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Motient’s Auditor Questions Viability

US DataTAC operator (and T-Mobile and Verizon dealer) Motient filed its 2002 (yes, 2002) annual report with US securities regulators yesterday, noting that its auditor questions whether the company can keep operating. The auditor said Motient will “require significant additional funds before it begins to generate cash in excess of its operating expenses.” Motient filed [...]

Survey Shows Little Interest in 3G Services in Europe

While the US cellular industry celebrates in Atlanta at the CTIA show, a new Harris poll shows that half the market is completely disinterested in 3G services. 9800 mobile phone users were polled in the UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy and Belgium in early March; 49% agreed with the statement that “G is of no [...]

Verizon To Spend US$700M on EV-DO Infrastructure

Verizon said it has awarded Lucent and Nortel CDMA 1X EV-DO infrastructure contracts worth US$697M over the next two years in support of their plans to launch EV-DO across its US footprint. The company said it will pay Lucent $525M for equipment with the remaining $167M for Nortel. Lucent supplied the infrastructure for Verizon’s market [...]

Ericsson Will Increase Stake in Symbian

Ericsson CEO Carl-Henrick Svanberg said his company will increase its stake in Symbian to prevent Nokia from holding a majority of the shares. He said Ericsson would exercise its rights under the shareholders agreement and would raise its stake to nearly 28%; the move would allow Nokia to raise its ownership percentage from 32% to [...]

AT&T Recommits to UMTS

AT&T Wireless has reaffirmed its plan to roll out UMTS services in four US cities later this year. The company said it will offer handsets from Nokia, Motorola and NEC in San Francisco and Seattle in December, but declined to name the two other cities. In December 2002, when the company announced it was scaling [...]

AT&T Recommits to UMTS

AT&T Wireless has reaffirmed its plan to roll out UMTS services in four US cities later this year. The company said it will offer handsets from Nokia, Motorola and NEC in San Francisco and Seattle in December, but declined to name the two other cities. In December 2002, when the company announced it was scaling [...]

AT&T Recommits to UMTS

AT&T Wireless has reaffirmed its plan to roll out UMTS services in four US cities later this year. The company said it will offer handsets from Nokia, Motorola and NEC in San Francisco and Seattle in December, but declined to name the two other cities. In December 2002, when the company announced it was scaling [...]

Courtney Love’s BlackBerry

According to that bastion of high-brow reportage, the New York Daily News, Courtney Love left her BlackBerry behind in a restaurant. Prying eyes discovered that she and her boyfriend were sending ‘adult’ messages back and forth.
“Someone saw these really juicy, poetically pornographic things going back and forth between them,” says [the NYDN's] snitch. “They were [...]

T-Mobile To Launch 3G Data Service in Europe in May

T-Mobile used the CeBIT trade fair to announce what’s been rumored for months: that it will finally launch its UMTS services in May. Like its German counterparts, however, T-Mobile will launch only data services, with promises of voice service later this year.
The company will integrate its 802.11b service with its GPRS and UMTS data services [...]

Hutchison Loses a Smaller-Than-Expected Bundle on 3G

Hutchison Whampoa said it’s UMTS operations lost HK$9.67B on HK$2B in revenue during 2003. The company said it has sold some of its shares in other companies and pulled money from a 2002 set-aside to offset the losses. The company overall had 2003 revenue of HK$145.6B and posted a profit of HK$14.4B.
Hutchison said it now [...]