IRVINE, Calif.-Boost Mobile L.L.C., which offers telecommunications services targeted at the youth market, has selected Boston Communications Group Inc. to implement its prepaid wireless program. Nextel Communications Inc., which offers …
LEDBURY, United Kingdom-U.K. consultancy BWCS said mobile operators could greatly increase location-services revenues by selecting a strong location technology. The company said a U.S. system called uplink time difference of …
MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Following in the footsteps of Nortel Networks, Palm Inc. and other wireless companies, Lucent Technologies Inc. said it will ask its shareholders to approve a reverse stock split, …
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-While other companies have adopted the reverse-stock-split strategy to boost their stock profiles, L.M. Ericsson said it has authorized a ratio change in its American depositary shares with effect …
TORONTO-Nortel Networks Ltd. said it reported a third-quarter net loss of $1.8 billion, or 42 cents a share, compared with $3.47 billion, or $1.08 a share, a year earlier. Excluding …
MUNICH, Germany-Siemens said African operator Vodacom will install Openwave Systems Inc.’s multimedia messaging service platform as part of the operator’s GSM/GPRS network. Vodacom licensed Openwave’s equipment through Siemens, which is …
FRANKFURT, Germany-T-Systems International said that more than 80 GPRS operators are currently linked via its GPRS Roaming Exchange. Of these, 12 carriers are directly connected to T-Systems’ GRX network, and …
SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif.-Starfish Software has been chosen by H3G to implement a mobile infrastructure solution to enable over-the-air synchronization of consumer and corporate data. “The agreement with Starfish is another …
TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo Inc. suspended sales of one of its third-generation handsets after a software glitch was discovered. When the screen of the T2101V FOMA handset is in energy-saving mode, the …
WOBURN, Mass.-Verizon Wireless Inc. is testing a new service that will allow wireless uses to replenish prepaid wireless service via automatic teller machines (ATMs). To immediately replenish minutes, users swipe …
LAS VEGAS-Businesses in the United States and Europe have a great demand for high-speed data, especially for e-mails with data-heavy attachments and Internet and corporate Intranet access, according to a …
LONDON-Magic4 has added magic4 SyncML to its mobile messaging platform, allowing manufacturers to incorporate the technology into handsets so users can synchronize mobile data to their PCs. “There is market …
CINCINNATI-Billing solutions provider Convergys Corp. has been awarded a patent for its System and Method for Performance Monitoring of Application Code. The company’s patents and patents-pending now total 59.
LAS VEGAS-Vendors TTPCom, 7 Layers and Analog Devices and carriers AT&T Wireless, Cingular Wireless, and T-Mobile will take part in a seminar called “Making EDGE Real-Out of Development and into …
CHICAGO-U.S. Cellular Corp., which is running a customer trial of Binary Runtime for Wireless Environment in its Knoxville, Tenn., market, will offer those customers two new BREW games distributed by …
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.-Sandbridge Technologies has made commercially available its new Sandblaster Baseband Processor, which uses software defined radio to enable multimode, multiplatform and multifunction wireless terminals. The company said its …
LAS VEGAS-Personal technology retail giant Gateway Inc. launched its Mobile Wireless Solution that uses Verizon Wireless’ Express Network this week at CTIA Wireless I.T. & Internet 2002. The service will …
BEIJING-China Unicom’s aggressive promotion of its CDMA network is continuing to bear fruit. In the fortnight around China’s National Day of 1 October, the company signed 700,000 new users. On …
OXFORD, United Kingdom-While industry gurus and market survey reports continue to pour cold water on the likely success of third generation (3G) technology, Hutchison 3G and Tele2 seem determined to …
