NICE, France-Nokia made numerous announcements today at its annual customer Mobile Internet Conference in Nice, France, and at its "Destination Nokia 100% Pure Mobility" event in Brisbane, Australia.The company shared its vision of a mobile services mass market to a broad range of industry...
Wireless data service speeds-which for years have been cast aside as less important than the applications running over the networks-were again the topic of discussion for many carriers at this year's Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association IT & Entertainment 2003 show. The loudest discussions...
BIRMINGHAM, United Kingdom-Sendo has released its multimedia smart phone, the Sendo X, featuring video, audio, camera, connectivity and Internet functionality. The release comes amid the company's legal battle with Microsoft Corp. after Sendo dumped the Microsoft operating system earlier this year and filed a...
HELSINKI, Finland-Telia in Sweden said it is now offering video clips of news by the Swedish agency TT to its TeliaGo customers. Users can download the video clips to their phones and view them using reduced GPRS rates, which Telia cut by almost 70...
CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom-Continued delays in the launch of third-generation services in Western Europe could boost opportunities for GPRS technology, according to new research from U.K.-based consultancy Analysys.Analysys expects revenue from GPRS subscribers to be $17.6 billion in 2003 and to grow to $85.5 billion...
Longtime wireless modem maker Sierra Wireless announced a significant new business direction with the unveiling of its Voq phone-a device that marks the arrival of a new smart-phone player and another Microsoft Corp. backer.Investors seemed cheered by the bold move, sending Sierra's stock up...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc. said it has rolled out three new GSM base stations to complement its existing portfolio of infrastructure offerings.The new products include the indoor macro, outdoor macro and miniBTS under the company's Horizon II BTS solutions framework."All the Horizon II BTS...
Roy Miniel is a video gamer. He knows his way around a joystick and is on a first-name basis with Lara. Lara Croft, that is, professional tomb raider. Indeed, it's Miniel's job to know such things-he runs a Denver-area video game store called U...
LONDON-In the second such European alliance aiming to gain power in numbers, nine second- and third-tier mobile operators joined forces in a new mobile alliance to provide seamless, enhanced voice and data solutions for businesses and consumers across the Continent.MmO2, which operates in the...
LONDON-In the second such European alliance aiming to gain power in numbers, nine second- and third-tier mobile operators joined forces in a new mobile alliance to provide seamless, enhanced voice and data solutions for businesses and consumers across the Continent.MmO2, which operates in the...
GUATEMALA CITY-Guatemalan mobile operator SERCOM has selected Nortel Networks Ltd. to deploy a nationwide GSM network. Nortel will overlay SERCOM's current CDMA2000 1X network, also supplied by Nortel, with the GSM technology.Nortel said the new network will also be GPRS and EDGE ready. The...
Hollywood, meet wireless.It seems the Boob Tube is the latest mobile phone add-on for the world's wireless industry, a business constantly hunting the next new technology to astound and astonish the average phone shopper. Indeed, U.S. shoppers will get their first taste of a...
FRANCENortel Networks Ltd. has won a $200 million, 15-year GSM-Railway contract with French railway operator SNCF. The new system will handle all voice and data communications for train operations within 15,000 kilometers of track and replace the existing analog radio system. The project will...
PARIS-Alcatel Corp. said it will supply a $23 million network to Kazakhstan's second-largest mobile operator Kar-Tel. The upgrade will increase the operator's transmission capacity and double its overall network capacity.The contract includes a complete base station subsystem, operation and maintenance center and a GPRS...
ULYSSES, Kan.-Rural telecommunications provider WestLink Communications signed a deal with Nokia Corp. to replace the company's existing GSM network with Nokia's GSM/GPRS/EDGE core and radio access network equipment and expand WestLink's coverage footprint by as much as 70 percent. The deal, which calls for...
PARIS-Nortel Networks Ltd. has won a $200 million, 15-year GSM-Railway contract with French railway operator SNCF. The new system will handle all voice and data communications for train operations within 15,000 kilometers of track and replace the existing analog radio system.The project will be...
Siemens AG announced it won a contract with Germany's E-Plus to expand its GSM/GPRS network. The two-year contract is worth a "two-digit million euro amount," Siemens said. Siemens will install GSM base stations and necessary components to offer GPRS services. The expansion will increase...
Following more than 15 months of trials, regional wireless operator U.S. Cellular Corp. plans to commercially launch its Easyedge data service today, providing customers with access to the carrier's expanding CDMA2000 1x network and throwing its hat into an increasingly competitive data market that...
MUNICH, Germany-Siemens AG announced it won a contract with Germany's E-Plus to expand its GSM/GPRS network. The two-year contract is worth a "two-digit million euro amount," Siemens said.Siemens will install GSM base stations and necessary components to offer GPRS services. The expansion will crease...
LONDON-Lucent Technologies Inc. said it has signed a three-year contract to assess and analyze the performance of European mobile operator MmO2's GSM and GPRS networks in Germany, Ireland, the Isle of Mann and the United Kingdom."It is important to O2 that we ensure our...
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. said its Mobile Station Modem chipset and software known as MSM6250 has been selected by LG Electronics for its W-CDMA handsets."By integrating Qualcomm's MSM6250 chipsets into our handsets, we will be able to offer consumers sophisticated data applications that operate on...
MOSCOW-Nortel Networks Ltd. said it has won a contract to provide the wireless network of BaykalWestcom with GSM and GPRS equipment and services across portions of Siberia."The network upgrades will position BaykalWestom to introduce text messaging, Internet access, e-mail with attachments, and other wireless...
LONDON-A U.K. supplier plans to offer push-to-talk services in the United Kingdom through an alliance with Wizcom Ltd., which owns retail outlet chain Phones4U. In October, Fastmobile's Fastchat service will be available through Phones4U stores in the United Kingdom.The service will initially be sold...
MOSCOW-Nortel Networks Ltd. said it has won a contract to provide the wireless network of BaykalWestcom with GSM and GPRS equipment and services across portions of Siberia."The network upgrades will position BaykalWestcom to introduce text messaging, Internet access, e-mail with attachments, and other wireless...
