LAS VEGAS-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. announced partnerships that it said will lead to new applications and services for a variety of devices for the GSM/GPRS network it plans to deploy later this year.AT&T plans to work with Accenture, Compaq Computer, MDSI and Siebel Systems...
LAS VEGAS-Telephia Inc. introduced the Telephia Churn Report, which examines a variety of topics related to churn in the top 10 markets nationwide.Offered quarterly, the report will enable carriers to better identify the types of subscribers who switch or are likely to switch service...
Every year after the show, I wonder if I should write a column with profound insight into the state of the wireless telecommunications industry and enamor you with all of the wisdom I have gleaned from the show, or should I take the easy...
LOS ANGELES-The cost of wireless service edged up a little in February, with 18 of 25 major cities showing increases, according to the latest monthly survey by Econ One Research Inc.The average monthly cost of service across four typical usage plans (30, 150, 300...
LAS VEGAS-Cingular Wireless said it will launch its first operational standards-based General Packet Radio Service in the United States, dubbed Cingular Wireless Internet Express, in its GSM markets in California, Nevada and Washington during the second quarter. The GPRS service is the company's first...
LAS VEGAS-Advancing its wireless data initiative, Leap Wireless International Inc. acquired a pair of wireless data applications providers to support the location-based myAladdin wireless technology the company acquired last year.The deals include plans to purchase Backwire, a publisher of customized e-mail newsletters and developer...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-The Venetian Resort-Hotel-Casino in Las Vegas will deliver wireless communications to guests via LGC Wireless' LGCell and MetroReach Focus products. According to LGC, the solution, which supports five service providers to deliver service to Venetian visitors, provides sufficient capacity to handle everyday...
LAS VEGAS-Like fresh water on a dry rock, some good news for Lucent Technologies Inc. But how good?The $5 billion deal last week with Verizon Wireless provided a shot in the arm for a company whose repeated stumbles have made industry watchers wonder if...
LAS VEGAS-With wireless innovations bursting at the seams, three top vendors have called on regulatory bodies to modify the existing rules and regulations to position the industry for future challenges.The chief executive officers of Motorola Inc., Nokia Corp. and L.M. Ericsson-Christopher Galvin, Jorma Ollila...
NEW YORK-To enhance the capabilities of existing infrastructure, Schema Ltd. has developed a network optimization tool that Yuval Davidor, company founder and president, said can increase capacity by as much as 30 percent."You cannot manufacture more spectrum, and we will always want more of...
WASHINGTON-The General Accounting Office this week is expected to send drafts of a mobile-phone health report to key government agencies, suggesting congressional investigators are on track to complete by early May an investigation whose results could greatly impact wireless health policy and research funding...
LAS VEGAS-Portal Software Inc., IBM Corp. and Reciprocal Inc. are working together to deliver a new secure digital content commerce and distribution offering that integrates Portal Software's Infranet platform and IBM's Electronic Media Management System. According to the companies, the new Reciprocal offering will...
NEW YORK-Snaz Commerce Solutions, which provides wireless commerce solutions, launched its next-generation mobile wallet. The new wallet facilitates a range of transactions, including micropayments, retail purchases and time-sensitive services."The killer m-commerce solution will consist of best-of-breed applications that are seamlessly integrated from a user's...
LAS VEGAS-Symbian, a provider of software platforms for next-generation mobile phones, made several announcements at the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association's Wireless 2001 show last week in Las Vegas and at CeBIT in Germany. Symbian unveiled its 2.5G platform, Symbian platform v6.1, a fully...
LAS VEGAS-GiantBear, a provider of wireless technology and services, will acquire Savos, a global wireless company that delivers streaming audio to the mobile public.GiantBear's proprietary technology, AudioCub, enables wireless carrier's subscribers to request and receive information from the wireless Internet through audio delivery. Savos'...
CALGARY, Alberta-Cell-Loc Inc. signed an agreement with Abercorn Group to provide its LocationBroker middleware platform and its fleet tracking and L411 location services for application across Australia.The agreement includes up-front licensing fees and ongoing royalties payments, totaling about $317,600 for fiscal year 2001 for...
LAS VEGAS-Verizon Wireless has selected Cisco Systems to develop and implement a new ATM Core that it said will provide extended bandwidth, quality of service and more reliability for its wireless network.Verizon will be one of the first wireless network providers to deploy the...
LOS ANGELES-Oberthur Card Systems acquired Logica Impresora, a manufacturer of banking cards in Spain, for US$9.06 million.Oberthur said the acquisition is in line with the projected migration to smart cards of the Spanish banking sector by 2003 and provides the company with a platform...
NEW YORK-Sun Microsystems Inc. is serving up advanced computing power for wireless network elements and operations support systems, according to separate announcements the company issued last week.With its new series of Sun Fire Midframe servers now available in quantity, the Palo Alto, Calif., company...
UkraineThe Ukrainian State Communications Committee designed the procedure for issuing third-generation licenses. "The committee has already designed the licensing terms," Committee Chairman Oleg Shevchuk said. He did not elaborate and said the procedure was yet to be approved by the Economics Ministry. The number...
WESTBOROUGH, Mass.-Arch Wireless Inc., MSN, and Motorola Inc. announced an agreement to provide consumers access to MSN's Hotmail e-mail and Messenger instant-messaging communications services as well as content from MSN Mobile on Motorola's wireless two-way messaging device, the Talkabout T900. Arch will provide the...
HANNOVER, Germany-CellPoint Inc., which provides location and wireless telemetry services, announced a strategic partnership with German mobile operator E-Plus Mobilfunk GmbH.E-Plus has installed CellPoint's network-based mobile-phone location system. The system supports location-based services for all GSM phones and mobile GSM devices in the operator's...
WASHINGTON-With President Bush's high-profile push for a ten-year, $1.6 billion tax cut, the political atmosphere could not be better for wireless tax relief on equipment depreciation, sales commissions, telecom service and mobile Internet commerce.For the wireless industry, the window of opportunity is wide open...
WASHINGTON-While Congress debates whether it should enmesh itself in the online privacy debate, the wireless Web industry may be taking itself out of the debate by requiring customers to opt-in before customers receive customized advertisements on their wireless devices."You debate opt-in, opt-out but the...
