CANNES, France-TSI Telecom Services Inc. said it has launched GSM network transport and conversion services known as SCCP gateway services and has signed up Japanese carrier J-Phone as its first customer.The company, which has set up a new office in Amsterdam, also launched Streamliner,...
DENVER-Qwest Communications International Inc. has restated its financial results for 2001 and 2000 following an internal review.Qwest said its revenue for full year 2001 was $18.37 million, down $1.325 million from its previously reported revenue of $19.695 million. Revenue for 2000 was $15.721 million,...
PARIS-Alcatel will launch version 2.0 of its Multimedia Messaging Services at the upcoming 3GSM World Congress in Cannes, France.The products feature a high-performance ratio per cost per unit; interoperability between mobile-phone bands; and simple and flexible billing services. The MMS suite can be bundled...
WASHINGTON-A federal judge sent back to state court a lawsuit to stop Nextel Communications Inc. and Sprint PCS from listing charges on mobile-phone bills that Missouri Attorney General Jay Nixon has called misleading and deceptive.The judge, according to the Missouri AG's office, yesterday afternoon...
WOBURN, Mass.-Boston Communications Group Inc. reported $21.1 million in revenue for the fourth quarter of 2002, a 48-percent increase compared with the $14.3 million the company reported for the fourth quarter of 2001. For the year revenue increased from $66.3 million in 2001 to...
WASHINGTON-Maryland State Sen. Brian Frosh (D) and two other lawmakers have introduced legislation to step up regulation of mobile phone carriers, continuing a growing trend of state activism throughout the country in response to rising consumer complaints about service quality, billing and contracts.The Frosh...
IRVINE, Calif.-Continuing their 10-year relationship, billing company Primal Solutions Inc. said it signed a new $13 million agreement with paging and messaging carrier Metrocall Inc. for customer care and billing products.The new agreement spans three years and covers professional services and software support.
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-Mobile network operator MTN Nigeria announced it will begin to bill its prepaid customers based on seconds.Adrian Wood, chief executive officer of MTN Nigeria, said the board of the company approved the plan 11 December last year. The announcement has been well...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-Western Wireless Corp. named Wayne Wisehart chief financial officer effective Jan. 30 and promoted Theresa Gillespie to vice chair. Wisehart spent 16 years at Palmer Communications and Palmer Wireless, serving as CFO at both companies. Gillespie has served in various positions at Western...
WASHINGTON-The states are preparing to crack down on the mobile-phone industry. Twenty-two attorneys general, who have been collecting information from wireless carriers during the past two years, are laying the groundwork to confront the nation's mobile-phone carriers with a proposal to change billing and...
WASHINGTON-The states are preparing to crack down on the mobile-phone industry. Twenty-two attorneys general, who have been collecting information from wireless carriers the past two years, are laying the groundwork to confront the nation's mobile-phone carriers with a proposal to change billing and other...
WASHINGTON-One of the most contentious wireless issues in Europe-mobile phone termination fees-is has landed in the United States as Bush administration trade and telecom officials investigate whether U.S. telecom carriers are being overcharged by wireless operators across the Atlantic and elsewhere. Last week criticism...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-ArrayComm Inc. demonstrated the seamless Internet session hand-off between two base stations using its i-BURST technology near its San Jose, Calif., headquarters.During the demonstration, an ArrayComm team drove between the company headquarters and a base station about three miles away while using...
ENGLEWOOD, Colo.-EBay Inc., the online auctioneer, has selected as its exclusive billing platform the Kenan/BP solution from CSG Systems Inc.Under the agreement, eBay also will deploy the CSG Kenan Invoice Designer, a pre-integrated module that will enable the online trading company to customize electronic...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-The Ugandan Consumer Protection Association (UCPA) has called on mobile network operators to begin billing subscribers by the second and not by the minute.Mobile calls in Uganda are said to be more expensive because the network operators bill per minute and not...
WASHINGTON-It would be nice to say this policy or that technology will shape the direction of the wireless industry in 2003. But neither industry nor official Washington has that luxury. Geopolitics could come to color the wireless world to a far greater extent than...
WASHINGTON-It would be nice to say this policy or that technology will shape the direction of the wireless industry in 2003. But neither industry nor official Washington has that luxury. Geopolitics could come to color the wireless world to a far greater extent than...
CINCINNATI, United States-Convergys said it will supply an integrated billing system to Qatar Telecom. The company will use the service to bill General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) and Universal Mobile telecommunications System (UMTS) services, in addition to its fixed-line, cable and Internet services.
MUNICH, Germany-PCTEL Inc. recently announced the availability of its new Segue Network Gateway, capable of performing routing, IP addressing, security and billing access for 802.11 networks."We will continue to press the envelope on reducing the costs of operating and establishing 802.11 networks," said Marty...
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BOSTON-Vordel has introduced VordelSecure 2.0, which it said is the first eXtensible Markup Language suite designed to respond to the security needs of organizations taking advantage of XML for software integration.For wireless carriers, XML holds promise as a means to allow disparate billing and...
NEW YORK-Sprint Corp. said today it plans to eliminate about 2,100 jobs, or 3 percent of its work force, in response to the downturn in the long-distance telecommunications business.The elimination of 1,000 employees will result from Sprint's consolidation into a single unit of the...
OSLO, Norway-Ericsson's mid-November confirmation that its sweeping restructuring and job slashing would lead to a 50-percent reduction in its research and development (R&D) staff struck a raw nerve in Sweden. By the end of 2003, Ericsson will halve its R&D staff to 12,000, with...
OKLAHOMA CITY-Dobson Communications Corp. signed a five-year outsourced billing services contract with Convergys Corp. to use Convergys' Atlys billing and customer care product operating in a Convergys data center to support both voice and data services.Financial terms of the contract were not released.
