Research In Motion's 1st-Quarter Loss Narrows
Research In
Motion on Wednesday posted a loss in its fiscal first quarter as revenue
jumped 46% amid healthy subscriber growth. For the quarter ended May 31,
the maker of the BlackBerry wireless device reported a net loss of $8.2
million, or 11 cents a share, compared with a net loss of $10.7 million,
or 14 cents a share, a year earlier. During the quarter, BlackBerry
subscribers increased by about 81,000 from the fiscal fourth quarter to
615,000 subscribers.
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Sony Ericsson: No CDMA in U.S. Phones
Handset
maker Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications said Tuesday that it will phase
out production of CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access)-based cell phones
meant for the United States and Canada. The company said in a statement
that it will continue to make phones for the Japanese market based on the
CDMA standard. Sony Ericsson will focus on developing cell phones using
the world's most popular standard, GSM (Global System for Mobile
Communications), according to the statement.
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Qualcomm Licenses CDMA Chip Technology to Via
Qualcomm this week said it has licensed its second- and third-generation
CDMA chip technology to Taiwan's Via Technologies. Qualcomm has licensed
its cdmaOne and CDMA2000 technology to Via Telecom which is part of
Taipei-based PC chip-set house Via. The assignment of the royalty-bearing
license agreement enables Via Telecom to develop, manufacture and sell
cdmaOne and CDMA2000 1X ASICs. "This agreement allows us to provide our
wireless customers with a baseband processor solution, for use in a wide
variety of CDMA2000 devices offering voice, data and GPS-enabled
applications, which will help deliver time-to-market and product
differentiation advantages keyed by the CDMA standard," Ker Zhang, CEO of
VIA Telecom, said in a statement.
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i-mode Reaches Italy, Spain
The wireless
Internet service popularized by Japan's NTT DoCoMo, called i-mode, is
going into Italy and Spain. DoCoMo announced that Italy's Wind
Communications will use i-mode and that Telefonica Moviles of Spain will
launch the service Thursday. No date has been announced for Wind's launch
of i-mode, although the carrier said it expects to offer services by the
end of 2003. The Wind-DoCoMo deal is for a five-year period and grants
Wind exclusivity to i-mode services for both 2G and 3G for a period of
four years. Telefonica Moviles will be the seventh market for i-mode,
following Japan, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and France. The Spanish
carrier announced a licensing agreement nearly a year ago.
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Nortel, Cingular Team on Caller Access
Nortel
Networks on Wednesday said it will supply Cingular Wireless almost
exclusively with cell phone network equipment that tracks subscriber
information to weed out invalid callers. Nortel's home location registers
(HLR) decipher callers' account information, and if everything matches up,
the voice call or data session goes through. Cingular is the fourth major
U.S. carrier to switch almost entirely to Nortel's HLR technology.
Nortel's No. 1 competition in this market is Hewlett-Packard.
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Verizon No Fee to Keep Cell Number
In a
dramatic about-face, No. 1 cell phone carrier Verizon Wireless said
Tuesday that it should be easy and cheap for customers to keep their
numbers when switching carriers. It also said it wouldn't charge customers
who want to switch -- pressuring rivals to do the same. The Federal
Communications Commission said carriers, by Nov. 24, must offer number
switching in major markets. To recoup the cost of allowing number
switching and other government-mandated upgrades, carriers such as
Cingular Wireless, AT&T Wireless and Nextel in recent months started
charging most customers a monthly fee — usually around $1.50. Verizon
won't charge a fee until at least November. It will re-evaluate its stance
then, the company said.
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