ATLANTA, United States—Cingular Wireless signed a $500 million supply agreement with Nortel Networks for GSM/General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) infrastructure upgrades in the United States, including Puerto Rico.The agreement includes a TDMA-to-GSM upgrade for the Cingular network in Puerto Rico, the first complete overlay...
NEW DELHI, India—Pak Telecom Mobile Limited, a fully owned subsidiary of Pakistan Telecommunications Corporation offering GSM 900 MHz services under the Ufone brand in Pakistan, announced an expansion plan, including migration to General Packet Radio Service (GPRS).The expansion is in response to Pakistan's accelerating...
HAMILTON, Bermuda—Nokia said it signed an agreement to build a GSM network for BTC Mobility of Bermuda. BTC Mobility was recently granted a GSM license to offer voice and data products and services.The agreement includes core and radio access network equipment, as well as...
ATLANTA—Cingular Wireless signed a supply agreement with Nortel Networks for GSM/GPRS infrastructure upgrades in the United States, including Puerto Rico.Under terms of the $500 million agreement, Nortel will continue to support Cingular's growth needs in its GSM networks in North Carolina, South Carolina, coastal...
BELLEVUE, Wash.—VoiceStream Wireless Corp. released additional information on its fourth quarter and full-year 2001 results showing the carrier added 667,400 net subscribers during the quarter and 2.2 million for the year ending 2001 with nearly 7 million wireless customers. Contract subscribers, often considered more...
JAKARTA, Indonesia—Southeast Asian operators are predicted to face unprecedented growth in data traffic during the coming years. Operators in the region have witnessed a surge in data traffic through short message service (SMS) traffic, followed by General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) offerings in recent...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—A U.K.-based company is claiming that most 2.5-generation (2.5G) applications will be almost impossible to run, given that more than 40 percent of packets can become lost on General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) networks. The firm said that independent trials indicate that...
DUBLIN, Ireland—Trinidad and Tobago's operator, TSTT Mobile Service, will be the first Caribbean carrier to launch prepaid wireless data services on a GPRS network as it just signed a deal to allow Logica install the solution on its networks."In order to get the maximum...
CANNES, France—The mobile industry put on a brave face last week at the annual 3GSM World Congress here, with few signs of the financial downturn the industry is currently enduring showing through to the exhibition halls or the company-rented yachts that line the harbor...
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 the Nordic region.The collaboration includes an option allowing Vodafone to participate in future potential...
CANNES, France—Motorola Inc. made several announcements at this week's 3GSM World congress in Cannes, France.The company announced its partnership with CH2M Hill, a network delivery service provider. According to Motorola, the alliance will provide telecom operators with flexible, timely and cost-effective network solutions that...
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 week at 3GSM World Congress in Cannes, France.FunMail generates animation based on the context...
CANNES, France—Nokia Corp. stamped its feet at the 3GSM World Congress with a series of announcements ranging from open architecture, live demonstrations and Internet Protocol mobility networks.Nokia introduced its Nokia MetroSite Piccolo wideband CDMA base station; the Nokia Advanced Indoor Radio for W-CDMA; the...
CANNES, France—The GSM Association continued to move forward with its wide-ranging M-Services Initiative, announcing the second phase of the program, broad support from the supplier community, and a series of task forces to help develop the wireless data market.The association said its phase two...
CANNES, France-Nokia Corp. and Texas Instruments Inc. will offer mobile handset manufacturers and application developers a complete open and standards-based reference platform, combining Nokia's Series 60 software and development kit, TI's OMAP processor-based reference platforms and development kit, and the Symbian operating system, the...
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 software and high-speed GPRS mobile data networks.Services will include remote access to e-mail, contacts...
PLEASANTON, California, United States—FunMail plans to introduce version 2.0 of the FunMail Wireless Messaging solution, which can process more than 100 animated messages per second, or more than 8 million per day, at the 3GSM show. "This all new 2.0 version of FunMail...
WEXHAM SPRINGS, U.K.—Red-M will demonstrate its wireless Portable Office Solution, a General Packet Radio Service (GPRS)-based system aimed at the mobile workgroup market.The portable office offers connectivity back to corporate local area networks (LANs) and the Internet via GPRS support, while 802.11 wireless LAN...
LONDON—Cable & Wireless announced it has signed BT Cellnet, the U.K. business of mmO2, as a commercial customer of its mobile data roaming service, Cable & Wireless GPRS Roaming Exchange (GRX).Cable & Wireless GRX will allow BT Cellnet access to more than 15 General...
TOKYO—NEC, the leading handset manufacturer in Japan, is going to re-enter the U.S. mobile handset market by the end of March 2003.NEC in 2000 sold its mobile handset factories in Europe and Mexico and terminated manufacturing handsets targeting overseas markets except its Chinese factory....
LONDON—Vodafone Group signed a partner agreement with Finish mobile operator Oy Radiolinja to cooperate in developing, marketing and offering international products and services.Under the agreement, Radiolinja will promote Vodafone's global products and services under a dual "Radiolinja Vodafone" brand to its international travelers and...
GENEVA—Europe’s mobile users will likely wait much longer than expected for next-generation cellular, as the daunting implications of full-scale third-generation (3G) deployment are finally brought home to the region’s 60-plus operators.With many players already having committed hundreds of millions of euros to securing national...
LONDON—Cable & Wireless announced it has signed BT Cellnet, the U.K. business of Mmo2 plc, as a commercial customer of its mobile data roaming service, Cable & Wireless GPRS Roaming Exchange (GRX).Cable & Wireless GRX will allow BT Cellnet access to more than 15...
NEW DELHI, India—BPL Mobile, India's leading GSM service provider, hopes to increase substantially its revenues from non-voice services with its recently launched General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) service in Mumbai.Announcing financial results for the period April to December 2001, the company said revenues from...
