"Westchester had a greater number of businesses and cellular phone users that would have been disrupted".
The number of cellular phone users in China has been forecast to increase sharply this year, to 70 million.
The licenses concern a large part of the wireless spectrum that could give clear, uninterrupted service and advanced wireless options to cellular phone users in several large cities.
DoCoMo and Sony Computer said DoCoMo's global partners, including AT&T Wireless Group, KPN Mobile and Telecom Italia Mobile would be part of the alliance to provide games for cellular phone users.
At the same time, the Ministry of Information has been sending text messages to all the cellular phone users in the country with messages like, "Let us unite against our common enemy," a reference, no doubt, to Iraq.
Scott Woefel, general manager and editor in chief of CNN.com, said 41 million cellular phone users could get news, sports and financial data from CNN, but he did not know what fraction of this group actually subscribed to CNN's service.
In regional comparisons, the country lags far behind its neighbours in the number of telephone main lines as a proportion of population and is near the bottom in the proportion of cellular phone users per capita.
Following a 1997 Canadian study that found that cellular phone users were four times more likely than non-users to have accidents while driving, at least six municipalities in New Jersey, Ohio and Pennsylvania have adopted a ban on the use of handheld cellular phones by motorists.
Examples of cellular software applications for wireless data services include programs being developed by companies like the Mapinfo Corporation, a Troy, N.Y., developer of location-based software, which is intended to let cellular phone users select restaurants, hotels or other businesses and then immediately see maps of their locations on their phone displays.
The delays, and the scarcity of phone lines, help explain why the number of mobile subscribers in Haiti climbed 150percentt last year compared with 1998, to about 25,000, enabling cellular phone users to account for more than a third of the nation's telephone customers.
