The Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association tapped VeriSign Inc. to power its text messaging service. The industry association, which represents 10 carriers, will use Metcalf Inter-Carrier Messaging, a joint offering from VeriSign and WiderThan Americas, to deliver text messages among its members’ 15.5 million subscribers. CWTA opted not to re-sign LogicaCMG, which had handled SMS delivery for the past three years. VeriSign has been powering the service since April, when LogicaCMG’s contract expired, according to a CWTA spokesman. VeriSign also delivers multimedia messaging services for the group’s 10 carriers.
ZTE Corp. announced that its TD-SCDMA standard has been approved by the Third Generation Partnership Project as one of the 3G mobile communications standards. ZTE said its TR 34.943 standard was drafted with Datang Mobile and China’s Research Institute of Telecommunications Transmission, a subsidiary of China’s Ministry of Information Industry. The company said its TR 34.943 standard will significantly speed up the TD-SCDMA conformance testing progress and improve TD-SCDMA implementation, thereby accelerating international acceptance of the standard. ZTE said it has been dedicated to TD-SCDMA standards and patents since early 2001, and that in 2004 alone the company applied for more than 100 TD-SCDMA patents in China and abroad.
High Tech Computer Corp. reported $492.8 million in revenues for the third quarter, up 134 percent year-over-year and up 7.25 percent quarter-over-quarter. Revenue in the company’s past three quarters totaled $1.3 billion. Net income after tax for the quarter was $78.6 million. In the company’s past three quarters, net income after tax was $199.4 million. HTC manufactures many of the wireless industry’s devices running Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Mobile operating system. Vendors like UTStarcom Inc. and Palm Inc. buy the company’s devices and then resell them as their own.
