WASHINGTON-The California Public Utilities Commission, facing heavy pressure from mobile-phone carriers with generous funding support from their national trade association, last week sent fresh signals that it may postpone a scheduled Sept. 18 vote on a proposed telecom consumer bill of rights.Last Wednesday, the...
Out of the ashes of failed Wi-Fi startup Mobility Networks rises a new effort, Azaire Networks Inc., a company with much of the same technology and staffing but with a slightly different-and wider-business focus."We're not just focused on wireless anymore," said Naveen Dhar, vice...
DENVER-A Denver District Court has certified a class-action lawsuit against AT&T Wireless Services Inc., claiming the carrier's delayed billing for roaming calls violated its contracts with certain Digital One Rate customers.The lawsuit, which was filed in the District Court of the City and County...
The school bell has rung. The still of summer is about to be shaken. Thank goodness. The wireless industry has held its collective breath waiting for a business uptick for months (years) now, and several prospects for just that are finally waiting just over...
Out of the ashes of failed Wi-Fi startup Mobility Networks rises a new effort, Azaire Networks Inc., a company with much of the same technology and staffing but with a slightly different-and wider-business focus."We're not just focused on wireless anymore," said Naveen Dhar, vice...
A Denver District Court has certified a class-action lawsuit against AT&T Wireless Services Inc. claiming the carrier's delayed billing for roaming calls violated its contracts with certain Digital One Rate customers.The lawsuit, which was filed in the District Court of the City and County...
WASHINGTON-A voluntary code of conduct the mobile-phone industry will unveil here next Tuesday calls on wireless carriers to make more information available to consumers on everything from advertising to coverage maps to monthly bills. The industry also will agree to give subscribers the opportunity...
WASHINGTON-Nextel Communications Inc. and Sprint PCS are facing unprecedented billing litigation, a legal challenge Nextel brought to the attention of the Securities and Exchange Commission in a filing last month.Nextel is a defendant in seven class action billing lawsuits. The cases are pending in...
WALTHAM, Mass.-In a move facilitating business on the slopes, British Columbia, Canada-based ski resort Whistler selected V-Link Solutions to provide Wi-Fi based wireless Internet services to more than 6,500 guest rooms, including hotels, condominiums, bed and breakfasts, lodges and private residences.Colubris Networks, which provided...
WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association expects to make news when it unveils its voluntary consumer code of conduct next week, but how consumers embrace the code is less clear. Either the code is fraught with loopholes big enough to drive a truck through...
HELSINKI, Finland-In its second contract win this week, Finnish messaging company Tecnomen said it deployed its multimedia messaging service center and voice mail system to Indonesian operator Satelindo.The voice mail service, which supports up to 3 million subscribers of which about 2 million are...
CINCINNATI-Mobile virtual network operator provider Visage Mobile will use Convergys Corp.'s Infinys billing services, including Geneva, the rating and billing component of the system."Convergys is crucial to the Visage Mobile service offering, providing the best-in-class billing platform and widely recognized operational reliability," said Matt...
LONDON-Mobile satellite service provider Inmarsat Ltd. will install ADC's Singl.eView rating and billing software for its new Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN) service, which Inmarsat will begin offering in 2005. Inmarsat also uses Singl.eView for its current regional BGAN service. "We're pleased with Singl.eView's...
As wireless penetrates the young-adult market, universities are losing revenues once garnered from on-campus landline phones and long-distance reseller programs. Telispire, which provides privately branded cellular service to various organizations, is aiming to help schools recoup that revenue stream by offering school spirit-inspired cellular...
ATLANTA-Intec Telecom Systems said Ukrainian Mobile Communications (UMC) will use Intec's Inter-connecT billing solution to help it charge other carriers for using its network facilities."This new agreement will help to integrate the billing operations of UMC, while generating new market opportunities for one of...
Ectel Inc. announced it sold its X-Probe PD product for lawful intercept to one of the nation's largest wireless carriers. The company would not identify the carrier, nor would it offer financial details of the deal.Ectel said its X-Probe PD product helps carriers comply...
Wireless operators in Europe and elsewhere have begun gearing up for potential problems associated with wireless porn, as U.K. telecom regulators field complaints from concerned parents-but the issue has not yet reached U.S. shores. And some analysts believe U.S. carriers will likely adopt an...
Wireless directory assistance, one of the more complicated issues in wireless, is gaining steam following recent analyst predictions the market holds an ample $3.3 billion revenue potential. But swirling around the seemingly simplistic idea of a wireless directory database are complicated concerns regarding privacy...
If you go into someone's shop and take something without paying, it's shoplifting and is punishable by jail time and a fine. But when a customer who owes a carrier money takes his or her phone number with them to another carrier without paying...
More than a year after announcing plans to sell off or find a partner for its wireless division, Qwest Communications International Inc. last week reported a deal with Sprint PCS that calls for Qwest to transition its nearly 1 million wireless subscribers to Sprint...
WASHINGTON-Sprint Corp. responded bitterly to a recommendation from the inspector general of the General Services Administration that it be debarred from future government contracts."We find it outrageous that they would even consider this," said Sprint spokesman James Fisher. "There was no attempt on our...
ATLANTA-Intec Telecom Systems has deployed its Interconnect billing solution with Russian wireless telecommunications provider VimpelCom. The solution now supports VimpelCom's 17 interconnect billing partners in Moscow, and plans are under way to roll out the solution across all of VimpelCom's mobile operations in Russia,...
OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-Businesses are likely to react to wireless local number portability, according to new research from The Management Network Group Inc. The research also showed wireless service continues to penetrate U.S. businesses, with 45 percent of respondents saying they plan to increase future...
Interest in Wi-Fi technology surged again last week as Sprint PCS announced it will begin offering a Wi-Fi solution later this summer that initially will provide its customers with access to high-speed Internet services in more than 800 locations across the country and plans...
