MOSCOW—Third-generation (3G) licenses will be issued in Russia only after the law on communications is amended, according to First Deputy Communications Minister Yuri Pavlenko."The 3G Association has carried out the necessary research and prepared the required documents. However, the legislative base for the introduction...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.—The Personal Communications Industry Association (PCIA) announced John Sherlock, its chief operating officer, will give the morning keynote address at the Wireless Arena Marketplace Strategies 2002 conference, scheduled for April 4 in Arlington, Va.Sherlock plans to focus on growing opportunities for use of...
BELLEVUE, Washington, United States—3G Americas, a new trade organization representing five principal wireless technologies in the Americas, launched to help unify the U.S. wireless industry.GSM, TDMA, GPRS, EDGE and UMTS carriers and vendors will collaborate on regulatory and technical issues. Chris Pearson, former executive...
WASHINGTON—Dr. George Carlo, the epidemiologist who caused an uproar two years ago after publicizing findings of genetic damage from low-level radio-frequency radiation, is launching a Web-based registry next week that will collect health complaints from mobile phone users and analyze them to detect any...
SAN DIEGO—Qualcomm inc. says it has signed an agreement with Japanese carrier KDDI to enable the carrier's handsets with Qualcomm's Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless technology to enhance KDDI's data services offerings."KDDI's use of BREW platform and gpsOne position location technology together will drive...
NEW YORK—NTT DoCoMo Inc., Japan's largest mobile communications operator, began trading its American depositary shares on the New York Stock Exchange and its common shares on the London Stock Exchange March 1."Combined with our listing earlier today on the London Stock Exchange and our...
CANNES, France—Content alone will not bring prosperity to the wireless industry, according to comments made by Michael C. Pousti, chairman and chief executive officer of SMS.ac, in a speech at this week's 3GSM World Congress."During the Internet explosion of the 1990s, everyone was convinced...
AUSTIN, Texas—Advanced Micro Devices said it plans to acquire chipmaker Alchemy Semiconductor by the end of the first quarter of this year. The companies have disclosed the financial terms of the deal.Alchemy makes chips for personal digital assistants and MP3 players."By joining forces, AMD...
KNOXVILLE, Tenn.—HVAC service provider BlueDot announced it has partnered with Airtuit to roll out a wireless initiative that will give its field service personnel wireless contact with corporate systems.With Airtuit's BlueMoon wireless application server to access its WennSoft system, BlueDot workers can accept orders,...
MUMBAI, India—Qualcomm Inc. said it has invested $200 million to support the introduction of CDMA wireless technology for Reliance Communications Ltd. to provide basic telephone services, wireless local loop and national long-distance services."RCL proposes to provide limited mobility wireless services under these licenses by...
PURCHASE, New York, United States—Pepsi-Cola North America will deploy a wireless technology system that will allow customers to use their credit cards to make vending machine purchases.The system currently operates on a test basis in Memphis, Tennessee, and works alongside existing coin and bill...
Nokia Corp. continued its massive open mobile architecture standards push last week by signing up some of the world's largest infrastructure and application server vendors, including BEA Systems Inc., Borland Software Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Corp., Oracle and Sun Microsystems Inc.The move underscores Nokia's...
WASHINGTON-2002 offers the wayward wireless industry a chance to begin to redeem and redefine itself. But it won't be easy, and survival skills will be essential. Indeed, with economic sluggishness persisting here and abroad, the industry is not totally in control of its future....
Qualcomm Inc. announced it signed memoranda of understanding to provide its Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless technology to several wireless operators around the world. BellSouth in Guatemala, Telcel-BellSouth in Venezuela and Vesper in Brazil will now receive products and services based on Qualcomm's BREW...
A new organization is being created to represent the views of American GSM and TDMA wireless carriers as they convert to third-generation wireless technologies such as GPRS, EDGE and W-CDMA.The new, as-yet-unnamed organization hopes to launch early next year. The goal of the group...
JAKARTA,Indonesia—PT Telkom, Indonesia's dominant telecommunication operator, is carrying out an auction for the development of CDMA-based fixed wireless network networks worth US$1 billion in January 2002.Eddy Praptono, Telkom's vice president of corporate communication, said the use of fixed wireless technology is intended to speed...
A new organization is being created to represent the views of American GSM and TDMA wireless carriers as they convert to third-generation wireless technologies such as GPRS, EDGE and WCDMA.The new, as-yet-unnamed organization hopes to launch early next year.The goal of the group "will...
NEW DELHI, India—U.S.-based vendor UTStarCom will soon begin trials of its wireless local loop (WLL) technology called PHS in the Indian capital. The government-controlled telecom company, MTNL, operating in the New Delhi metro area, has allowed the U.S. firm to showcase the wireless technology...
SAN FRANCISO, United States—Having failed to include a Bluetooth capability within its new Windows XP operating system, Microsoft announced at the annual Developers Conference in San Francisco that it would offer support for the wireless technology sometime in the second half of 2002. However,...
TORONTO-In a joint announcement, four of Canada's wireless carriers announced they are joining forces in an effort to stimulate short messaging service use by creating an interoperable messaging service.Under the deal, subscribers of Bell Mobility, Microcell Connexions, Rogers AT&T and Telus Mobility will be...
TORONTO—In a major joint announcement, four of Canada's wireless carriers said they are joining forces in an effort to stimulate short messaging service (SMS) use by creating an interoperable messaging service.Under the deal, subscribers of Bell Mobility, Microcell Connexions, Rogers AT&T and Telus Mobility...
MOSCOW—The CDMA technology, which must abandon the 470 MHz to 872 MHz band in Russia by 2010, began to move down to the 450 MHz band, and a second carrier was licensed to build a CDMA 400 MHz network in the country.The St. Petersburg-based...
HELSINKI, Finland-For a market with a well-deserved reputation as the most dynamic and innovative of Europe's telecom sectors, one could easily think that traditional Scandinavian confidence is in a state of early winter hibernation. The customary drone of deals, domestic and cross border, has...
