HELSINKI, Finland-Celcom, a mobile operator in Malaysia, has launched the Tecnomen Multimedia Messaging Service Centers. The center enables Celcom to take full advantage of MMS terminals and take a leading role in the market, Tecnomen said.Celcom is the second-largest operator in Malaysia.
LONDON-Wireless messaging and IT consultancy company LogicaCMG announced its interim results, showing declining revenues of $1.3 billion and an operating profit of $73 million. The company asserted its reorganization is almost complete, and its wireless networks division will be profitable for the full year."Against...
LONDON-Wataniya Telecom, the Kuwaiti mobile operator, has completed the second phase of its GPRS infrastructure expansion plans. The network will now cover the whole country.This part of the expansion plan saw the Action-branded high-speed data and multimedia messaging services, launched at the start of...
Wireless operators in Europe and elsewhere have begun gearing up for potential problems associated with wireless porn, as U.K. telecom regulators field complaints from concerned parents-but the issue has not yet reached U.S. shores. And some analysts believe U.S. carriers will likely adopt an...
Regional wireless carrier Dobson Communications Corp. today announced it will jump into the picture messaging business later this year through a new deal with messaging infrastructure provider LogicaCMG.Dobson will use LogicaCMG's Multimedia Messaging Service Center and Wireless Service Broker to offer multimedia messaging services...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates-Acotel Group will supply FastLink Jordan with a multimedia message service center, including a WAP Gateway and several MMS applications, following a trial earlier this year. "Our platforms provide the functionality and flexibility that allows FastLink to develop exciting revenue-generating services...
LONDON-U.K. mobile operator MmO2 has partnered with mobile marketing firm Enpocket to launch a series of advertising trials using multimedia messaging service.Enpocket's MMS Insight service is a research program that allows testing of a variety of MMS campaigns, including photos, music, colors, logos and...
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...
LONDON-European operator MmO2 offered details on uptake of its mobile data services. The company said it has 643,000 GPRS users and 60,000 active customers for its recently launched O2 Active service, which offers ring tones, multimedia messaging service, games, music video, information and pictures...
Verizon Wireless is set to launch a color-screen mobile phone from LG Electronics that includes an integrated digital camera and support for multimedia messaging services, according to the carrier's Web site.The device is notable because Verizon has largely remained out of the camera-phone market...
MOSCOW-LogicaCMG said it reached an agreement with Russian operator Mobile TeleSystems to deploy multimedia-messaging services in the Moscow region. MTS will use LogicaCMG's MMS center as part of its MMS system.The Moscow implementation was rolled out in May and will be expanded to other...
HELSINKI, Finland-TeliaSonera will standardize its multimedia messaging system across four Nordic countries using equipment from Nokia Corp. The Finnish vendor said its equipment will replace different MMS solutions previously implemented in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden.TeliaSonera had previously chosen Nokia equipment for its Finnish...
HELSINKI, Finland-TeliaSonera will standardize its multimedia messaging system across four Nordic countries using equipment from Nokia. The Finnish vendor said its equipment will replace different MMS solutions previously implemented in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden.TeliaSonera had previously chosen Nokia equipment for its Finnish subsidiary.
FALLS CHURCH, Va.-Value-added services on mobile messaging networks will generate more than $8.3 billion by 2008, compared with almost $5 million in 2003, according to research from Telecom Trends International.The study examines revenues generated by value-added messaging services, including marketing and promotional campaigns; corporate...
Two small vendors have made some progress in the multimedia messaging service center arena this week with global wins announced by LogicaCMG and Comverse.LogicalCMG announced an agreement to supply Ireland's smallest mobile operator with its MMSC. The product includes transcoding and number portability capabilities....
FALLS CHURCH, Va.-Value-added services on mobile messaging networks will generate more than $8.3 billion by 2008, compared with almost $5 million in 2003, according to research from Telecom Trends International.The study examines revenues generated by value-added messaging services, including marketing and promotional campaigns; corporate...
SANTA CRUZ, Calif.-Picture messaging company LightSurf Technologies Inc. released its new Global Exchange for MMS product, which the company said offers a real-time content publishing, distribution and management solution for wireless operators and third-party providers of mobile content."In order to drive ARPU, premium content...
SANTA BARBARA, Calif.-724 Solutions announced Radiolinja Eesti of Estonia will upgrade its messaging gateway to 724's X-treme Mobility Gateway (XMG) to enable its advanced multimedia wireless messaging services, including Java-based games, photos, graphics, music and video."European mobile operators are quickly realizing the need for...
Openwave Systems Inc. today released software for mobile-phone makers looking to offer support for multimedia messaging services. The company also said Agere Systems has licensed the software and will sell it in China. Openwave said its new Mobile MMS Client will give users a...
Starent Networks calls its solution voice instant messaging-with emphasis on the word "instant," thereby distinguishing itself from the prominent voice solutions already in the marketplace, including push-to-talk service and more traditional voice instant messaging, which suffer some degree of latency.Starent said several major carriers...
ESPOO, Finland-As wireless operators in Europe and elsewhere work to launch multimedia messaging services, technology and infrastructure companies are looking to expand their market and their own offerings.For instance, Nokia Corp. announced worldwide information technology services and solutions company Unisys Corp. will resell its...
ESPOO, Finland-As wireless operators in Europe and elsewhere work to launch multimedia messaging services, technology and infrastructure companies are looking to expand their market and their own offerings.For instance, Nokia Corp. announced worldwide information technology services and solutions company Unisys Corp. will resell its...
SYDNEY, Australia-New and established wireless players should look to Java and BREW application download technologies and the mobile gaming market as the next big area for growth, according to new research firm The Research Room."With Wi-Fi and Bluetooth technologies becoming embedded in many new...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-Having long denied their networks are being used to access pornography, U.K. cell-phone operators are now revealing plans on how to manage the issue in light of third-generation (3G) and 2.5-generation (2.5G) video services becoming increasingly available. Vodafone has taken the lead...
