WASHINGTON—A recent federal appeals court on media ownership limits could impact the Federal Communications Commission’s process for reviewing its rules every two years, said FCC Commissioner Michael J. Copps during …
WASHINGTON–AT&T Wireless Services Inc. has been awarded the TRUSTe Privacy Seal after completing a comprehensive certification process. “Consumer education about privacy issues is critical to establishing consumer confidence. As our …
CANNES, France—Bitfone Corp. is demonstrating its mProve solution, which delivers firmware and software updates to mobile phones over the air, this week in Cannes, France, at the 3GSM World Congress. …
DUBLIN—Logica is demonstrating the delivery of full color animated images, based on FunMail’s wireless animated messaging technology, over a GPRS network via the Logica Multimedia Messaging Service Center (MMSC) this …
ANNAPOLIS, Md.—OpenPath Products announced its SMS Testing Suite, a collection of tools that support SMS application developers, testers, and carriers, is now available. “The SMS Testing Suite allows users to …
RESTON, Va.—Openet Telecom announced that its recently unveiled FusionWorks wireless convergent mediation platform will be deployed by Rural Cellular Corp. to enable it to offer advanced 2.5G and 3G-related services …
EDINBURG, Va.—Shenandoah Telecommunications Co. said it added 26,000 wireless customers last year, more than doubling its customer base to 49,000 subscribers. Company revenues increased more than $25 million from 2000 …
NEW DELHI, India—The Bangalore-based Wipro Technologies has announced a partnership with Graz, Austria-based Austriamicrosystems to jointly produce and market chipsets for the emerging Bluetooth wireless market. The alliance will make …
TOKYO—Fujitsu, a leading telecom vender in Japan, and Sagem, the second-largest telecom vender in France, signed a third-generation mobile handset agreement, both firms announced 20 February. Based on the business …
After announcing an aggressive business strategy at last year’s GSM Congress, Qualcomm would appear to have backtracked to something more achievable. The company’s prior plans entailed persuading European GSM operators …
In an effort to hasten the rollout of third-generation networks, Nokia has announced an initiative by inviting other 3G infrastructure developers to share and standardize open specifications for all IP-based …
HELSINKI, Finland—Nokia, CMG Wireless Data Solutions, Comverse, L.M. Ericsson, Logica, Motorola, Siemens AG and Sony Ericsson Communications have joined to found an Interoperability Group for multimedia messaging services that will …
SEOUL, South Korea—Microsoft said it has agreed to jointly develop a wireless Web browser with KT Freetel Co., using Microsoft’s Mobile Explorer or wireless application protocol. “The new browser is …
SAN DIEGO, United States—Qualcomm Inc. said the patent offices in Europe, Korea and Japan have validated four of its CDMA patents. “The confirmation of these inventions strengthens our patent portfolio …
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa—The regulating bodies of South Africa and land-locked neighbor Lesotho have entered an agreement to resolve such issues as frequency interference and interconnection. Mandla Langa chairman of the …
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—Entel Chile had a US$51 million turnover during 2001, 21-percent more than last year, due to an increase of 32 percent in sales that reached US$1.04 billion. At …
TORONTO—Research in Motion has landed a supply agreement with T-Mobile International, a group of wireless network operators belonging to telecommunications kingpin Deutsche Telekom. The deal, RIM’s second in Germany, is …
HELSINKI, Finland—Elisa Communications, Finland’s second-largest carrier, has entered a long-term collaboration with Vodafone in the area of mobile telephone services. The initiative will boost the Vodafone group’s market position in …
STOCKHOLM, Sweden—L.M. Ericsson said it has won a multi-year contract to supply wideband-CDMA radio network solution for Swiss operator Sunrise. The agreement, whose amount was not disclosed, will cover both …
MANILA, The Philippines—Smart Communications, one of the Philippines’ biggest mobile-phone operators, recently reported that its network would be able to handle a 10-million subscriber capacity this year. Smart signed late …
