LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-Alltel Corp. will partner with Kmart Corp. to sell wireless phones and service in kiosks at select Kmart stores. Alltel has kiosks at 43 stores in 15 states; Kmart operates about 415 stores within Alltel's current coverage area. Terms were not disclosed...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-Alltel Corp. said it rolled out new rate plans to former Western Wireless Corp. and Cellular One customers who Alltel acquired when it purchased Western Wireless Aug. 1. The new rate plans take advantage of Alltel's extensive roaming agreements and include its...
Alltel Corp. said it rolled out new rate plans to former Western Wireless Corp. and Cellular One customers who Alltel acquired when it purchased Western Wireless Aug. 1. The new rate plans take advantage of Alltel's extensive roaming agreements and include its Total Freedom,...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-Alltel Corp. is offering weather content to its subscribers via The Weather Channel Interactive.Services include radar, forecasts and severe weather information delivered to customers' wireless phones. The service will be offered for $4.25 per month on a variety of handsets, said the...
Verizon Wireless is moving forward with a plan to install a proprietary Verizon-branded user interface across all of its new feature phones-a maneuver that has sparked widespread discontent among the carrier's handset suppliers and could mark the start of a significant shift in power...
Alltel subscribers can send and receive mobile instant messages through two of the world's most popular IM services, the carrier announced Thursday.Alltel said it support AOL Instant Messenger and MSN Messenger through its new Axcess Instant Messaging plan. A basic package of 300 incoming...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-Alltel Corp. launched Motorola Inc.'s V710 handset, which includes a 1.2-megapixel camera and flash, video recorder, MP3 player and Bluetooth wireless technology. The handset also supports Alltel's Axcess Picture Messaging application and BREW-based Axcess Mobile Web 2.0 service.The handset, which was initially...
Alltel Corp. is set to launch Kyocera Corp.'s Slider SE44 as its second push-to-talk handset for the carrier's Touch2Talk walkie-talkie service. The carrier recently noted it had signed up 50,000 users to the Kodiak Networks'-based service at the end of the first quarter.The Slider...
Handset distribution company InfoSonics Corp. said it plans to sell 2 million shares for between $5.50 and $6.50 per share in its upcoming initial public offering. The company plans to list its common stock on the American Stock Exchange under the symbol IFO. Founded...
SAN DIEGO-Handset distribution company InfoSonics Corp. said it plans to sell 2 million shares for between $5.50 and $6.50 per share in its upcoming initial public offering. The company plans to list its common stock on the American Stock Exchange under the symbol IFO.Founded...
DALLAS-Axcess International Inc., which provides radio frequency identification (RFID) solutions for security and asset management purposes, announced several new applications for its ActiveTag system in recent weeks.Axcess' solution is being used by Merrimac Industries to track intellectual property throughout its building and to decrease...
L.M. Ericsson said it has signed separate deals with operators in the United States, Switzerland and Nigeria. With operator Econet Wireless Nigeria, the vendor signed a $110 million GSM expansion contract to cover such cities as Lagos, Port Harcourt, Abuja and Kaduna. With Alltel...
STOCKHOLM-L.M. Ericsson said it has signed separate deals with operators in the United States, Switzerland and Nigeria.With operator Econet Wireless Nigeria, the vendor signed a $110 million GSM expansion contract to cover such cities as Lagos, Port Harcourt, Abuja and Kaduna.With Alltel, Ericsson...
Alltel Corp. jumped into the multimedia messaging business launching picture-messaging capabilities to its Axcess wireless data offering allowing customers to take, send and receive color photos with voice and text messages to another picture-messaging handset, as an Internet link for non-picture messaging handsets or...
Alltel Corp. jumped into the multimedia messaging business launching picture-messaging capabilities to its Axcess wireless data offering allowing customers to take, send and receive color photos with voice and text messages to another picture-messaging handset, as an Internet link for non-picture messaging handsets or...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-Alltel Corp. said it will unify its range of wireless Internet, e-mail, text messaging, picture sharing and games under the Axcess brand, which will be available in all of the carrier's digital markets beginning Jan. 26.Alltel said the Axcess service will be...
NEW ORLEANS- Axcess Global Communications Corp. is charting a national footprint to deploy paging using Radio Broadcast Data Service FM-subcarrier frequencies. The company offers traditional paging, and online information services to its customers.To date, Axcess has licensed more than 90 FM broadcasters in 11...
TULSA, Okla.-Axcess Global Systems of Metairie, La., has selected SpaceCom Systems and its FM Cubed satellite technology to provide the backbone for the paging carrier's new network of alphanumeric paging and information services, SpaceCom said.The network will use Radio Broadcast Data Service FM-subcarrier signals,...
