LCC International Inc. has launched a radio-frequency exposure and regulatory compliance program designed to help wireless operators and site owners comply with standards and guidelines mandated by the Federal Communications Commission, Federal Aviation Administration and other federal, state and local government agencies. The program...
PLANO, Texas-EDS announced it is helping GTE Wireless bring the convenience of online bill payments to its more than 7 million customers by providing interactive online billing as part of the GTE's corporatewide e-commerce strategy.Interactive Billing Services, based on EDS' electronic billing offering, allows...
NEW ORLEANS-Motorola Inc. said it successfully made a voice over Internet Protocol call on top of a third-generation high-speed packet data call at 384 kilobits per second in a laboratory experiment.The 3G experimental system is an Aspira network architecture-based system demonstrating 3G cellular services...
NEW ORLEANS-Lightbridge Inc., a provider of customer acquisition, retention and risk-management solutions, and Corsair Communications Inc., a real-time business solutions provider for the wireless industry, announced a strategic alliance and joint distribution agreement.Under terms of the agreement, the companies will co-market and sell their...
ATLANTA-LHS Group Inc. and Siemens Business Services will jointly provide a Global Packet Radio Service customer care and billing infrastructure for wireless Internet services and applications.The solution will be based on LHS' BSCS customer care and billing platform integrated with the company's Message Coordinator...
NEW ORLEANS-The outlook for adoption of rules for calling party pays is now seen as murky by many of those who attended last week's CTIA Wireless 2000 conference.Calling party pays is similar to long-distance toll calling where the person placing the call to a...
Phone.com Inc. unveiled a new Wireless Application Protocol-based system that can change software settings and roaming configurations on handsets after they have been purchased using over-the-air provisioning technology.The system, Mobile Management Server 1.0, was designed to provision WAP gateways, applications and handsets across multiple...
NEW ORLEANS-Several Wireless Application Protocol announcements were made at Wireless 2000 in New Orleans last week. RTS Wireless demonstrated its Advantage WAP Gateway e-commerce solutions Datalink.net said it joined the WAP Forum. Motorola Inc. announced the availability of its WAP gateway, compatible with WAP...
While Microsoft Corp. and America Online Inc. were the stars of the Internet content provider show at Wireless 2000, several supporting players launched wireless portals of their own, some with scene-stealing flair.They include GiantBear.com, Strategy.com, SpyglassMobile. com, WiredCEO, Logica and Speedia.com.John Dorfman, analyst at...
HandsetsPhilipsPhilips introduced several new handsets. The Ozeo GSM dual-band mobile phone offers a new user interface and a large LCD display with five text lines. The carousel icon screen feature simultaneously displays up to five visual icons representing the phone's functions and features. The...
International roaming is a key selling point for all three digital cellular standards. The GSM community in particular often claims that roaming capability is not only a prime factor in the widespread acceptance of GSM but also a reason for its introduction in the...
TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo's iMode Internet service is winning attention around the world as the first success case for mobile Internet.Since the carrier launched the service in February 1999, it has attracted more than 2.8 million users. Subscribers are expected to reach 4 million by March...
Corsair Communications Inc. introduced this week its PrePay Open billing system, as well as its PhoneFuel mobile commerce application, both of which allow carriers to add Internet access to their prepaid wireless offerings.PrePay Open is capable of supporting the functionality of the Wireless Intelligent...
Agilent TechnologiesAgilent Technologies Inc. introduced a number of new test-solution products and made improvements to others. The Agilent 84000 RFIC series model A20E is a low-cost test solution developed specifically for high-volume semiconductor manufacturers that make radio-frequency power-amplifier integrated circuits used in cell phones...
WASHINGTON-An FCC staff proposal for the implementation of calling party pays service is being heavily debated by the commissioners' offices-a debate that could lead to its removal from this week's Federal Communications Commission's Open Meeting agenda.CPP is similar to long-distance toll calling where the...
CANNES, France-Motorola Inc. and Logica plc announced they launched a key component of the new general packet radio service mobile data systems solution, their jointly-developed "Smart Mediator" charging gateway for Global System for Mobile communications/GPRS network operators.According to Motorola, Smart Mediator addresses the operator-subscriber...
In a marked shift in strategy, Datalink.net unveiled a new business unit called Net2Wireless Turnkey Business Solutions, designed to provide business-to-business wireless extension services.Originally, Datalink aimed its turnkey information services solution directly to wireless customers, sometimes through marketing agreements with carriers like SkyTel Inc....
Perhaps the greatest indicator of the wireless data industry's rise to popularity is the way paging carriers are positioning themselves in the space today.Pioneering wireless data carriers like American Mobile Satellite Corp. and BellSouth Wireless Data L.P. started the trend by offering paging-like services...
Wireless carriers and Wall Street are excited about the huge revenue potential advertising via mobile phones could bring in the future, but just how to offer it to customers is a looming question.Regulatory requirements to allow wireless 911 location will drive the advent of...
NEW YORK-Ubiquitous connectivity, driven by consumer demand rather than carrier plan, could well develop into a completely new kind of convergent telecommunications, said Joan Barten Kline of J.D. Power and Associates."Access may become a new product category altogether, instead of the bundling of different...
Tegic Communications Inc. signed a global licensing agreement with Voxson, allowing Voxson to integrate the T9 Text Input technology for Chinese and European languages into next-generation wireless phones.Triton Network Systems announced it has signed a multi-year, multimillion dollar deal with Advanced Radio Telecom Corp.,...
ATLANTA-LHS Group Inc., an Atlanta-based provider of operations support systems, and Alcatel, a Paris-based network infrastructure supplier, have signed a memorandum of understanding to pursue wireless and wireline opportunities in the People's Republic of China.The companies, which already have a global partnership agreement, said...
CINCINNATI-Convergys Corp. announced it signed a six-year contract with South America's largest cellular operator, Telesp Celular S.A., to supply the company's billing and customer care solutions.Convergys will customize, manage and operate its Atlys billing and customer care solution in a data center staffed and...
CINCINNATI-Convergys Corp. announced it added PricewaterhouseCoopers L.L.P. as a qualified global systems integrator for the company's new Atlys wireless customer care and billing solution.The integrator program provides for the implementation of Atlys, training the practice staff of the systems integrator and periodically sharing Atlys...
