Amid suspicion it plans to walk a lone path on the Push-To-Talk over Cellular technology, Nokia Corp. has launched a PoC consultancy service to allow operators launch PTT services for the enterprise market.The Finnish vendor said the service is available in all the major...
The new wireless gizmos may be humming with new applications, but promises keep outweighing results. CDMA, the technology leading the march toward a full third-generation era, continues to confront challenges. Data services have been unfurled, but adoption is still in its infancy. Enterprise players...
As it continues to grapple with accounting woes, Nortel Networks Ltd. dashed market expectations last week by failing to announce its second-quarter results. The inaction drove down the company's stock by 6.1 percent to $3.83 from a pre-open position of $4.25, indicative of the...
MUMBAI, India-Countering a similar offering by rival wireless provider Tata Teleservices, Indian wireless carrier Hutchison Essar launched Fastmobile Inc.'s push2talk service, which combines walkie-talkie services with instant messaging, short message service, multimedia messaging service and voice messaging.The carrier said the service would be available...
TORONTO-As it grapples with its accounting woes, Nortel Networks Ltd. dashed market expectation by failing to announce its second-quarter results.This drove down the company stock by 6.1 percent to $3.83 from a pre-open position of $4.25, indicative of the constant pressure the financial crisis...
The worldwide wireless local area network hardware market in the first quarter of this year trumped the fourth quarter of 2003 by 2 percent, with revenues of $696.4 million, according to Infonetics Research. The industry can also expect another 2-percent growth, amounting to $713.6...
Motorola Inc. has unveiled what it describes as the first cross-technology Push-to-Talk over Cellular solution rooted in wireless networks. The announcement comes against the background of an industry search for a common standard for PoC even as the major players and the Open Mobile...
Countering a similar offering by rival wireless provider Tata Teleservices, Indian wireless carrier Hutchison Essar launched Fastmobile Inc.'s push2talk service, which combines walkie-talkie services with instant messaging, short message service, multimedia messaging service and voice messaging.The carrier said the service would be available to...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana-Trans-World Telecom Caribbean Ltd. has started installing GSM equipment from Nortel Networks Ltd. in Guyana. TWTC, a new telecom carrier in the Caribbean, will offer wireless service through its Cel*Star Guyana subsidiary.The Nortel infrastructure, which will be GPRS and EDGE ready, will include...
Motorola Inc. has unveiled what it describes as the first cross-technology Push-to-Talk over Cellular solution rooted in wireless networks. This announcement comes against the background of an industry search for a common standard for PoC even as the major players and the Open Mobile...
Delays in deploying third-generation networks combined with an overall slow economy helped create a 12-percent drop in demand for wireless equipment last year, according to a new report from the Gartner Group, a research and analyst company.But the fourth quarter witnessed an upturn in...
A few years ago, industry linked the stock woes of some of the major vendors to a general downdraft of the economy. Now that some of the companies are recording profits and racking up robust contracts, the stocks have yet to pick up steam.Lucent...
Nextel Communications Inc.'s spectrum realignment plans were headed for resolution early this year, with reports indicating the government was set to award the carrier 10 megahertz of spectrum in the lower 1.9 GHz spectrum bands.But those plans were derailed-at least for now-when Verizon Wireless...
CANNES, France-Nortel Networks Ltd. said it has launched a pre-commercial UMTS network with Orange France for the Cannes International Film Festival and is providing the gear for Orange's new third-generation service offerings planned for mass consumers later this year in southern France.Nortel said it...
TEL AVIV, Israel-Israeli wireless operator Pelephone said Nortel Networks will be the exclusive provider of its CDMA2000 1x EV-DO wireless network. The value of the two-year agreement was not disclosed.The first phase of the network will include the metropolitan area of central Israel by...
Delays in deploying third-generation networks combined with an overall slow economy helped create a 12-percent drop in demand for wireless equipment last year, according to a new report from the Gartner Group, a research and analyst company.But the fourth quarter witnessed an upturn in...
BEIJING-In a move that will ramp up its market share in CDMA technology, Lucent Technologies Inc. has signed contracts worth more than $120 million with China Unicom.The deal will cover provinces including Shandong, Hubei, Inner Mongolia and Shaanxi.According to the contract, Lucent will supply...
Nextel Communications Inc. continues to dominate the walkie-talkie space and is not expected to relinquish that lead for some time, despite recent attempts by Verizon Wireless, Sprint PCS and Alltel Corp. to garner some of the push-to-talk pie. Nextel reported more than 13.3 million...
Nortel Networks Ltd. said it has received a federal grand jury subpoena demanding documents to help in the ongoing criminal investigations of the company's finances and top executives.The company said the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Texas is conducting the criminal...
DALLAS-Sun Microsystems Inc. this week officially opened its Dallas-based RFID Test Center and launched a new Radio Frequency Identification solution. The test center simulates a warehouse environment to test RFID equipment from Sun and its partners, which include Alien Technology Ltd., Applied Wireless Identification...
Nortel Networks Ltd.'s woes continue as Canada's overriding securities regulator slammed a trading ban on some of its top executives, including directors, officers and insiders.This follows the Ontario Securities Commission's declaration that Nortel is in default of financial reporting rules. The situation compels the...
While its products still entice carriers, Nortel Networks Ltd. is down in the dumps on Wall Street.The question looms whether the company's technology will prevail over its financial woes.The company's financial stumbles plunged the company's stock price 27 percent last week as the...
WASHINGTON-While the wireless industry said it would prefer a permanent ban on Internet access taxes, the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association and several high-profile wireless companies said Wednesday they support a compromise bill that would eliminate the access taxes for four years."While the wireless...
The financial woes of Nortel Networks Ltd. plunged the company's stock price 27 percent as the firm announced it has fired its chief executive officer, chief financial officer and controller.The company is under investigations from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the Ontario...
