NEW DELHI, India—TA Orange has decided to offer airtime discount coupons to fixed-line subscribers of its affiliate, TelecomAsia, in the second phase of its soft launch of GSM services in …
TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo, the leading mobile carrier in Japan, and Nissan, the second-largest automobile company in Japan, on 19 February announced they plan to jointly launch car multimedia services for automobiles …
BEIJING—Recently China’s Putian Information Technology Research Academy, the United States’ Starent and Canada’s Telos signed a framework agreement to establish a joint research lab to develop a W-CDMA core network …
JAKARTA, Indonesia—Dan Kirk, an analyst at Spectrum Strategy Consulting, said growth in Indonesia’s cellular market during 2001-2005 will fall to 47 percent from 70 percent in 2001. According to the …
NEW YORK—AT&T Wireless Services and L.M. Ericsson said they completed the first live UMTS voice call in the United States as part of a testing process to help ensure AT&T …
TORONTO—Microcell Connexions, a wholly owned subsidiary of Microcell Telecommunications, signed a three-year GSM supply agreement with Nortel Networks valued at approximately $100 million for upgrades to its Canadian wireless network. …
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa—Mobile network operator MTN Nigeria Communications, reported it has exceeded expectations by signing up 200,000 subscribers six months after its commercial launch in August 2001. The company’s business …
CANNES, France—Colligo Networks Inc. announced Palm Inc. has licensed two of its Portable Collaborative Networking (PCN) applications to offer a new Bluetooth short-range wireless solution to business professionals. Colligo’s BlueChat …
CANNES, France—A new initiative, “European Friends of 3GPP” (EF3), was founded at this week’s 3GSM World Congress to fund the organization and support of 3GPP meetings in Europe. Alcatel, Ericsson, …
CANNES, France—CellPoint Inc. launched its Mobile Location System 6.0 Platform this week in Cannes at the 3GSM World Congress. “MLS 6.0 is the successor to CellPoint’s MLS 5.0 platform and …
ATLANTA—Glenayre Technologies Inc. announced it will integrate Philips Speech Processing’s SpeechPearl speech recognition engine into its Versera Voice Services suite. Glenayre’s Versera suite offers users voice-driven navigation of voice mail, …
CANNES, France—Content alone will not bring prosperity to the wireless industry, according to comments made by Michael C. Pousti, chairman and chief executive officer of SMS.ac, in a speech at …
RESTON, Va.—Nextel Communications added 1.99 million subscribers during 2001, ending the year with 8.7 million wireless subscribers and said it expects to add another 2 million customers this year. Domestic …
WASHINGTON—More than 30 members of Congress have sent a letter to the Federal Communications Commission siding with the bulk of the wireless industry in opposing the imposition of wireless local …
CANNES, France—British carrier Mmo2 announced a deal with Unisys Corp. to jointly market and distribute a new range of mobile data services for corporate customers based on Microsoft Corp.’s wireless …
CANNES, France—SchlumbergerSema introduced its INService solution for managing mobile carriers’ prepaid and postpaid subscribers. The solution integrates a rating engine for real-time rating across a carrier’s pre- and postpaid subscriber …
SAN DIEGO—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 in Europe, …
STOCKHOLM, Sweden—L.M. Ericsson AB 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 …
CANNES, France—Qualcomm Inc. and Comverse Technology have signed an agreement to develop BREW-enabled services for all types of third-generation networks. “Our joint efforts and resulting synergy will lead to the …
HOUSTON—Compaq Computer Corp. said it has rolled out new access and infrastructure solutions for Microsoft mobile information server 2002 on cellular and WiFi wireless networks. “Utilizing the Compaq iPAQ Pocket …
