ATLANTA-Sprint PCS affiliate AirGate PCS Inc. reported changes to its Sprint management and services agreements regarding back-office billing and service changes, new customer activation fees and roaming rates, which the carrier said would provide "immediate substantial savings to AirGate's cost structure." AirGate noted the...
LONDON-The cost of sending 10 megabytes of data across a GPRS network has fallen by about 40 percent in Western Europe, according to a new report from Strategy Analytics.The report studied price changes between May 2003 and August 2004."The average cost of transporting 1...
No longer will EDGE technology belong to the list of protocols with an uncertain future. As some industry experts look at it, EDGE is ramping up in spite of its weaknesses. It is taking advantage of the boom of its predecessor, GSM/GPRS, another technology...
DUSSEDORF, Germany-The average complexity and manufacturing costs of third-generation UMTS handsets have been "substantially reduced" in the past year, according to research from Portelligent Inc. Portelligent said its analysis of 11 UMTS handsets during the past 18 months shows that UMTS products introduced since...
BUSAN, Korea-High-speed mobile networks are taking hold in the Asia-Pacific region, providing a platform for multimedia services development, according to a new report from Telecommunications Management Group Inc.The report, "Asia-Pacific Mobile Multimedia Outlook," said the number of high-speed mobile subscribers rose 11.4 percent between...
OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-Despite continued concern over the future of the short-range wireless technology, Bluetooth technology shipments have increased from more than 2 million per week several months ago to more than 3 million per week currently, according to IMS Research. The news follows Bluetooth...
GENEVA-A new report from the International Telecommunication Union said the market for "portable Internet" services is growing, especially in developing markets.In the Asia-Pacific region, for example, the telecommunications market is expected to double by the end of this decade, with the majority of the...
WASHINGTON-More than 300,000 customers have cut the cord since May with more than a half a million customers switching totally to wireless since local number portability became available last November, according to numbers made available by the Federal Communications Commission.The total number for mobile-to-mobile...
Canadian athletes may not have matched the total number of medals hauled from Athens as its southern neighbor, but the Great White North did supply the top carrier during the second quarter of this year as Telus Mobility led 21 of its North American...
Five times as many wireless customers this year said they were willing to list their mobile-phone numbers in a public directory as last year without any set privacy standards, while more than half of wireless customers said they were currently willing to list their...
Despite the continued financial uncertainty surrounding a number of Sprint PCS network partners, the carrier's largest affiliate by subscriber numbers-Alamosa Holdings Inc.-said last week it would be interested in further consolidation among the remaining affiliates.Speaking at the Raymond James Midwest Mini Conference in Chicago,...
Mobile instant messaging is going mainstream. Maybe.Wireless IM use is growing, with 32 percent of all mobile messaging using an IM service in addition to, or instead of, short message service texting, according to a study commissioned by America Online, Inc. AOL said it...
ATHENS, Ga.-The majority of Wi-Fi systems springing up across the United States were created to enhance the communities being served rather than to generate revenues, according to recent research from the New Media Institute and the Mobile Media Consortium at the University of Georgia.For...
Moody's Investor Services affirmed its long-term debt rating and raised its outlook from stable to positive for Sprint Corp., citing higher free cash flow driven by its wireless business and the belief that wireless growth will offset modest overall declines in the company's wireline...
DRESDEN, Germany-Two companies announced High Speed Downlink Packet Access test products yesterday.Radioplan announced a commercial simulation and optimization toolset for W-CDMA's HSDPA technology.WiNeS 3.1 is the latest version of the company's third-generation optimization solution. The new version includes several updated vendor-specific RRM algorithms, import...
BOSTON-The number of downloadable games will grow six-fold during the next five years, generating 82 percent of an expected $8 billion mobile gaming market, according to a new report from Strategy Analytics. The report, "Carrier Retail Channels Control $8 Billion Mobile Game Opportunity," indicates...
LONDON-Worldwide wireless local area network hardware revenue reached $719.5 million during the second quarter, a 3-percent increase from the previous quarter, according to a quarterly analysis from Infonetics Research.Infonetics said it expects WLAN hardware revenues to grow 9 percent to $786.2 million by the...
NORWALK, Conn.-The U.S. lithium battery market is expected to reach $2.7 billion in 2009, according to a forthcoming report from Business Communications Co. Inc.The lithium battery market is estimated at $2.1 billion this year, said the report. Lithium batteries range from large units that...
The premium for using wireless voice services instead of wireline services is expected to drop from 100 percent or double the price last year to 42 percent by 2007, driving further wireline substitution in the voice market, according to a report from Frost &...
FRAMINGHAM, Mass.-Worldwide sales of local area network switches declined 2 percent during the second quarter, following 13-percent growth during the first quarter, according to IDC's Worldwide LAN Switch QView.Despite the decline, the LAN switch market remains up 23 percent year-over-year. Port shipments were down...
CHEYENNE, Wyo.-Many elderly people in Wyoming are considering dumping their traditional home phones and going wireless, according to a study by the American Association of Retired Persons.The study, conducted earlier this year, indicates that one-third of Wyoming AARP members were dissatisfied with their phone...
LONDON-Smart phones, personal digital assistants and notebook computers will generate more than $130 billion in data access revenues by 2009, according to ARC Group's Future Mobile Computing 2004 report.The majority of those revenues-72 percent-will come from cellular access, or wireless wide area networks. The...
Nearly half of U.S. teens who own mobile phones are on family plans, and a growing number of them are using prepaid services, according to two recent studies.A poll by research and analyst firm The Yankee Group indicates 45 percent of phone-owning teens are...
LONDON-The global wireless industry is expected grow mobile data revenue from $61 billion this year to more than $189 billion by 2009 with person-to-person messaging representing 48 percent of the total, according to industry analyst firm Strategy Analytics.The firm noted the prediction, which is...
