OTTAWA—Sprint PCS and Nortel Networks completed trials using Nortel’s CDMA smart antenna technology, which Nortel said is designed to provide double the voice capacity of Sprint’s current antenna technology using …
TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo and Oracle said they plan to collaborate on the technology and development of advanced mobile enterprise solutions, as well as sales and marketing to promote mobile communications products …
FRANKFURT, Germany—Texas Instruments said it is bidding for German telecom equipment maker Condat in a deal valued at about US$93 million. According to the deal, TI will take over Condat’s …
LONDON—Short message service (SMS) company Logica said it scored two multimedia messaging contracts and is trialing the product with five additional wireless carriers. The company did not name its customers. …
SUNNYVALE, California, United States—Western Multiplex rejected the unsolicited offer made by DMC Stratex Networks last week to acquire Western Multiplex. The board of directors reaffirmed its commitment to the pending …
OXFORD, United Kingdom—In an effort to reduce their administration overheads, European cell-phone operators are negotiating with some of the major retail banks about using automatic teller machines (ATMs) to enable …
THE HAGUE, The Netherlands—After much speculation about i-mode services in the European market, KPN Mobile said its German subsidiary E-Plus will begin offering the commercial mobile data service this week, …
HELSINKI, Finland—Sonera said it reached a deal with other shareholders of the Dutch holding company Fintur Holdings that will allow Sonera to increase its stake in the GSM businesses of …
HELSINKI, Finland—Sonera introduced a mobile purchase payment pilot in the Helsinki, Finland, metropolitan area. The test will run from 4 March to 31 August. The service, called Sonera Shopper, is …
MUNICH, Germany—Varetis said it won a contract with Poland’s Era GSM for its directory solutions. Varetis will deliver and install a new Directory Assistance Call Center for Era, Poland’s largest …
NEW DELHI, India—The Indian government has reduced the import duty on wireless local loop (WLL) infrastructure equipment from 15 percent to 5 percent. The move is expected to help basic …
MOSCOW—Russian authorities proposed restricted CDMA technology based on the IS-95 standard to follow the AMPS/DAMPS carriers and move to the GSM 1800 MHz technology by 2010. The U.S.-developed IS-95 has …
SAN DIEGO—Leap Wireless International Inc. reported strong early customer growth for the year for its Cricket wireless service offering. While not releasing any numbers, the company said that through the …
HAMILTON, Bermuda—Nokia said it signed an agreement to build a GSM network for BTC Mobility of Bermuda. BTC Mobility was recently granted a GSM license to offer voice and data …
REDMOND, Wash.—AT&T Wireless named G. Michael Sievert executive vice president and chief marketing officer, where he will be responsible for the marketing strategy, programs and resources in the company’s core …
KANSAS CITY, Mo.—Sprint Capital Corp., a wholly owned finance subsidiary of Sprint Corp., began a $2 billion unregistered offering of two tranches of senior notes. The company said net proceeds …
CHICAGO—Pear Wireless is collaborating with Nanonation Inc. to develop wireless applications for Internet kiosks and digital entertainment and hospitality information systems. The systems will integrate wireless local area network technology …
HANNOVER, Germany—Commil Ltd. said it will present plans for its Cellarion Bluetooth network system at next week’s CeBIT 2002 show in San Francisco. The system will use access points and …
SAN FRANCISCO—M-Systems will display its flash disk technology at next week’s CeBIT embedded systems trade show. The company’s flash disk products include DiskOnKey, DiskOnChip, FFD and its latest offering, Mobile …
RENO, Nev.—Wireless accessory provider iGo Corp. announced it has signed an agreement with Boeing Co.’s long-range bomber force B-1B lancer program. iGo will outfit the force with customized versions of …
