European-based wireless operator Orange announced plans to launch its Kodiak Networks Inc.-based Talk Now push-to-talk service in 10 countries this year starting with the carrier's operations in the United Kingdom and France during the second quarter. Orange explained the Talk Now service would allow...
Becky Welke had a problem. As general manager of the Plaza Hotel & Suites in Eau Claire, Wis., Welke wanted to offer her guests high-speed access to the Internet, but the installation and service costs made her think twice.However, knowing that such broadband access...
LAS VEGAS-Wireless enterprise company iAnywhere Solutions Inc. announced it will team with technology giant Intel Corp. to sell its new Wi-Fi toolkit, which the companies said is a bundle targeted at companies looking to jump-start their Wi-Fi efforts.iAnywhere said the toolkit includes its SQL...
LONDON-T-Mobile in Europe announced an innovative new service that further expands the bounds of wireless data services and pushes the carrier one step closer to full over-the-air control over wireless phones. Under the offering, T-Mobile users will be able to download new user interfaces...
OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-In a direct response to a recent Federal Communications Commission order on UNE-P, Sprint Corp. said it will begin offering its Complete Sense portfolio of calling bundles using UNE-P and the company's existing long-distance and nationwide wireless network.The portfolio, which will be...
WASHINGTON-A federal judge in New York said Aug. 12 that a consolidated group of lawsuits against major players of the wireless industry can go forward to determine whether the carriers in question illegally bundle handsets with service, but an allegation that the carriers have...
The massive hype surrounding Wi-Fi has forced the rest of the nation's wireless carriers to follow T-Mobile USA Inc.'s lead or risk being left behind. But in the dust cloud blown up by such haste, it's hard to distinguish one player from the next."I...
DALLAS-The hot-spot service market in the United States will garner revenues in excess of $800 million by 2007, according to a new report from Parks Associates. The research firm estimates service revenues for hot spots will reach $105 million for 2003 and will experience...
BOULDER, Colo.-SandCherry Inc. recently committed to refining its focus by working with partners to offer complete mobility solutions to its enterprise and service provider customers, an announcement that was followed by a flurry of partnership deals and product releases that serve as part of...
SandCherry Inc. recently committed to refining its focus by working with partners to offer complete mobility solutions to its enterprise and service provider customers, an announcement that was followed by a flurry of partnership deals and product releases that serve as part of the...
AUSTIN, Texas-Motorola Inc. announced two new deals to further the development of applications and content for mobile phones.First, the company introduced its new i.JV30 Java virtual machine for its Innovative Convergence mobile-phone reference design. The virtual machine will be available for manufacturers that license...
The telecommunications industry's on-again, off-again interest in offering bundled services appears to be back on again as a pair of companies announced initiatives last week that could make it easier to offer customers both wireline and wireless telecommunications services.AT&T Corp., which spun off its...
Nearly two years after spinning off its wireless business, AT&T Corp. reported a deal to begin reselling AT&T Wireless Services Inc. wireless service as part of a communications bundle to residential long-distance customers in select markets beginning this summer."This combined wireless and wireline calling...
LONDON-U.K. mobile operator MmO2 has announced the launch of an online business mobile shop. Targeted primarily at small and medium-sized businesses wanting to manage their mobile accounts online, it will offer a range of services costing from $18.80 per month. The company is hoping...
In an interesting turnaround, Motorola Inc. said it will use synchronization technology from Extended Systems in one of its new mobile phones instead of technology from its former subsidiary Starfish Software Inc.Motorola announced just last month it sold its Starfish subsidiary to Pumatech Inc....
BELLEVUE, Wash.-T-Mobile USA Inc. said it will allow subscribers to bundle unlimited access to its HotSpot service to their current wireless voice and data bill for an additional $20 per month. Unlimited access to T-Mobile USA's HotSpot service typically runs between $30 and $40...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-T-Mobile USA Inc. said it will now allow subscribers to bundle unlimited access to its HotSpot service to their current wireless voice and data bill for an additional $20 per month. Unlimited access to T-Mobile USA's HotSpot service typically runs between $30 and...
WASHINGTON-A Pennsylvania customer of Nextel Communications Inc. has filed a lawsuit in the Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas against the mobile-phone carrier because Seth Lamb is mad about extra charges that appear on his bill for universal service, the telecommunications relay service and $1.55...
SARASOTA, Fla.-Retrieval Dynamics Corp. and EarthLink Inc. announced a teaming to create a wireless data package for real estate executives. The program combines a BlackBerry wireless e-mail device from Research In Motion Ltd. with EarthLink's wireless service and real estate applications from RDC."By teaming...
VANCOUVER, British Columbia-Wireless modem maker Sierra Wireless announced a new bundled package of connection products for wireless users in China, a package that includes access to wide area networks and Wi-Fi networks and an IBM Corp. laptop computer.Sierra said the new IBM-Sierra Wireless bundle...
NEW YORK-Although 2002 "was a very difficult year" because new landline competition squeezed profits, Matav, Hungary's incumbent carrier, rode the country's rising tide of wireless penetration and gained significantly in terms of mobile customers and associated revenue growth, said Elek Straub, chief executive officer...
STAMFORD, Conn.-Wireless applications provider SmartServ Online Inc. announced it will team with Wireless Retail Inc. to sell packaged bundles of wireless data applications inside retail locations."Wireless Retail's sophisticated POS (point of sale) system will enable us to activate applications, compensate personnel and differentiate offerings...
SEATTLE-Billing and content management company Qpass Inc. released a new version of its software platform, dubbed Prosperity Series, which the company said allows carriers to change way they sell and charge for wireless data, from text messaging to Java-based application downloads.Tom Trinneer, vice president...
