Yearly Archives: 2003

Sprint PCS targets customer satisfaction with enhanced coverage, services

Sprint PCS pointed out some recent improvements to its wireless system, including network expansion and enhanced customer service that have resulted from its $2.1...

Verizon Wireless enhances Web site

BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Verizon Wireless has upgraded its Web site, www.verizonwireless.com. Enhanced sections of the Web site include consumer education, customer satisfaction, customer accounts, Spanish-speaking customers,...

Hutchison Whampoa posts overall profit, 3G business loss of $500M

HONG KONG-Hutchison Whampoa Ltd., the conglomerate that operates several third-generation subsidiaries around the world along with real estate, retail, manufacturing and other businesses, reported...

Kuwait’s Wataniya expands GPRS coverage

LONDON-Wataniya Telecom, the Kuwaiti mobile operator, has completed the second phase of its GPRS infrastructure expansion plans. The network will now cover the whole...

Nextel files lawsuit against Verizon Wireless over PTT trademark

Claiming the phrase "push to talk" as its property, Nextel Communications Inc. has filed a lawsuit against Verizon Wireless for using it in its...

Siemens invests $100M in Brazil

Siemens AG has strengthened its hold in the Latin American market with an investment of $110 million in research and development in Brazil for...

Official touts FCC’s UWB work

WASHINGTON-Edmond Thomas, chief of the FCC's Office of Engineering and Technology, continued his cheerleading of ultra-wideband technologies Thursday when he gave reporters a rare...

SMSMG launches mobile content service

ALISO VIEJO, Calif.-SMS Media Group launched Moffers, a mobile content service that sends special offers in the form of text messages from select merchants...

SS/L says Optus C1 in-orbit tests are successful

PALO ALTO, Calif.-Space Systems/Loral (SS/L), the satellite manufacturing subsidiary of Loral Space & Communications, announced that its Optus C1 communications, which covers Australia, New...

Automotive industry to spend $600M on RFID technology this year

OYSTER BAY, N.Y.-The automotive industry will spend about $600 million on radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology this year, according to a new study from market...

UMC to use Intec’s billing solution

ATLANTA-Intec Telecom Systems said Ukrainian Mobile Communications (UMC) will use Intec's Inter-connecT billing solution to help it charge other carriers for using its network...

DoCoMo to limit e-mail numbers to combat spam

TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo Inc. announced it will limit the number of e-mail messages users can send to 1,000 per day, beginning Oct. 20. The company...

FCC officials trapped in gondola use cell phones for help

ASPEN, Colo.-Two Federal Communications Commission officials put wireless communications technology to use when stormy weather trapped them in a gondola in Aspen during the...

Symbian reports increasing OS shipments, revenues

LONDON-Symbian Ltd., which designs operating systems for smart phones, said its Symbian OS unit shipments grew in the first half of the year to...

USURF acquires Pipeline Networks

DENVER-Wireless broadband communications services provider USURF America Inc. will acquire broadband Internet access service provider Pipeline Networks of Colorado L.L.C. The acquisition will include...

FCC poised to make 800 MHz decision by year-end

COLUMBIA, Md.-The engineers at the Federal Communications Commission have completed their examination of various proposals to solve the interference problem experienced by public-safety agencies...

Vodafone agrees to Japan Telecom sale

LONDON-Vodafone Group plc announced it agreed to sell Japan Telecom Co. to an affiliate of RHJ Industrial Partners, a Ripplewood Holdings L.L.C. fund. Japan...

AT&T Wireless, KDDI launch new music services

SEATTLE-Ring tones and music have become a major part of the wireless industry, as providers from the United States to Japan launch new audio...

Ericsson inks $600M Chinese GSM deal

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson said it has signed a $600 million contract to supply hardware and software for the GSM network of Guangdong province in...

Motorola signs Kuwaiti GPRS contract

LONDON-MTC-Vodafone, the Kuwaiti operator, has awarded a US$19 million contract to Motorola to expand its GPRS network.The deal covers the provision of network services...

Texas officials to re-file distracted driving suit

WASHINGTON-Texas officials plan to re-file criminal charges against a man who allegedly was using his cell phone when his vehicle hit another car, killing...

Appeals court to hear oral argument in health suit Sept. 26

WASHINGTON-The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will hear oral argument in a Maryland man's $800 million brain-cancer suit against Motorola Inc. and others...

Batelco partners with investors for Iraqi license bid

WASHINGTON-A Bahrain Telecommunications Co. official said today his firm has entered a joint venture with Iraqi, Arab and Singapore investors to submit bids on...

Nextel upgrade to boost in-building coverage, Wi-Fi access

Nextel Communications Inc. and RadioFrame Networks Inc. launched an integrated cellular/wireless local area network system designed to improve in-building coverage and capacity for wireless...

Stratex Networks scores $3M contract in Bangladesh

SAN JOSE, Calif.-Stratex Networks Inc. will provide solutions for Bangladesh Telegraph & Telephone Board (BTTB) to build high-speed, medium-capacity microwave links to expand the...
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