MURRAY HILL, N.J.—Lucent Technologies Inc. said it has appointed Bill O’Shea as president of Bell Labs and chief technology officer. He replaced Arun Netravvali, who will become its chief scientist …
LONDON—European vendor Marconi PLC said its third quarter results met it projections with an operating profit of $7.5 million. The company, which announced the resignation of its chief executive in …
TOKYO—Matsushita Electric Industrial Co says its expects a net loss of $560 million in the second half of this year, 50 percent more than its earlier estimate. The company attributed …
NEW YORK—The Bluetooth Special Interest Group Inc.’s Car Working Group released a definition for how Bluetooth wireless technology will enable hands-free use of mobile phones in automobiles as part of …
PARIS—Orange, the mobile division of France T
NEW YORK—Bell Labs researchers said they have developed a software architecture, called Common Operations, that will enable global roaming across all wireless network types, including those providing third-generation (3G) mobile …
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Illinois, United States—Motorola said it will lay off 7,000 more workers as it announced a third-quarter loss of US$1.4 billion, its third consecutive loss. The job cuts will …
WASHINGTON—The Bush administration pledged to accelerate efforts to give national security and emergency response personnel priority access on mobile-phone networks, a capability previously shunned by wireless carriers that suddenly has …
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Illinois, United States—Motorola signed an approximately US$30 million deal to upgrade and expand Horizon PCS’ CDMA system to 1x networks in the U.S. states of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Tennessee, …
SYDNEY, Australia—Cable & Wireless Optus, Australia’s second-largest mobile operator owned 52.8 percent by Singapore Telecommunications, said it would cut 250 staff and 100 contractors to reduce costs in the economic …
TOKYO—NTT East and NTT Corporation announced that they will launch a high-speed wireless local area network (LAN) service with a data transmission speed of 36 Megabits per second (Mbps) in …
TOKYO—NEC said it will supply a mobile Internet platform to Taiwan’s KG Telecom, which will begin its i-mode-like mobile Internet service in mid-2002. The contract value is 1 billion yen …
BEIJING—Sixteen foreign mobile-phone suppliers spent 196.47 million yuan (US$23.77 million) on advertisements in China during the first half of the year, accounting for 89 percent of the industry’s total expenditure …
HELSINKI, Finland—Nokia said it will expand its General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) solution as part of a nationwide project for China Mobile Communications’ network. The network will begin operation in …
OXFORD, United Kingdom—Cell-phone operator BT Viag, the German subsidiary of BT’s MmO2 mobile division, said it plans to launch Microsoft’s combined Pocket PC and mobile device in early 2002. The …
KIEV, Ukraine—The Supreme Ukrainian Arbitration Court backed the South Korean Daewoo Corporation in its conflict with the Ukrainian RadioSystems (Wellcom) carrier, in which Daewoo holds a 49-percent stake. The court …
LONDON—Diederik Karsten, chief executive of KPN’s mobile-phone division, intends to leave the company next month, according to a report by The Financial Times. Board director Paul Smits, who recently stepped …
GLOUCESTERSHIRE, United Kingdom—Chronos Technology began offering Globalstar’s packet data satellite service in Europe, with the main applications being remote measurement and telemetry in remote regions where data must be collected …
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Illinois, United States—Motorola said it won a contract to deploy a cdma2000 1x network for CST Invest in the Ukraine for an undisclosed value. “Network deployment is under …
