WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission Thursday opposed Chairman Michael Powell’s deregulation plan that would lift the network-sharing requirement except in the most sparsely populated rural areas. The majority of the commission …
ORLAND PARK, Ill.-Andrew Corp.’s wireless and in-building products group has developed a multi-band wireless infrastructure that gives commuters wireless phone reception in the 30 tunnels along the new Inter-City Express …
HELSINKI, Finland-Sonera’s mobile satellite division has been acquired by an international business group led by Italy’s Compagnia Generale Telemar S.p.A. and Sweden’s Laumar Marine AB. Telemar Finland, a branch of …
DENVER-Ricochet Networks Inc. announced its Ricochet high-speed wireless network is now compatible with the Linux desktop system LindowsOS 3.0, meaning LindowsOS customers in the Ricochet coverage area can wirelessly access …
TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo Inc. said it will expand its wideband CDMA-based FOMA service in the Kanto Koshinetsu region beginning Feb. 22 with 400 additional cell sites and cover approximately 97 percent …
BEIJING, China-Homegrown technology TD-SCDMA will be one of the major beneficiaries of the Chinese government plan to spend $84.6 billion for research and development. Fixed-line carriers China Telecom and China …
AUSTIN, Texas-Wireless Valley Communications Inc. released its new InFielder and InFielder PDA measurement products, capable of measuring the performance of third-generation wide-band CDMA and iDEN networks. The new products allow …
NEW YORK -The Uzan family, which controls Telsim, Turkey’s second-largest mobile carrier, will most likely be found guilty of fraud for borrowing and never repaying $2.7 billion in equipment vendor …
CANNES, France-Messaging giant LogicaCMG announced it will resell LightSurf Technologies Inc.’s picture messaging management software in its line of multimedia messaging services products. LightSurf’s technology integrates third-party content and allows …
SANTA CLARA, Calif. -National Semiconductor Corp. said it will cut 500 jobs from the company’s worldwide 10,000 workforce as part of its plan to save cost and reach profitability. “The …
CANNES, France-Nokia Corp. said its 6650 WCDMA-based third-generation phone was on track for first-half 2003 deliveries and that shipments of 10,000 test phones began last October to both operators and …
NEW YORK-STANDARD & Poor’s Ratings Services lowered its corporate credit rating on telecommunications provider Ntelos Inc. from ‘CCC+’ to ‘SD’ and removed the rating from CreditWatch. The ratings agency cited …
RESTON, Va.-Nextel Communications Inc. reported record year-end results for 2002, including $8.7 billion in revenue, compared with $7 billion in 2001, and $1.7 billion in income available to shareholders, or …
CANNES, France-Wireless streaming video company PacketVideo Corp. announced it teamed with Austrian technology company Kapsch CarrierCom AG to create a wireless multimedia service for Mobilkom Austria’s newly launched UMTS network. …
CANNES, France-L.M. Ericsson Chief Executive Officer Kurt Hellstrom reiterated his previous predictions for short-term uncertainty in the mobile market at a press conference here Wednesday, while taking operators to task …
DENVER-As he demonstrated the strength of Palm Inc.’s new product, the Tungsten W PDA phone, senior product manager Stephane Maes showed how the market has segmented over the past few …
PHILADELPHIA-BellSouth Corp. asked an appeals court to overturn a ruling voiding a clause in current Vice Chairman Gary Forsee’s employment contract that would make it easier for him to accept …
CANNES, France-Anadigics Inc. announced a new family of switch products and what it describes as the world’s smallest GSM/GPRS quad-band power amplifier modules at this week’s 3GSM Show in Cannes, …
LEAWOOD, Kansas-Electronic payments provider Euronet Worldwide Inc. will acquire E-pay Ltd., an electronic payment processor of prepaid mobile airtime top-up services in the United Kingdom and Australia. Euronet currently supports …
CANNES, France-The 2003 GSM Association Awards were presented this week in conjunction with the 3GSM World Congress being held in Cannes, France. In the technology innovation category, Sharp Corp. won …
