Yearly Archives: 2003

Japanese companies detail advanced phones

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...

DoCoMo to resell Seven e-mail technology

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...

JP Morgan calls Vodafone ‘overvalued,’ reduces rating

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...

EC expands MobilCom probe

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...

Daley named director of FCC homeland security unit

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...

Calif. driving-and-dialing legislation dies

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...

IPMobile receives trial license for Japan

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...

Senate approves wireless priority service funding

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...

NMS announces ringback service deployment

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...

T-Mobile Venture Funds invests in Flarion

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...

Hot spots to hit 160,000 by 2007

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...

FCC requires half of phones to be hearing-aid compatible

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...

House anti-spam bill to include wireless

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...

GSMA issues call for MMS interoperability

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...

Wyndham to offer Internet access via Sprint

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...

AT&T Wireless, Intel in distribution deal

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...

ACT authorizes common stock increase

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...

S&P assigns rating to Crown Castle notes

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...

Western Wireless to restructure debt

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...

Qualcomm ships samples of MSM chipset

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...

Carriers ask court to overturn FCC’s MSS ruling

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...

Canada’s Microcell to offer Hiptop

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...

European mobile portal use on the increase

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...

Tower Semiconductor says shareholder suit ‘without merit’

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...

KTF to offer BREW services to other operators

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...
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