WASHINGTON-The importance public image holds for competitive wireless carriers was highlighted last week when a major daily newspaper here-pointing to the lack of mobile-phone service in underground subways that run through some poor black and Latino neighborhoods-questioned whether Verizon Wireless was engaged in redlining...
BUDAPEST, Hungary-Euronet Services Inc. said it signed an agreement with EuroTel, a Global System for Mobile communications wireless service provider in the Czech Republic, allowing consumers to purchase prepaid mobile phone vouchers at Euronet ATMs in the Central European country.The agreement will allow EuroTel...
Cimarron TechnologiesWith the addition of versatile hardware options, Cimarron Technologies' Skymark VehicleTracker now allows dispatchers to view mapping software in both digital or database formats over a Cellular Digital Packet Data network. The digital map is a scanned image of a paper map, while...
Wireless regulation is a temporary state of affairs. Some years from now there will be very few, if any, wireless rules. This is not a bold prediction. It is a foregone conclusion based on a confluence of economic, technological and political forces that have...
INDIANAPOLIS-Brightpoint GmbH, a subsidiary of Brightpoint Inc., entered an agreement with Nokia GmbH to sell Nokia Corp.'s mobile phone accessories in Germany.The agreement also authorizes Brightpoint to package Nokia Original Accessories.
Formus Communications Inc. filed a registration statement for an initial public offering of its class A common stock. Formus, a wireless broadband carrier, expects to complete the offering by the middle of the year.Advanced Radio Telecom Corp. successfully bid $77 million to acquire several...
WASHINGTON-Peter Angelos, the wealthy Baltimore lawyer and Democratic Party benefactor, said he will decide by early summer whether to file a class-action lawsuit against the wireless industry for alleged health-related injuries from mobile phones."We have compiled a multitude of information and probably the next...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson's mobile phones division launched a new advertising campaign in the United States and Latin America, with its return to television advertising on May 31 during the premiere of the CBS television program "Survivor."The ad campaign is scheduled to air through the...
Hong KongCable & Wireless HKT Mobile Services and Nokia Corp. successfully completed their third-generation trials and the provision of a commercially available 43.2 kbps high-speed circuit switched data service in Hong Kong. Nokia noted that the recently completed second phase of 3G trials involved...
WASHINGTON-The United States appears poised to win support for a multiband global spectrum allocation for third-generation mobile phone systems heading into the final week of the World Radiocommunication Conference in Turkey.However, according to U.S. officials last week, there remains much debate about the precise...
NokiaNokia Corp. unveiled its new 8260 wireless phone that the company says blends colorful and stylish options into a small digital handset. The 8260 is Time Division Multiple Access 800 compatible, weighs 3.4 ounces, is approximately four inches tall and will include mobile originated...
IPmobileWireless communications infrastructure company IPmobile Inc. hired Louis Wooldridge as its vice president of sales in Asia, and Chuck Derrick as its vice president of product development. Wooldridge will spearhead the company's initiative to secure and capitalize on the growing wireless data market opportunity...
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. unveiled Nokia Activ for its Wireless Application Protocol Server 1.1, a one-button solution enabling Web sites to send WAP service settings to WAP-enabled mobile phones wirelessly.The service will allow consumers to click a Nokia Activ button on a Web site and...
NEW YORK-24/7 Media Inc. and i3 Mobile have formed a strategic marketing relationship to extend advertising to mobile phones and other wireless devices, the companies announced.i3 Mobile said it works with more than 20 wireless carriers and media networks to provide its wireless Internet...
WASHINGTON-After a shaky start, Clinton administration officials last week said progress is being made at the World Radiocommunication Conference on a global multiband spectrum allocation for third-generation mobile phone systems."There's no more talk about a single band. All the talk is about a multiband...
OSLO, Norway-Telenor AS announced it entered an agreement to acquire a 30-percent stake in Thai mobile carrier Total Access Communication Public Co. Ltd. and up to a 24.9-percent stake in TAC's parent company, United Communication Industry Public Co. Ltd., for about $720 million.Telenor said...
SignalSoftSteven Adams was appointed vice president of operations for SignalSoft Corp., a developer of wireless location services. Adams will oversee product deployment and installation, product technical support and customer training for all geographic areas, including North America, South America, Europe and Asia Pacific. Prior...
WASHINGTON-Justice Department antitrust lawyers reportedly oppose the proposed $115 billion merger between WorldCom Inc. and Sprint Corp., a major snag that-if true-could kill the deal and spark bidding wars for top wireless carriers not yet claimed.The Justice Department did not return calls for comment...
The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association likes to talk about safety. And why not? Thousands of 911 calls from mobile phones are made every day, millions each year. No doubt countless lives have been saved and serious injury averted by a device CTIA President Thomas...
WASHINGTON-Federal regulators, lawmakers and consumer groups are ratcheting up pressure for stronger privacy protections for consumers in the Digital Age, a development with major implications for the wireless Internet sector.On several fronts, digital privacy is showing signs of mushrooming into a major consumer issue...
FRAMINGHAM, Mass.-Average household mobile phone use increased to 247 minutes per month, compared with 155 minutes per month in 1999 and 89 in 1998, according to IDC's annual Personal Wireless Communications User Survey."We are seeing this dramatic growth for a variety of reasons," said...
WASHINGTON-A comprehensive proposal by European and Arab states covering third-generation mobile phone spectrum and other issues appeared to be disintegrating late last week at the World Radiocommunication Conference in Turkey, a development that is forcing the U.S. delegation to redouble efforts to keep its...
The wireless industry received some reprieve from the barrage of negative attention mobile phones have encountered in recent months after findings in the Stewart Report, officially released by the British government last week, suggested that people who use mobile phones were more of a...
CANCUN, Mexico-The big push to interoperate GSM and TDMA standards is well under way, allowing customers using either standard to roam around the world and giving U.S. TDMA operators a breath of life in their ongoing struggle with CDMA carriers for domestic market share.The...
