HOUSTON-Tower owner and operator Crown Castle International Corp.'s fourth-quarter 2002 results released late Wednesday reflected lower total revenues, but an increase in site rental and broadcast transmission revenues and an improved net loss. The company reported total revenue of $228 million, down from...
BERVERTON, Ore.-Tektronix Inc. said it has agreed to extend its partnership with China's Research Institute of Telecommunications Transmission to develop GPRS networks and elements."Tektronix' history in China and its ongoing efforts to enable successful mobile network deployments in our country have encouraged us to...
BEIJING-Qualcomm and China Unicom will jointly launch a GSM 1x trial in China's Suzhou in the second quarter of the year. The purpose is to enable China Unicom's GSM subscribers to enjoy the high-speed data transmission offered by its CDMA 1x service.If successful, the...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-Mobile network operator MTN Nigeria announced it has broken the 1 million subscriber barrier, the first network operator in the country to achieve this. In addition, the company announced it would invest US$60 million for the company to immediately embark on a...
ATLANTA-Internet service provider EarthLink said it will sell wireless laptop modems running over a national CDMA 1xRTT network, a move that further expands the ISP's wireless strategy.EarthLink wouldn't say what network it is reselling-either that of Sprint PCS or Verizon Wireless.EarthLink's new EarthLink Wireless...
WASHINGTON-In an issue that could pit Japan and other Asian countries against the European Union (EU) at a major telecom meeting later this year in Geneva, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) quietly decided late last year to delay the rollout of fourth-generation (4G) mobile-phone...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-Nigerian President Olsegun Obasanjo has cautioned GSM mobile operators against charging too-high tariffs for their services. Obasanjo made the remarks while at the official opening of the national microwave transmission backbone built by MTN Nigeria in Lokoja, Kogi state.Obasanjo said that while...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Two Swedish mobile equipment suppliers announced plans to merge through a share exchange. LGP Telecom Holding, which manufactures radio coverage and data transmission products, said it will merge with antenna maker Allgon AB.The combined group will have an annual turnover pro forma of...
TORONTO-Canadian carrier Bell Mobility announced it will begin offering basic location-based services through its new MyFinder application and that it plans to expand the service with additional features.The service will first be available to users in Quebec and Ontario, and Bell Mobility said it...
TORONTO-Canadian carrier Bell Mobility announced it will begin offering basic location-based services through its new MyFinder application and that it plans to expand the service with additional features.The service will first be available to users in Quebec and Ontario, and Bell Mobility said it...
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia-St. Petersburg-based Delta Telecom, an NMT 450 MHz carrier, launched the first commercial cdma2000 1x network based on the International Mobile Telecommunications-Multi Carrier (IMT-MC) standard and operating in the 450 MHz band.The network, under the Sky Link trademark, will initially target middle...
TORONTO-Canadian carrier Bell Mobility announced it will begin offering basic location-based services through its new MyFinder application and that it plans to expand the service with additional features.The service will first be available to users in Quebec and Ontario, and Bell Mobility said it...
NEW YORK-Spirea AB, Kista, Sweden, a developer of integrated radio-frequency solutions for the short-range wireless markets, will make available during the second quarter of 2003 two new transceiver chips for 802.11 standards.The b-TraC is optimized for 27.5 Megabits per second transmission on 802.11b and...
BOSTON-TDK Systems introduced its Bluetooth application version 1.3 software designed to allow Bluetooth devices to exchange voice, images and data in support of advanced applications including MMS and imaging applications.The company explained the software will enable users to transfer images between picture phones, laptops...
Once the domain of top secret British agents with licenses to kill, wireless handsets that include cameras are now available to the common man as wireless carriers and handset manufacturers continue to slowly introduce the devices.Like most high-tech electronic equipment, these hybrids got their...
Operators are continuing to cut wireless prices in order to try to court new customers to capture a larger share of fourth-quarter subscriber additions. The fourth quarter historically has been the busiest time of year for the industry.After reporting it lost customers in the...
Even though accessing wireless data using wireless local area networks is a questionable revenue driver for wireless carriers, any operator without a clear 802.11b-based business model is seen by many in the industry as being behind the times. The buzz surrounding WLAN technology based...
TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo, the largest mobile operator in Japan, will launch a flat rate mobile service in the second quarter of 2003, the company said on Thursday.According to the firm, the service based on PHS networks will be provided at 4,000 yen (US$32.61) to 5,000...
SAN DIEGO-Voyager Systems Inc., San Diego, has closed a $7.5 million initial round of venture financing, led by Hamilton Apex Technology Ventures that it will use to expand sales and marketing of its secure data transmission services and wireless application development.Federal agents are currently...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-A new study by the Italian-based National Research Council (NRC) has reawakened the long-running debate over cell-phone health hazards by claiming that radio frequency (RF) transmissions cause cancerous cells to replicate more aggressively. Researchers at NRC said they found that up to...
TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo Inc. reported success with an experimental fourth-generation mobile transmission that provided data speeds of 100 megabits per second on the downlink and 20 Mbps on the uplink in an indoor lab environment. DoCoMo's current 3G FOMA network provides maximum data rates of...
TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo Inc. reported it would begin marketing its FOMA T2101V 3G mobile phone designed for the carrier's i-motion video-clip transmission service Sept. 27.DoCoMo said the handset can save up to four 15-second or two 30-second video messages from incoming calls, and a remote...
TOKYO-Fujitsu, a leading telecom vendor in Japan, is going to launch a PHS terminal in the fourth quarter for DDI Pocket subscribers.The number of Japanese PHS subscribers has been dropping during the past couple of years partly due to a big cellular phone boom....
