TOKYO-Japanese operator J-Phone Co. said it will change the name of its J-Sky mobile Internet service to Vodafone Live in line with its adoption of the Vodafone brand Oct. 1. Vodafone Live is Vodafone Group plc's mobile Internet service, which is currently available in...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Nsight Teleservices of Green Bay, Wis., has launched a commercial mobile virtual private network service offering business users security over wireless data networks.Nsight will offer the service by hosting Swedish mobile Internet Protocol vendor ipUnplugged's mobile VPN solution. "The technical fit with Nsight's...
LONDON-More than 42 million consumers in Western Europe will use mobile portals by 2007, bringing the market's value to more than $1 billion, according to research from IDC."The growth of mobile portals represents an important development area, influencing many of the applications and services...
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. said Korean mobile operator KTF will become a BREW Global Publisher for applications developed for Qualcomm's BREW mobile Internet platform. The agreement authorizes KTF, which was the first operator in the world to launch BREW services, to assist developers with exporting...
LONDON-More than 42 million consumers in Western Europe will use mobile portals by 2007, bringing the market's value to more than $1 billion, according to research from IDC."The growth of mobile portals represents an important development area, influencing many of the applications and services...
TOKYO-NEC Corp. said its mobile Internet platform is in use in Spain as part of Telefonica Moviles Espana's launch of i-mode service. In addition, NEC's latest handset began selling in Spain in late June.NEC will supply its mobile multimedia system to develop i-mode services...
REDMOND, Wash.-The summer movie season continues to tie into wireless, with AT&T Wireless Services Inc. scoring an exclusive deal with Paramount Pictures for its upcoming "Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life" motion picture.AT&T Wireless developed a range of games, ring tones, screensavers...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission said the wireless industry remains highly competitive, but concerns were raised about the quality of data collected by the agency and whether rural consumers are missing out on the benefits of service choice, lower prices and new digital features. ...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission Thursday said the wireless industry remains highly competitive, but concerns were raised about the quality of data collected by the agency and whether rural consumers are missing out on the benefits of service choice, lower prices and new digital features....
The summer movie season continues to tie into wireless, with AT&T Wireless Services Inc. scoring an exclusive deal with Paramount Pictures for its upcoming "Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life" motion picture.AT&T Wireless developed a range of games, ring tones, screensavers and...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Telia announced a new mobile data service in Sweden called Telia Go, which offers user-friendly menus and preset mobile phones, including the Nokia 3650 and the Sony Ericsson P800 smart phone. Both phones feature built-in cameras, and settings are included, making it easy...
Japan's second-largest wireless operator KDDI Corp. led its bigger and smaller rivals in customer additions last month as the carrier said it added 162,000 net customers in May, ending the month with 18.23 million total customers.KDDI's customer growth included 523,700 net customer additions to...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Telia announced a new mobile data service in Sweden called Telia Go, which offers user-friendly menus and preset mobile phones, including the Nokia 3650 and the Sony Ericsson P800 smart phone. Both phones feature built-in cameras and settings are included, making it easy...
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. released a new version of its Mobile Internet Toolkit for developing wireless applications, a product the company said includes support for digital rights management functions.The company's Mobile Internet Toolkit 4.0 includes the Digital Rights Management version 1.0 from the Open Mobile...
MONTREAL-Canadian PCS provider Fido has launched a new Freeday airtime package and the Sony Ericsson T300 handset, which will be exclusive to Fido.The Freeday package allows Fido customers to select one free day of the week for free local calls. The package, which also...
WASHINGTON-The wireless data arm of the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association said it plans to expand its focus to include the rapidly growing content creation community, and that content companies Jippii USA, Kargo, Mobliss, m-Qube, Moviso, News Corp. and Pinnacor have joined the group.CTIA's...
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Canada-Canadian mobile Internet company Contec Innovation said it signed agreements with six sales agents in the Middle East covering Bahrain, Jordan and Palestine, Sultanate of Oman, Qatar, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Untied Arab Emirates.The company said the sales agents...
PARIS-Alcatel announced two new mobile infrastructure contracts, one in Latin America and one in Europe.In Argentina, Telecom Personal, a subsidiary of Telecom Argentina, contracted Alcatel to extend its GSM/GPRS 1900 MHz network. The extension should be completed by mid-2003 and will allow Telecom Personal...
TOKYO-NEC Corp. will release its new e525 GPRS/WAP mobile handset at the 3GSM World Congress in Cannes, France, next week. The phone features a fold-form design, built-in antenna and integrated camera. It also includes two color displays, three picture formats, MMS capability, a picture...
HONG KONG-For debt-choked Western operators, third-generation (3G) profits have proven to be a mirage, and if the technology can be made viable, it will likely happen first in Asia.At the ITU Telecom Asia event held in Hong Kong last month, all the ingredients for...
TOKYO-Broadband Mobile Communications (BMC), a Tokyo-based venture company, announced it will launch an experiment for mobile Internet Protocol (IP) telephony service with five convenience stores in December.According to the firms, users of the service would be able to make calls from either cellular phone...
TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo Inc. plans to introduce its Limitplus billing plan Dec. 1 that will block all outgoing calls and all data communications once monthly phone charges reach a pre-set limit.The carrier said the billing plan, which is similar to automatic spending limit plans introduced...
PARIS-AT&T Wireless Services Inc.'s technology future was brought into question last week as were the carrier's upcoming third-quarter financial results.Speaking at the UMTS and Mobile Internet conference in Paris, Leo Nikkari, AT&T Wireless' director of 3G industry relations, said the carrier had yet to...
TOKYO-Japanese vendor NEC Corp. has taken a 5-percent stake in two mobile-phone subsidiaries owned by Hutchison Whampoa Ltd. for a total $73 million. The stakes are in Hong Kong mobile operator Hutchison Telephone Company Ltd., Hong Kong's largest mobile operator, and Hutchison 3G HK...
