GPRS

NEW DELHI, India—Ericsson AB said it has signed a $70 million contract to supply GSM and GPRS equipment for Bharti Enterprises in north and south of India. The five new …

WATERLOO, Canada—Research In Motion Ltd. announced earnings in line with many analyst expectations, but lowered its forecasts for the future due to a troubled economy, slow rollouts of GPRS networks …

HELSINKI, Finland—Nokia began shipping its GPRS phones in Europe on Sept. 28, barely making the third-quarter deadline it had set for itself for commercially offering GPRS handsets. Competing handset vendors …

NEW YORK—Emblaze Systems Ltd. announced it is conducting a trial of its Wireless Multimedia Platform for handheld devices over Spanish wireless carrier Telefonica Moviles Espana’s network. The trial, over the …

BOSTON—The Yankee Group predicts that wireless infrastructure spending will increase from $99.4 billion in 2001 to a maximum of $120.2 billion in 2004 before declining to $114.6 billion in 2006, …

NEW YORK—Ericsson received mixed reviews this week from Moody’s Investors Service, which confirmed the company’s investment-grade A3 long-term debt ratings, but changed the ratings outlook to negative from stable. “The …

LONDON—According to a recent Frost & Sullivan study, the pending introduction of General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) may change mobile data access, especially among enterprises. According to Ben Connelly, a …

LONDON—According to a recent Frost & Sullivan study, the pending introduction of GPRS may change mobile data access, especially among enterprises. According to Ben Connelly, a research analyst at Frost …

MADRID, Spain—Ipse 2000, an Italian mobile-phone operator controlled by Spanish Telef

OXFORD, United Kingdom—By the end of 2003, Chris Gent, the chief executive officer of Vodafone, expects 3G handsets to be available that will enable its customers to seamlessly roam between …

SAN DIEGO—India’s Hughes Software Systems showcased several next-generation software solutions at CTIA’s trade show this week. The company displayed its Mobile Application Part (MAP) protocol software for WCDMA network solution …

SAN FRANCISCO—AT&T Wireless Services Inc. announced early this week that it will meet its third-quarter subscriber addition target of 700,000 to 750,000. The company also is on schedule with its …

LONDON-U.K. mobile-phone maker Sendo announced it will use PacketVideo Corp.’s mobile multimedia player software as the streaming video application base for the company’s new Z100 GPRS smart phone. The Z100 …

WOODBURY, N.Y.-Comverse today announced Swedish mobile carrier Europolitan Vodafone will trial Comverse’s multimedia messaging service over its GPRS network. Comverse’s announcement comes a week after the company released the results …

They go by all sorts of names-clearinghouses, hubs and gateways-and they represent companies’ attempts at nailing down the precise formula for a business model aimed at nurturing the wireless Internet …

HACKENSACK, N.J.-GoAmerica Inc. announced new features and services for its Go.Web corporate mobile Internet service, and for the first time the company released its Go.Web application-programming interface to the general …

WOODBURY, New York, United States—Comverse announced Swedish mobile carrier Europolitan Vodafone will trial Comverse’s multimedia messaging service over its General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) network. Comverse’s announcement comes a week …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden—L.M. Ericsson said it has won contracts to build out the provincial Internet backbone networks for Chinese carriers Shandong Mobile, Shanxi Mobile and Inner Mongolia Mobile, all of them …

BEIJING—Jan Malm, President of Ericsson (China) has confirmed that China has become Ericsson’s top market in the first half of this year with sales of US$970 million, 12 percent of …

OXFORD, United Kingdom—Kurt Hellstrom, Ericsson CEO, has given a downbeat view on the cell-phone market claiming there are no clear signs of a recovery. The company, which holds a dominant …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden—L.M. Ericsson said it has won contracts to build out the provincial Internet backbone networks for Chinese carriers Shandong Mobile, Shanxi Mobile and Inner Mongolia Mobile, all of them …

LONDON—Mobile-phone manufacturer Sendo selected PacketVideo Corp.’s mobile multimedia player software as an application for its Z100 GPRS Smartphone, enabling users to access media applications including video messaging, interactive games, and …

LONDON—U.K. mobile-phone maker Sendo today announced it will use PacketVideo Corp.’s mobile multimedia player software as the streaming video application base for the company’s new Z100 GPRS smart phone.The Z100 …

BEIJING, China-Amid slowing subscriber growth worldwide, China still shows a healthy increase in mobile-phone users. The country’s two mobile-phone operators are each offering new services-one General Packet Radio Service (GPRS), …

TORONTO-Canadian wireless carriers are bracing for tougher times as they gear up for faster 2.5-generation (2.5G) services. The four national carriers-Bell Mobility, Microcell, Rogers AT&T Wireless and Telus Mobility-posted disappointing …