BALTIMORE, United States—Five new lawsuits seeking a total of more than US$6 billion in damages have been filed against the cellular industry, alleging use of wireless handsets caused brain cancer. …
BEIJING—China’s top computer manufacturer Legend Holdings and Xiamen Overseas Chinese Electronics Company (Xoceco) agreed on 27 February to set up a joint venture to produce mobile handsets with chipset technology …
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—Colombia and Ecuador took several measures to accelerate the personal communications services (PCS) licenses auction that they plan to hold in the third quarter of 2002. Colombia’s Ministry …
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa—Mobile operator MTN Uganda has launched a short message service (SMS) content and information service, enabling subscribers to download information and trivia to their handsets. On the first …
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa—Third mobile network operator Cell C announced it enhanced its directory inquiry service by allowing subscribers to receive numbers via short message service (SMS) at no extra cost. …
PETAH TIKVA, Israel—Israeli vendor InnoWave ECI Wireless Systems announced two contract wins in Africa. The first contract, with Swaziland Posts and Telecommunications Corporation, will provide fixed wireless access in the …
CAPE TOWN, South Africa—Motorola said Cape Town, South Africa, has implemented the country’s first digital two-way radio infrastructure. The 55 million rand (US$4.8 million) Terrestrial Trunked Radio (TETRA) network was …
HELSINKI, Finland—Comptel said Jordan’s Fastlink will use its mediation software as part of a deal won by TelesensKSCL for Fastlink’s GSM and General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) networks. The delivery …
ATLANTA, United States—Cingular Wireless introduced Interactive Messaging, giving Cingular subscribers the ability to send text messages to wireless users on other carriers’ networks. The service will be available in March. …
WHITE PLAINS, New York, United States—NextWave Telecom and bankrupt fixed wireless company Teligent were given approval by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court to transfer approximately US$1 million in telecommunications assets, including …
NEW YORK—Beginning this week, New York State motorists who are caught talking on their wireless phones while driving will face US$100 fines following the phase out of the state’s waiver …
SEATTLE, United States—Starbucks confirmed that VoiceStream will pick up where MobileStar Network left off as the wireless local area network (WLAN) service provider in Starbucks’ coffee shops across North America. …
JAKARTA, Indonesia—Singapore’s two leading cellular operators recently launched new price plans to attract new customers and retain existing ones. Both SingTel and MobileOne (M1) are offering more free talktime and …
MOSCOW—The biggest Russian carrier Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) is likely to pay more than US$85 million for a blocking interest in the fourth-biggest regional carrier Kuban GSM in the Krasnodar territory …
DULLES, Va.—Hitachi Ltd. has received a license from America Online Inc. subsidiary Tegic Communications to integrate its T9 Text Input software for the Spanish and English languages into new mobile-phone …
BEIJING—Nokia Corp. and Texas Instruments, as well as 15 other Chinese and foreign companies have created a consortium to be known as Commit Inc., which will develop semiconductors, software and …
KANSAS CITY, Mo.—Sprint Corp. launched Sprint Integrated Construction Services, a new collection of services to be coordinated by Sprint Sites USA and Black & Veatch Telecommunications. Sprint Integrated Construction Services …
SAN JOSE, Calif.—Adobe Systems Inc. announced its GoLive 6.0 software Web authoring tool. GoLive 6.0 includes the Adobe Web Workgroup Server, GoLive Dynamic Content authoring and Web layout tool in …
SAN FRANCISCO—Wireless enterprise software solution developer Neomar announced enhanced versions of its Neomar Enterprise Server software and Neomar Microbrowser with Intelligent Client Engine (ICE) for wireless devices. According to Neomar, …
BEDMINSTER, N.J.—The Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers (IEEE) announced it has changed the date of its annual Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) and it will now be held …
