HOUSTON-Texas-based Internet service provider Internet America Inc. has agreed to buy the operating assets of 2Fast Communications Inc., a wireless ISP. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Internet America said it expects to close the deal within 30 days.According to Internet America,...
WASHINGTON-Legislation ensuring Internet Protocol-enabled services are not subject to traditional telecommunications regulation will be rolled into the telecom reform bill being drafted by the Senate Commerce Committee, said Sen. John Sununu (R-N.H.). "I have written legislative language dealing with IP services, not just voice,"...
WASHINGTON-Sometime this month, the Supreme Court will determine the future of broadband. "The next important piece of the broadband puzzle will be revealed when the Supreme Court rules in Brand X," said Thomas Navin, chief of the FCC's Wireline Competition Bureau. "How the Supreme...
WASHINGTON-Sometime this month, the Supreme Court will determine the future of broadband. "The next important piece of the broadband puzzle will be revealed when the Supreme Court rules in Brand X," said Thomas Navin, chief of the FCC's Wireline Competition Bureau. "How the Supreme...
WASHINGTON-Vonage Holding Co., the largest independent Voice over Internet Protocol provider, has solved the problem at least one customer was having when Clearwire Corp. blocked access to Vonage's VoIP service, said Jeffrey Citron, Vonage chief executive officer, on Capitol Hill Tuesday. Clearwire is a...
WASHINGTON-The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit has agreed to rehear a case that potentially created a loophole in e-mail privacy."The 1st Circuit has dealt a serious blow to online privacy," said Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) on the floor of the Senate...
Internet Service Provider EarthLink has added wireless voice provider to its resume with the release of the all-in-one color BlackBerry 7750 Wireless Handheld with wireless voice and e-mail service. The device works as a phone, e-mail device and Internet access device. It will be...
ARMONK, N.Y.-Orange will use IBM software and services to offer its mobile-phone customers single sign-on capabilities for secure access to different mobile services and Web sites.IBM's software is compliant with the Liberty Alliance's 1.1 specification for single sign-on, which allows identity data to communicate...
Wireless merger-and-acquisition news appears to be reaching a frantic pitch as IQ Biometrix Inc. and Wherify Wireless Inc. announced plans to merge, MobilePro Corp. said it would buy assets of Internet service provider Crescent Communications Inc., and wireless content company SmartServ Online Inc. said...
ATLANTA-Earthlink has announced its intentions to sell its own branded converged wireless voice and data devices. The ISP said it will debut its first product this spring offering a complete bundle of applications on a handheld device including e-mail, voice calling, and Internet access...
TOKYO-Struggling Internet company America Online Inc. and Japanese wireless data giant NTT DoCoMo Inc. announced they dissolved their widely touted joint venture, once heralded as way to promote "fixed-mobile convergence."Terms of the deal were not disclosed, and neither company was immediately available for comment....
News on the Wi-Fi vendor front continues to move along, with several new funding announcements and additional consolidation.First, hot-spot aggregator Boingo Wireless announced it completed its Series B round of financing, scoring $10 million for a total funding war chest of $30 million. Boingo...
MOUNTAIN LAKES, N.J.-Interest in one-stop shopping for communications services continues to decline, with less than half the population still interested, according to new research from Solomon-Wolff Associates.The survey found that 46.1 percent of respondents were interested in getting local and long-distance phone service, wireless...
ALBANY, N.Y.—Telecommunications industry billing and customer care systems provider CommSoft Inc. released a new version of its flagship CommVergence product.CommVergence 8.0 allows customers to provide for wireless services in addition to wireline, cable, ISP and paging functionality. It includes: the capability to add and...
TOKYO—@Nifty, the Internet access business unit of Fujitsu and the largest Internet service provider (ISP) in Japan, launched 384 kilobits per second (kbps) packet communications services for NTT DoCoMo's FOMA service users. Now @Nifty users can access the Internet using their FOMA terminals once...
SAN FRANCISCO—Internet service provider giant EarthLink licensed wireless enterprise software developer Neomar's Carrier Class Gateway, which the ISP plans to use in its forthcoming "EarthLink Everywhere" wireless Internet service.EarthLink will use Neomar's infrastructure to offer Internet-based content over wireless devices.
DENVER—Country Road Communications Inc. announced one of its affiliates has acquired some assets of Rural Cellular Corp., including the Saco river ILEC, IXC and ISP operation, which serve 10,800 access lines in southern Maine.Denver-based Daniels & Associates represented Rural Cellular Corp. in the acquisition.
BUCHAREST, Romania-Streaming video is a technology that is often mentioned in conjunction with third-generation (3G) networks, but users may see its possibilities sooner than 3G network rollouts.Streaming media is the ability to receive video alerts, wireless games, short video clips, and news and sports...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission will begin examining the relationship between wireline and wireless carriers and which regulators-federal or state-have jurisdiction over interconnection.It is a "question of our jurisdictional basis for addressing the intercarrier compensation rules that we should use for wireless interconnection," said Jane...
BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Verizon Wireless launched Mobile Office, a service allowing customers to use their data-capable wireless handsets to dial into their company network or Internet service provider.While the service is included with all of the carrier's digital service plans, Verizon Wireless offers a Mobile Office...
Kyocera Wireless Corp. hopes to reach two fast-growing markets with its QCP 6035 Smartphone, combining the functionality of a tri-mode CDMA phone with a personal digital assistant incorporating Palm Inc.'s latest 3.5 operating system.The hybrid, set to launch during the first quarter of next...
NEW YORK-The 2.4 GHz unlicensed radio-frequency band is getting a bit crowded these days, with cordless phones, microwave ovens and the new guest, Bluetooth, all tapping into it.By contrast, the 5 GHz band is wide open territory. The HiperLAN2 Global Forum is at work...
WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration's top telecom adviser last week urged the mobile-phone industry and other high-tech sectors to follow the lead of a Colorado firm that has developed a way to alert Internet users of violent weather and other local emergencies."The prototype is a wonderful...
WASHINGTON-Just because the telecommunications industry is urging the Federal Communications Commission to order the cable industry to open up its cable modem platform to competing Internet service providers, that does not mean the FCC should require "open access" on all platforms-including wireless, said John...
