ATLANTA-Cingular Wireless L.L.C. and T-Mobile USA Inc. reported plans to end their network-sharing arrangement, which currently provides Cingular access to T-Mobile USA's network in New York City in exchange for T-Mobile USA gaining access to Cingular's network in California and Nevada, pending the acquisition...
SAN MATEO, Calif.-The market for wireless machine-to-machine communications is poised to experience a 27-percent compound annual growth rate, ballooning from $9.3 billion in 2004 to $31 billion in 2008, according to research from the Wireless Data Research Group.Machine-to-machine communication systems allow for the remote...
WASHINGTON-Globalstar announced a contract with Equant for Internet Protocol virtual private network services through February 2007, marking an extension of the one-year contract the company signed with Equant in December 2002 to upgrade its legacy network with the Equant IP VPN solution. "The...
HANNOVER, Germany-Sony Network Services Europe announced a deal with TeliaSonera Finland to offer a new streaming music service.Dubbed the Personal Media Assistant, the Sony application is designed for mobile phones running the Symbian operating system and allows users to listen to music streamed over...
A quick Google of the acronym "TSI" can turn up at least 10 different companies, all using the same three letters to sell wildly differing products and services. However, Googling the word "Syniverse" turns up only one company-Syniverse Technologies Inc."It's like an alphabet soup,"...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday said that peer-to-peer Internet telephony services that do not touch the public-switched telephone network are information services and it began the process of regulating all voice over Internet protocol services but will tackle law enforcement access to VoIP...
EDINBURG, Va.-Rural telecommunications provider and Sprint PCS affiliate Shenandoah Telecommunications Co. signed an addendum to its management and services agreement with Sprint PCS that Shenandoah said would provide greater certainty for future expenses and revenues and simplify the methods used to settle revenue and...
Upstart push-to-talk platform provider Kodiak Networks Inc. announced its first carrier customer last week by partnering with European-based operator Orange and is rumored to be readying a U.S.-based launch with Alltel Corp. as early as this week.Kodiak's agreement with Orange calls for the carrier...
In the search for killer applications and other services that rake in revenue, independent software vendors are the new brides of wireless.With software expanding, the value of the hardware space will continue to shrink in the wireless space. ISVs therefore are working with major...
The last round of third-quarter results posted last week continued to show the growing operational gaps between the country's six nationwide carriers and the numerous rural operators that are finding a more difficult balance between customer growth and fiscal restraint.T-Mobile USA Inc. said it...
UbiquiTel Inc. said it has reached a three-year agreement with network partner Sprint PCS covering a number of inter-carrier issues, including roaming, reseller and back-office rates that UbiquiTel noted would provide immediate savings to its cost structure.The agreement calls for UbiquiTel to continue to...
GERMANYU.S. company Danger Inc. announced its first European customer, reporting German operator E-Plus will soon launch Danger's Hiptop device. The German carrier also plans to offer an unlimited data plan that will enable customers to use the phone's e-mail, Internet and instant messaging features...
LAS VEGAS-Aiirnet Wireless L.L.C., which provides and deploys high-speed Wi-Fi Internet service, made several announcements at this week's CTIA Wireless I.T. show in Las Vegas. The company announced the availability of the AiirLink Hot-Spot-In-A-Box, which allows any retail establishment to offer high-speed wireless broadband...
HELSINKI, Finland-L.M. Ericsson said it signed a contract with Finnish 2G to extend their frame agreement on infrastructure deliveries. The agreement will enable the operator to build a third-generation network to launch new mobile services. The value of the agreement was not disclosed.Under the...
LONDON-MTC-Vodafone, the Kuwaiti operator, has awarded a US$19 million contract to Motorola to expand its GPRS network.The deal covers the provision of network services and equipment allowing MTC-Vodafone to increase its network capacity and coverage, Motorola will deploy its Horizon Macro base stations to...
LONDON-MTC-Vodafone, the Kuwaiti operator, has awarded a US$19 million contract to Motorola to expand its GPRS network.The deal covers the provision of network services and equipment allowing MTC-Vodafone to increase its network capacity and coverage, Motorola will deploy its Horizon Macro base stations to...
WASHINGTON-The government should play the role of facilitator rather than regulator as it tries to ensure that network and communications infrastructure are secure, said a panel of witnesses at a cybersecurity hearing Tuesday. The House cybersecurity subcommittee held a hearing to find out what...
Motorola Inc. has said that Baltic States wireless operator Omnitel in Lithuania is the first to commercially deploy its new-generation base station, the Horizon 11 base transceiver station for GSM/GPRS/EDGE networks. The initial deployment of the Horizon II is on Omnitel's 1800 MHz network...
LONDON-Motorola Inc. has said that Baltic States wireless operator Omnitel in Lithuania is the first to commercially deploy its new-generation base station, the Horizon 11 base transceiver station for GSM/GPRS/EDGE networks."With this expansion, Omnitel will increase its network capacity and coverage to provide voice...
LONDON-European operator MmO2 offered details on uptake of its mobile data services. The company said it has 643,000 GPRS users and 60,000 active customers for its recently launched O2 Active service, which offers ring tones, multimedia messaging service, games, music video, information and pictures...
RESTON, Va.-Transaction Network Services (TNS) and LinkSpot Networks have partnered to deploy Wi-Fi hot spots in RV parks throughout the United States.LinkSpot, already operating Wi-Fi networks in 24 parks in 13 states, is using the TNS' Telecom Services Division managed Wi-Fi service offering to...
BEIJING-Lucent Technologies Inc. said it has signed contracts with China's Unicom Horizon and China Netcom to provide network services like technical support, management consulting, network optimization and staff training.The deals are with Unicom Horizon's subsidiary in Guangzhou and Netcom's subsidiary in Tianjin.Lucent will set...
Without going too far out on a limb, it seems a safe bet to claim the wireless industry has gone crazy for most anything associated with the term Wi-Fi. From wireless operators clamoring to install access points into just about any location where people...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-Alltel Corp. named Jeffrey Fox group president of communications where he will oversee the company's human resources, network services and information technology departments. Fox previously served as group president of Information Services at Alltel.In addition, Mike Flynn was named assistant to the...
