WASHINGTON-Sens. Don Nickles (R-Okla.) and Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) offered legislation to make wireless telecommunications equipment eligible for depreciation treatment on par with other qualified technological gear. The bill, introduced April …
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Proxim Corp. closed out its first quarter, which ended March 28, with increasing revenues and declining losses compared with the same period a year ago. Revenues were $40 million, …
DUBLIN, Ireland—Vodafone has announced plans to restrict access to adult services over its network just 24 hours after wireless research and consulting company Strategy Analytics suggested in a new report …
BEIJING-According to China Unicom’s listed subsidiary’s annual report, the company had a handset inventory worth 2.36 billion Chinese yuan (US$285 million) in 2002. The inventory would contain around 1 million …
MOSCOW-The biggest CDMA IS-95 carrier in Russia operating in the 800 MHz band launched an offensive against the Communications Ministry, which has restricted its development since the standard first appeared …
TOKYO-Japan Telecom and East Japan Railway are going to launch a demonstration experiment for high-speed wireless local area network (WLAN) service via mobile phones in mid-May, the firms jointly announced. …
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-Telecom Personal, the largest cellular operator in Argentina and Paraguay, announced it has US$45 million in cash to pay its creditors, which will agree to accept a lowering …
BEIJING-The Beijing Morning Post reported Huawei Technologies came out on top of a third-generation (3G) vendor test by China’s Ministry of Information Industry (MII), beating Nokia, Ericsson, Siemens and Nortel. …
TOKYO-KDDI, the second-largest mobile operator in Japan, 17 April launched a voice search service for its au brand mobile handset users. KDDI has developed the system called “Lycos Mobile for …
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia said it has signed an agreement to supply W-CDMA equipment to Greek operator Telestet. Nokia also said it has already started providing core and radio-access network equipment for …
MUNICH, Germany-Siemens said it won a contract to operate the SAP R/3 systems for Austrian telecom provider One. The six-year contract is worth 5 million euros (US$5.4 million). Siemens Business …
WASHINGTON-If the Federal Communications Commission thought that the regulatory issues for mobile wireless were challenging, the issues for broadband wireless could be overwhelming. “Broadband-wireless technologies are not yet at a …
WOBURN, Mass.-Boston Communications Group Inc. reported record first-quarter earnings of $23.1 million, a 53 percent increase from the same period a year ago. The telecommunications billing and transaction processing company, …
ORLAND PARK, Ill.-Driven mostly by wireless infrastructure sales, Andrew Corp. revenues rose to $201.3 million during its second quarter, which ended March 31, a 6 percent increase from the same …
MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich.-Last Mile Technologies has completed the first phase of a citywide wireless local area network using equipment supplied by Proxim Corp., Sunnyvale, Calif. Some 4,500 Central Michigan University …
ACTON, Mass.-Engim Inc. has introduced the EN-3000, a multi-channel, multi-band wireless local area network chipset to enable development of access points that simultaneously communicate over 802.11 a/b/g to increase network …
TORONTO-Redline Communications Inc. has received $10 million in second-round venture financing led by Telemedia Corp. and other existing investors to expand sales and distribution for its Access Node 50. AN-50 …
WAKEFIELD, Mass.-The Mobile Payment Forum, a standards group devoted to mobile commerce that includes many of the world’s biggest credit card companies, announced it will expand into new areas including …
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. reported a strong quarter for mobile phone sales and offered a rosy outlook for the business, numbers that helped prop up a sagging infrastructure division. The news …
WATERTOWN, Mass.-The wireless data industry continues to expand, with several content companies announcing new strategies and applications. One of the most interesting comes from Mobile-Mind Inc. and Xap Corp., which …
