ROCHESTER, N.Y.—Carriers should look to non-voice services—particularly ring tones—to increase revenues, according to two studies released this week.A survey conducted by Harris Interactive for ForceNine Consulting and Wirthlin Worldwide indicated non-voice services other than text messaging are in the early stages of consumer acceptance...
ORLAND PARK, Ill.—Andrew Corp. has lowered its fourth-quarter guidance, attributing the fall in revenue and margins to carrier consolidation and delays in commitments to next-generation technology.The company revised its projected fourth-quarter revenue to between $450 million and $470 million as against an earlier estimate...
BOSTON-InHand Electronics Inc. released its new Advanced Technology Platform, the ATP-27X, a hardware/software reference platform based on Intel's PXA270 embedded microprocessor that incorporates InHand's power management technologies. According to InHand, the ATP-27X is targeted at top-tier original equipment manufacturers aiming to get a head...
Verizon Wireless threw its considerable resources into the international roaming business earlier this month by expanding the availability of Samsung Corp.'s SCH-a790 Global Phone to the carrier's non-business customers. The handset, which retails for $350 with a two-year contract, and accompanying Global Phone service,...
CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom-Andrew Corp. said it will invest an undisclosed amount in mobile location technology developer Cambridge Positioning Systems Ltd.With the investment, the companies will integrate CPS' Matrix mobile locating solution into Andrew's Geometrix product line. Andrew plans to license the CPS Matrix solutions...
WASHINGTON-The Bush administration and the high-tech sector oppose Japan's proposal to add a user fee to unlicensed wireless devices, arguing it would undercut consumer demand and stifle development of wireless technologies in the world's second largest economy. The U.S., which expressed its views in...
Sprint PCS introduced a new multimedia message service that can deliver more than 600 new streaming audio and video clips per day to subscribers carrying the new Samsung MM-A700.MobiTV creator Idetic Inc. will provide content and operations for "Sprint TV," the "basic cable" channel...
WASHINGTON-A group of nine wireline companies, two with wireless affiliates, are proposing to radically change the way carriers compensate each other to carry traffic on each other's networks, and most of the wireless industry is none too happy about it. "It is an awful...
WASHINGTON-Rap and hip-hop music make up the most popular downloads of short message service users, according to a new survey from ForceNine Consulting and SMS.ac Inc. The survey showed 25 percent of more than 26,000 global respondents said they were most likely to download...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission last week opened up a huge swath of spectrum for wireless broadband services, creating incentives for businesses to invest in a third digital pipe to homes and businesses across the country.In doing so, the agency found a new home-the 2.5...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission today opened a huge swath of spectrum for wireless broadband services, creating incentives for businesses to invest in a third digital pipe to homes and businesses across the country. In doing so, the agency found a new home-the 2.5 GHz...
AUSTIN, Texas-The Wi-Fi Alliance announced Bill Carney, senior director of strategic marketing and business development for Texas Instruments' Wireless Networking Business Unit, has been elected as its new chairman. Carney, who has served as vice chair of the group since 2003, succeeds Dennis Eaton...
GOTHENBURG, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson has sold its wireless data division known as Mobitex to a U.K. investment group. The major investors include two former executives of U.K Mobitex network operator Transcomm plc.The executives include Andrew C. Fitton, its former chief executive, and Russell Backhouse, its...
CAMBRIDGE, U.K.-Cambridge Positioning Systems Ltd. (CPS) said it has raised $9 million from existing investors to drive adoption of its Matrix location technology.The technology provides accuracy within 100 meters and costs less than $1 per handset to deploy, according to CPS. Currently, 10 mobile...
MISSISSAUGA, Ontario-Certicom Corp. said Sierra Wireless has embedded its secure movianVPN solution into its VoqMail Professional Edition wireless e-mail solution for the new Voq Professional Phone.Certicom's solution was designed to minimize administration duties for information technology professionals, while bringing a better return on investment...
CHICAGO-Telecom equipment vendor Andrew Corp. said it posted a second-quarter net profit of $10.2 million, or 6 cents a share, compared with a net loss of $3.4 million, or 3 cents a share in the same period last year.The company said sales hit a...
WASHINGTON-Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell will deliver the keynote address at the Wireless Communications Association's 2004 conference taking place June 3 in Washington, D.C. "Our industry and its consumers deeply appreciate Chairman Powell's leadership of the Federal Communications Commission's efforts to enable broadband,"...
With what it describes as the first clearinghouse of its kind, LightSurf Technologies Inc. hopes to raise the bar on how wireless operators will do business by democratizing the ebb and flow of multimedia traffic.Its platform, known as GX-MMS, will serve not only as...
Privately held wireless carrier Cellular South, which controls spectrum licenses covering more than 5 million potential customers in Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida, said it recorded a 23-percent improvement in customer churn during the first quarter, from 2.2 percent last year to 1.7 percent...
ORLANDO PARK, Ill.-First Cellular of Southern Illinois said it has selected Andrew Corp.'s caller location system known as Geometrix to provide public-safety agencies with accurate information on cellular calls to 911.The system is compatible with both CDMA and GSM protocols in infrastructure and handsets,...
LONGMONT, Colo.-Intrado Inc. reported contracts to provide Emergency 911 Phase I and Phase II services to eight rural Texas wireless operators serving more than 100,000 subscribers. The carriers include Cellular One of Amarillo, Five Star Wireless, Peoples Wireless, Plateau Wireless, Poka Lambro Telecommunications, Wes-Tex...
GALWAY, Ireland-Rating, charging and revenue settlement software provider AM-BEO Ltd. announced the availability of its new nRate rating solution, designed to price existing and advanced communication and content services.nRate can be integrated with existing billing systems or used as a standalone system to allow...
NEW YORK-Shares of equipment maker Andrew Corp. jumped 13 percent after it raised its revenue forecast for the second quarter.The company said its second-quarter earnings will range between 4 cents and 6 cents per share, including charges. This trumped analyst predictions of 6 cents,...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission got doubly spooked Thursday and decided not to vote on its plan to solve public-safety interference in the 800 MHz band at its meeting April 15.Thursday started badly for FCC staff with a Washington Post article that said the deal...
