Brightpoint Inc. will continue as the exclusive distributor of Ericsson Mobile Phones in the United States, according to the company. The agreement extends Brightpoint’s distribution and sales of Ericsson wireless phones through Dec. 31, 2001, and authorizes Brightpoint to act as a distributor of Ericsson Original Accessories.
Spanish operators will soon have the chance to test Ericsson Inc.’s Universal Mobile Telecommunications System when the company launches a pilot program in Spain. The system will be a replica of a real UMTS system, with all the functions for operators to offer UMTS services. Ericsson will carry out a variety of tests on UMTS, showing the possibilities offered by integrating moving images, multimedia and broadband services.
Speedia L.L.C. announced it signed an information and service supply and joint marketing agreement with BellSouth Wireless Data L.P. to provide news and information delivery services. The agreement allows customers of BSWD’s Interactive Paging Service to choose from several information services, such as news, financial quotes, sports scores, weather, lottery results, horoscopes and Internet content.
Doceus Inc., an Internet solutions company, said it plans to enter the Wireless Application Protocol market by adding a Wireless Solutions Practice to its Internet development services suite. The company said it will begin offering wireless Internet solution services in April.
Phone.com Inc. signed an agreement with BuyNow.com to deliver Internet shopping and e-commerce services to wireless phone customers with the MyPhone wireless portal service.
Tegic Communications Inc. said it licensed its T9 Text Input technology to Telit Spa which will integrate it for European and Chinese languages in its next generation of wireless phones.
Talk Visual Corp. said it signed a national distribution agreement with Astron Inc. to deploy its pager sales programs into such national retail chains as Sears, Wal-Mart and Target.
