VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Canada-Sierra Wireless said its AirCard 555 will be available from Thailand's Hutchison CAT Wireless Multimedia, a cdma2000 1x operator. The AirCard 55 is a wide area PC card that wirelessly enables laptops and handhelds for data services.
HONG KONG-Although the recent decision by Hutchison Whampoa Ltd. to provide a $1 billion capital infusion into Hutchison 3G U.K., of which it owns 65 percent, will have no immediate impact on the parent company's investment-grade A3 bond rating, Moody's Investors Service said it...
SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-A filing on the Federal Communications Commission's Web site seems to have inadvertently revealed details and pictures of an unannounced Motorola Inc. mobile phone that features an array of advanced features, including picture and video capabilities.The Motorola A920 seems to use the Symbian...
LONDON-Hutchison 3G U.K., which is in the process of a phased third-generation service launch in the United Kingdom, has placed funding calls to equity partners NTT DoCoMo Inc. and KPN Mobile for commitments to provide additional funding through shareholder loans.Hutchison has asked NTT DoCoMo,...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—Having launched its first W-CDMA handset in Cannes last month, Sony Ericsson is trying to convince Hutchison that it does have a medium-term third-generation (3G) cell-phone strategy in an attempt to secure a volume contract for the device. The two firms are...
HELSINKI, Finland-Sweden's telecom regulator PTS has confirmed the receipt of a "written submission" from mobile operator Orange requesting transfer of its third-generation (3G) license to a new subsidiary company in Sweden. The PTS has described the petition as "strong and considered," a view not...
NEW DELHI, India-Hutchison CAT Wireless MultiMedia, a joint venture of Hutchison and the Thai government's Communications Authority of Thailand (CAT), has formally rolled out its CDMA mobile-phone service in Bangkok and the central provinces.However, CAT's network expansion project in areas other than Bangkok and...
LONDON-U.K. newcomer Hutchison 3G has released additional pricing details for its third-generation service, dubbed "3," which it says will formally launch on March 3, with "pre-orders" beginning online Feb. 22. The operator also announced two types of pricing, a "pay-as-you-go" scheme and two bundled...
LONDON-LogicaCMG, which offers information technology services and wireless messaging products, said its merger and integration process is "progressing well and to plan."The company said performance for the combined business was in line with expectations and that margins have been maintained on lower revenues.In the...
HELSINKI, Finland-Hong Kong-based Hutchison Whampoa and Swedish venture group Investor are planning a spring launch for their so-called 3 mobile telephony service in Sweden. Company chiefs insist the new mobile service will return a profit on operations within five years. Hutchison and Investor are...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson and Hutchison Whampoa Ltd. signed a global agreement for Hutchison to use Ericsson's Video Gateway System for its video offerings on its third-generation networks worldwide. The system supports video telephony between personal computers and 3G devices.The two companies are testing the...
HONG KONG-For debt-choked Western operators, third-generation (3G) profits have proven to be a mirage, and if the technology can be made viable, it will likely happen first in Asia.At the ITU Telecom Asia event held in Hong Kong last month, all the ingredients for...
OSLO, Norway-Mobile operator Orange confirmed Thursday it would back out of the Swedish mobile market, a move that had been widely predicted due to the financial problems of owner France Telecom. The company cited increasing pressure from Sweden's communications regulatory agency, the PTS, amid...
HELSINKI, Finland-The Moscow-based Sistema Joint Stock Financial Corporation (Sistema) has approached several leading Finnish telecom companies and venture capital houses in search of Western technical expertise and funds to conduct a mixed US$1 billion mobile technology investment in India. The bulk of Sistema's proposed...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Austrian operator Mobilkom Austria has awarded L.M. Ericsson a service assurance contract with an undisclosed value. The agreement will allow Mobilkom Austria to have one focus point for monitoring network and application performance, Ericsson said.The system delivered to Austria's leading wireless carrier includes...
MELBOURNE, Australia-Vodafone indicated this week it is interested in buying Hutchison Telecommunications' A$3 billion (US$1.7 billion) third-generation (3G) mobile-phone network in a bid to get an early foothold in Australia's wireless data market.The managing director of Vodafone Australia, Grahame Maher, was reported as saying...
HELSINKI, Finland-DNA Finland, the Finnish regional telecom group, has displaced Virgin Mobile as the lead contender to acquire Telia Mobile's network operations in Finland. DNA is reported to have placed a bid worth US$102 million for Telia Mobile Finland (TMF). The offer is believed...
In spite of mammoth debt, operators are beginning to loosen their purse strings to buy equipment again, according to a report by market research firm Dell'Oro Group.The report said Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) equipment revenue jumped fourfold to about US$800 million in the...
In spite of mammoth debt, operators are beginning to loosen their purse strings to buy equipment again, according to a report by market research firm Dell'Oro Group.The report said UMTS equipment revenue jumped fourfold to about $800 million in the third quarter of this...
MANCHESTER, United Kingdom-Among the key issues worrying investors and wireless protagonists surrounding European third-generation (3G) in Germany and France includes the question of how many operators the markets can support.Skeptics are coming out of the wireless woodwork to question whether greenfield operators can survive...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-Having consistently stated that it would be the first to launch a third-generation (3G) service in the United Kingdom, Hutchison has now commented that the timing, always set for the end of 2002, might be in doubt depending on the progress made...
HELSINKI, Finland and OSLO, Norway-Hutchison Whampoa and Investor-backed Hi3G, which will operate under the brand name "3," will join Swedish third-generation (3G) license holders seeking rollout extensions. Hi3G has confirmed its intention to ask Swedish telecom authority PTS for an extension of the deadline...
TOKYO-NEC, a leading telecom vendor in Japan, announced it won an additional order for third-generation (3G) handsets from Hutchison Whampoa. Under the initial contract with Hutchison, NEC was to provide 1 million 3G handsets for the Hong Kong-based company. According to NEC, NEC won...
