JACKSON, Mississippi, United States-SkyTel launched a new service, SkyTel Message Center, which notifies customers when they receive a voice mail, e-mail or fax at their office or home and then …
WHEATON, Maryland, United States-To succeed in wireless e-commerce, companies will have to invest in applications that have no pre-existing equivalent, according to “Wireless E-Commerce: Building Blocks for Success,” a new …
NEW YORK-Cellular terminals have come a long way in the quarter century since Motorola introduced its handheld Dyna TAC mobile phone, a clunky device that weighed nearly 0.9 kilograms and …
Despite the economic problems that struck Asia since Telecom ’95, Scott Erickson, vice president of Lucent’s Wireless Access Group, Asia-Pacific, sees the region as leading the wireless industry on several …
DUBLIN, Ireland-There has been much debate over the future of satellite-based communications. Indeed, regular readers of the financial press might wonder if it has any future in the new millennium …
TORONTO-Research in Motion (RIM) of Waterloo, Ontario, a small Canadian company far from Silicon Valley, has developed some of the hottest wireless technology in the world. In just a short …
When Qualcomm’s Dr. Irwin Jacobs looks forward to the next World Telecom show, in 2003, he predicts the continuing convergence of the computer and mobile phone. Jacobs foresees a cellular …
BANGALORE, India-Paging operators in India are optimistic. Optimistic they have always been. However, having burnt their fingers once, this time around they are not expected to make wrong predictions, especially …
Nokia believed that it was alone at Telecom ’95 in promoting cellular data and demonstrating Internet Protocol (IP)-based technology. Olli Oittinen said that while it was not pushing IP with …
NMT 450 operators are to decide by early October whether to push forward with three digital mobile-phone standards that include CDMA technology, which could give cdmaOne technology its first entrance …
Nokia and Reuters signed a global cooperation agreement to develop and deliver financial, sports and general news services based on the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP). The new service is optimized …
OXFORD, United Kingdom-The phrase on everyone’s lips within the cellular industry at Telecom ’99 will be value-added services, a world apart from the talk at the 1995 exhibition. This simple …
While Motorola’s Woody Ritchey admitted that, at the time of Telecom ’95, the company did have cellular infrastructure architecture that included Internet Protocol (IP), it was only at the drawing …
HONG KONG-China Unicom is still seeking to end more than 30 China China Foreign (CCF) joint ventures it has formed with foreign companies, including France Telecom, Sprint Corp., Telecom Italia, …
TOKYO-At the International 3G Mobile Systems Japan ’99 conference in early September in Tokyo, Japanese carriers and vendors disclosed their strategies for third-generation (3G) technology. Masayoshi Wakao, managing director of …
As the European telecom industry continues its consolidation activity, the continent’s less-dominant paging industry hopes it might ride the coattails of this trend to effect something of a turnaround. The …
SANDTON, South Africa-Telkom is selling its wholly owned trunking operator, Q-Trunk. Telkom maintains this is part of a move to deliver more efficiency and focus on its core businesses. Said …
SANDTON, South Africa-The African Connection project officially adopted at Telecom Africa ’98 has raised sufficient funds to proceed to the second stage of the process. The project was launched in …
When the clocks roll over at midnight on 31 December, the world will usher in not only a new century, but a new paradigm in the way people communicate. What …
GREENVILLE, South Carolina, United States-Bell Atlantic Mobile (BAM) announced new pricing plans called Share-A-Minute and Additional Line allowing businesses and families to share their BAM home airtime minutes with up …
