi hot spots, has shut down and ceased...

Boingo, Wayport expand hot-spot networks

SANTA MONICA, Calif.-High-speed wireless Internet service provider Boingo Wireless Inc. announced its roaming system will include more than 2,600 hot-spot locations within the next...

Nokia, Qualcomm test rival technologies

SAN DIEGO-Nokia Corp. and Qualcomm Inc. performed trials on what have been known to some degree as rival technologies for the respective companies, Nokia...

Taiwan’s APBW launches CDMA2000

TAIPEI, Taiwan-Taiwanese newcomer Asia Pacific Broadband Wireless Communications Inc. has launched CDMA2000 1x EV-DO services in Taiwan. The company is the first to market...

Nokia blitzes emerging markets

HELSINKI, Finland-In a strategic blitz to take advantage of the revenue streams in what industry experts call emerging or new-growth markets, Nokia Corp. has...

Senators join rural-carrier quest to alter E911 accuracy standard

WASHINGTON-Rural wireless carriers are different; they use different technology, and they should not be held to the same accuracy standards for wireless enhanced 911...

Competition vs. regulation

Sen. Charles Schumer last week blasted the wireless industry in light of the recent power outage that caused havoc throughout the Northeast. "Last week's...
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