KIRKLAND, Wash.-Nextel Partners Inc. joins Nextel Communications Inc. in offering a mobile phone-based global positioning system service through a deal with Televigation. The service offers location-based driving directions and points of interest.
“This is another example of the added efficiency and value Nextel Partners provides to consumers and businesses with increasingly mobile lifestyles,” said John Chapple, Nextel Partners’ chairman, chief executive officer and president. “Our continually evolving line of differentiated products and services is what sets Nextel apart from other carriers.”
Nextel and AT&T Wireless Services Inc. offer third-party developers access to subscribers’ location information-a key ingredient to location-based applications. Other carriers, like Verizon Wireless, do not offer such information to developers.
