CHICAGO-Partnerships are the key to success in the wireless Internet space, was the resounding theme at last week's PCIA GlobalXChange convention keynote session."The wireless Internet is like the proverbial wild West or the first blast off into space," Janiece Webb, senior vice president and...
TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo said it signed a memorandum of understanding with KPN Mobile of the Netherlands, in which DoCoMo holds 15 percent, to consider establishing a joint venture to provide mobile Internet services based on DoCoMo's i-mode technology and business model in Europe."NTT DoCoMo signed...
TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo Inc. and America Online Inc. last week announced their long-expected business alliance. The combination of the largest mobile carrier in Japan and the largest Internet service provider in the world will give NTT DoCoMo a foothold to launch its popular i-mode services,...
With all the wireless enabling solutions, wireless application service providers, devices, software and networks available today, it's not too difficult to see how dot-coms and corporate entities mulling wireless extension of their content may feel a little overwhelmed.Even reporters and analysts attempting to keep...
MINNEAPOLIS-Verizon Wireless services will be offered at more than 350 Best Buy stores nationwide beginning in October, complementing the retailer's current national wireless two-way messaging and paging relationship with Verizon Wireless.The agreement includes Verizon's wireless products and services, including the company's recently introduced mobile...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-Now that NTT DoCoMo has a financial interest in a U.K. third-generation license holder, the prospect of i-mode mobile Internet services being deployed in Europe is firmly on the agenda. The Japanese operator earlier this year formed a joint venture, called 3G...
SAO PAULO, Brazil-Two issues characterized the Brazilian cellular market during the first half of the year-an increase in subscriber numbers and the rollout of more advanced services.Latin America in general saw an explosion of prepaid services, but in Brazil, prepaid subscriptions overcame all operator...
HONG KONG-AU-System, a mobile Internet consultant firm, has entered a strategic relationship with Baltimore Technologies Inc. to develop secure m-commerce solutions.The agreement has AU-System licensing and integrating Baltimore's Telepathy wireless e-security products for its AUS WAP browser. The two also will work together on...
HELSINKI, Finland-MobileChannel.Network plans to deliver a commercial mobile Internet content service during the Summer Olympics through its Mobile Sports Channel joint venture with Trans World International, the programming division of Mark McCormack's International Management Group.The service, based in SMS and WAP, was designed to...
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. and Sonera completed tests of roaming capabilities for Internet Protocol traffic between GPRS networks.The tests involved GRX, a centralized IP routing network for interconnecting GPRS networks, and were executed by combining Sonera's GPRS system and Nokia's packet core network by a...
L.M. Ericsson and Microsoft Corp. took the next solid step in their alliance by launching a new company, called Ericsson Microsoft Mobile Venture AB, designed to develop and market mobile e-mail solutions to wireless operators worldwide.Ulf Avrin of Ericsson was named president of the...
MURRAY HILL, N.J.-In the wireless data weltanschauung of Lucent Technologies Inc., operators will remain the linchpin for an increasingly complex assembly of players. Lucent's role, from its world view, is to anticipate and facilitate solutions for each part, large and small, of this expanding...
ROSH HA'AYIN, Israel-CT Motion Ltd. and Cambridge Positioning Systems announced they signed an agreement to jointly deliver mobile Internet location-based services.The agreement will combine CPS' range of location determination technologies with CT Motion's Cellebrity services platform and applications.
DALLAS-SBC Wireless introduced through its Pacific Bell Wireless affiliate "My Wireless Window." The new product is a streamlined mobile Internet portal service powered by InfoSpace. SBC plans to roll out the service in all its nationwide wireless affiliate markets.The service is available today in...
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia said it won a contract, valued at more than $30 million, with Ireland's Eircell for a mobile network upgrade. The contract involves upgrading the base station system for Eircell and will be rolled out across the country during the next two years."With...
Over and over again, we've been told that compelling content is the key to surviving in the wireless Internet game.A global start-up firm called Quios Inc. this week introduced a new tactic for gathering quality content with the launch of Planet Quios, a unique...
WOODBURY, N.Y.-Comverse Technology Inc. announced it completed its acquisition of Exalink Ltd., a global supplier of router-based WAP gateways and applications.Comverse, a supplier of software and systems for network-based enhanced services, said the addition of Exalink allows it to provide an end-to-end mobile Internet...
There is a great disconnect in the wireless industry. Whether it's mismanagement, industry hype, flawed law, Wall Street greed-or some combination of the above-is unclear. But it doesn't matter. The losers will be consumers, rank-and-file investors and pension funds.To illustrate this disconnect, take a...
Another firm has emerged to help start-up companies find their place in the nascent wireless Internet space.Sprint PCS and eCompanies L.L.C., a firm that guides Internet start-ups, have formed eCompanies Wireless, an incubator dedicated to creating companies that offer wireless consumer services, business services...
AustriaNokia Corp. will supply its MetroHopper Radio, a wireless access link antenna using the 58 GHz frequency band for transmission, for base station access to Austrian mobile operator Max.mobile. Nokia said the agreement also includes a full range of professional services.ChinaEricsson Inc. signed five...
SAO PAULO, Brazil-Two issues characterized the Brazilian cellular market during the first half of the year-an increase in subscriber numbers and the rollout of more advanced services.Latin America in general saw an explosion of prepaid services, but in Brazil, prepaid subscriptions overcame all operator...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-Although cellular telephony client bases doubled last year in Uruguay and Paraguay, at this point it seems only Paraguay will be able to achieve this objective again in 2000.Uruguay's strong cellular growth has slowed during the year, with a lack of competition...
TOKYO-Advertising on mobile terminals, including the popular i-mode-enabled terminals, has established itself as a lucrative business in Japan.The number of Japanese users who access the Internet via cellular terminals exceeded 15 million in early August. Included in that number are 10 million i-mode users.Finding...
Shooting yourself in the foot is not to be recommended. But it seems to happen regularly within the mobile industry. The self-inflicted injury is almost always the result of a disconnect between the capabilities of a technology and the marketing of that technology.Sometimes the...
