DETROIT-A new driving-directions option from General Motors' OnStar telematics service will be standard for one year on more than 2 million GM vehicles starting with the 2007 model year. After the first year, customers can renew the Turn-by-Turn Navigation service for $300 a year....
DETROIT—A new driving-directions option from General Motors’ OnStar telematics service will be standard for one year on more than 2 million GM vehicles starting with the 2007 model year. After the first year, customers can renew the Turn-by-Turn Navigation service for $300 a year....
Consumer-side mobile virtual network operators that still want to get in on the game could be out of luck, but there are opportunities ahead on the business side and in serving the machine-to-machine space. John Caddell, vice president and general manager of mobile virtual...
WASHINGTON-A telematics provider warned the Federal Communications Commission that a numbers-based approach to finance the universal-service fund will not survive a court challenge. Using language from a previous appeals court decision on USF to bolster its claims, ATX Group Inc. said the proposed $1...
WASHINGTON—A telematics provider warned the Federal Communications Commission Wednesday that FCC Chairman Kevin Martin’s numbers-based approach to finance the universal-service fund would not survive a court challenge and it used language from a previous appeals court decision on USF to bolster its claims. ATX...
WASHINGTON-Telematics providers have come out against FCC Chairman Kevin Martin's numbers-based approach to financing the universal-service fund . Those providers noted that because telematics is not connected to the public-switched telephone network Martin's plan would significantly add to the cost of automatic crash-notification systems....
By Jamie LaReau DETROIT-General Motors' OnStar division will offer new technology on some 2006 models and nearly all 2007 models that gives subscribers automated turn-by-turn navigation in their vehicles.GM will unveil the technology at the Chicago Auto Show this week, where it presented the...
WASHINGTON-The Bush administration today announced the availability of new Global Positioning System capabilities, accuracy and reliability upgrades that are expected to benefit cell phone communications and strengthen the U.S.' technological leadership position. The move comes as Europe inches closer to launching its own satellite-based...
SiRF Technology Holdings this week plans to unveil a global positioning system-enabled system-on-a-chip (SoC) it said will make automotive navigation and telematics systems more affordable for consumers. The product, dubbed SiRFstarIIA, integrates the company's GPS engine with a 32-bit asynchronous response mode CPU and...
BAINBRIDGE ISLAND, Wash.-Airbiquity Inc. said its aqLink technology has been deployed in more than 1 million OnStar in-vehicle systems."We are very proud to have achieved this milestone," said Kamyar Moinzadeh, president and chief executive officer for Airbiquity. "Having more than 1 million vehicles on...
TORONTO-InTouch motion Inc. launched a new wireless in-vehicle product the company said will compete with telematics heavyweight OnStar's service offerings. InTouch said its new product will support phone services, one-touch emergency, two-way voice communications and GPS capabilities, as well as a variety of high-end...
NEW ORLEANS-The world's largest automaker, General Motors, said it will make OnStar a standard feature on all of its vehicles in the United States and Canada by 2007. The move marks a major milestone for the wireless telematics and communications service, one that has...
SAN FRANCISCO-Verizon Wireless, in partnership with General Motors' OnStar, announced its America's Choice with OnStar service plan is now available nationwide.With the plan, Verizon customers with OnStar-equipped vehicles can share their Verizon minutes to make and receive calls on both their Verizon phones and...
General Motors Corp. plans to double production of vehicles equipped with OnStar's in-vehicle communications systems in 2006 models. The company said that for the 2006 model year, 3 million GM vehicles in the U.S. and Canada will be equipped with OnStar, up from 1.4...
Expanding the current agreement between the two companies, Verizon Wireless and OnStar said they would launch America's Choice with OnStar service plans next month, allowing customers to use their Verizon Wireless phones outside vehicles and send calls from their handheld phones to OnStar-embedded in-vehicle...
OYSTER BAY, N.Y.-GM's OnStar is in a position to introduce its telematics services for commercial fleets, according to a new study from ABI Research. "The technology is now at a level and a price point where GM can reach out to this huge market,"...
ARMONK, N.Y.-Telematics giant OnStar said it will use speech-recognition technology from IBM Corp. in its new lineup of 2004 vehicles. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.OnStar will use IBM's Embedded ViaVoice product along with its Websphere Voice Response software and eServer pSeries systems...
TROY, Mich.-General Motors' OnStar subsidiary selected ZK Celltest, a wireless network measurement and monitoring solutions company, to monitor performance of wireless networks in the United States and Canada.ZK Celltest is installing automated drive test sets in vehicles that drive more than 6 million miles...
Chet Huber is selling safety, security and peace of mind. And, he says, people are buying.Huber, president of General Motors' telematics company OnStar Corp., offers up plenty of evidence for his claim: a total of 2.5 million paying customers, renewal rates above 50 percent...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission Tuesday said that OnStar Corp.'s ancillary voice calling service is a mobile phone and is subject to the FCC's wireless enhanced 911 rules. But the commission then waived the rules until 2006."We agree with OnStar that the timing of the...
In the networked home of the future, wireless likely will play a major role, connecting family members to their loved ones, music collections and even microwaves. But the long-held vision of a connected home has faced plenty of stumbling blocks along the way, and...
IRVING, Texas-Public Safety Associates Inc., which develops electronic maps for wireless E911, reportedly has filed a lawsuit against General Motors Corp. accusing the company of using its system without paying.According to the lawsuit, Public Safety Associates licensed its maps to GM's OnStar telematics service...
LOS ANGELES-Approximately half of those equipped with telematics systems use the services they provide and will continue to pay for them after the typical year-long free trial period ends, according to a recent Driscoll-Wolfe survey.In a nationwide telephone survey of 600 owners of cars...
HALF MOON BAY, Calif.—Volkswagen of America Inc. announced it will begin offering OnStar telematics services in 2003."Volkswagen Telematics by OnStar" will offer safety, security and convenience features, which the car company said could include automatic notification of air-bag deployment, remote door lock and unlock,...
