Sprint Corp. announced a multiyear agreement with the country's eighth-largest cable operator Mediacom Communications Corp., enabling Mediacom to provide telephony services in nearly all of its markets currently covering 2.7 million homes in 23 states.The telephony services will initially use Sprint's wired network to...
DUBLIN, Ireland-Payment software provider Valista introduced its Valista OffersPlus software.OffersPlus allows providers to package their products and services in a variety of targeted consumer and small to medium enterprise offerings, said the company. The software allows consumers to buy according to their needs. First-time...
The rush of companies joining the ranks of pseudo-wireless providers continued last week as mobile content and application provider SmartServ Online Inc. announced plans to begin offering its prepaid Uphonia wireless services using a yet-to-be named wireless operator's network. Unlike a number of companies...
WASHINGTON-The Consumer Federation of America is quietly circulating a white paper arguing against the $41 billion merger of AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and Cingular Wireless L.L.C. saying that because Cingular is owned by two Baby Bells, it will dilute intermodal competition."The Federal Communications Commission...
Qwest Communications International Inc. unveiled nationwide wireless voice services to residential and small-business customers in eight Oregon cities as part of its mobile virtual network operator agreement signed last year with Sprint PCS. The agreement allows Qwest to offer wireless service in markets where...
CHICAGO-Consumers downloaded a diverse selection of karaoke music into their handsets over the past two months. First International Digital Inc. launched its Mobile Karaoke service in late May through Verizon Wireless' Get It Now. FID said it is the first and only U.S. service...
While application developers and others in industry debate whether the enterprise or the consumer market will strike gold first, technology giants like Microsoft Corp. see much crossover between the two, perhaps suggesting they will develop alongside each other. The word "prosumer" has been embraced...
SAN ANTONIO-SBC Communications Inc. unveiled a bundled offering for business customers allowing them to integrate wireline and wireless services, including Research In Motion Ltd. BlackBerry service plans from wireless subsidiary Cingular Wireless L.L.C., traditional wireless plans and SBC local and long-distance voice services that...
Verizon Wireless launched its new Pay As You Go service bundle, which includes a Kyocera Corp. KX414 handset and flat rate pricing of 10 cents per minute with a 25-cent-per-call connection fee. The new bundle is expected to retail for $130 and includes the...
Other than worries among chipmakers over Cisco System Inc.'s quarterly earnings, the sector continues to purr with good news. However, some analysts caution against overheating with inventory overload.Chipmakers that supply Cisco products suffered slides in their stock prices when Cisco announced double-digit profits that...
Dear Editor,I read with interest your article on April 1 titled, "Research claims wireless not major threat to wireline," and wanted to share some thoughts on a couple of points.When the Phoenix Center claims that "Consumers do not generally consider wireless a good enough...
Wireless customers are often viewed as the most valuable asset a carrier has, though they are often the hardest to quantify. While having more customers usually translates into higher revenues, analysts note the cost of acquiring and servicing those subscribers has to be weighed...
WASHINGTON-The Consumers Union is asking the Federal Communications Commission to force wireless carriers to stop locking handsets, saying the move would lead to better coverage, more competition and less pollution."The only reason wireless companies install these locks is to try to hang onto their...
WASHINGTON-Consumers Union on Tuesday asked the Federal Communications Commission to seek ways to stop the industry practice of handset locking, saying doing so would lead to better coverage, more competition and less pollution."The only reason wireless companies install these locks is to try and...
WASHINGTON-An engineer/consultant that focuses on electricity reliability told a think-tank seminar Monday it is impossible to protect against blackouts like the one that crippled the Northeastern United States and parts of Canada last year."We are unable to protect ourselves from blackouts," said Steve Fairfax...
ATLANTA-Earthlink has announced its intentions to sell its own branded converged wireless voice and data devices. The ISP said it will debut its first product this spring offering a complete bundle of applications on a handheld device including e-mail, voice calling, and Internet access...
OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-Sprint PCS reported a deal with Sunflower Broadband that will allow Sunflower to offer Sprint PCS wireless phone service as part of its bundle of services offered to subscribers that includes digital cable service, high-speed data and telephone service."By partnering with Sprint,...
DENVER-Qwest Communications International Inc. launched its nationwide wireless voice service for residential and small business customers as part of its network-sharing agreement announced last year with Sprint PCS. Qwest said its nationwide plans start at $25 per month for 200 anytime calling minutes when...
Ladies and gentlemen, AT&T Wireless (like Elvis) has left the building.So now what? Is this a new Ma Bell? Not likely, but I suspect the new and improved Cingular (if the company can integrate AT&T Wireless assets successfully) will put some spark into the...
Fresh with a government deal to test its Packet Blast technology, Lucent Technologies Inc. confirms a trend that proclaims packet technology is king in the wireless space.The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency demonstrated this with an $11.5 million award to allow Lucent to...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Vodafone Sweden said it will launch the Vodafone Mobile Connect 3G/GPRS PC Card for the carrier's next-generation network next Monday, providing customers with Internet access at speeds of up to 384 kilobits per second. The carrier said the card is the first product...
Telecommunications bundling has made a strong comeback over the past year, with nearly all of the country's regional providers offering some form of packaged deal to customers. Those bundles usually include a wireless link either through a direct subsidiary as is the case with...
BOULDER, Colo.-SandCherry Inc. announced it is offering prepackaged application bundles featuring its speech-recognition software products for wireless applications to small- and medium-sized enterprises.The company's bundled offerings are targeted at a range of vertical industries, including medical, financial services, retail and utilities, and are available...
Upstart push-to-talk platform provider Kodiak Networks Inc. announced its first carrier customer last week by partnering with European-based operator Orange and is rumored to be readying a U.S.-based launch with Alltel Corp. as early as this week.Kodiak's agreement with Orange calls for the carrier...
