SINGAPORE-Singapore's smallest paging operator, Hutchison Intrapage, has quit the sector four years after it began operations. The shareholders-Hong Kong's Hutchison Telecommunications (40 percent), Intraco (30 percent) and its subsidiary Teledata (30 percent)-looked for a buyer for the loss-making operations for two years, and after...
WASHINGTON-Verizon Communications is talking up legislation that would deregulate the broadband industry using the way wireless is "regulated" as a model, noting the wireless industry was exempted from state regulation when the Communications Act was changed in 1993.The bill advocated by Verizon would have...
Nine months after investing an initial $33 million into its mobile Internet services development company Microcell i5 Inc., Canadian wireless operator Microcell Solutions Inc. introduced its i.Fido wireless data services to its Fido personal communications services customers.Microcell's wireless Internet offering will face stiff competition...
ATLANTA-BulletIN.net, a provider of two-way wireless Internet connectivity for wireless carriers, announced it will deliver its wireless messaging products to China Systems Corp.'s network of financial institution customers.In addition, BulletIN.net said consumer electronics manufacturer Panda will bundle BulletIN.net's messaging products with its mobile phone,...
NEW YORK-A host of players behind the scenes is pulling the complex strings required to amplify and simplify the end-user experience with billing and customer relationship management for the increasing variety of wireless services.With six or seven operators in each major market, price no...
Citing results from their new, 300-plus page report covering almost every facet of the telecommunications industry, executives of the Telecommunications Industry Association said that while the market is slowing down and telecommunications spending may seem to be floundering, the industry is still hot enough...
AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands-In a move that could further i-mode's push into Europe, Telecom Italia Mobile said it will jointly develop and introduce a new mobile Internet concept for the pan-European market with KPN Mobile and its Japanese partner NTT DoCoMo.TIM said the joint venture...
NEW YORK-Without fanfare, Securicor Wireless Inc. continues its quiet and methodical assembly of a nationwide enhanced specialized mobile radio network, which it plans to extend into Canada and Latin and South America.Within five years, this hybrid network operator, spectrum owner and patent holder expects...
In an age of customer-service fumbles and a plethora of services, high-tech wizards dream of bundling as the lightning rod to greater revenues. So far, theory has proved superior to practice. But optimism may yet triumph.Unlike in the past when AT&T's monopoly reigned, competition...
LIBERTYVILLE, Ill.-Just a week after rival L.M. Ericsson introduced its first i-mode phone for the Japanese market, Motorola Inc. laid out plans to get in to the i-mode game as well by licensing compact HTML browsing technology from Access Co. Ltd. of Tokyo.The agreement...
After months of struggling financially and falling behind technologically, Motorola Inc. stands to make its mark as the first handset manufacturer to provide Java-enabled mobile phones.The company entered an agreement with Santa Cruz, Calif.-based Lutris Technologies Corp. to bundle Lutris' forthcoming Enhydra 3.5 Open...
The wireless broadband boom is in full swing, as evidenced by the dozens of companies that have popped up in that arena in the past year alone. Among them is a Richardson, Texas-based start-up called Raze Technologies, which is developing a bundled voice and...
NEW YORK-Despite the hope and hype around consumer and corporate use, vertical applications remain today's stronghold for wireless data, said Jeffrey Schlesinger, wireless technology analyst for UBS Warburg.Recognizing this fact, many large and small companies have made a foray into the field-force automation arena,...
AT&T Wireless Services Inc. could have a more difficult time offering bundled services to its customers after the business unit is separated from the parent group, according to one analyst.Now that AT&T has announced it will create four separate companies, each operating under the...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-JP Systems introduced a new platform at CTIA's Wireless I.T. show last week called SureWave, along with a WAP browser for Palm OS devices, supporting the Palm Query Application over multiple wireless networks.The SureWave platform replaces the firm's InfoBeam technology as its...
HELSINKI, Finland-Tibco Software Inc., which provides real-time infrastructure software for e-business, is deploying Nokia Corp.'s WAP technology for its Tibco MobileConnect third-generation networks, enabling mobile access to personalized services and information.Under terms of the agreement, Tibco will bundle the Nokia WAP server with its...
TORONTO-Primal Technologies Inc. received a fourth memorandum of understanding with Lucent Technologies Inc. to supply a PrePaid Voice Response Unit in its Primal Service Node.The prepaid system allows carriers to offer a bundle of options to customers who want to purchase wireless airtime at...
BOTHELL, Wash.-PocketScript, a wireless e-prescription system developer, will bundle Data Critical Corp.'s unwiredDR services and PocketChart application with its solutions and wireless handheld devices.The two also agreed to share technology across clinical functions like lab transactions and prescription writing to physicians may use these...
NEW YORK-Like the Wizard of Oz working the controls unseen, electronic commerce could soon become the primary delivery and fulfillment mechanism for all goods and services, regardless of whether consumers buy those goods and services online, by mail order or in a store.Telecommunications, provided...
NEW DELHI, India-The Southeast Asian region is set to enter a new era of wireless data within the next two years. Many operators in the region have already introduced wireless data services, including Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) launches, in preparation for a full-scale transition...
NEW YORK-Arbinet-thexchange Inc. has completed a year-long process of implementing what it calls the first carrier-grade bandwidth trading solution, company officials said at last week's Telecom Business Conference and Expo here."We are now trading cellular traffic on the exchange, and there already is a...
Just yesterday, it seems wireless carriers and resellers were at legal odds in front of the Federal Communications Commission.Resellers fought for mandatory access to carriers' networks, while carriers battled that effort, coming up with a concession that would end mandatory reselling two years from...
WETHERSFIELD, Conn.-Shared Technologies Cellular Inc. signed multiple distribution agreements with NetZero Inc., allowing STC to bundle NetZero's free Internet software with select STC product offerings.In return, NetZero will provide its 4 million subscribers a direct link to STC's Web site.STC said it plans to...
NEW YORK-AirLink PCS, the E-block fledgling of a century-old local exchange carrier, has found a niche providing its prepaid "Super Cordless" service for calling from and within a six-county area of Michigan."We've had visits by dozens of people from the E- and F-block licensees,...
