BEIJING-While China's mobile-phone subscribers nearly doubled to 85.26 million last year, the country's paging manufacturers and operators fought a rearguard battle. With continuing price drops in handsets and mobile services, more pager users are switching to mobile phones.The number of subscribers at China's major...
Wireless Web site enabler 2Roam Inc. announced several new deals last week, one of which the company hopes will propel it into new and more profitable markets in the Asia-Pacific and European regions."In the last 90 days, 2Roam has really expanded its business," said...
ATLANTA-Seagull, a provider of e-business enabling software, announced a partnership with Symbol Technologies, a supplier of rugged wireless devices and wireless network solutions.As partners, Seagull and Symbol will be able to offer a single solution for many markets including warehouse and distribution, transportation, retail...
NEW YORK - Although widespread adoption of wireless data remains more goal than reality, network operators, device makers and wireless applications developers have not wasted their efforts building the foundation for its eventual surge, said Jason Tsai, wireless services and data analyst for C.E....
Like the old dog that would not die, digital subscriber line and cable services continue to dwarf wireless in the house of the end user. Yet wireless, the new dog that is at once nimble and naive, must frail aimlessly about for a share...
MONTREAL-Canadian personal communications services provider Microcell Telecommunications Inc. released fourth-quarter 2000 results showing the company added 134,654 customers to its Fido wireless service, bringing its total customer base to 922,527 subscribers. Of its customers, 51 percent were reported as postpaid with the remaining 49...
FT. COLLINS, Colo.-Marking the opening of its first retail store in Ft. Collins, Colo., Verizon Wireless presented a $2,500 donation to the Domestic Abuse Response Team in Larimer County."Verizon Wireless is committed to making a difference in the communities in which we do business,"...
TheRightSizeTheRightSize Inc. released its new Rosetta Stone wireless software for the Palm family of personal digital assistants, which the company said uses information from online retailers to help shoppers search for their favorite brand and style of clothes. The service also can find sizes...
NEW YORK-AirMedia has embarked on a common carrier strategy for Internet content provision with the late January introduction of its new "Wireless Hub.""This will be a worldwide automated marketplace, with a back end and front end to enable mobile content and services," David S....
NEW YORK-A host of players behind the scenes is pulling the complex strings required to amplify and simplify the end-user experience with billing and customer relationship management for the increasing variety of wireless services.With six or seven operators in each major market, price no...
AetherAether Systems Inc. introduced version 1.1 of its ScoutWeb software component of the ScoutWare product suite. The new version supports SSL encryption as well as various other levels of encryption security, enabling users to access Web content and applications via standard SSL connections that...
WASHINGTON-The wireless industry last week suffered two stunning legal setbacks in health-related litigation, capped by the decision of wealthy Baltimore superlawyer Peter Angelos to take control of an $800 million mobile phone-cancer lawsuit in Maryland.It was an unprecedented week that left the industry in...
LAS VEGAS-Whether we like it or not, most of us are plugged in, turned on or otherwise connected to everyone else on this planet. But in spite of these universal ties, there is growing interest in maintaining individuality, or so it seemed at the...
The Organization for the Promotion and Advancement of Small Telecommunications Companies, whose members often provide wireless as well as wireline service to rural America, is calling for the 107th Congress to repeal the estate tax. The estate-or death-tax was made a permanent part of...
TOKYO-KDDI, the sole cdmaOne operator in Japan, has been expanding its international roaming services, fully using its universally standardized cdmaOne technology.In January, KDDI launched international roaming services in Canada in cooperation with Telus Mobility, a major Canadian carrier. Canada will become the fifth country...
Dear Editor: Your Dec. 11 piece, "TSR closes operations," was interesting in light of what appears to be a total lack of information from actual TSR management. As a former 24-year employee at TSR, I would like to make some comments about the article.For Metrocall...
Almost a month after the apparent demise of TSR Wireless L.L.C., which was the nation's fourth-largest paging carrier before it suddenly closed its doors and filed for bankruptcy, there is little concrete information about why and how the company moved from what appeared to...
NEW YORK-Before mobile commerce can reach the goal of providing a value-added revenue stream for wireless carriers, it must fulfill its potential as a value-added service for their customers."Today m-commerce is a subset of e-commerce, and it's having problems. It's not taking off. You've...
A week after filing for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in New Jersey, TSR Wireless L.L.C., the nation's fourth largest paging carrier, announced Friday it will continue to keep its network up and running.According to Friday's press release-the company's first public statement since it shut its...
Logistics services provider CellStar Corp. has agreed to sell Motorola's wireless phones and accessories to carriers and dealers in the United States on terms that could rake in revenues in excess of $325 million for CellStar.The deal covers a wide array of handsets offered...
TSR Wireless L.L.C., the nation's largest privately held paging carrier, filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy late Friday afternoon in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Jersey in Newark.Chapter 7 bankruptcy is the most severe type of bankruptcy, which calls for the...
NEW YORK-The potential mobile-commerce revolution may well be in the intensive care unit, "but we're not ready to declare it dead," said David Bishop, director of wireless/mobile services for The Yankee Group, on Nov. 29.By year-end 2005, domestic carriers could realize a collective $3.7...
Like chromosomes in the human body, the so-called Generations X and Y will wrestle for the kind of wireless features the automotive industry should provide in next-generation vehicles.Generation X (ages 24 to 34) comprising busy, work-oriented and pragmatic customers will opt for time savings...
Verizon Wireless announced plans to test its cdma2000 1xEV technology. The company said the technology can support a high-speed data rate of 2.4 Megabits per second in its existing spectrum and on current base station equipment.Singapore's M1 selected Nokia to replace its current CDMA...
