WASHINGTON-The bloodletting at the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association continued this week as John Windolph, CTIA senior vice president for business development, and six lower-level employees were laid off.CTIA would not release the names of the six other employees besides Windolph, only confirming that...
LAKE CHARLES, La.-Sprint PCS affiliate US Unwired Inc. posted a 14 percent year-over-year increase in total revenues from $124.7 million during the first quarter of 2003 to $141.6 million this year, which when combined with a drop in total operating expenses over the same...
Most wireless customers are pleased with the services, coverage and customer services from their wireless carriers, according to a new report from JupiterResearch, a division of Jupitermedia Corp. According to the report, 68 percent of wireless users are satisfied or very satisfied with the...
Pre-empting a similar move expected to be launched by Sprint PCS in mid-May, Nextel Communications Inc. is reportedly set to launch new rate plans that provide consumers with a more predictable overage structure beginning May 1, according to a report from Bear Stearns telecommunications...
Alcatel Corp. has joined other big infrastructure players by launching its push-to-talk application, an instant communication protocol that has gained momentum during the past year.Alcatel said it will integrate its product with its Internet Protocol multimedia communication portfolio.The announcement comes as industry is split...
Most wireless customers are pleased with the services, coverage and customer services from their wireless carrier, according to a new report from JupiterResearch, a division of Jupitermedia Corp. According to the report, 68 percent of wireless users are satisfied or very satisfied with the...
ST. LOUIS-Cingular Wireless this month is premiering a new monthly bill format intended to increase customer satisfaction and reduce questions about billing issues. The company said the new bill format is being introduced for customers in South Texas, Missouri and Kansas during the April...
More than 70 percent of respondents to a recent survey by the Rechargeable Battery Recycling Corp. (RBRC) said they were unaware that cell phones are recyclable, even though nearly 90 percent said they would recycle phones if it was convenient. The survey of more...
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...
OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-The Salt Lake City Department of Airports awarded Sprint PCS the right to deploy and operate a wireless local area network at the Salt Lake City airport. Sprint PCS said the Wi-Fi Access network will be deployed in late June and will...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-North American operators can enjoy a GSM and CDMA solution based on Telemetrix Inc.'s hosted switching and intelligent network elements and InterWave Communication's base station controller and voice and data software, according to both companies.The companies said they are targeting mobile operators...
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...
"What Simpay is all about is opening up the mobile Internet space beyond the carrier's branded portal," said Jim Wadsworth, Simpay's chief marketing officer.Described as a mobile-commerce company, Simpay's real purpose is to create a common billing mechanism for carriers and wireless content providers....
As many had predicted, the market for adult-themed content continues to grow as providers look to take advantage of advanced phone technologies and willing customers.On the pornography side, U.K.-based wireless content provider Symbios Group announced it will launch several adult WAP sites with pictures...
Following a request to determine possible alternatives, AT&T Wireless Services Inc. said it would continue its billing and customer care relationship with Convergys Corp. for all of its subscribers under an agreement that expires at the end of 2008. "As a result of the...
NEW YORK-Wireless users in the United States can now sign up to receive messages with information gleaned from the teachings of Pope John Paul II through a new offering from wireless content company Acotel Group. The company said the service will initially be available...
WASHINGTON-A leading consumer group asked the Federal Communications Commission to ban mobile-phone and long-distance carriers from hitting consumers with regulatory-related surcharges not mandated by any regulatory agency or law."The most outrageous aspect of these surcharges is that they hide the true cost of the...
BIRMINGHAM, Ala.-Cingular Wireless L.L.C. introduced a new monthly billing format for customers in Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana designed to increase customer satisfaction while reducing questions about billing issues, which the carrier said currently accounts for about 12 percent of all customer service calls.Cingular said...
AMSTERDAM-Aptilo Network and Gemtek Systems said they have entered into a partnership to provide wireless local area networks solutions for carriers.Gemtek will offer its access gateways, hotspot-in-a-box solution and service management platform for Aptilo's public WLAN networks, according to the companies."The interoperability between Aptilo's...
ATLANTA-The U.S. wireless content industry continues to crackle with growing pains as Japanese gaming company Square Enix announced it will buy UIEvolution for a stunning $58 million in cash. The deal is the latest in a series of major mergers and acquisitions in the...
CINCINNATI-Convergys Corp. said Verizon Wireless has licensed its Infinys rating and billing software called Geneva.The software will be implemented by the two companies and integrated within Verizon's systems portfolio, said the companies."The software will augment our technology to provide broader wireless data services," said...
NEW YORK-Telecom operators in Europe must re-examine their competitive strategies as fixed-line minutes shift to mobile networks, according to Frost & Sullivan.For both fixed and mobile, wireless local area network technology is seen as a tool that can be leveraged to boost revenue and...
BEIJING-Convergys Corp. completed its first product deployment in China. The company implemented its Infinys software for China Unicom Guangdong, a provincial operator of China Unicom Ltd. The project will work with Guangdong's billing platform to support subscriber activation of service offerings across 17 different...
ATLANTA-Long known for its Internet technologies and services, VeriSign Inc. today announced plans to unify its telecommunications offerings and promote its brand to wireless carrier and content customers. The company today also announced it acquired the assets of Unimobile from Electronics For Imaging and...
