GPRS

NEW YORK-Some recent developments have brightened the longer-term prospects for smart cards in North American wireless communications, although the picture gets cloudier when framed as an immediate prospect. Opportunity is …

TAIWAN Chunghwa Telecom Labs (CHTTL), the technology development group of Taiwan’s state-owned telecommunication operator, has selected Nokia to conduct its third-generation trials. Nokia will provide CHTTL with the core and …

In France, the country where they offer calorie-laden pain au chocolats and croissants for breakfast, keeping one’s weight under control does not seem to be a problem-probably because the locals …

NEW YORK-Motorola Inc. “is learning our way back because we have made a lot of mistakes,” Janiece Webb, senior vice president and general manager of the company’s Internet Software and …

LONDON-BT Cellnet has signed an agreement that allows Nortel Networks to develop its GPRS networks with initial focus on mobile entertainment and business applications. Both companies plan to work together …

HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia signed a contract with Total Access Communications (TAC) to expand TAC’s GSM network in Thailand. The deal, which is valued at more than $150 million, includes Nokia’s GPRS …

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-A year after the launch of mobile Internet services in South America, almost all the cellular telephony operators are offering Internet services, although exclusively in the major cities …

BEIJING-Huawei Technologies, based in China’s southern boomtown of Shenzhen, is poised to become a global player in the telecommunications field. Already China’s largest producer of telephone switches, the company is …

What is the future of the TDMA wireless interface? The issue is far from trivial. TDMA serves more than 60 million digital and 15 million analog customers and stands as …

TORONTO-The move was surprising but not totally unexpected. After many denials, U.S. carrier AT&T Wireless finally announced last November it is switching from TDMA wireless technology to the rival European-developed …

Handsets Sendo European mobile phone manufacturer, Sendo, launched its second product platform, the S200 dual-band GSM mobile phone. Aimed at the young-at-heart prepaid market, features of the small and light …

Alcatel Egypt. With MobiNil for an extension of its GSM network. Value: US$37.1 million France. With Cegetel for the supply of a UMTS network. Value: Undisclosed Ericsson Canada. With Rogers …

As technologies duel and markets discriminate, the impression is growing that TDMA will roll over in the dust trail and exhaust fumes of GSM and CDMA as both whistle past …

Microsoft Corp. threw its rather large hat in the wireless arena at last week’s 3GSM World Congress, announcing plans to launch software aimed at multimedia-enabled phones that leverage its Windows-based …

CANNES-Lucent Technologies Inc. has completed a $70 million agreement with Meteor Mobile Communications, an Irish mobile operator. Meteor’s Lucent-supplied GSM wireless network will be commercially launched immediately in Ireland. The …

Motorola tried to square up to recent hard times with a series of announcements from product launches and contract wins to brokered alliances and games. The announcements made last week …

CANNES, France-GVC Corp. signed a deal for Agere Systems to supply its GPRS Class 8 cell phone chipset and software platform solution for wireless handsets. “We chose Agere Systems’ Class …

GUEMLIGEN, Switzerland-Comfone announced it completed the first stage of testing on its GRX product, which the company said will act as an Internet Protocol backbone to connect GPRS networks to …

LONDON-BABT Product Service, a test, certification and approvals management organization, chose Anite to upgrade its GSM test equipment. Anite will supply the U.K-based group with a GPRS Radio Measurement Tester, …

NEW YORK-Why wait for 3G, whenever that might be, when you can provide multimedia services over wireless networks today? That is the message of Nehemiah Davidson, chief executive officer of …

Texas Instruments Inc., ever seeking a new berth for itself in the chip business, has developed a new device to enable handset manufacturers to build smaller systems with fewer components …

HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. announced it will deliver its GPRS core network and mobile Internet Platform in Latin America to Nuevatel in Bolivia. The deal also includes Nokia’s Professional Services, which …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Ericsson signed an agreement with Sigma for sales and support of the trial version of Ericsson’s R520 handset, the company’s first GPRS telephones based on Bluetooth technology. Endtext

The fat cat of vendors, Nokia Corp., ate humble pie last week despite dishing out a juicy fourth-quarter report. The report, which beat estimates in spite of recent rumblings about …

Openwave Systems Inc., the offspring of Phone.com and Software.com’s recent union, became the darling of Wall Street last week following its announcement to introduce a new browser for packet-based GPRS …