A running joke dogging the Wireless Application Protocol industry is that its initials, WAP, stand for “Where are the phones?” Applying that to the messaging industry, desperate to be included …
According to popular belief, the future of the paging industry is text messaging, particularly two-way services. So what does that mean for the vast numbers of smaller, regional paging providers …
Time will tell if new prepaid plans offered by U.S. nationwide operators this year spur more growth in the wireless industry. Verizon Wireless plans to introduce a new nationwide prepaid …
Nokia Nokia Corp. unveiled its new 8260 wireless phone that the company says blends colorful and stylish options into a small digital handset. The 8260 is Time Division Multiple Access …
IPmobile Wireless communications infrastructure company IPmobile Inc. hired Louis Wooldridge as its vice president of sales in Asia, and Chuck Derrick as its vice president of product development. Wooldridge will …
BUDAPEST, Hungary-Hungary’s Pannon GSM said it began a data service that allows users to download data at 43.2 kilobits per second free using High Speed Circuit Switched Data technology. The …
TOKYO-Honda Motor Co. Ltd. and OnStar, a wholly owned subsidiary of General Motors Corp., have agreed to offer OnStar mobile communications services in Honda and Acura vehicles beginning in the …
AUSTIN, Texas-Aeris.net will provide its Microburst wireless data network to consumer and commercial telematics services from LoJack Corp., according to a recent deal. LoJack products include the LoJack Stolen Vehicle …
DULLES, Va.-Orbcomm Global L.P. announced its Mexican service licensee, Orbcomm de Mexico, has been licensed by the Secretaria de Communicaciones y Transportes to provide full commercial service using the Orbcomm …
LONDON-France Telecom is expected to make a $45 billion cash and stock bid for Orange plc early next week, according to international press reports. The French telecom company is reported …
WASHINGTON-Even as reports of wireless carriers being close to running out of telephone numbers reached the Federal Communications Commission, the FCC began reviewing comments on additional regulatory measures to help …
Nortel Networks increased its presence in the European mobile-phone market last week, garnering a $700 million third-generation equipment contract with BT Cellnet in the United Kingdom and displacing several of …
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. unveiled Nokia Activ for its Wireless Application Protocol Server 1.1, a one-button solution enabling Web sites to send WAP service settings to WAP-enabled mobile phones wirelessly. The …
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. signed a contract to provide a Global System for Mobile communications network to Nuevatel PCS de Bolivia S.A. The contract, valued at about $25 million, covers the …
WASHINGTON-Yet another court will have to decide whether the Federal Communications Commission has the authority to re-auction the 90 personal communications services licenses once owned by NextWave Telecom Inc. The …
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission got support for its actions regarding the 90 personal communications services licenses of NextWave Telecom Inc. from one of NextWave’s competitors in the 1996 C-block auction. …
WASHINGTON-The paging industry may be the first wireless industry to get what all telecommunications industries seem to crave-freedom from the Federal Communications Commission. “In the bigger scheme of themes, the …
Article intended to highlight many contributions To the editor: I am concerned that there may be a misperception resulting from my article published by RCR on March 27, 2000, that …
AUSTIN, Texas-Neomar Inc. said it will use Wireless Transport Layer Security Protocol technology from Certicom to protect transmissions using its WAP browser technology designed for Research In Motion Ltd. devices …
LAS VEGAS-Murata Electronics North America has reported 50-percent growth in the products affiliated with its Design Win Registration Products Program the company launched at last year’s Electronic Distribution Show. According …
