WASHINGTON-The New Jersey State Senate has joined in the distracted driving ban chorus by passing legislation that would ban the use of handheld wireless phones while driving. The bill has …
MANCHESTER, United Kingdom-Among the key issues worrying investors and wireless protagonists surrounding European third-generation (3G) in Germany and France includes the question of how many operators the markets can support. …
Editor: Further to your request, I am sending a list of the countries in Europe, which have paging operations and the estimated number of users. Because the operators in Britain …
NEW YORK-Moody’s Investors Service Inc. said it downgraded Lucent Technologies to “junk” status, even as the Wall Street Journal reported the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has broadened its …
PARIS-Alcatel said that Vodafone Telecel extended its contract for Alcatel’s local multipoint distribution services (LMDS) for its customer base in Portugal. The 26 GHz network covers Lisbon, and the center …
CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom-Cambridge Positioning Systems Ltd. said it filed a report with the Federal Communications Commission with details of new tests of enhanced observed time difference mobile location technology. Results …
MUNICH, Germany-Siemens has won a $109.7 million order from Orascom Telecom Tunisia in Tunisia to build a GSM network. The three-year contract includes the switching network and intelligent network services. …
HELSINKI, Finland-Ukrainian Mobile Communications will use Nokia Corp.’s Multimedia Messaging Solution in the Ukrainian market, allowing the carrier’s 1.5 million customers to send messages, along with pictures, graphics and sounds. …
TASHKENT, Uzbekistan-The Uzbektelecom landline national operator received a CDMA 450 MHz license and launched the construction of a wireless network with a capacity of 150,000 clients. The Chinese company Huawei …
BALTIMORE-U.S. District Judge Catherine Blake Thursday dismissed the $800 million brain cancer lawsuit against the mobile phone industry. Today, Blake heard oral argument on industry’s motion to dismiss six class …
WASHINGTON-The president of the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association last Friday stepped back from comments he made to the press earlier in the week calling for merger guidelines from the …
SANTA BARBARA, Calif.-A patent infringement lawsuit brought by ISCO International Inc. against SuperConductor Technologies Inc. and Conductus Inc. came a step closer to a close this week. In a Markman …
CEDAR KNOLLS, N.J.-Although Microsoft Corp. wields tremendous power and has made several major recent forays into the market for mobile-phone software, the wireless industry’s traditional handset manufacturers can hold on …
NEW YORK-Moody’s Investors Service downgraded the debt of Lucent Technologies Inc. and Nortel Networks Corp. Nov. 1 and assigned a negative outlook to the companies. The rating agency lowered its …
STAMFORD, Conn.-I3 Mobile Inc. announced it will use an investment banking firm to explore a range of potential options for the company, including “a potential strategic alliance, joint venture, merger …
HOUSTON-Crown Castle International Corp. announced the quarterly dividend rate for its 6.25-percent Convertible Preferred Stock will be paid on Nov. 15 to holders of record as of Nov. 1, 2002. …
LONDON-Vivendi Universal is still convinced that Vodafone Group plc will come back with an improved offer for its stake in French operator Cegetel, after Vivendi rejected Vodafone’s initial $6.6 billion …
JAKARTA, Indonesia-In response to the government’s call to consolidate the telecommunications industry, Telekom Malaysia increased its shareholding in Celcom from 31.2 percent to 47.9 percent. The total purchase consideration of …
BEIJING-China’s Ministry of Information Industry (MII) announced that the country’s two mobile-phone operators added 45.17 million new users in the first three quarters of the year, bringing the total to …
BEIJING-Nearly 600 companies from 24 countries are participating in PT/Expo Comm China 2002, which opened in Beijing on 30 October. The central theme of the show is third-generation (3G) development. …
