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Telus Mobility launches pair of GPS-based services

VANCOUVER, British Columbia—Canadian operator Telus Mobility launched two handset-based Global Positioning System services developed by Networks In Motion. Telus said its new Navigator and Kid Find services are now available using the carrier's CDMA2000 1x coverage area in British Columbia, Alberta and Ontario. The...

Northrop Grumman: NYC contract sign of future

WASHINGTON—Northrop Grumman Corp.'s five-year, $500 million contract to build a broadband public-safety wireless network in New York City could become the new model for equipping city and state officials with state-of-the-art equipment that enables interoperable voice and data communications offered not by a single...

InPhonic teams with Best Buy for phone sales

WASHINGTON—Online phone retailer InPhonic Inc. announced it will power the online mobile phone sales of retailer Best Buy Co Inc. InPhonic said it will be the provider and fulfillment partner of cellular products and services on BestBuy.com. "We are very excited to team with...

Wireless spending on the rise, as are customer expectations

WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif.—Customer spending on wireless services continues to increase, according to the latest survey by J.D. Power and Associates—and consumers' expectations of their wireless carriers will continue to rise along with their spending. The firm's latest customer satisfaction survey showed that non-voice services...

Wireless enterprise market to reach $10B mark by 2010, report finds

BOSTON—Wireless enterprise data services in North America will generate more than $10 billion each year by 2010, according to a study from research firm Strategy Analytics Inc. The company said the market will serve more than 41 million users in North America by the...

SouthernLinc continues to push Sprint Nextel over iDEN roaming

WASHINGTON—In the ongoing battle over whether national carriers should have to provide automatic roaming access to smaller operators, SouthernLinc Wireless is pleading its case as an iDEN operator with only one potential national roaming partner: Sprint Nextel Corp. SouthernLinc, which offers iDEN services in...

CTIA loses siting challenge in court

WASHINGTON-A federal appeals court has ruled that the Federal Communications Commission has the authority to require wireless carriers and tower owners to abide by the National Historic Preservation Act, including accepting the definition of eligible properties. The ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals...

FCC: Wireless is competitive: Copps dissents on methodology

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission told Congress that there is effective competition in the wireless industry, noting a penetration rate of 71 percent and that nearly everyone between the ages of 20 to 49 has a mobile phone. Nevertheless, one commissioner signing off on the...

Samsung shores up presence at T-Mobile USA

BELLEVUE, Wash.-With the quiet addition of its new t719 flip phone, which offers BlackBerry Connect service and an e-mail-friendly keypad, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. now supplies just over one-third of T-Mobile USA Inc.'s handset portfolio. The t719 uses the same SureType keypad-a QWERTY alternative...

T-Mobile rumored to soon bust a move: UMA dual-mode network in the works

One of the worst-kept secrets in the wireless industry today is T-Mobile USA Inc.'s much-discussed-by everyone but them, that is-plan to launch services that allow subscribers with dual-mode handsets to move seamlessly between cellular and Wi-Fi networks. U.S. trials of the technology by T-Mobile...

Xero Mobile sold to Advanced Mobile

Xero Mobile Inc. found a buyer, inking a deal to sell "substantially all of its assets and liabilities" to little-known Advanced Mobile Communications Inc.The mobile virtual network operator?which has yet to launch service?said it will receive an undisclosed amount of newly issued shares of...

Intel to use Nokia HSDPA module

ESPOO, Finland-Nokia Corp. said it has developed an HSDPA connectivity module for notebook computers. The module will be included with Intel Corp.'s next-generation Centrino Duo mobile technology platform, said Nokia."This collaboration is good news for notebook users as cellular technology offers superior connectivity and...

B&B buys Advanced Embedded Systems

OTTAWA, Ill.-B&B Electronics, which provides automation and communications products, said it acquired Advanced Embedded Systems, a Phoenix-based company that develops industrial-focused wireless products. AES is expected to become part of B&B Electronics' engineering and technical group. B&B Engineering said the acquisition gives it in-house...

Q&A with Mike Foley from the Bluetooth SIG

Michael Foley, executive director of the Bluetooth SIG, answered a few questions for RCR Wireless News via e-mail regarding the factory raid in China. RCR: To what degree is this raid an ongoing effort on behalf of the Bluetooth SIG? Is the group targeting...

New MVNO to focus on Chinese-Americans

NEW YORK-A new mobile virtual network operator targeting Chinese-Americans officially launched, offering cheap international calls to Asia and a Razr phone with menus in Chinese. Red Pocket Mobile soft-launched about two weeks ago, according to Max Smetannikov, vice president of business development for Global...

Jamster to sell Disney content in North America

NEW YORK-Jamster International bulked up its content portfolio in North America with a deal to offer ringtones, graphics and mobile games from the Walt Disney Internet Group. Disney and its third-party content licensing arm Starwave Mobile already use VeriSign Inc.'s mobile content business to...

Carphone Warehouse teams with Best Buy

LONDON-Best Buy International will team with U.K. wireless retail giant Carphone Warehouse Group to open stand-alone cell phone stores in the United States. In a prepared statement, the firms said a trial of Best Buy Mobile stores in New York "is about to commence;"...

HTC: Heading toward smart (phone) trends

HTC Corp. is looking to capitalize on trends?and possibly buck them-as it works to deliver smart phones in the United States and around the world. With 80 percent of the global Windows Mobile business, the Taiwanese smart-phone vendor has grown rapidly by providing third...

Kajeet: A ‘life stage’ MVNO

NEW YORK-Fatherhood was the inspiration for creating and naming mobile virtual network operator Kajeet Inc., and the market will test whether those fathers really do know best when it comes to offering a wireless service that will appeal to kids. Daniel Neal, Kajeet's chief...

Separate studies come to same conclusion: LBS set for growth

Two research firms say the future looks bright for location-based services running on Global Positioning System technology. ABI Research's latest study on the subject suggests that subscribers of GPS-enabled, location-based services will reach 315 million by 2011, up from 12 million this year. The...

Visto rakes in another $51M in funding, adds ex-AOL chief to board

Visto Corp. will have no trouble paying its lawyer fees. The mobile e-mail service provider raked in another $51 million this week in a funding round led by Oak Investment Partners. The haul follows a $70 million round that closed last November; Visto is...

McDonald’s connects customers with content over cell phones

CHICAGO-McDonald's franchisees John and Karen O'Keefe watched sales flatline for most of the year at their store in Chicago's suburban Woodfield Mall while other restaurants in the fast-food chain's system pulled in gains of 2 percent or better. But after the couple installed a...

Nokia makes New York splash with multimedia devices

Nokia Corp. announced five new GSM phones-the company insists the devices are "multimedia computers"-for the United States, but did not announce any accompanying carrier deals. Three of the devices-the N70, N73 and N91-are optimized for music. The devices include enhanced memory with 1 GB,...

UTStarcom to get CDMA phones from South Korean vendor

SEOUL-South Korea's Pantech & Curitel Communications Inc. will provide its portfolio of CDMA-based handsets to UTStarcom Inc. for sale in North America under a three-year agreement, the company announced. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.Pantech already is a leading supplier of CDMA handsets...