ChinaChinese Internet portal Sohu.com said its content will be expanded to mobile networks in several Chinese provinces. The content, including news, stock quotes, travel information and weather data, is used today by operators in nine provinces. China has experienced only lackluster wireless Internet use,...
TORONTO-Mobile-commerce security firm Diversinet Corp. said Gemplus has embedded its public key infrastructure security technology in its GemXplore Trust SIM cards.The joint solution is aimed at bringing greater security to GSM network m-commerce applications, the two said.
Deutsche Telekom AG executives found themselves justifying the price the German company paid for Voice-Stream Wireless Corp. as it detailed the new deal to analysts last week."The price is fair," said Kai-Uwe Ricke, chief executive officer of T-Mobil International, DT's mobile carrier arm. "Traditional...
AT&T Wireless Services Inc. said it will offer two-way short messaging service later this year, giving the carrier a more seamless data offering with its affiliates.AT&T Wireless offers SMS service today and relaunched its PocketNet service, based on Cellular Digital Packet Data service, earlier...
TantauTantau Software Inc. released its Wireless Internet Platform version 2, which features enhancements for back-end connectivity, content personalization and information delivery. In addition, the company announced a strategic agreement with Hewlett-Packard Co. to co-market mobile e-services solutions designed for financial institutions that combine the...
NEW YORK-Any wireless carrier that frets about competition on its turf should consider SmarTone Telecommunications Holdings Ltd., the fourth licensee in Hong Kong.The city-state has a population of 6.9 million, of whom 4 million already are mobile customers. Serving this market are six mobile...
Qualcomm Inc.'s financial results came in line with consensus estimates last week, but the company expects falling chip sales because of slower handset sales anticipated in South Korea.Marc Cabi, managing director with Credit Suisse First Boston, downgraded Qualcomm to a "hold" rating, and reduced...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s Network Solutions Sector signed 10 digital cellular network expansion contracts with China Unicom. The contracts are valued at about $300 million.Terms of the contracts call for Motorola to expand China Unicom's Global System for Mobile communications 900 networks in eight...
WASHINGTON-An official bid for VoiceStream Wireless Corp. has reportedly emerged.According to press reports, Deutsche Telekom AG has offered more than $50 billion for the GSM operator. The Wall Street Journal said Friday both companies' boards plan to consider the deal during the weekend, which...
The Third Generation Partnership Project, a standards body initially established by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute to work on W-CDMA technology, last week agreed to include standards work on GSM technology as well.The organizational partners, which consist of standards-development bodies from the United States,...
Amid weeks of speculation and analyst prodding, Lucent Technologies Inc. announced plans to spin off its $4 billion microelectronics business. The company is planning an initial public offering for up to 20 percent of the new company in the first quarter 2001, with the...
NigeriaMotorola Inc. was awarded a $21 million expansion contract from Intercellular Nigeria Ltd. to supply and deploy a Code Division Multiple Access fixed wireless loop network in Nigeria. Motorola's Network Solutions Sector said it will deploy its CDMA WiLL infrastructure at 800 MHz providing...
AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and BT Wireless announced the first phase of their strategic alliance designed to create seamless mobile communications services worldwide for global travelers and multinational companies.The carriers nine months ago announced the alliance called Advance, which complements the companies' cooperation in...
Let the bidding frenzy begin. Possibilities are blowing open now that Sprint Corp. and WorldCom Inc. ended their $115 billion merger plans and reports of suitors for VoiceStream Wireless Corp. circulated last week.Germany's Deutsche Telekom AG and a partnership of Japanese operator NTT DoCoMo...
NEW YORK-Turkcell Iletisim Hizmetleri A.S., the largest of Turkey's two operating Global System for Mobile communications carriers, raised about $1.9 billion in its initial public offering last week.Goldman Sachs International and Morgan Stanley Dean Witter were joint global coordinators for the sale, which comprised...
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. was selected by four European mobile operators to provide General Packet Radio Service core network infrastructure solutions to their existing Global System for Mobile communications networks.Nokia will integrate its GPRS solution into the existing GSM networks of France's Cegetel, Germany's E-Plus,...
The Netherlands opened its auction for five third-generation Universal Mobile Telecommunications Services mobile-phone licenses Thursday, and immediately two of the eight bidding companies bowed out. Hutchison 3G Netherlands and Nogenta Swedish Acquisitions withdrew from the auction just as it was getting under way. The...
NEW YORK-Telstra Corp., Australia's dominant telecommunications provider, "hates to be considered an incumbent because we transitioned to a New Age company years ago," said Philip Wise, managing director of its Mobile Consumer Division.To provide a full suite of services, the company is involved in...
LONDON-Virgin Atlantic said it will use a system developed by British Telecommunications plc which will allow passengers to charge air-to-ground calls to their Global System for Mobile communications accounts and receive mobile calls on the plane's handsets.The passenger will swipe a Mobile Connect card...
ChinaMotorola Inc.'s Network Solutions Sector signed two contracts to provide its Global System for Mobile communications network infrastructure in China. The first contract, with Tianjin Mobile Communications Corp., calls for Motorola to install a GSM 1800 network by the first quarter of next year,...
NEW YORK-Developers of devices and applications for wireless communications strutted their stuff, offering new, nearly new and soon-to-debut products and services at this year's MobileFocus.Giving more gumption to handheld computers is the design of at least five of the companies at this bite-sized trade...
Analysts these days are seeing rays of hope for Nokia Mobile Phone's dismal market share in the CDMA handset business.The world's largest mobile-phone manufacturer dominates the global Time Division Multiple Access and Global System for Mobile communications handset markets, but its market share in...
NEW YORK-SBC Wireless hopes to take a bite out of the Big Apple as one part of a territorial and services expansion plan accompanying combining its wireless operations with those of BellSouth Corp.With the closing of the joint venture agreement, which is expected in...
MONTREAL-Telesystem International Wireless Inc.'s Central/Eastern European subsidiary ClearWave N.V. filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission in the United States for an initial public offering of ordinary class A shares.TIW said that concurrently with the IPO, certain existing shareholders in Romanian...
