Rural wireless provider Midwest Wireless reported a pair of BREW-hosting agreements with California-based Golden State Cellular and Tennessee-based Eloqui Wireless.
The agreements call for Midwest to share its existing BREW systems and servers with Golden State and Eloqui so the operators can offer similar downloadable content and services to their customers. Midwest product manager Tricia Lee noted the arrangement allows rural operators to provide a bigger customer base to both content developers and Qualcomm Inc. as well as helps Midwest recoup its network investments faster.
Terms of the agreements were not released.
Midwest has signed similar BREW-hosting agreements with several rural operators, including Alaska Communications Systems Group Inc., Bermuda Cellular, Bluegrass Cellular, Cellcom, Guamcell Communications, Illinois Valley Cellular, Pioneer/Enid Cellular and Rural Cellular Corp. Midwest was one of the first rural operators to launch the BREW platform in 2003 on its CDMA2000 1x network and recently began upgrading its network with higher-speed 1x EV-DO data capabilities.
