TORONTO—Wireless carriers Telus Mobility and Rogers Wireless Communications plan to charge new cell-phone users by the minute instead of by the second. This change in billing is expected to help boost revenue.Beginning 1 July, Telus Mobility will switch to per-minute billing for all new...
FRAMINGHAM, Mass.—Although the market for wireless enterprise products and services seems to be lagging, and companies selling wireless infrastructure to businesses have been struggling, research and analyst firm IDC predicts the market for such services will grow to a staggering $37.4 billion by 2006,...
NEW DELHI, India—Shin Satellite Public Company Limited said it signed a procurement contract with Bagan Cybertech IDC and Teleport for the provision of rural telephony services throughout Myanmar by the fourth quarter.Bagan is a semi-government-owned telecommunications company in Myanmar offering VSAT services, high-speed Internet...
MOSCOW—German vendor Siemens overtook Finland's Nokia, the worldwide mobile-phone sales leader, in handset sales in Russia in 2001, according to a report by International Data Corporation (IDC), a global provider of technology forecasts.IDC estimated the total Russian handset market at US$560 million last year...
LONDON-The introduction of General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) in Sweden and NTT DoCoMo's launch of third-generation (3G) services has set the scene for a new approach to mobile devices, both by operators and end users. The market for mobile devices and wireless access is...
NEW YORK-OmniSky Corp., a San Francisco-based wireless Internet service provider, has taken a series of steps recently to expand the number and kinds of devices with which it can communicate.This month, the company began offering support for the Hewlett-Packard Pavilion notebook personal computer and...
While voice is still the key application for wireless carriers going into the 21st century, a variety of other data-centric applications are becoming more important. Carriers and the rest of the industry are looking toward mobile gaming, banking, messaging and other, more advanced wireless...
It's been almost two months since Glenayre Technologies Inc. said it would discontinue its paging infrastructure operations-a business Glenayre has been an integral part of for nearly 40 years, a business it helped create. It is a move company executives said was inevitable and...
"Come on in, there's room for everybody!"That's apparently the call a variety of companies hear when it comes to the personal digital assistant market. And even though PDA giants Palm and Handspring have recently announced severely sluggish sales, that hasn't stopped a flood of...
The ability to access anything, any time, any place seems to be every enthusiastic wireless user's ultimate dream. But many seem unaware that the technology that might make that goal a reality is not just around the corner, it's already here.Several factors have kept...
While seven-digit numbers are usually reserved for a company's bottom line or telephone number, the seven digits in 6,219,694are of extra importance to Canadian-based wireless messaging company Research In Motion Ltd. Those seven numbers represents the patent issued to the company last week from...
Verizon Wireless has signed an agreement with Triad Holdings L.L.C. to acquire Triad's PCS licenses covering the Southern Oklahoma BTA of Ardmore and Lawton-Duncan. The new area, which covers total pops of 267,000, will become part of the Verizon Wireless South area. Verizon hopes...
Symbian received an important lift after Nokia Corp. said that half its third-generation mobile phones will use the company's platform by 2004.The move ends speculation on whether Symbian's stakeholders, including Nokia, L.M. Ericsson and Motorola Inc., will actually use the company's operating platform. A...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Uncertainty related to the future of Scandinavian mobile prepaid calling plans, less preferred here than in Western Europe generally, is largely due to the struggle to migrate customers to more expensive products and emerging technologies that could fundamentally change the relationship between vendor...
Several recent announcements have cast an unfavorable light on Symbian Ltd., a maker of operating systems for a number of wireless devices. But even with the added illumination, it's still unclear whether the company is in for rough times or smooth sailing.Last month, the...
The wireless Internet is only as good as the device it's on.Granted, there are plenty of other issues surrounding the look and feel of the experience-including network speeds and coverage areas-but the device is a central part of the setup.For this reason, lots of...
LAS VEGAS-Qualcomm Inc., Lucent Technologies Inc. and Microsoft Corp. said a study they commissioned showed consumers want mobile multimedia services now.International Data Corp., which conducted the research study, surveyed several end-user segments to determine what the most popular mobile Internet applications would be if...
BelgiumKPN Mobile will acquire 50 percent of Belgian operator KPN Orange Belgium from France Telecom for US$443.5 million, giving KPN 100-percent ownership. France Telecom had to divest its KPN Orange ownership, which it acquired through its acquisition of Orange plc earlier this year, to...
After answering more than 5.5 billion questions in the past four years, Ask Jeeves Inc.'s online question answering service is finally learning to talk.The talking capabilities come from an alliance formed with Nuance, a developer of voice interface software platforms, and General Magic, a...
PRAGUE, Czech Republic-Cesky Mobil, the Czech Republic's third mobile telephone operator, is seeking to differentiate itself from its competition by offering low start-up costs and emphasizing ease of use.The formula has paid quick dividends. In its first four operational months, it signed up more...
With the home rapidly becoming an extension of the workplace, consumers increasingly are turning to wireless home networking equipment as a way to keep connected. According to an IDC report, worldwide local area network shipments are expected to top 4 million in 2003, with...
