DENVER-A class-action lawsuit filed in Denver against AT&T Wireless Services Inc. is scheduled for mediation this week, according to the Rocky Mountain News.The class-action lawsuit, filed by Denver-based Hill & Robbins, claims AT&T Wireless' billing practices in regards to roaming calls caused customers to...
VIENNA, Austria-Mobilkom Austria this week became the third European operator and the first Austrian operator to launch commercial third-generation services. Mobilkom Austria announced a "technical launch" of its UMTS network last September, but it did not begin offering commercial service at that time due...
WOBURN, Mass.-Boston Communications Group Inc. reported record first-quarter earnings of $23.1 million, a 53 percent increase from the same period a year ago.The telecommunications billing and transaction processing company, known best for its prepaid wireless services, earned net income of $3.3 million, or 18...
ST. LOUIS-Amdocs Ltd., provider of telecommunications billing and customer management relationship solutions, posted net income increases last quarter amid declining revenues.Revenues totaled $355 million during the second quarter, which closed March 31, a 22 percent decrease from a year ago. However, net income...
SAN FRANCISCO-LetsTalk Enterprise Solutions released its new Employee Registration Module that helps corporations monitor employee-expensed wireless costs and assets.With the solution, employees can purchase their own phones and rate plans, accessories, optimize their rate plans, enter their own rate plan billing data and read...
LONDON-KPN NV, the Netherlands' largest telecommunications company, received a significant boost from Moody's Investors Service, which raised ratings on the carrier's $16.2 billion in outstanding debt and said it would review the company for further upgrades.Moody's bumped into the investment-grade strata the telecom operator's...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—In what appears to be almost an unseemly rush to protect their parochial businesses, five Asian operators—CSL of Hong Kong, Maxis of Malaysia, MobileOne (M1) of Singapore, Smart of the Philippines and Telstra of Australia—have formed the Asia Mobility Initiative (AMI), which...
LONDON-The downloadable application market could generate a staggering $7 billion worldwide by 2008, according to wireless research and consulting company Strategy Analytics.The firm said wireless operators need to leverage their billing assets in order to develop both retail and wholesale download strategies. The firm...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-Nigeria fixed wireless network operator Cell Communications (Cellcom) announced it has started the pilot phase of its 25 Nigerian nairas (US$0.19) per-minute billing without access fees.The rationale behind the tariff restructuring is an attempt to gain a share of the call center...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-Following the acquisition in March of wireless local are network (WLAN) operators Megastream and Munich-based WLAN, fixed-line carrier Swisscom, which now has more than 800 WLAN access points, has linked with Nomadix to hasten the deployment of more 802.11b hot spots. In...
LONDON-France's second-largest telecommunications operator, Cegetel, is to undertake a strategy to consolidate data mediation across all its 2.5-, third-generation (3G) and Internet Protocol (IP) networks. The operator has chosen XACCTmobile for this latest project. The primary systems integrator for the project is Accenture. This...
ATLANTA-Intec Telecom Systems announced the availibility of its Intec WLAN Solution, which allows the network usage capture, pricing and billing for a broad range of wireless local area network services consumed by roaming WLAN users. These services include WLAN user authentication, simple Internet access,...
NEW ORLEANS-Convergys Corp. announced the availability of its Settlement Suite Release 2.0. The new version enables wireless, cable and broadband, wireline, and Ineternet Protocol-based service providers to introduce new commerce and content-based services quickly and cost-effectively by more efficiently managing critical partner relationships, said...
NEW ORLEANS-MetaSolv Software Inc. demonstrated its comprehensive operations support system solutions for Wi-Fi networks at CTIA's Wireless 2003. MetaSolv's Wi-Fi OSS solutions allow service providers and access point consolidators to deliver and manage Wi-Fi services for consumer and enterprise users in distributed Wi-Fi networks...
ST LOUIS, United States-Amdocs said it will provide BCP in Brazil with a billing and customer management platform for current and future voice and data services.Amdocs said its upgrade will enable BCP to offer its more than 1.5 million subscribers access to cross-product bundling...
SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Motorola Inc. and Lucent Technologies Inc. issued separate announcements on their programs that help software developers in the wireless arena.Lucent unveiled a new software development kit to enable mobile operators and software developers enrich services for mobile-phone users. The product, known as the...
KANATA, Ontario-Bridgewater Systems will demonstrate the latest addition to its suite of 802.11 offerings, the Wi-Fi Service Manager, a managed wireless local area network service for enterprises, at CTIA Wireless 2003.The new product allows carriers to monitor and manage enterprise sites while providing secure...
CEDAR KNOLLS, N.J.-Wireless Internet users could increase by 300 percent by 2007, with demand on the rise from this year forward, according to the "Wireless Internet Year-End 2002 Review and User Forecast," from Probe Research.Probe expects the Asia-Pacific region to make up more than...
HUNTINGTON, N.Y.-CirckaMedia Inc. has released a Web service application programming interface for management of promotions and campaigns delivered to desktop computers and mobile communications devices.The CirckaAPI defines how developers may use various methods and classes to interface with CirckaImpact, a digital marketing platform enabling...
CHICAGO-PCTel Inc. has made commercially available its new Segue Roaming Client, which it said would help "resolve the problems that service providers and subscribers encounter when roaming (between) wide area cellular data service and wireless local area networks."The dual-mode client software helps end users...
DULLES, Va.-Core Communications, a managed network services provider for the hospitality and meeting industries, has selected NetAccess, a broadband subscriber management solution developed by San Diego-based IP3 Networks Inc. for wireless LAN access in guest rooms at Omni and other hotels."IP3 provides seamless support...
CANNES, France-Intrado Inc. said it teamed with location-services provider Mobilaris to offer a bundled location-service solution, which the companies said will be capable of sophisticated service-based billing and support new models for revenue generation."We're pleased that together, Intrado and Mobilaris offer wireless service providers...
CANNES, France-The Open Mobile Alliance standards body said it completed two interoperability tests in conjunction with the 3GSM World Congress, and that it approved two new sets of specifications.The group, whose membership now exceeds 300 companies, said it approved its Client Provisioning version 1.1...
