Monthly Archives: October, 2004

T-Mobile, Verizon tie for top spot in customer service study

T-Mobile USA's and Verizon Wireless' customer service departments scored closely in Vocal Laboratories' quarterly SectorPulse report measuring customer care quality.T-Mobile rated an A in...

JP Mobile announces global product wins

DALLAS-JP Mobile said its SureWave Mobile Office product was deployed by two international wireless carriers. First, b2Wireless, a systems integrator and the exclusive supplier...

Tracfone sees increasing quarterly customers, revenues

MEXICO CITY-America Movil S.A. de C.V.'s newly released quarterly results for its U.S.-based Tracfone subsidiary reflect subscriber trends in addition to financial results.The company...

Appeals court upholds Motorola’s legal win against Uzans

Motorola Inc. claimed another victory over the Uzan family in Turkey as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has upheld the...

WatchMark-Comnitel to buy ADC software group

BELLEVUE, Wash.-WatchMark-Comnitel said it has signed a definitive agreement to purchase ADC Telecommunications' Metrica Service Assurance software group.The combined company will be headquartered in...

Mickey coming to Cingular phones

SAN FRANCISCO-Cingular Wireless announced Disney Mobile content, including ring tones, graphics, games and multimedia messaging, is now available for download to Cingular handsets and...

Warner Bros. to publish BREW content

BURBANK, Calif.-Warner Bros. Online said it has signed an agreement calling for it to publish wireless games and entertainment applications for Qualcomm Inc.'s BREW...

AG Interactive to partner with Fuse on interactive music

NEW YORK-American Greetings Corp. subsidiary AG Interactive said it will partner with music television network Fuse to develop and market interactive music applications though...

Japanese carrier sues country over 3G plans

WASHINGTON-While the Bush administration pursues a traditional carrot-and-stick approach to prod Japan into further liberalizing its wireless market, a Japanese telecom firm needing a...

Public safety urges Congress to accept 2007 DTV hard date

WASHINGTON-The public-safety community is urging lawmakers to accept the Senate language of the 9/11 Commission legislation that would allow it to have access to...

Bill Diggins shuffles from music manager to mobile marketer

You could call Bill Diggins lots of things-music mogul, artists' advocate, maybe even visionary. Just don't call him a ringtone salesman. According to the founder of...

3 GSM carriers part of digital emergency alert test

WASHINGTON-Three nationwide GSM carriers will participate in a digital emergency alert pilot that officially kicked off last week, but questions remain about whether the...

Disney Internet Group to offer third-party content

 The Walt Disney Internet Group's new Starwave Mobile business, launching at this week's CTIA Wireless I.T. & Entertainment Show, will expand the organization's play...

O2 U.K. launches NEC phone

LONDON-NEC announced today that O2 U.K. launched the NEC e101, a GPRS-enabled camera phone, on O2's Pay&Go tariff. Combining a WAP 2.0 browser and...

Ericsson slides despite posting $667M profit

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Shares of L.M. Ericsson dropped despite a strong showing in its third-quarter earnings report. Because the company experienced a 2-percent sales dip in...

UpSnap offers text-based wireless directory service

SAN FRANCISCO-Mobile text messaging provider UpSnap launched a new directory assistance service for wireless users. With the service, users with text-enabled handsets can send...

Wi-Fi Alliance certifies first converged products

AUSTIN, Texas-The Wi-Fi Alliance has announced the first round of certified products for converged Wi-Fi and cellular communications. The company also has initiated a...

FCC to seek public comment on 800 MHz rebanding proposal

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission is seeking comment on clarifications sought by Nextel Communications Inc. regarding the FCC's plan to solve public-safety interference in the...

Air2Web solution part of wireless polling app

ATLANTA-Wireless permission-based marketing company CLX said it is using Air2Web's 2Notify solution in its opt-in text messaging application, PollCast. CLX clients can use PollCast...

Sprint North Supply aims to serve parent, wireless industry

Sprint North Supply's broadly focused offerings, bolstered by the strong reputation of its well-known parent, have brought the organization good graces in the wireless...

Grand jury probes pact between Brightpoint, AIG

WASHINGTON-A federal grand jury is investigating a contract between major wireless distributor Brightpoint Inc. and American International Group Inc., a probe that comes one...

Forum Nokia to streamline content distribution

SAN FRANCISCO-Nokia Corp.'s development program plans to use CTIA's Wireless IT & Entertainment show to unveil a worldwide initiative designed to make it easier...

IPWireless, Flarion move into Wi-Fi space

When wireless experts raved about the next big technologies a few years ago, they had Flash-OFDM and UMTS TDD in mind. Both protocols are...

Qualcomm to gain European access through Siemens, Trigenix

Failing to make strong inroads into Europe with its second-generation CDMA offering, Qualcomm Inc. wants to write a different story for UMTS technology. Within...

Big carriers still adding customers

In what is likely shaping up to be the last quarter with six nationwide operators, four of the country's largest carriers posted relatively healthy...
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