The mobile industry has seen considerable growth over the past 10 years fueled by consumers flocking to the advances made in mobile devices and the corresponding lowering of costs associated with owning such devices. However, with wireless penetration nearing 100% in the United States,...
Hello! And welcome to our Friday column, Worst of the Week. There's a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so this column is a chance for us at RCRWireless.com to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the wrong way....
The carrier deck is still the most valuable real estate in mobile content, but the future of downloadable wireless goodies may just lie in third-party storefronts. And for now, at least, developers are the key to success.Apple Inc. stole headlines two months ago with...
The future of the "anywhere Internet" likely will involve a variety of networks and devices, analysts said during a teleconference last week-and if wireless operators want to get in on the innovation, they're going to have to open up the full Internet to customers...
The future of the "anywhere Internet" will likely involve a variety of networks and devices, analysts said during a teleconference this week-and if wireless operators want to get in on the innovation, they're going to have to open up the full Internet to customers...
Postpaid customers may take for granted their ability to outfit their phones with jazzy ring tones, flashy wallpaper and nifty games, but prepaid customers historically haven't been offered those luxuries. Increasingly, however, prepaid services are beginning to include a wider selection of downloads and...
BEIJING-Lucent Technologies Inc. said it has won a $98.5 million contract to expand the CDMA network of Guangdong Unicom. It is the third phase of the expansion, which will cover eight cities.The cities include Guangzhou, Foshan, Jiangmen, Zhongshan, Zhuhai, Zhanjiang, Maoming and Yangjiang.Under the...
Lucent Technologies Inc. said it has won a $98.5 million contract to expand the CDMA network of Guangdong Unicom. It is the third phase of the expansion, which will cover eight cities.The cities include Guangzhou, Foshan, Jiangmen, Zhongshan, Zhuhai, Zhanjiang, Maoming and Yangjiang.Under the...
PARIS-China Unicom announced it will offer an upgraded WAP service through a new deal with infrastructure provider Alcatel. The carrier will use Alcatel's WAP 2.0 offering, which allows users to view wireless Web sites written in XHTML."With the development of this WAP 2.0 solution,...
Following are mobile contracts awarded in January 2004:AlcatelChina. With Gansu Mobile Communication Co., a subsidiary of China Mobile, for GSM/GPRS/EDGE network.Value: $14 millionCyprus. With Investcom for GSM/GPRS/EDGE radio and mobile core network.Value: UndisclosedNetherlands. With T-Mobile for data over asynchronous transfer mode, gigabit Ethernet transport...
BEIJING-Lucent Technologies Inc. and Nokia Corp. both signed contracts with divisions of China Unicom. Lucent said it has signed a CDMA contract worth more than $230 million to expand the networks of China Unicom."China Unicom also will be able to deliver a variety of...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—Swedish cell-phone operator Telia plans to offer consumers a free three-month trial of General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) in an attempt to reverse the ongoing negative image that the mobile Internet continues to attract. The company will be the first in Sweden...
LONDON—IDC said its recent research shows that 2001 will be a landmark year for wireless Internet in Ireland.The company said mobile access is in its infant stage right now, with less than 10 percent of companies offering mobile Web sites. However, penetration levels of...
Audiovox CommunicationsAudiovox Communications introduced the Maestro, a Pocket PC that uses Microsoft Windows Powered Pocket PC 2002 software. The product features 32 MB of SDRAM and 32 MB of Flash Rom and an Intel Strong ARM 206 MHz processor. It also includes built-in CFR...
TOKYO—Japan's KDDI Corp. said it was postponing the launch of its high-speed mobile Internet access service from this fall to next April.KDDI said the cdma2000 1x-based service planned by its au wireless subsidiary was not being delayed by standards glitches, but by software issues."There...
According to new reports from two major analyst firms, wireless data will be a huge business in the future, but not before software vendors, systems integrators and-especially-wireless carriers get in gear and make the tough decisions to take advantage of the situation.The mobile Internet...
TOKYO-Vodafone Group, the largest mobile carrier in the world, announced in May it will acquire British Telecommunications' (BT) entire stake in Japan Telecom Group (JT) for 652.3 billion yen (US$5.4 billion). Following the deal, Vodafone Group will hold a 45-percent stake in Japan Telecom...
LENEXA, Kan.-Sprint PCS and Lucent Technologies Inc. completed an over-the-air data call using cdma2000 1xEV-DO, with transmission speeds up to 2.4 Megabits per second.Sprint, which is testing the technology through June, will test increased data throughput and capacity as well as applications including Web...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-Samsung Telecommunications America Inc. and VoiceStream Wireless Corp. have agreed to develop GPRS phones using Microsoft Corp.'s Stinger smart phone platform and Mobile Internet Explorer microbrowser software for VoiceStream's GSM network.VoiceStream has stated it plans to launch GPRS services sometime next year. The...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Metricom Inc. has agreed to deliver its Ricochet high-speed mobile Internet access technology to Aether Systems Inc. corporate customers.Under the deal, Aether will become an authorized service provider of the Ricochet network, providing customers wireless connections at 128 kpbs. Aether will sign...
New ZealandNokia Corp. will integrate its General Packet Radio Service core network solution into Vodafone New Zealand's network, providing mobile Internet access to Vodafone's subscribers. Vodafone plans to launch commercial GPRS service during the fourth quarter.TaiwanNokia will deliver its General Packet Radio Service core...
SBC Wireless Inc. said it plans to roll out wireless Internet services by the fourth quarter and named InfoSpace Inc. as the underlying platform provider for the service. SBC carriers Ameritech Cellular, Pacific Bell Wireless, Nevada Bell Wireless, Cellular One and SNET all will...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-BellSouth Mobility said it plans to deploy up to 56 Ericsson Datacom Inc. AXC 627 Tigris Access Servers in 28 of its mobile switching centers.The servers, part of Ericsson's Integrated Access System wireless solution, will complement an ongoing upgrade of BellSouth's Time Division...
Motorola Inc. is hoping to build on its "Web W/O Wires" advertising campaign by launching a new mobile Internet access device, described as a voice-driven Internet navigation product, during ABC's March 26 Academy Awards broadcast.The 60-second commercial is said to involve the creation of...
