RESTON, Va.—Nextel Communications Inc. introduced the Motorola Inc. P280 and v60 iDEN handsets for international users."The Motorola P280 and v60 allow our customers to expand their reach just by swapping the Worldwide Service-activated SIM card to maintain their current phone numbers and cellular services...
LONDON—Red-M announced a new in-building mobile voice strategy and roadmap that it believes will reduce call costs, lower voice infrastructure costs and improve employee productivity.According to Red-M, the solution integrates voice into Genos wirelessware and a new category of Bluetooth voice and data access...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—According to one of the United Kingdom's largest cell-phone retailers, Carphone Warehouse, less than 1 percent of the 170,000 customers that purchased General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) phones signed up for the high-speed service. The company said that while GPRS phones made...
TOKYO—NEC, the largest telecom vendor in Japan, announced it will expand its procurement of mobile handsets from China to 200 billion yen (US$1.6 billion) in fiscal 2002. NEC is going to launch General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) handsets targeting the European market in fiscal...
TOKYO—J-Phone, a Vodafone Group operator in Japan, announced it will postpone its third-generation (3G) service launch until December to provide "global standard service." J-Phone had previously planned to launch its 3G service on 30 June.Prior to the nationwide commercial service launch in December, J-Phone...
TOKYO—KDDI, the second-largest telecom operator in Japan, on 1 April launched its third-generation (3G) service based on cdma2000 1x technology, entering the highly competitive Japanese high-speed data market.In Japan, NTT DoCoMo, the country’s leading operator, launched its 3G service under the brand name of...
DUBLIN, Ireland—Hutchison 3G, part of the Hutchison Whampoa Group, signed a contract with software developer Network365 for the provision of mobile payment software across eight countries, including the six European countries in which the company has third-generation (3G) interests.The contract, which is expected to...
NEW YORK—Medis Technologies Ltd., which is developing direct liquid ethanol fuel cells for use in wireless handsets and other portable electronic devices, has received notice the U.S. Patent Office plans to grant it a patent for a new class of catalyst called a "gas...
TOKYO—Coca-Cola Japan, NTT DoCoMo and Itochu jointly announced that they will establish Coca-Cola vending machines with which i-mode users can purchase a can of Coke without cash using i-mode mobile terminals throughout Japan. Starting in April, the three firms will set up several hundred...
BEIJING—China's Eastern Communications (Eastcom) announced it is halting its 123.08 million yuan (US$14.87 million) effort to develop its own proprietary mobile-phone technology to compete with foreign vendors.The company mentioned its efforts were just not good enough.Demand for Eastcom's mobile handsets was weak last year,...
TOKYO—KDDI, the second-largest telecom operator in Japan, announced it will launch a field trial for credit card settlement using third-generation (3G) handsets in the fourth quarter. Four leading credit card companies in Japan, including JCB Company and UC Card Company, will join the field...
ROME—The market for messaging services continues to lead the development of the worldwide wireless data industry, as shown by several news announcements.First, the GSM Association released figures showing the massive and continuing success of short message services throughout the world. According to the group,...
RESTON, Va.—Nextel Communications Inc. and Motorola Inc. reported the successful testing of voice coder software designed to nearly double Nextel's wireless voice capacity, and they said Motorola will deliver a software release enabling traveling capability for Nextel's Direct Connect service allowing users to roam...
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.—Openwave Systems Inc. said it plans to perform a testing program to confirm if its MMS Client, MMS server and its WAP Gateway interoperates with Nokia's MMS-enabled handsets such as 7650 and the Nokia MMS server solution."The testing resulting in interoperability between...
TOKYO—Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications, a joint venture of Sony and Ericsson, is going to set up a subsidiary in China for producing third-generation (3G) handsets, Nikkei Shimbun reported on 8 April. Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications was established by the two firms in October 2001...
Send press releases of new products for consideration for future "Products" updates to Global Wireless Products Handsets/devicesNokiaNokia introduced several new handsets that feature multimedia messaging service (MMS) capability, Java ...
HELSINKI, Finland—Norwegian telecom operator Telenor's competitors in Scandinavia are puzzled by the Oslo-based operator's decision to price at the high end for multimedia messaging services (MMS). Telenor intends to charge MMS users a price of US$1.40 to send images and pictures via their cell...
BEIJING—Following a three-month trial period, China Unicom launched commercial services on its CDMA network on 8 April.The trial period went less smoothly than the company had hoped, as it failed to convince potential customers of the advantages of CDMA over GSM. A lack of...
KANSAS CITY, Mo.—Sprint PCS launched its Project Connect nationwide phone collection and recycling campaign benefiting Easter Seals and the National Organization on Disability. Wireless users are being asked to donate their previously used handsets at Sprint stores and participating Easter Seals locations where they...
TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo Inc. said has begun to concentrate on profits instead of sales following reports the wireless company will fall short of its originally forecasted subscribers additions to its recently introduced third-generation FOMA service.While still the dominate wireless provider in Japan, DoCoMo reported signing...
ORLANDO, Florida, United States—Following on a meeting of operators and vendors with an interest in Enhanced Data Rates for Global Evolution (EDGE) technology at the 3GSM World Congress in France last month, the EDGE Operators Forum officially formed and met in Orlando in March...
NEW DELHI, India—Handset manufacturers worried about the disturbing trend of low sales in European and U.S. markets can take comfort from emerging trends in the Asia-Pacific region. All research findings and market conditions in the region point to robust growth in handset shipments during...
HAUPPAUGE, N.Y.-Problems with Qualcomm Inc. CDMA chipsets and delays in carrier approvals of new handsets led to a disappointing first fiscal quarter for Audiovox Corp.The company reported net sales for the quarter ended Feb. 28 of $191 million, compared with sales of $331 million...
