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ESPOO, Finland-Nokia Corp. signed agreements to expand Global System for Mobile communications networks for two carriers in China. An agreement with Jiangxi Post and Telecommunications Administration China calls for Nokia …

HELSINKI, Finland-Cellular penetration rates recently reached 40 percent in Finland, according to Mikael Akermarck, senior researcher with the Finnish Ministry of Transport. The increased demand is attributable to factors including …

SK Telecom Co. Ltd., South Korea’s largest cellular operator, has completed test trials of third-generation services, which it expects to offer to the public at the 2002 World Cup in …

INDIANAPOLIS-Brightpoint Inc. signed a letter of intent with Nokia Corp. and extended an alliance with L.M. Ericsson to distribute wireless phones in the United States. Under terms of the agreement …

It is unclear whether the wireless communications industry will be recession proof in the Asia-Pacific region if certain currencies there continue to fall taking economic growth with them. Beginning with …

NEW YORK-The Wireless Alliance L.L.C. is testing a dual-mode service that would allow callers to dial one phone number to reach customers on either their cellular or personal communications services …

CHICAGO-Duff & Phelps Credit Rating Co. assigned a BBB rating to Aerial Communications Inc.’s $100 million proposed offering of 10-year series B zero coupon notes. The notes are unconditionally guaranteed …

CARROLLTON, Texas-Wireless phone distributor CellStar Corp. completed a $135 million multiple currency revolving credit facility, giving it the ability to borrow in various currencies for meeting capital needs and growth …

CTIA clarifies role in standardization Dear Editor: As initiator of the CTIA Ad-Hoc Group on Phone-to-Vehicle Interfaces (VIF), I was disturbed to read in your Sept. 22 edition that CTIA …

SEOUL-It was only fitting that the future of Code Division Multiple Access technology was discussed in South Korea at the 2nd CDMA International Conference. Since SK Telecom launched the country’s …

Could this be the year for wireless data? Although proponents of wireless data are no doubt tired of being asked that question, some announcements this week certainly have to cause …

NAPERVILLE, Ill.-Spyglass Inc. announced it has licensed its Spyglass Prism content conversion technology to Nokia Telecommunications. The Prism technology answers needs of wireless users browsing the Web, said Spyglass. It …

OCTOBER 27-28 Telecommunications Law and Regulation Fundamentals: Your Roadmap to Opportunities, Options and Obstacles in this New Era, by Government Institutes. Arlington, Va. (301) 921-2345. 27-28 Wireless Local Loop-Asean ’97 …

OCTOBER 20-21 Wireless Business Telephone Systems Seminar, by Alexander Resources. Dallas. (800) 948-8225. 20-22 Discovering the Value of LMDS, by Shorecliff Communications International and RCR Publications Inc. ANA Hotel, San …

United States Cellular Corp. was once again the cash cow in Telephone and Data Systems Inc.’s family of wireless businesses during the third quarter. USCC’s net income increased 38.6 percent …

Espoo, FINLAND-The Quadrant Consortium, which is comprised of British Telecommunications plc, Nokia Corp., Motorola Inc. and TRW, has been authorized by the British government to begin work on the specification …

NEW YORK-Established and new entrants to the wireless handset manufacturing sector are sitting pretty on the crest of a wave of growing worldwide demand, said participants in the NatWest Securities …

Personal communications services operators Western Wireless and Aerial Communications Inc. each launched a service last week that will allow subscribers to receive e-mail messages using their PCS phones. Western Wireless …

Nokia Corp. and MobileOne of Singapore signed an agreement to expand MobileOne’s Global System for Mobile communications network capacity to accommodate about 200,000 customers. Nokia values the arrangement at more …

ESPOO, Finland-Nokia introduced a new handset for the Nordic Mobile Telephone 450 standard, called the Nokia 550, which it touts as the smallest and lightest NMT 450 phone in the …

IRVING, Texas-Nokia Corp. announced its new Time Division Multiple Access IS-136 wireless handset, called the Nokia 2160i, will be equipped with a Nokia-developed enhanced full rate vocoder. The EFR ACELP …

Clearnet Communications Inc. launched its Mike enhanced specialized mobile radio network in Ottawa-Hull. The Ottawa-Hull, Ontario, network covers nearly 1 million people in the region-on the Ontario-Quebec border-including Aylmer, Barrhaven, …

Rank Company Name 1996 Revenues (000) 1 Matsushita Electric Inds. Co. Ltd. $63,192,000 2 NEC Corp. $41,174,000 3 Motorola Inc. $27,973,000 4 Lucent Technologies Inc. $23,286,000 5 Ericsson (L.M.) Telephone …

Rank Company Name 1996 Net Income (000) 1 Motorola Inc. $1,154,000 2 Lucent Technologies Inc. $1,054,000 3 Ericsson (L.M.) Telephone $1,034,152 4 NEC Corp. $718,000 5 Nokia Corp. $654,460 6 …

Espoo, FINLAND-Nokia Corp., L.M. Ericsson, Motorola Inc. and Unwired Planet Inc. will work together to define a common protocol for wireless data technologies. The initial proposal to consolidate the technologies …