SAN JOSE, Calif.-Mobile applications provider Xpherix Corp. said its Remo, iPhonebook and iDatebook applications are now available to Western Wireless Corp.'s Cellular One subscribers, Cellular South customers and Ntelos Inc. subscribers. The Remo service allows wireless customers to access e-mail from seven different POP3...
JACKSON, Miss.-Rural wireless provider Cellular South launched BREW-based wireless data services on its CDMA2000 1x network in the Southeast, allowing customers to download wireless applications and services to BREW-enabled handsets.The carrier recently noted the completion of the overlay of its legacy TDMA network with...
Rural wireless provider Cellular South said it has added more than 100 cell sites since last September as part of the planned expansion of its CDMA2000 1x-based network, which is an overlay of its legacy TDMA network. The carrier noted that with the recent...
JACKSON, Miss.-Privately held wireless carrier Cellular South, which controls spectrum licenses covering more than 5 million potential customers in Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida, said it recorded a 23-percent improvement in customer churn during the first quarter from 2.2 percent last year to 1.7...
LAKE CHARLES, La.-Sprint PCS affiliate US Unwired Inc. reported an agreement to sell up to 97 communications towers to AAT Communications Corp. at an average price of $125,000 per tower. The towers are located in Arkansas, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, Louisiana and Texas with AAT...
Sprint PCS affiliate US Unwired Inc. reported an agreement to sell up to 97 communications towers to AAT Communications Corp. at an average price of $125,000 per tower. The towers are located in Arkansas, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, Louisiana and Texas with AAT committing to...
SEATTLE-Universal short codes seem more of a possibility following a new announcement from messaging companies Mobliss and LogicaCMG, which are managing an interactive TV application that allows mobile-phone users to vote for contestants on USA Networks' upcoming "Nashville Star" TV show.AT&T Wireless, Cingular Wireless,...
JACKSON, Miss.-Cellular South has licensed and deployed the two modules of eaSuite from Edocs, Natick, Mass., into online customer care offerings to subscribers in its territory, which covers parts of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Mississippi and Tennessee."The Edocs applications give Cellular South a distinct competitive...
WASHINGTON-The Wireless Foundation, the charitable arm of the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association, has expanded its successful Donate-A-Phone program so that carriers and other wireless retailers may donate $2 to the charity of their choice for every phone they recycle."It is a way to...
Due to an anticipated decrease in domestic South Korean sales related to the elimination of phone subsidies, Qualcomm Inc. expects lower order levels for its Code Division Multiple Access chipsets in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2000. Qualcomm said it did not expect the...
BearCom Inc. acquired Fidelcomm Service Co., a two-way radio equipment dealer serving the greater Los Angeles area, said BearCom. The dealership, which has been in business since 1988, will assume the BearCom name.Brightpoint Inc. agreed to sell Merrill Lynch & Co. $335 million aggregate...
Omnipoint Communications Inc. has been granted access to the New York Power Authority's structures and rights-of-way. Under the agreement, approved by the board of trustees of the New York Power Authority, Omnipoint will have access to the structures and rights-of-way to install equipment and...
NEW YORK-Three-sixty Communications Co. and Alltell Mobile Communications Inc. announced a signed agreement for a joint marketing and technology alliance in the Carolinas and Georgia.The new alliance is designed to permit the companies to offer their customers an expanded coverage area that includes about...
