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 news and sports highlights.The tri-band Sendo phone operates on GSM 900, 1800 and 1900...
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 is Sendo's first data phone and is based on Microsoft Corp.'s smart phone operating...
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), the other CDMA. Handset manufacturing is also soaring, with domestic suppliers narrowing the still...
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 second-quarter results, reflecting the overall slowdown in the market."Canadian pricing is even more competitive...
KIEV, Ukraine-Ukraine has witnessed a wireless market boom during the past 18 months, with the number of subscribers jumping from 300,000 to 1.35 million and GSM taking a firm lead among other technologies. The country's wireless penetration during the past six months increased from...
AlcatelParis. With Orascom Telecom for the supply and installation of GSM solutions in the Middle East and Africa.Value: Undisclosed. Brazil. With Telemar for a GSM 1800/GPRS network in Brazil.Value: US$275 millionMoscow. With ZAO SMARTS for GSM 900 MHz solutions to extend networks in the...
DENVER, United States-Nearly 10 years after the introduction of cellular services in West Africa, the number of mobile subscribers has increased to such an extent that it is rapidly becoming the epicenter of the communications market in the region-the focus shifting from fixed to...
DUBLIN, Ireland-General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) has been dogged by delays and technical problems ever since it emerged as the mobile industry's bridge between GSM and third-generation (3G) technology. But the modest development of other so-called 2.5G platforms should ensure that GPRS becomes more...
NEW DEHLI, India—Bharti Enterprises, India's leading cellular service provider, finalized agreements with three vendors—Ericsson, Seimens and Motorola—for the supply of infrastructure equipment. The value of the contracts totals US$150 million dollars.Ericsson will supply complete end-to-end infrastructure, intelligent network (IN) architecture, base stations and General...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Like rival Motorola, L.M. Ericsson said it has started licensing its GPRS and third-generation handset technologies to other manufacturers of mobile phones and wireless devices."Ericsson technology platforms will include complete component specifications, printed circuit board layouts and software," said the company in a...
HONG KONG-Motorola Inc. and Hutchison Telecommunications (Hong Kong) Ltd. announced the commercial launch of a second-generation dual-band wireless network in Macau, a special administrative territory of the People's Republic of China. Motorola said it has installed macro and micro GSM 900/1800 MHz communications network...
TOKYO—104 Inc., a leading mobile Internet platform provider, along with CMG Wireless Data Solution, a business unit of CMG Group, will jointly provide a platform for mobile Internet content distribution. The firms announced the agreement on Aug. 15. Based on the deal, both firms...
According to new reports from two major analyst firms, wireless data will be a huge business in the future, but not before software vendors, systems integrators and-especially-wireless carriers get in gear and make the tough decisions to take advantage of the situation.The mobile Internet...
With wireless operators expected to spend billions of dollars in the next several years introducing high-speed data capabilities onto their networks, the need for a return on investment is paramount. If consumer's current uptake of wireless data is any indication, ROI may be hard...
BUCHAREST, Romania—Joseph C. Grioli, managing director of Vodafone Malta, officially launched the General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) pilot project, which is available to all Vodafone subscribers in Malta."It is my pleasure to bring to the Maltese public 2.5G technology and make it available to...
BUCHAREST, Romania—According to the Romanian newspaper Ziarul Financiar, Ted Lattimore, president and chief operating officer (COO) of MobiFon, said the company is interested in buying a Romanian 3G license.Lattimore said that he does not know how much the UMTS license will cost. The price...
BIRMINGHAM, U.K.-Microsoft has taken a stake in U.K. mobile handset newcomer Sendo Holdings. Microsoft's smart phone platform, code named Stinger, is used on Sendo's Z100 smart phone, set to launch at the end of the year or early in 2002.The value of the stake...
Republic of GeorgiaMagticom said it has completed its first GPRS call within its wireless network in the Republic of Georgia with Motorola's end-to-end solution. Motorola said it hopes to launch the services commercially to Magticom's 140,000 mobile subscribers in the near future.PortugalL.M. Ericsson said...
Analysts wonder whether Motorola Inc. can reconcile its handset and semiconductor businesses in light of its announcement to sell its semiconductor technology to other manufacturers, including its rivals."That's where the confusion comes in," noted Jane Zweig, chief executive officer of The Shostek Group, adding...
Nortel Networks Corp., L.M. Ericsson and Siemens AG may be the major vendors to improve their harvests from the new balance of power that the third generation of technologies will generate in the European GSM infrastructure space, according to a new report by The...
VANCOUVER, Canada-The consequences of Metricom Inc.'s bankruptcy continue to ripple through the wireless industry, most recently forcing a serious drop in revenues for wireless modem maker Sierra Wireless Inc.The company announced its second-quarter results, ended June 30, showing revenues of $16 million-well below the...
OTC WirelessOTC Wireless unveiled its AirEZY-Access Management Unit, a product designed to make managing LAN and MAN networks easier. "Our new AirEZY AMU allows for massive scalability coupled with many desired management capabilities," said Kim Gough director of sales and marketing for OTC Wireless....
NEW YORK-OmniSky Corp., a San Francisco-based wireless Internet service provider, has taken a series of steps recently to expand the number and kinds of devices with which it can communicate.This month, the company began offering support for the Hewlett-Packard Pavilion notebook personal computer and...
CellStar Corp. said the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has informed it that the investigation into its compliance with federal securities laws has been terminated. "We are pleased to put this matter behind us and have believed from the beginning that the company complied...
