TOKYO-NEC Corp. received an order for its messaging intelligent routers multimedia message service system from Telefonica Moviles Espana.NEC said the system can be added to the existing MMS and mail-server systems of wireless carriers. MIR is a new method to extract necessary data from...
FORT MYERS, Fla.-InterOp Technologies said it is providing products and services for WAP, short message service and multimedia messaging service delivery for eight U.S. mobile carriers. InterOp said it has helped the following operators go live with wireless data services: Advantage Cellular in Tennessee;...
GENEVA-Echovox Wireless launched a pan-European cross-network multimedia "chat" service. Multimedia messaging service Group Chat users will be able to interact with other users in a chat room by sending both short message service and MMS messages in real time, according to the company. The...
FORT MYERS, Fla.-InterOp Technologies is providing products and services for WAP, short message service and multimedia messaging service delivery for eight U.S. mobile carriers, the company announced Tuesday. InterOp said it has helped the following operators go live with wireless data services: Advantage Cellular...
SAN FRANCISCO-The nation's wireless carriers have agreed to provide consumers with multimedia messaging service interoperability, a move that industry watchers say will give a much-needed boost to MMS use in the United States. The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association said the Inter-Carrier MMS Working...
The nation's wireless carriers have agreed to provide consumers with multimedia messaging service interoperability, a move that industry watcher say will give a much-needed boost to MMS use in the United States.The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association said the Inter-Carrier MMS Working Group Friday...
AT&T Wireless Services Inc. continues to roll out advanced devices and services despite an impending acquisition by Cingular Wireless L.L.C., which could be completed by the end of the year. AWS' trend of new offerings could force Cingular to make some tough decisions about...
BOSTON-Peer-to-peer multimedia messaging service will generate more revenue for wireless operators than P2P short message service by 2008, according to a study from the Yankee Group. The survey concluded that P2P MMS soon will be a lucrative offering for mobile operators that can provide...
SINGAPORE-Mobile carrier Vodafone Group plc has teamed with telecommunications firms Belgacom and Cable & Wireless to cut costs and increase efficiency in cross-network multimedia messaging service trials, the companies said Tuesday.The new, standards-based system enables payment information to be cascaded through various networks across...
BOSTON-Peer-to-peer multimedia messaging service will generate more revenue for wireless operators than P2P short message service by 2008, according to a study from the Yankee Group.The survey concluded that P2P MMS soon will be a lucrative offering for mobile operators that can provide good...
SAN DIEGO-Siemens Mobile unveiled two new phones to the U.S. market, including the company's first 1-megapixel camera phone. The S66 camera phone includes a 1.3-megapixel integrated still and video camera, a large high-resolution color screen and five-times digital zoom. The phone has integrated Bluetooth...
Once relegated to outdated handsets and overpriced basic voice services, prepaid customers increasingly are being catered to with the latest handset technology and services to go along with more rational pricing plans. 7-Eleven Inc. and Virgin Mobile USA L.L.C. last week each launched their...
SAN DIEGO-Cricket Communications Inc. will deploy Comverse's Multimedia Messaging Service Center to offer content to its 1.5 million customers.In addition to offering content to state-of-the-art handsets, the service will allow users whose phones don't support MMS to experience new services via a branded Web...
AT&T Wireless Services and Cingular Wireless will offer intercarrier multimedia messaging service (MMS), allowing customers to exchange text, photos, music and video clips between the two carriers from their wireless phones.While such an agreement was expected-Cingular is set to close its acquisition of AT&T...
Sprint PCS introduced a new multimedia message service that can deliver more than 600 new streaming audio and video clips per day to subscribers carrying the new Samsung MM-A700.MobiTV creator Idetic Inc. will provide content and operations for "Sprint TV," the "basic cable" channel...
Following years of hype and financial promise, wireless data services are beginning to have a measurable impact on carrier revenues. During the recently completed second quarter, a number of operators cited the positive impact generated by non-voice services on their service revenues. The growth...
MobiTV creator Idetic Inc. will provide content and operations for one of the new channels available through Sprint PCS Vision Multimedia Services, which the carrier launched late last Friday.Sprint TV, the "basic cable" channel of the Sprint service, will feature programming from NBC News,...
LONDON-Samsung leads the market in available handsets that feature integrated cameras and multimedia messaging service capability, according to market research firm EMC's World Cellular Handset Tracker. The study, which covers 17 worldwide markets, showed more than 60 Samsung handsets with integrated cameras are currently...
For all the play Voice over Internet Protocol snags in the wireless arena, a new and broader technology is lurking to gulp it up. Media over packet technology, as it is called, will also threaten to make multimedia messaging services obsolete. But its arrival...
As a company that tends to generate most excitement regarding its bottom line, Nokia Corp. for the most part has been unruffled in the recent turbulent seas of the wireless industry. Even when the industry stumbled as in the past few years, the...
LEXINGTON, Mass.-Vodafone Netherlands has licensed Taral Networks' AirNgine to deliver application-to-person multimedia messages, Taral announced Thursday.Vodafone will use Taral Networks' Multimedia Messaging Service Push Server to ensure timely bulk delivery of "perishable" application-to-person messaging. "The ability for subscribers to receive event-based MMS within...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson said it will supply GPRS and multimedia messaging service systems to Mongolian wireless carrier MobiCom. The value of the contract was not disclosed.Ericsson will provide the network design, deployment and integration of MobiCom's GPRS network. In addition, Ericsson will manage the...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Wireless gear supplier L.M. Ericsson announced a series of contracts around the world, assuring its place as the world's premier infrastructure player.In the context of the CommunicAsia conference in Singapore, Ericsson Chief Executive Officer Carl-Henric Svanberg emphasized the increasing importance of hosting services...
Wireless gear supplier L.M. Ericsson announced a series of contracts around the world, assuring its place as the world's premier infrastructure player.In the context of the CommunicAsia conference in Singapore, Ericsson Chief Executive Officer Carl-Henric Svanberg emphasized the increasing importance of hosting services among...
