NEW YORK-The number of licenses awarded, not the prices paid for them, likely will lead Standard & Poor's Corp. to downgrade the debt ratings of many winning bidders in Germany's recent third-generation wireless auctions."The total paid, 50.5 billion euros ($45.85 billion), conforms to our...
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...
PathnetPathnet Telecommunications named Ken Rowen vice president of sales, focusing on competitive local access carriers. Rowen will lead a team responsible for integrating CLECs, regional bell operating companies and independent telephone companies into the Pathnet network in under-served regions of the country. Rowen developed...
In an effort to make up for a history of poor communication with application developers, Motorola Inc. held its first Application Developer Conference last week in San Diego.Dubbed the Xtreme Developer's Conference, some 300 developers met with Motorola and other industry personnel during the...
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. introduced a new Web sited called TheFeature, aimed at industry professionals, academics, media and others interested in the mobile Internet space.The site is designed as an educational resource, offering networking features like open discussion forums and virtual business cards. It also...
TOKYO-Japan's dominant wireless carrier, NTT DoCoMo, is in talks with SBC Communications Inc. and BellSouth Corp. about taking a minority stake in the combined mobile venture between the two U.S. carriers, according to a report in the Aug. 17 edition of the Financial Times.The...
NEW YORK-Mobilocity Inc. formally launched its Mobile Financial Services Practice-a program designed to pioneer mobile applications targeting the banking, brokerage and insurance industries-by partnering with J.P. Morgan & Co.The agreement calls for Mobilocity to help J.P. Morgan develop a mobile Internet strategy by creating...
ALLENTOWN, Pa.-Lucent Technologies Inc.'s Microelectronics Group and Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing will invest $700 million during the next five years to jointly develop manufacturing technologies for future generations of integrated circuits targeted at high-growth communications markets.As part of the joint development activities, the companies will...
Alcatel supplied European wireless operators France Telecom Mobiles, Mobistar and Dutchtone a solution that will allow their customers to continue making or receiving calls on their prepaid mobile phones when they are traveling abroad. Alcatel said the services are delivered using its intelligent network...
The Personal Communications Industry Association made another move designed to evolve the association into one that serves the global mobile Internet market.PCIA last week announced the PCIA Global Initiative, a new PCIA division designed to provide consumer and market data for the mobile Internet...
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...
Looking to give end users greater control of their personal information via wireless devices, InfoSpace Inc. added two services to its wireless Internet platform that will allow users to interact with various financial and e-mail accounts from a single device.The new financial service will...
AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands-Versatel Telecom International N.V. said it ceased bidding in the Dutch Universal Mobile Telecommunications System auction, ending the award process of five licenses. The bids at the end of 305 rounds totaled about $2.5 billion, much less than original estimates.The U.K. government...
TantauTantau Software Inc. released its Wireless Internet Platform version 2, which features enhancements for back-end connectivity, content personalization and information delivery. In addition, the company announced a strategic agreement with Hewlett-Packard Co. to co-market mobile e-services solutions designed for financial institutions that combine the...
NEW YORK-Any wireless carrier that frets about competition on its turf should consider SmarTone Telecommunications Holdings Ltd., the fourth licensee in Hong Kong.The city-state has a population of 6.9 million, of whom 4 million already are mobile customers. Serving this market are six mobile...
FranceBrightpoint Inc. subsidiary Brightpoint France SARL, entered an agreement with Motorola S.A. France, a subsidiary of Motorola Inc., to distribute Motorola wireless communications handsets in France. Financial terms of the agreement were not released.ItalyNokia announced it will provide Wireless Application Protocol and General Packet...
MADRID, Spain-Telefonica Moviles and Terra Networks set up Terra Mobile, a new company charged with developing and operating the Telefonica group's global mobile Internet portal.Telefonica Moviles will control 51 percent of the new company, with Terra Networks controlling the remaining 49 percent.The Internet portal...
NEW YORK-Andrew Seybold offered attendees of a recent New York New Media Association meeting this twice-told tale to illustrate how mobile data badly needs an application of common sense, that least common of all the senses.The respected wireless Web guru and curmudgeon offered this...
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. was selected by four European mobile operators to provide General Packet Radio Service core network infrastructure solutions to their existing Global System for Mobile communications networks.Nokia will integrate its GPRS solution into the existing GSM networks of France's Cegetel, Germany's E-Plus,...
LONDON-British mobile provider BT Cellnet reported a 34- percent increase in new mobile- phone customers for the second quarter of this year compared with the same time frame last year.According to the company, 670,000 new customers signed up for wireless service during the second...
NEW YORK-The interplay between intelligent networks and Internet Protocol is a battle of the Titans, according to David Berndt, director of wireless mobile technologies for The Yankee Group.Carriers must avoid getting caught in the crossfire while emerging from this transition as winners that take...
Any industry that converges with the Internet has seen its entire model be destroyed and rebuilt. Like a tidal wave, it crashes and levels the playing field. For many, this tsunami of change is a disaster, destroying those caught unprepared. But this so-called disruptive...
NEW YORK-Mobilocity Inc. introduced its Mobility Lab, designed to develop and evaluate mobile Internet applications and technologies regardless of device or network type.Strategic partners in the lab include Aether Systems Inc., AgentGo.com, AvantGo Inc., InfoWave Inc., LCC International, RTS Wireless Inc. and Screaming Media.In...
SWINDON, United Kingdom-Lucent Technologies Inc. completed network enhancements enabling German mobile operator T-Mobil to deploy a commercial mobile Internet service based on General Packet Radio Service.With the introduction of GPRS to its network, T-Mobile customers will be able to download Internet information and send...
