Handsets

MOSCOW—The Ukrainian Mobile Communications (UMC) carrier announced the launch of General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) test trials saying the system would be technically ready in the third quarter this year.“Equipment …

TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo Inc. said it has solved a technical problem disrupting operation of its Digital mova P503I Hyper mobile phone. The technical problems affected voice and e-mail reception of the …

BEIJING—One of the major Chinese producers of mobile handsets, TCL, plans to enlarge its manufacturing plant from 5,000 square meters to 80,000 square meters to increase its annual capacity to …

SILVER SPRING, Md.-Wireless service provider IMC WorldCell announced it now offers Iridium Satellite phones and service, expanding WorldCell coverage to hard-to-reach places across the globe. Traveling WorldCell customers can rent …

RALEIGH, N.C.-High Speed Net Solutions (d/b/a Summus), developer of mobile multimedia solutions, announced a new video solution that runs applications on cellular handsets enabled by Qualcomm Inc.’s BREW technology. High …

SILVER SPRING, Maryland, United States—Wireless service provider IMC WorldCell announced it now offers Iridium Satellite phones and service, expanding WorldCell coverage to hard-to-reach places across the globe. Traveling WorldCell customers …

OXFORD, United Kingdom—In what appears to have been a politically motivated decision, the France Telecom-owned mobile operator Orange has dropped handsets developed by Ericsson and Siemens while retaining cell phones …

NEW YORK-The disjointed approach of the diverse players involved in mobile data communications is a major hindrance to their ability to capitalize on the potential of the corporate enterprise market, …

WASHINGTON—A group of 16 House Democrats on 31 July warned the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) not to grant the waiver requests of wireless carriers seeking to delay implementation of enhanced …

SAN DIEGO, United States—Qualcomm said it has signed an agreement with Gemplus to roll out hardware and software solutions to enable cdmaOne and cdma2000 with removable user identity modules (R-UIM).“Rolling …

BEIJING—Japan’s Hitachi is negotiating with China’s Hisense Group to set up a mobile handset manufacturing joint venture in China in the second half of the year. In September last year, …

BEDMINSTER, New Jersey, United States—While cdma2000 1x handsets are not expected to be available until the fourth quarter, Verizon Wireless upgraded its network in parts of New York and northern …

The nation’s largest wireless carrier created another plot twist in the ongoing E911 saga, filing a waiver petition with the Federal Communications Commission last Wednesday asking to change its location …

ZURICH, Switzerland-L.M. Ericsson has signed a Bluetooth agreement to integrate its radio and baseband Internet protocol products into personal digital assistants, handsets and mobile phones manufactured by Arima, Taiwanese original …

Republic of Georgia Magticom 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 …

Popularity is not without problems. Approximately 3.5 million of the cellular phones manufactured every year end up in landfills across the country, according to industry estimates. The Environmental Protection Agency …

WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association again last week pressured the public-safety community to make firm commitments as to the deployment of enhanced 911 service. With a looming Oct. 1 …

While Japan’s largest wireless operator, NTT DoCoMo Inc., continues to trial its 3G network in select portions of Tokyo, speculation continues to circulate that the planned October launch of commercial …

With as many as six wireless operators to choose from in some markets, wireless carriers have to work overtime to keep their customers from jumping ship. While customer churn industrywide …

While Nokia Corp. is the hands-down leader for mobile handsets shipped in the United States, the handset giant only holds a 7-percent market share for CDMA phones sold in the …

As a counterfoil to a slackening economy, chip makers are striking up alliances, shrinking their product sizes and paring down prices to differentiate themselves in the face of layoffs, reduced …

Wireless and politics Dear Editor: Correct me if I am wrong, but is your publication a trade tabloid directed to the needs of those involved in the wireless communications business? …

WASHINGTON-A congressional report due out later this summer is expected to determine that a Pentagon study-which cast doubt on making military spectrum available for third-generation wireless services-is incomplete and needs …

WASHINGTON-In a major development that could leverage political pressure to force mobile-phone carriers to make greater public-safety use of their networks, the first-ever demonstration of emergency wireless messaging went off …

HAUPPAUGE, N.Y.-Audiovox Communications Corp. said it was ranked No. 1 in the United States in delivering CDMA handsets for 2000, with a 20.9 percent market share, in Dataquest’s year-end 2000 …