BEIJING—Motorola said it has signed a General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) end-to-end contract to expand China Mobile networks for an undisclosed amount in seven major Chinese provinces and municipalities.The deal, which also includes the supply of GPRS support equipment from Cisco Systems, allows Motorola...
HONK KONG—Motorola signed a three-year, US$44 million contract to supply GSM 1800 MHz infrastructure for Malaysia's carrier Telecom Cellular, whose service name is TM Touch, in two regions in the eastern part of the country."The award will also include the radio-access hardware and software...
HELSINKI, Finland—Nokia began shipping its General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) phones in Europe on 28 September, barely making the third-quarter deadline it had set for itself for commercially offering GPRS handsets. Competing handset vendors Motorola and Ericsson already have several GPRS models on the...
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 GSM areas include Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh West, Tamil Nadu and Kerala.
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 and the "weakened financial condition of Motient Corp."RIM reported revenue for the second quarter...
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 Motorola and Ericsson already have several GPRS models on the European market.According to international...
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 carrier's GPRS network, is aimed at demonstrating the ability of broadcasting rich media content over...
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, according to its new study, "Infrastructure Capex: How much will it cost, and which...
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 confirmation of Ericsson's ratings is based on the expectation that the company will maintain its...
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 research analyst at Frost & Sullivan, many carriers are increasingly focusing on reducing subscriber churn...
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 & Sullivan, many carriers are increasingly focusing on reducing subscriber churn and on keeping high...
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 the two main 3G standards. The company is reported to have requested handset manufacturers...
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 for future small-size cellular networks. HSS also showed GSN-Lite, a solution for the deployment of...
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 plans to sometime this year offer GPRS service to about 40 percent of it U.S....
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 is Sendo's first data phone and is based on Microsoft Corp.'s smart-phone operating...
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 of a study it conducted to determine user interest in multimedia messaging services. The company...
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 marketplace. This business model, the companies say, will tear down the wall between carriers...
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 developer community.GoAmerica said its new wireless Web features would take advantage of emerging standards,...
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 subsidiaries of China Mobile."The network will carry GPRS mobile services and a variety of...
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 the company's total net sales. The company realized 11 percent of its sales in...
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 position in winning third-generation (3G) contracts, predicted that the overall market would achieve nil...
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 after the company released the results of a study it conducted to determine user interest...
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 subsidiaries of China Mobile."The network will carry GPRS mobile services and a variety of...
