NTT DoCoMo Inc. reported a net income of $1.65 billion in the first quarter ending June 30 in its first quarterly financial report.DoCoMo said it had 600,000 FOMA subscribers in July, and highlighted its moves to add new FOMA subscribers, including expanding coverage and...
ARLINGTON, Va.-Iridium Satellite L.L.C. said Aug. 4 it has launched short messaging service to its customers that use Iridium 9505 handsets and 9522 L-band receivers.Subscribers can send and receive up to 160 characters per message to and from anywhere in the world. Iridium plans...
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...
No WinTel animosity is intended. MIPI is just another warm and fuzzy alliance.Never the friendliest of allies, Intel Corp. and Texas Instruments Inc. were quick to rebut the wide speculation that the formation of the Mobile Industry Processor Interface alliance created to focus...
TOKYO-Handset maker NEC Corp. further expanded its outsourcing agreement with electronics manufacturing company Solectron Corp., under which Solectron will provide manufacturing and after-sales services for NEC's advanced Internet-enabled handsets.Solectron will manufacture NEC's third-generation handsets for markets outside Japan and will produce more than 1...
LONDON-U.K. fixed-line operator British Telecommunications announced plans to focus on the consumer wireless market with a wireless product called BT Mobile Home Plan targeted at families. The carrier will resell wireless service from T-Mobile for the offering.BT also has a mobile virtual network operator...
FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla.-POSA Tech Inc. recently launched Freedom to Speak, a nationwide prepaid wireless program."We created a program that pays the retailer up to $100 for each activation, along with an ongoing residual payment each month the customer pays their bill," explained Doug Pfeiffer,...
Handset maker NEC Corp. further expanded its outsourcing agreement with electronics manufacturing company Solectron Corp., under which Solectron will provide manufacturing and after-sales services for NEC's advanced Internet-enabled handsets.Solectron will manufacture NEC's third-generation handsets for markets outside Japan and will produce more than 1...
In what industry experts see as a counterpunch to WinTel, a Microsoft-Intel partnership, some major industry players have a formed a new alliance that focuses on peripherals, microprocessors and software interfaces for mobile devices.Nokia Corp., Texas Instruments Inc., STMicroelectronics and ARM said they have...
As the wireless industry aims to work together to exploit data initiatives and conserve cash through network sharing, it continues to play hard ball whenever it has the chance. The competition is the enemy, after all. It must be frustrating to "work" with them....
Sprint PCS can be largely thanked (or blamed, depending on your outlook) for what those in the industry term the "Asian invasion."Sprint in the 1990s made the bold and risky decision to use an untried wireless technology-CDMA-to launch its nationwide wireless service. Sprint decided...
Reports from the world's top mobile-phone and network infrastructure providers painted a muddled portrait of the industry, with a few bright spots mixed in with a fair helping of bad news.In the phone market, four of the world's top suppliers reported relatively sluggish earnings....
The smart-phone operating system race continues unabated, with Palm Inc.'s PalmSource subsidiary announcing another device win for the Chinese market. Hong Kong electronics manufacturer Group Sense Ltd. said it will build a smart phone using the Palm OS for the hot Chinese device market.The...
TOKYO-Two Japanese operators announced additions to their multimedia messaging handset portfolios. KDDI said it released the A1304T manufactured by Toshiba Corp. and the A1401K from Kyocera Corp. for its 1x service.Both handsets support MovieMail, which enables users to capture and send video. The two...
TOKYO-Two Japanese operators announced additions to their multimedia messaging handset portfolios. KDDI said it released the A1304T manufactured by Toshiba Corp. and the A1401K from Kyocera Corp. for its 1x service.Both handsets support MovieMail, which enables users to capture and send video. The two...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission today voted to require some digital mobile phones to be compatible with hearing aids under a phased-in approach calling for industry by early 2008 to make one-half of all handsets accessible to the nation's 6 million individuals with hearing aids.National...
The GSM Association issued a call to the industry to speed the interoperability of multimedia messaging services across the world.The group said it is working with the Open Mobile Alliance, the 3G Partnership Project and the vendor community to promote operator consensus and commitment...
SAN FRANCISCO-Motorola Inc. said it has entered an alliance with MontaVista Software Inc. to make available an embedded Linux platform for Motorola's i.MX1 line of application processors, which will target handsets and other wireless devices.According to the deal, MontaVista Linux Professional Edition 3.0 will...
The Federal Communications Commission this week is expected to approve new rules requiring certain handsets sold by mobile-phone carriers to be compatible with hearing aids and to carry labeling stating as much. The FCC, sources said, will lift an exemption in a...
Intrigue and espionage are not relegated to summer's blockbuster movie season. Verizon Wireless filed a lawsuit late last month against Nextel Communications Inc. claiming the Reston, Va.-based carrier used a series of deceitful tactics to garner information on Verizon Wireless' press-to-talk service, which was...
DENVER-Verizon Wireless launched its cdma2000 1x-based Express Network service in Colorado, providing customers with access to the wireless data network at average speeds between 40 and 60 kilobits per second and peak speeds of up to 144 kbps. The carrier said the launch is...
Orange plc formed an alliance with Motorola Inc. for a range of devices tailored to the Orange brand that will be available in the second half of the year. The Motorola V500 and V600 handsets will include flip screens, Bluetooth, integrated cameras, full-color browsers,...
Nextel Communications Inc. reported it has seen a positive response to its Nationwide Direct Connect service, which the carrier launched in early June, noting the service is available in half of its markets today and will be available in all of its markets by...
By the time Nextel Communications Inc. completes rollout of its Nationwide Direct Connect service in August, it is expected to have some competitors in the push-to-speak space. A number of industry sources expect Verizon Wireless will launch a similar service on its CDMA-based network...
