2003

TOKYO-The Japanese wireless industry continues to see massive innovation in the mobile-phone area, with technology giants NTT DoCoMo Inc. and NEC Corp. releasing notable new phone advances. First, NEC showed …

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-Wireless e-mail company Seven announced it scored a major deal with Japanese wireless data giant NTT DoCoMo Inc., which will package and resell Seven’s wireless e-mail technology under …

LONDON-JP Morgan reduced its rating on Vodafone Group plc from “overweight” to “underweight” noting the company’s stock is overvalued among its peer group and it expects Vodafone to begin reporting …

BRUSSELS, Belgium-The European Commission widened its inquiry proceedings into German company MobilCom, specifically looking at $157 million in loans paid to MobilCom, covered by guarantees issued by the German federal …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission today named James Daley director of a new office of homeland security. The new unit, which will reside in the Enforcement Bureau, will have oversight of …

WASHINGTON-A bill to ban driver use of handheld cell phones in California unexpectedly died in the state legislature after a Senate amendment so watered down the measure as to prompt …

TOKYO-IPMobile said it has received a trial license to deploy a trial system using TD-CDMA technology in Japan. The company said it has built three cell sites inside the Tokyo …

WASHINGTON-The Senate appropriations subcommittee on homeland security approved President Bush’s request to fund wireless priority service at $73 million in fiscal 2004. The panel passed the homeland security-spending bill Wednesday. …

FRAMINGHAM, Mass.-NMS Communications announced it has helped deploy WiseSpot’s Cai-Ling ringback tone service with wireless carriers in China. With the Cai-Ling service, callers hear personalized ringers when placing a call …

BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Flarion Technologies Inc. said T-Mobile Venture Fund is making an investment in the company, although the terms were not disclosed. “Our investment in Flarion provides us with a window …

OYSTER BAY, N.Y.-The number of worldwide hot spots will grow from 28,000 in 2003 to 160,000 in 2007, according to analyst firm ABI, in spite of challenges in the market …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission today voted to require some digital mobile phones to be compatible with hearing aids under a phased-in approach calling for industry by early 2008 to make …

WASHINGTON-When the House Commerce Committee takes up anti-spam legislation next week, language will be included to combat wireless spam, Rep. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) told RCR Wireless News following a hearing …

The GSM Association issued a call to the industry to speed the interoperability of multimedia messaging services across the world. The group said it is working with the Open Mobile …

The Wyndham Anatole convention hotel in Dallas said it plans to install Sprint Corp. high-speed wireless and wired Internet access in common areas and 315,000 square feet of total meeting …

REDMOND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and Intel Corp. unveiled a distribution program in which Intel will promote and sell AT&T Wireless GPRS- and Wi-Fi-based data solutions through more than 200 …

NEW YORK-Advanced Communications Technologies Inc. said its shareholders have increased its authorized common stock to 5 billion shares. The company markets a software defined radio system known as SpectruCell.

NEW YORK-Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services assigned a CCC rating to the $230 million convertible senior notes recently issued by tower owner Crown Castle International Corp. The rating service also …

BELLEVUE, Wash.-Western Wireless Corp. said it intends to sell $600 million worth of senior unsecured notes with maturities in 2010 and 2013 to qualified institutional buyers in an unregistered offering. …

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. said it has shipped samples of its Mobile Station Modem chipset and system software that support cdma2000 1x, EV-DO and GSM/GPRS standards, allowing roaming among the technologies. …

WASHINGTON-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and Verizon Wireless asked a federal appeals court here to overturn a Federal Communications Commission ruling permitting mobile satellite service operators to use their frequencies to …

MONTREAL-Canadian carrier Microcell Solutions Inc. said it will sell Danger Inc.’s unique Hiptop mobile phone/wireless data device, following the lead of fellow Hiptop sellers T-Mobile USA Inc. and Triton PCS. …

LONDON-More than 42 million consumers in Western Europe will use mobile portals by 2007, bringing the market’s value to more than $1 billion, according to research from IDC. “The growth …

MIGDAL HAEMEK, Israel-Tower Semiconductor Ltd. has described as “without merit” a legal action filed against it in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on behalf …

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. said Korean mobile operator KTF will become a BREW Global Publisher for applications developed for Qualcomm’s BREW mobile Internet platform. The agreement authorizes KTF, which was the …