TOKYO-Korea Telecom Freetel, South Korea's second-largest mobile carrier, launched 1XRTT technology in May, targeting to win 1 million 1X subscribers during the first year. To facilitate more advanced data services, the carrier will provide 1X EV-DO, a data-only service based on 1X, on the...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Uncertainty related to the future of Scandinavian mobile prepaid calling plans, less preferred here than in Western Europe generally, is largely due to the struggle to migrate customers to more expensive products and emerging technologies that could fundamentally change the relationship between vendor...
Siemens AG is eliminating 6,100 jobs from its mobile handset and network operations. The German telecom equipment and handset company, which shied away from offering its earnings picture for the second half of the year, said 2,600 jobs would be cut from the mobile-handset...
A number of players must work together to deploy a nationwide wireless network, including carriers, tower companies and equipment manufacturers, but there is a new kind of company on the rise that looks after that network and keeps it running efficiently after the main...
NEW YORK-The wireless information superhighway today is at the stage the interstate roads were during the 1930s, said Grover Righter, vice president of technical strategy for Kabira, San Rafael, Calif.Back then, farmers saw the roads getting built and being illuminated near their land, but...
NEW YORK-Not surprisingly, the number and size of mergers and acquisitions for which a dollar value was made public declined markedly in all industries when compared to the same period a year ago, Los Angeles-based Mergerstat reported.Announced transactions involving U.S. companies totaled 2,224, down...
WASHINGTON-In a development with national implications for a wireless industry increasingly hit with complaints about service quality and billing problems, a California telecom regulator last week suggested the state Public Utilities Commission may consider approving a new policy before year's end that would allow...
WASHINGTON-The telecommunications industry is questioning whether the nearly half-million dollars it has paid to a nonprofit consultant to the government on numbering issues is kosher.The Federal Communications Commission is using consulting agency Mitre Corp. to assist it with number pooling issues. To date, Mitre...
OTTAWA-Sigem Inc. and WirelessCar announced they intend to form a strategic alliance to develop and offer a complete telematics solution, leveraging Sigem's ePing global positioning system products with WirelessCar's communications, administration and billing services.
NEW YORK -Simon Hayward, vice president and research director of The Gartner Group, Stamford, Conn., is waiting for the real "WAGs" to come to the fore and realize the unfulfilled vision of a "Supranet" of anytime, anywhere data communications.These wireless application gateways of the...
LAS VEGAS-Cingular Wireless said it will launch its first operational standards-based General Packet Radio Service in the United States, dubbed Cingular Wireless Internet Express, in its GSM markets in California, Nevada and Washington during the second quarter. The GPRS service is the company's first...
LAS VEGAS-Portal Software Inc., IBM Corp. and Reciprocal Inc. are working together to deliver a new secure digital content commerce and distribution offering that integrates Portal Software's Infranet platform and IBM's Electronic Media Management System. According to the companies, the new Reciprocal offering will...
NEW YORK -Paragon Networks International, Brookfield, Conn., wants to take wireless carriers on a walk across "BROADway" to bridge the gap between today's circuit-switched networks and tomorrow's packet-based networks.Introduced at the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association's Wireless 2001 in Las Vegas last week, the...
Lucent TechnologiesLucent Technologies introduced Flexent Wireless IP Core Network Architecture, which it said will help wireless carriers deliver a range of voice and data services to customers. According to Lucent, the first phase of the architecture, the Lucent Softswitch Toll/Tandem Solution, lets carriers connect...
LAS VEGAS-TSI Telecommunication Services Inc., a global supplier of interoperability solutions, made announcements regarding several newly formed strategic alliances at CTIA Global Wireless 2001.The company signed a technology agreement with AT&T Wireless Services supporting simplified international roaming capabilities. The agreement will enable AT&T Wireless...
BEIJING-A spokesman for China Mobile said the company would further delay the one-way billing system beyond the proposed implementation period of early 2002, citing the "need for further research and complicated technical adjustments."The new billing system could sharply reduce revenues, triggering lower stock prices...
HELSINKI, Finland-New World Mobility, a mobile operator based in Hong Kong, has selected the Nokia Artuse Unstructured Supplementary Services Data Centre, a platform that offers faster interactive messaging services within GSM networks.According to Nokia, the USSD operates up to seven times faster than existing...
NEW YORK-With the March 12 commercial debut of NetProfile Wireless Edition, Bridgewater Systems, Kanata, Ontario, is offering a chance and a challenge to mobile operators seeking a profitable way out of their walled gardens of data delivery.The new software product allows network operators to...
Wireless carriers are always looking for ways to retain customers. The most common retention method is to offer services that customers like to use so much that they are willing to stick with the carrier simply because they offer the service. With such desirable...
CINCINNATI-Convergys Corp. and IBM Corp. announced they will port Release 6.0 of Convergys' Atlys solution onto IBM's Unix server platform, including the new eServer pSeries line.Atlys Release 6.0 is the newest version of Convergys' end-to-end customer-care and billing solution for wireless voice and data...
AWRApplied Wave Research appointed Ronald Patston as vice president of marketing. Prior to joining AWR, Patston held several positions in various companies in the wireless and EDA industry including Agilent Technologies, Verticom Inc. and Hewlett Packard. As VP of marketing, Patston will lead AWR's...
CANNES, France-Sema, an information technology and business services company, announced Mobile E-mail, its new messaging service offering for telecom operators. The product allows operators to offer interactive Internet e-mail services, so users can choose how to send and retrieve e-mails, whether by SMS, WAP...
CANNES, France-Amdocs, a provider of customer-care, billing and order-management, introduced Amdocs 3G, a platform designed to assist carriers as they adapt to third-generation wireless services. According to the company, Amdocs 3G is made up of five integrated application suites with up to 30 applications...
Hailing from Stockholm, Sweden, one of the world's premier breeding grounds for mobile-phone technology, wireless network security developer Columbitech is gearing up to take on the United States with a wireless virtual private network product that will allow users to access their corporate local...
