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BEIJING—The China Sports Press Association has selected CDMA handsets from Ningbo Bird to be the official mobile phones for Chinese journalists covering the 2002 World Cup finals. The company provided …

DALLAS—Alltel Corp. selected Nortel Networks to supply infrastructure equipment for the planned cdma2000 1x upgrade of its current wireless network and integrate Alltel’s recent purchase of CenturyTel’s wireless network. The …

NEW YORK—A new alliance with Korea Digital Satellite Broadcasting is part of an overall plan for LG Telecom to compete successfully with South Korea’s two larger wireless operators, said Yong …

TOKYO—KDDI, the second-largest operator in Japan, announced that in cooperation with SK Telecom in Korea it launched an image data transmission service between users of the two operators. It is …

WHEATON, Md.—The Shosteck Group believes the replacement rate for handsets will increase from its low point this year, but will remain below peak levels experienced in 1999 and 2000. According …

TOKYO and DENVER, United States—Toshiba, a leading vendor in Japan, announced that it is going to launch Toshiba-branded mobile handsets in the U.S. market in 2003. As a first step …

MURRAY HILL, N.J.—Lucent Technologies said it has equipped more than 25,000 base stations worldwide to support third-generation cdma2000 technology. “This significant milestone underscores our ability to rapidly deploy 3G cdma2000 …

BEIJING—South Korea’s LG Electronics hopes to sell 128,000 CDMA handsets to China Unicom this year. It plans to produce CDMA handsets in a joint venture with Shandong Langchao, in which …

CARACAS, Venezuela—Telcel BellSouth has signed a contract to allow Lucent Technologies Inc. to build its wireless network based on cdma2000 technology. Lucent will upgrade the carrier’s CDMA base stations with …

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—Handspring Inc. next week plans to release a color version of its highly acclaimed Treo mobile phone/personal digital assistant. The Treo 270, which operates much like the currently …

SAN JOSE, California, United States—Worldwide mobile-phone unit sales reached 93.8 million units in the first quarter of 2002, a 3.8-percent decline from first-quarter 2001, according to Dataquest, a unit of …

SAN JOSE, Calif.—Worldwide mobile phone unit sales reached 93.8 million units in the first quarter of 2002, a 3.8-percent decline from first-quarter 2001, according to Dataquest Inc., a unit of …

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.—Openwave Systems Inc. has partnered with Telesp Celular to offer World Cup news updates through interactive, real-time messaging applications. Through Openwave’s PUSH technology and Telesp’s CDMA wireless network, …

BEIJING—China Mobile is to formally launch its General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) nationwide on 17 May under the brand name Monternet. The service, offering high-speed Internet and e-mail, could be …

HELSINKI, Finland—Nokia, the Helsinki-based Finnish wireless equipment supplier, is predicting a dramatic concentration on the vendor side of global telecommunications, believing that the number of major vendors will diminish by …

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia—A second Russian carrier was licensed by the Communications Ministry to build a commercial CDMA network based on the International Mobile Telecommunications–Multi Carrier (IMT-MC) standard. St. Petersburg-based Delta …

NEW DELHI, India—Indian GSM players this week renewed their attempts to stall the rollout of CDMA services—under the name of “limited mobility” wireless local loop (WLL)—by fixed service providers, by …

NEW DELHI, India—The Communications Authority of Thailand (CAT) has decided to revise bidding conditions for the expansion of its CDMA services. The earlier terms required the winning bidder to sign …

VANCOUVER, British Columbia—Wireless corporate access provider Veratium Software Ltd. changed its name to Motivus Software Ltd. and promptly announced a new carrier partnership with Bell Mobility. Bell Mobility will offer …

SUNNYVALE, Calif.—Repeater Technologies Inc. said it shipped the first of several deliveries of its dual-directional repeaters for cdma2000 1x networks to Sercom, a CDMA operator in Guatemala owned by Telgua. …

DUBLIN, Ireland—Following similar deals signed earlier this year with Nokia and Siemens, T-Mobile International has chosen Nortel Networks to supply Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) equipment for its third-generation (3G) …

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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—The Smartcom PCS objective is to overtake Chile’s third-largest operator, BellSouth, this year in subscriber numbers and move from its last-place position to third place. To achieve the …

BEIJING—China Unicom has purchased mobile-Internet technology from Openwave Systems to make its CDMA services more attractive. The company is counting on data services to lure high-end customers to its CDMA …