OWINGS MILLS, Md.—Echoing the guarded optimism expressed by several other wireless data companies, Aether Systems Inc. reported sluggish first-quarter sales but hope for the coming months. “The positive trends beginning …
TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo Inc., the leading mobile carrier in Japan, announced its net income for the fiscal year ending March 31 was merely $6.2 million due to large special losses that …
NEW YORK—A pair of New York-based companies has teamed up to permit cell phone users to download recording artist greetings for their mobile voice mail box as part of a …
NEW YORK—The first open-source reference implementation for software defined radio, which allows wireless devices re-configurable by software, is now available on the Web site of the Communications Research Centre Canada …
TOKYO—The Japanese government has decided to allocate the 5 GHz band for wireless carriers by the end of this year. The Telecommunications Council, an advisory body for the Minister for …
HELSINKI, Finland—Lithuanian mobile operator Omnitel has ordered a voice mail system expansion from Tecnomen to improve the capacity and functionality of its messaging platform. The US$452,580 contract will be supplied …
HACKENSACK, N.J.—Wireless enterprise company GoAmerica Inc. announced Dan Luis will serve as its president and chief operating officer. Joe Korb, the company’s co-founder, will assume the role of executive vice …
TEMPE, Ariz.—Motorola Inc. says it has introduced a new transcoding solution, known as the ComStruct PTMC Wireless Transcoder, to increase channel capacity and voice quality in deploying third-generation services. “By …
WESTBOROUGH, Mass.—Paging and messaging carrier Arch Wireless Inc. announced net revenues for the first quarter of $228 million, down from the $241 million the carrier earned in the previous quarter. …
JAKARTA, Indonesia—Operator PT Radio Telepon, also known as Ratelindo, has selected Nortel Networks to build the country’s first cdma2000 1x fixed wireless local loop network in Jakarta. The companies expect …
WASHINGTON—The House of Representatives on Tuesday night passed by voice vote the Auction Reform Act of 2002, which directs the Federal Communications Commission to delay the 700 MHz band auction, …
CHICAGO—Motorola Inc., which has been laying off workers in waves for the past 18 months, has one more round of cuts to make before reaching its goal of trimming 50,000 …
WASHINGTON—Representatives of bankrupt NextWave Telecom Inc. and re-auction winners of NextWave’s PCS C- and F-block licenses are set to meet on Tuesday afternoon in the offices of Sen. Ted Stevens …
SUNNYVALE, Calif.—Repeater Technologies Inc. said it shipped the first of several deliveries of its dual-directional repeaters for cdma2000 1x networks to Sercom, a CDMA operator in Guatemala owned by Telgua. …
PARIS—A French newspaper reported European mobile operator Orange is interested in launching a branded service in the United States and is currently in talks with a U.S. operator. Orange has …
STAMFORD, Conn.—SmartServ Online Inc. said it will partner with “one of the largest wireless carriers in North America” to offer the carrier’s subscribers access to financial content and the ability …
LAS VEGAS—Agere Systems said it has unveiled its 802.11a, 5 GHz radio and antenna kits for the ORiNOCO AP-2000 dual-radio wireless network access point. “These new kits enable an IT …
TUCSON, Ariz.-Texas Instruments said it has introduced a 14-bit, 62-MSPS CMOS analog-to-digital converter for wireless communications as well as imaging and instrumentation applications. “Specific applications include base station receivers, digital …
GREENSBORO, N.C.—RF Micro Devices Inc. said it has started to ship its RF2173 and RF2174 power amplifiers for two additional handsets of a top-tier multinational handset original equipment manufacturer. The …
LAS VEGAS—At this week’s NetWorld + Interop show in Las Vegas, Sprint announced it is upgrading its CPE-VPN offering to include wireless access for its current customers. According to Sprint, …
