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Major carriers are using third-party hosting services to gauge consumer activities to arrive at pricing models for m-commerce services. The operators, which include AT&T Wireless Services Group, Cingular Wireless, Verizon Wireless, Alltel Corp. and VoiceStream Wireless Corp., have been using …

WASHINGTON-Cingular Wireless Inc. plans to file a waiver from the enhanced 911 Phase II rules, probably within the next two weeks, said Brian Fontes, Cingular vice president for federal relations, confirming hints made last month by Stephen Carter, Cingular’s chief …

AT&T Wireless Services Inc. took another step toward freedom last week as parent company AT&T Corp. completed the first part of its planned distribution of its 70-percent stake in AT&T Wireless to its common shareholders, with less-than-stellar results. The offering …

In the United States, the Telecommunications Act of 1996 freed telephone companies to deliver video programming and cable companies to provide phone service. But even though the 1996 telecom act opened up competition, the United States’ $100 billion telephone industry …

NEW YORK-As part of its wireless data strategy, TeleCorp PCS officially launched two-way short message service in all its markets May 18 and is offering its customers free three-month trials, Gerald T. Vento, chief executive officer and board member, said …

NEW YORK-Mobile entertainment provider Digital Bridges Ltd. will provide two of its wireless games, Wireless Pets and Steve Jackson’s Sorcery!, to AT&T Wireless for its PocketNet subscribers via the carrier’s “Sink or Swim” wireless games commercial trial. The limited-time trial …

Rural Cellular Corp. reigned supreme during the first quarter of this year, according to Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown’s recent metric ranking of 22 U.S. wireless operators. The report ranked each operator on five metrics included in their first-quarter financial results, …

Heinz Corp. Heinz Corp., which provides services to wireless carriers, has promoted Rick Vogt to senior project manager. In his new position he will be responsible for Heinz’s projects for Cingular Wireless. Vogt has been with Heinz for about a …

CINCINNATI-Convergys Corp., a provider of integrated billing and customer care services, signed a two-year contract with AT&T Wireless to provide integrated contact center services in support of AT&T Wireless’ fixed wireless digital broadband technology, marketed as AT&T Digital Broadband. Convergys …

NEW YORK-Third-generation technology is completely unnecessary for taking advantage of data opportunities, which are growing even though widespread consumer adoption may be years away, according to speakers at the recent WirelessWednesdays “Killer Mobile Applications and Opportunities” seminar. “The widespread belief …

NEW YORK-Although growing use of Research In Motion’s BlackBerry e-mail service has congested wireless networks in some areas, paging carriers are not well-positioned to seize this opportunity to serve as alternative providers, said Jim Balsillie, co-chief executive officer of RIM. …

As the news swirls around Wall Street, analysts think a possible merger between Alcatel Alsthom of France and Lucent Technologies Inc. may not only be the biggest acquisition of a U.S. telecom company, it could also generate an investigation as …

DALLAS-Among the ever-present winds of Eastern Texas, The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association last week hosted a somewhat intimate Wireless Agenda 2001 conference that CTIA President and Chief Executive Officer Tom Wheeler dubbed the “wireless survivor conference” during his opening …

PHILADELPHIA-Zing Interactive Media reported an agreement to use AT&T Wireless’ Free Connect offer to provide airtime-free, three-digit access to music and information services offered through partner radio stations. The Zing321 will allow radio listeners to dial #321 from their wireless …

NEW YORK-Unplugged Games Inc., founded last year with $2 million in venture financing, made public May 15 an agreement reached last month to supply AT&T Wireless Services Inc.’s Digital PocketNet customers with interactive games for multiple players. The New York-based …

NEW YORK-Wireless data is like a diamond in the rough, waiting for ways to smooth out its rough edges into sparkling facets that will attract growing numbers of consumers into increasing amounts of usage. Where there is a business problem, …

Top players in both the vendor and carrier space are pitching in to advance GAIT-GSM ANSI Interoperability Team-a new network standard that fuses TDMA and GSM technologies to enhance roaming, preserve TDMA and serve as an interim solution in the …

WASHINGTON-The FCC’s Wireless Telecommunications Bureau on Thursday denied a request from AT&T Wireless Services Inc. to keep confidential test results showing some enhanced 911 Phase II technologies won’t work for the carrier. “We find that the public interest requires that …

In a dramatic move to bolster its value and trim debt, British Telecom said last week it would spin off its wireless unit, BT Wireless, as a separately traded company, and temporarily suspend dividend payments. The telecom giant said it …

If teens remain `talkaholics’ and have fun doing it, Voyant Technologies wants to provide the fuel. With an instant voice-messaging solution in a next-generation environment, the company thinks it is ready to bring new spice to voice communications when it …

While carriers’ network upgrade plans have garnered the majority of attention from the wireless industry, there is another equally important area that many wireless companies are now focusing on: the applications. “Applications are everything,” said Adam Guy, senior analyst of …

ORLANDO, Fla.-In the sun-draped city of Orlando, with its springtime spurts of rain and dreamy lakes, the Universal Wireless Communications Consortium drew a mixed crowd of wireless vendors, operators, developers and analysts to re-energize interest in its brand of technology …

Teligent Inc. got the reprieve it was hoping for last week when several of its creditors agreed to grant the local multipoint distribution service carrier a waiver to an amendment and consent to credit agreement, providing an extension until May …

WASHINGTON-Congress last week was set to pass a new budget that embraces President Bush’s plan to delay two auctions of valuable radio spectrum but rejects an administration proposal to impose fees on TV broadcasters in order to encourage the clearing …

Vision. Brains. Stubbornness. Courage. Discouragement, Spunk. Talent. Persistence. The four people inducted into RCR Wireless News’ Wireless Hall of Fame this year display most, if not all of these attributes (and let’s be honest, stubbornness is not always looked upon …