U.S. Cellular's 5 million subscribers can send photos and other content from their handsets to users on Verizon Wireless' network, the carrier said Wednesday. The Chicago-based operator announced it has become interoperable with multimedia messaging service offerings from Verizon Wireless, the nation's second-largest carrier....
BEDMINSTER, N.J.-A new multimedia messaging service interoperability agreement will allow Verizon Wireless and Leap Wireless International Inc. subscribers to exchange photos and video clips, the carriers said. The service is powered by wireless messaging company Mobile 365, which supports the CDMA2000 1x network standard...
Struggling to shore up decreasing revenues from voice usage, U.S. carriers agreed last October to a set of messaging guidelines they said would allow them to be MMS-interoperable by the end of 2004. While the target date is long past, it appears they're now...
SAN ANTONIO-SBC Communications Inc. launched a package of integrated wireless remote access options for its virtual private network portfolio that the company said would help business travelers access network applications and information when out of the office.The package, dubbed VPN RoadWarrior, combines SBC's PremierSERV...
With the overwhelming array of wireless content and applications on the market, even the nation's biggest carriers are struggling with what to offer and how to present it to the consumer. It may be no surprise, then, that smaller carriers are working overtime to...
PORTLAND, Ore.-H2F Media Inc. said it has changed its name to Prolifiq Software Inc. to better represent its focus on multimedia messaging services applications for businesses. The company's software allows businesses to send MMS messages that combine text, sounds, images and video to any...
SAUDI ARABIANokia Corp. has signed an agreement with Aljawal, the GSM operator of Saudi Telecom Co., to supply the Nokia multimedia messaging service solution. Deliveries have already begun, and the service is expected to be launched nationwide during first half 2005, making it the...
When it comes to mobile phones, Sprint PCS has long been in a class of its own. Since the carrier's beginnings, Sprint has traveled its own path in the handset market. Instead of relying on stock phones, Sprint has carved out its own phone...
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. has signed an agreement with Aljawal, the GSM operator of Saudi Telecom Co., to supply the Nokia multimedia messaging service solution. Deliveries have already begun, and the service is expected to be launched nationwide during first half 2005, making it the...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-Pine Cellular Oklahoma, a family-owned cellular carrier that offers service in McCurtain County in southeastern Oklahoma, plans to deploy Jataayu Software's WAP Gateway and Multimedia Messaging Services Center, according to Jataayu. The solution will allow Pine Cellular to offer mobile Internet and messaging...
LONDON-Saw-You Ltd., a mobile technology company focusing on social networking, said Wednesday it has secured a multimillion-dollar investment from European venture capitalist Benchmark Capital. Details of the investment were not disclosed. Saw-You said it will use the cash to expand its global presence in...
TORONTO-Canadians sent more than 710 million person-to-person text messages from their mobile phones in 2004, up from 352 million during the previous year, according to the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association. The group said Canadian text messaging volumes reached 95.5 million, or more than 3.4...
NEW ORLEANS-Whether it's downloading video clips, buying ringtones or simply sending a photo to a friend, the key to enticing consumers to spend more on wireless data can be summed up in one word: simplicity. That was the message from carriers, content providers and...
NEW ORLEANS-Carriers' efforts to increase wireless data revenues took a big step forward this week at CTIA Wireless 2005 as the nation's two largest carriers quietly confirmed their networks are multimedia message service interoperable.Cingular Wireless and Verizon Wireless said they've been MMS interoperable for...
CANNES, France-L. M. Ericsson said it has signed a series of contracts with operators in the United States to deploy its hosted multimedia service.The service providers include Carolina West Wireless, Centennial Wireless, Golden State Cellular, Rural Cellular Corp., Western Wireless Corp. and WestLink."These operators...
CANNES, France-Two global carriers announced contracts for content charging systems Tuesday.Lucent Technologies Inc. and NetSpira Networks said they have provided Singapore's MobileOne Ltd. with a content-based online charging system for GPRS and UMTS services.M1's system will allow it to identify the type of data...
OSLO, Norway-Colibria AS said it has assembled a three-man advisory panel to provide high-level technological expertise to the mobile messaging company. The group will lend its knowledge in "presence," which allows consumers to know the availability of fellow users, as well as other instant...
VeriSign Inc. said it will acquire Santa Cruz, Calif.-based picture-messaging company LightSurf in an all-stock transaction valued at $270 million. VeriSign said the deal adds a picture component to its text and multimedia messaging offerings to carriers."We are very excited about the strategic value...
WOODBURY, N.Y.-Comverse introduced its Comverse MMS Exchange, a central hub that allows multiple network operators to interconnect their multimedia messaging services. Operators currently must implement separate routing connections and interconnectivity agreements to provide seamless MMS services, said the company. MMS Exchange creates a central...
While the numbers aren't available yet for the all-important fourth quarter wireless sales, I'm predicting stellar results.Why? Because I just spent the holidays with the Anderson clan (my side of the family) in North Dakota, and while temperatures reached a frosty -10 degrees, wireless...
HAMPSHIRE, United Kingdom-The global market for multimedia messaging services will more than double next year, reaching $42.5 billion, according to a new report from Juniper Research. Messaging between mobile-phone users will drive the revenue growth, as will services like sports updates that are supplied...
Mobile-phone content application provider Linktone Ltd. said it is being sanctioned by carrier China Mobile for billing mistakes. Linktone said it is being penalized for inadvertently billing 27,000 WAP customers 72 cents for a service that should have been free. As a result, China...
WOODBURY, N.Y.-Comverse introduced its Comverse MMS Exchange, a central hub that allows multiple network operators to interconnect their multimedia messaging services.Operators currently must implement separate routing connections and interconnectivity agreements to provide seamless MMS services, said the company. MMS Exchange creates a central hub...
HAMPSHIRE, United Kingdom-The global market for multimedia messaging services will more than double next year, reaching $42.5 billion, according to a new report from Juniper Research.Messaging between mobile-phone users will drive the revenue growth, as will services like sports updates that are supplied by...
