Cellemetry L.L.C.Numerex Corp. announced that its subsidiary, Cellemetry L.L.C., will incorporate Ida Corp.'s Global Trakit Data Center in its Cellemetry network, enabling automatic vehicle location and remote asset management. According to Geoff Girdler, head of the Numerex wireless communication group, "This powerful tool for...
The use of affiliates to manage and operate local markets is common in the wireless industry. While the larger carriers use affiliates to help build out their national footprints, affiliates are often left behind the scenes operating the networks and providing a local connection...
SINGAPORESingapore Airlines has deployed Unimobile Inc.'s wireless messaging platform to provide its customers mobile flight alert services. The services, which run on Unimobile's Mobile Messaging Platform and the Unimobile Intelligent Network, will be available to Singapore Airlines customers in more than 30 countries, including...
NEW YORK-To help wireless carriers assess the quality of service as it is delivered to their customers via the Internet, Agilent Technologies Inc., Fort Collins, Colo., introduced at Supercomm its Firehunter/mobile Web monitoring product.It is available now to monitor Wireless Application Protocol, short message...
HELSINKI, Finland-Finnish mobile carrier Radiolinja said it will begin GPRS services in September. The service will initially include WAP and Internet connections along with wireless office solutions, the company said.Radiolinja will price the GPRS services on the basis of transferred data, and always-on connections...
NEW YORK-Through manufacturing outsourcing and layoffs designed to return Ericsson Inc. to profitability, the company's Consumer Products Division will wind up this year with about 5,000 employees. That compares with 13,000 on staff at the end of 2000, Jan Wareby executive vice president of...
Worldwide rollout of next-generation wireless services went 2 for 1 last week as both Japanese operator NTT DoCoMo and U.K.-based Vodafone Group plc introduced handsets for high-speed data services, while Finnish operator Sonera said it was delaying its rollout due to a lack of...
OTTAWA-BT Cellnet, the mobile business branch of the U.K.'s British Telecommunications plc's wireless unit, has partnered with Research In Motion Ltd. to offer the wireless e-mail solution, BlackBerry, throughout the United Kingdom.RIM's BlackBerry, which was launched in North America in 1999, allows mobile professionals...
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.-Executives of Motorola Inc. and the Personal Communications Industry Association sparred over the future of paging and device-makers' support for it at last week's Southeastern Communications Association "Wireless Messaging 2001" conference held here."Although we have seen some decline this year, early on...
Trying to pin down Nextel Communications Inc. into a specific category is not an easy chore. By definition, Nextel is a specialized mobile radio operator, yet most analysts compare it with the other nationwide carriers when looking at its quarterly results and spectrum holdings.When...
After a year in which its global customer base increased from 53 million customers to a staggering 83 million customers, U.K.-based Vodafone Group plc said it will turn its attention this year from rounding up more subscribers to making money off the ones it...
As hopes rise for GPRS, companies are churning out solutions to take advantage of the emerging technology. Tektronix Inc. sees itself as playing a role in the equipment-testing arena.With its two latest products, the company believes it is in full gear for the technology...
WOODBURY, N.Y.-Comverse, a unit of Comverse Technology Inc., has been authorized by the Ministry of Information and Industry to sell voice mail and short message service technologies to service providers in China.Six Chinese mobile operators including Guangdong Mobile, Shanghai Mobile, Liaoning Mobile, Hei Longjiang...
GERMANYGerman mobile operator E-Plus introduced natural language access to information and services using iVB Network Solutions' Omvia product line. The E-Plus Voice Assistant service includes live and stored multimedia content, voice management and voice-activated service management activities, including telephone bill status and message access.SWEDENCellPoint...
Heinz Corp.Heinz Corp., which provides services to wireless carriers, has promoted Rick Vogt to senior project manager. In his new position he will be responsible for Heinz's projects for Cingular Wireless. Vogt has been with Heinz for about a year, and most recently supervised...
LONDON-European personal digital assistant maker Psion plc closed its joint wireless Internet venture with United Business Media due to the slow growth of the mobile data market, the company said.The joint venture, Trivanti Ltd., was set up in July to develop and market wireless...
NEW YORK-Although growing use of Research In Motion's BlackBerry e-mail service has congested wireless networks in some areas, paging carriers are not well-positioned to seize this opportunity to serve as alternative providers, said Jim Balsillie, co-chief executive officer of RIM."Paging carriers have tried to...
AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands-Intel Corp. and British Telecommunications plc's BTexact Technologies and BT Wireless businesses said they will work together to develop applications and services for next-generation mobile Internet devices.The collaboration is expected to allow peer-to-peer wireless 802.11b connections to extend seamlessly to remote participants...
LAS VEGAS-For an industry obsessed about the future, to the point where it often forgets to tackle the issues of today, Cingular's Wireless Alliances and Vision Exchange conference here last week was a welcome wake-up call.More than 900 attendees gathered to exchange ideas and...
Transition is the word of the year, according to UBS Warburg's analysis of mobile handset sales for the first quarter and forecast for the rest of 2001.Suppliers are struggling to sell over-stocked inventory, the wait is on for 2.5G technology, especially GPRS data applications,...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Swedish mobile operator Telia said it will provide GPRS access to its 3 million wireless customers by September."Our tests have been a great success, and once the summer is over we'll be offering GPRS to all 3 million of our mobile customers," said...
NEW YORK-Wireless data is like a diamond in the rough, waiting for ways to smooth out its rough edges into sparkling facets that will attract growing numbers of consumers into increasing amounts of usage.Where there is a business problem, so too exists a business...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Tality Corp., a subsidiary of Cadence Design Systems Inc., has developed a GSM/GPRS handset design solution, a platform that Tality said will accelerate the way to GSM/GPRS handsets.The platform uses Conexant Systems Inc.'s new GSM/GPRS chipset and Conexant's GPRS protocol stack. It...
WHEATON, Md.-Not even the faster speeds and packet-based design of GPRS networks can save the WAP standard, which is of such poor quality that operators will continue to be forced to improve it with proprietary WAP extensions, The Shosteck Group said in a recent...
