The personal digital assistant and wireless data device markets shook last week under a series of major announcements that served to puzzle, jar and-in most cases-hearten Wall Street and the wireless industry.The handheld computing industry has suffered through the past year along with the...
While wireless handset sales worldwide are expected to continue to climb during the next several years, those sales are expected to be driven more by replacement handsets purchased by current wireless customers than handsets purchased by new wireless customers, according to a report from...
THE HAGUE, The Netherlands-KPN Mobile began tests of i-mode-like services with a small group of users on Dec. 20. The carrier said it will commercially launch the service in the second quarter of 2002. NEC will supply the first i-mode handsets to KPN users....
The next-generation upgrade path battle between GSM and CDMA escalated last week as U.S. Cellular Corp., which serves more than 3 million wireless customers, said it plans to overlay its current TDMA markets, roughly two-thirds of its coverage area, with CDMA 1x technology. The...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—Personal launched its GSM/General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) 1900 MHz service, provided by Ericsson, in parts of Buenos Aires, becoming the first operator to install a GSM network in Argentina.Users of the new service can roam automatically with France, Spain, Italy, Chile...
COPENHAGEN, Denmark—Lack of content will spell the demise of General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) offerings across Europe, according to a new report from Strand Consult, an independent consultancy based in Denmark. The lack of content is due to a lack of revenue sharing models...
COPENHAGEN, Denmark—Lack of content will spell the demise of GPRS offerings across Europe, according to a new report from Strand Consult, an independent consultancy based in Denmark. The lack of content is due to a lack of revenue sharing models and roaming agreements, which...
MUNICH, Germany—Siemens said Bharti Cellular has selected it to supply GSM and GPRS equipment for several new networks in India. The first networks are scheduled to start operating this month.The value of the contract was not disclosed.Siemens will supply Bharti's mobile networks in the...
BOYNTON BEACH, Florida, United States—Ending months of speculation, Motorola announced it is exiting the ReFLEX paging business by the middle of next year, an industry the company played a major role in developing.Motorola said its Wireless Messaging Division, which is part of its Personal...
CHICAGO—AT&T Wireless said it expects to spend an additional $1 billion upgrading its current network to W-CDMA on top of the $2.5 billion the carrier planned to spend on moving to GSM/GPRS/EDGE.Speaking to investors at a Lehman Brothers conference, AT&T Wireless said it expects...
LONDON—Logica, a wireless messaging company, said it will conduct a live trial of its Multimedia Messaging Service over United Kingdom wireless carrier Orange's GPRS network.Logica said its Multimedia Messaging Service Center enables the delivery of mobile messages containing audio, pictures, animation and real-time video...
TORONTO—Research In Motion (RIM) announced another major European move, this time with Telecom Italia Group in Italy to introduce RIM's BlackBerry wireless e-mail device to the Italian corporate market.During the past several months, RIM has announced a series of deals to introduce BlackBerrys running...
ATLANTA—Cingular Wireless launched inter-carrier roaming for GPRS services to customers in Las Vegas and Spokane and Seattle, Wash., allowing customers to roam across any other Cingular property as well as on other carriers' networks where GPRS is available.Cingular said it plans to make the...
MUNICH, Germany—Indonesia PT Satelindo selected Siemens to provide its GPRS network.Siemens is currently upgrading Satelindo's GSM 900 MHz network in the regions of Medan and Batam with GPRS. In future phases, Satelindo intends to offer GPRS nationwide.Satelindo is Indonesia's second-largest mobile carrier with more...
LONDON—Sierra Wireless has announced a distribution agreement with Peripheral Corner, a division of Fracom Components International Ltd., a U.K.-based component distributor, for the Sierra Wireless AirCard 750.Peripheral Corner will distribute the AirCard 750 throughout Europe beginning in the first quarter 2002, when it becomes...
WOODBURY, N.Y.-Comverse has been chosen to provide its unified messaging solution to Portugal's Vodafone, a mobile operator that has 2.6 million cellular customers and holds 35 percent of the market share in the country.Comverse's solution gives consumers a "one-stop" communications account with which they...
Qualcomm Inc. has been looking for a European opening for its CDMA technology for some time. But so far, the technology has been effectively shut out in the region, other than a few CDMA fixed-wireless networks, mainly in Russia and other parts of Eastern...
SAN FRANCISCO-Telephia Inc. will acquire Mspect and add the company's short messaging service QoS monitoring capabilities to the Telephia Wireless Data Network and Application Performance (Wireless DNA Performance) service, which helps carriers measure and improve the speed and reliability of data services.Wireless DNA Performance...
WOODBURY, N.Y.—Comverse has been chosen to provide its unified messaging solution to Portugal's Vodafone, a mobile operator that has 2.6 million cellular customers and holds 35 percent of the market share in the country.Comverse's solution gives consumers a "one-stop" communications account with which they...
HELSINKI, Finland—Nokia Corp. says that it has won a contract with Vodafone Hungary to supply its complete GPRS core network as well as the upgrade of both the existing radio access network and the network management system."The system will help drive the growth of...
SAN FRANCISCO—Telephia Inc. will acquire Mspect and add the company's short messaging service QoS monitoring capabilities to the Telephia Wireless Data Network and Application Performance (Wireless DNA Performance) service, which helps carriers measure and improve the speed and reliability of data services.Wireless DNA Performance...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—Swedish cell-phone operator Telia plans to offer consumers a free three-month trial of General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) in an attempt to reverse the ongoing negative image that the mobile Internet continues to attract. The company will be the first in Sweden...
BROOMFIELD, Colo.—Level 3 Communications Inc. signed an agreement with AT&T Wireless to provide network services, including private line circuits to provide transport for its GPRS network.Financial terms of the deal were not released.
SANTA CLARA, Calif.—Motorola Inc.'s global telecom solutions sector has signed a multi-year agreement to license XACCT Technologies' mobile platform for its Aspira total communications solutions."This will allow service providers to merge UMTS, GPRS and CDMA service information with IP data services resulting in quicker...
