NORTH HOLLYWOOD, Calif.-Wireless carrier Alltel Corp. announced a wide-ranging deal with Walt Disney Internet Group to bolster its wireless content offerings, including its BREW application download service.Through the new deal, Alltel said it will offer sports scores from ESPN.com, headlines from ABCNEWS.com and family...
SINGAPORE-Singapore Telecommunications Ltd. said it will begin a free month-long third-generation service trial beginning end-December for about 100 customers. Full commercial service will begin during 2004.The trial customers, who will be selected from those who register via a SingTel store or on the Web,...
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...
ATLANTA-Regional iDEN provider Southern LINC reported it had met the Federal Communications Commission's Sept. 1 deadline to set up E911 Phase II implementation for Tier III wireless carriers.The carrier said the implementation was accomplished ahead of schedule, and it is already working with public...
NORTH HOLLYWOOD, Calif.-Wireless carrier Alltel announced a wide-ranging deal with Walt Disney Internet Group to bolster its wireless content offerings, including its BREW application download service.Through the new deal, Alltel said it will offer sports scores from ESPN.com, headlines from ABCNEWS.com and family and...
SINGAPORE-Singapore Telecommunications Ltd. said it will begin a free month-long third-generation service trial beginning end-December for about 100 customers. Full commercial service will begin during 2004.The trial customers, who will be selected from those who register via a SingTel store or on the Web,...
WASHINGTON-The Rural Telecommunications Group is urging the Federal Communications Commission to give rural wireless carriers more time to comply with wireless enhanced 911 rules and to create a fourth class-Tier IV with less than 100,000 subscribers-to acknowledge the difficulties these carriers have in complying...
Sen. Charles Schumer last week blasted the wireless industry in light of the recent power outage that caused havoc throughout the Northeast. "Last week's blackout was a cell-phone disaster," Schumer said. "Cell phones failed us on 9/11, they failed last week, and unless we...
HELSINKI, Finland-In a strategic blitz to take advantage of the revenue streams in what industry experts call emerging or new-growth markets, Nokia Corp. has rolled out a string of mobile phones, business models and network solutions.Pointing out Russia, India and Latin America as prime...
IRVINE, Calif.-NEC Corp. said it has granted Hop-On a worldwide license to make, have made, use, sell, lease or otherwise dispose of wireless devices under its GSM and GPRS patent portfolio.Hop-On already has received approval from the Federal Communications Commission for CDMA handsets in...
In a strategic blitz to take advantage of the revenue streams in what industry experts call emerging or new-growth markets, Nokia Corp. has rolled out a string of mobile phones, business models and network solutions.Pointing out Russia, India and Latin America as prime examples...
As wireless penetrates the young-adult market, universities are losing revenues once garnered from on-campus landline phones and long-distance reseller programs. Telispire, which provides privately branded cellular service to various organizations, is aiming to help schools recoup that revenue stream by offering school spirit-inspired cellular...
Mobile satellite service providers continue to struggle financially, but rebuilding efforts in Iraq appear to have increased minutes of use and precipitated the launch of new services.Bankrupt Globalstar L.P. said its second-quarter results were bolstered by its service launch in Iraq. The company's revenue...
WASHINGTON-A federal judge in New York said Aug. 12 that a consolidated group of lawsuits against major players of the wireless industry can go forward to determine whether the carriers in question illegally bundle handsets with service, but an allegation that the carriers have...
Claiming the phrase "push to talk" as its property, Nextel Communications Inc. has filed a lawsuit against Verizon Wireless for using it in its advertising campaign launched recently for Verizon's walkie-talkie service.This lawsuit looks like a legal tit for tat between both companies and...
TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo Inc. announced it will limit the number of e-mail messages users can send to 1,000 per day, beginning Oct. 20. The company said the move is part of its ongoing efforts to counter the growing amount of spam being sent via its...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Spreadtrum announced its Spreadtrum GSM/GPRS module, SM5100, has achieved full type approval (FTA) certification and is now in volume production with multiple designs.The module offers wireless voice communication and high-speed data transmission and features a small form factor, making it ideal for handsets...
Fulfilling repeated claims to launch service by the end of this year, Verizon Wireless introduced its highly anticipated Push to Talk service last week, which, in addition to providing Verizon Wireless customers with another way to communicate, is expected to supply the first serious...
The camera-phone craze appears to have officially hit the United States, with Sprint PCS and Verizon Wireless both boasting of millions of picture messages passing over their networks every month. Indeed, new research released today by advisory firm Zelos Group shows the market for...
SAN DIEGO-China Unicom will conduct the first handset trial of Qualcomm Inc.'s GSM1x technology, allowing testers to roam from GSM to CDMA networks.Kyocera Corp. supplied the handset, based on its KZ850 model. The single mode, BREW-enabled GSM1x handset combines a GSM service interface with...
Verizon Wireless' highly anticipated press-to-talk service is expected to introduce tomorrow with the carrier rolling out a nationwide offering using the carrier's CDMA2000 1x packet network, Winphoria's PTT server and initially a Motorola V60p handset. The service is expected to be similar to Nextel...
MANKATO, Minn.-Rural wireless operator Midwest Wireless launched a range of entertainment applications and communications services on its recently deployed CDMA2000 1x network using Qualcomm Inc.'s BREW platform.The applications will include games like Fury of the Hulk, Jamdat Bowling, Tom Clancy Rainbow Six and Tetris;...
TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo Inc. reported a net income of $1.65 billion in the first quarter ended June 30 in its first quarterly financial report.DoCoMo said it had 600,000 FOMA subscribers in July, based on additional coverage and the release of dual-mode handsets that can access...
OYSTER BAY, N.Y.-Total wireless handsets shipped reached 107 million units in the second quarter, demonstrating 12-percent year-on-year growth and 2-percent sequential growth, according to research from ABI. New features including color screens and camera phones likely fueled the growth. Replacement shipments accounted for 27...
