AUCKLAND, New Zealand-Argent Networks, which develops customer-care and billing solutions for fixed and mobile telecom companies, said it raised $8 million in capital from TMT Ventures and No 8 Ventures. The funds will be used to expand the company's operations in the Middle East...
WASHINGTON-A Colorado judge approved a multimillion-dollar settlement of a class-action billing suit against AT&T Wireless Services Inc., which last week Cingular Wireless L.L.C. acquired for $41 billion.The suit alleged AT&T Wireless customers on the Digital One Rate prior to March 1, 1999, were wrongly...
The union of Cingular Wireless L.L.C. and AT&T Wireless Services Inc. gives new meaning to The Great Experiment.Indeed, nothing approaching it-in scale, complexity and consequence-has ever been attempted in the spectacular 21-year-young history of the cellular industry. Cingular, 60-percent owned by SBC Communications Inc....
Amdocs and Nextel Communications Inc. have extended their managed services agreement, initially signed in 2000, by more than two years, to the end of 2011. Nextel and Amdocs said they will continue working together to enhance Nextel's customer care and core billing operations, including...
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 third-quarter earnings that showed there is still penetration growth potential in the U.S. market. Cingular Wireless L.L.C., which is set...
LONDON-Orange S.A. will replace its current software infrastructure for its European operations with Sun Microsystems' Java Enterprise System, Sun said.Orange, the mobile arm of the France Telecom Group, will spend the next three years rolling out the new software in the United Kingdom, France,...
CINCINNATI-Convergys Corp. said it has signed a long-term contract to provide its Atlys billing solution to Vivo, a joint venture led by Portugal Telecom and Telefonica Mobiles SA that provides wireless service in Brazil.Convergys will license its Atlys billing solution and use its local...
WASHINGTON-ATIS today released a comprehensive plan to craft new industry standards for converging multimedia architectures across wireline, PCS/cellular and Wi-Fi networks.ATIS said the Mobile Wireless Services Priority Work Plan is the result of more than a year of technical assessment and analysis of mobile...
LONDON-Vodafone U.K. has chosen Tatara Systems' Subscriber Gateway to enhance its third-generation and GPRS laptop data services. The gateway helps Vodafone become a Wi-Fi service provider without building a hot spot of its own by allowing customers to access its Wi-Fi services initially via...
WASHINGTON-The California Public Utilities Commission last week denied industry's request to reconsider a decision creating a bill of rights for telecom consumers, but not before the six national carriers filed lawsuits in federal court to overturn new state regulations. The mobile-phone industry spent hundreds...
OTTAWA-VeriSign Inc. has licensed Bridgewater Systems' authentication, authorization and accounting and mediation capabilities, according to a strategic agreement between the companies. VeriSign will use the technology in its Wireless Data Roaming Service, which enables data roaming for next-generation offerings. The transaction-based service handles key...
Expanding on the continued need for roaming between divergent Wi-Fi networks, Nomadix Corp. launched its NIS Roaming service connectivity solution that the company said aggregates devices running the company's NSE service engine to create a managed roaming footprint for subscribers. Nomadix explained the "bi-directional...
OTTAWA-VeriSign Inc. has licensed Bridgewater Systems' authentication, authorization and accounting and mediation capabilities, according to a strategic agreement between the companies. VeriSign will use the technology in its Wireless Data Roaming Service, which enables data roaming for next-generation offerings. The transaction-based service handles key...
WASHINGTON-The nation's six national mobile-phone carriers have filed suits in California federal court challenging the bill of rights for telecom consumers approved in May by the California Public Utilities Commission.Nextel Communications Inc. filed its suit separately, while Verizon Wireless, Cingular Wireless L.L.C., Sprint PCS,...
LONDON-Digital rights management took center stage at the Symbian Expo Tuesday, with two new agreements to help content providers protect their wares.Mobile security company Discretix and e-commerce provider NDS released a DRM protection suite for mobile content.Dubbed OMA DRM V2.0, the updated product offers...
WASHINGTON—Nextel Communications Inc. has requested an extension of time to comply with certain provisions of the telecom consumer bill of rights approved by the California Public Utilities Commission in May. The compliance extension sought by Nextel involves various rule subparts with a Dec. 6...
WALTHAM, Mass.-Airpath Wireless Inc. introduced a new services platform designed to allow for easier Wi-Fi roaming.The company launched InterRoam, which helps manage contracting, rating, billing and settlement issues between providers. AirPath said the new product will allow for more rapid deployment of the technology...
WASHINGTON-Nextel Communications Inc. has requested an extension of time to comply with certain provisions of the telecom consumer bill of rights approved by the California Public Utilities Commission in May. The compliance extension sought by Nextel involves various rule subparts with a Dec. 6...
No matter what you call them-ringtones, true tones, master tones, hi-fi ringers-mobile music downloads are producing huge revenues. After a few years of market trials and quiet experimentation, ringtones took the wireless industry by storm last year with 50 Cent's "In Da Club." The...
Regional telecommunications provider CenturyTel Inc. said it has entered into a reseller relationship with Cingular Wireless L.L.C. that will allow CenturyTel to provide wireless voice and text-messaging services as part of a bundled service offering. CenturyTel said it will be responsible for all marketing,...
MUNICH, Germany—Siemens AG said it has supplied a network of wireless local area networks for Greek operator Vodafone Panafon to allow the carrier to offer WLAN services across five countries. Vodafone customers in Greece, France, Italy, Switzerland and Portugal can use the hot spots...
ATLANTA-Sprint PCS affiliate AirGate PCS Inc. reported changes to its Sprint management and services agreements regarding back-office billing and service changes, new customer activation fees and roaming rates, which the carrier said would provide "immediate substantial savings to AirGate's cost structure." AirGate noted the...
BellSouth Corp. said it plans to offer $3 billion aggregate principal amount of five- and 10-year senior notes to help finance its share of the pending acquisition of AT&T Wireless Services Inc. by its wireless subsidiary Cingular Wireless L.L.C. JP Morgan, Lehman Brothers, Goldman...
WASHINGTON-The nation's top mobile-phone carriers asked a Minnesota federal court to stay a judge's decision last Friday upholding a new state law going into effect next week that bans mobile-phone carriers from making significant changes to service contracts without obtaining written or verbal permission...
