MIAMI-Latin American content provider Blah! said it will open a North American office to seek out business with U.S. wireless carriers. Blah! recently signed a deal with Verizon Wireless to offer its content and community messaging services.Founded in June 2000 in Rio de Janeiro,...
DRAPER, Utah-Broadband Central announced plans to launch more than 700 new 802.11 high-speed Internet access points, or Blue Zones, throughout seven western states.A minimum of 100 Blue Zones will be deployed in each of Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon and Washington, offering...
The legacy Mal Gurian leaves the wireless industry will be found as much in the generations of people he has influenced as in the technological innovations he has shaped.Gurian is perhaps best known for his role as president of Oki Telecom, the first cellular...
TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo Inc. said it will begin taking orders for its Wristomo wristwatch-style PHS phone beginning May 7 exclusively through a wristomo.com Web site with customer delivery expected to take around seven working days.The carrier said the waterproof phone would be compatible with its...
LONDON-MmO2 and Seven have partnered to launch xmail, a new mobile e-mail service for wireless devices.The application offers over-the-air synchronization on Microsoft Pocket PC-enabled devices, and therefore does not require a cradle for synchronization. The product is available for a free 10-day trial period...
LONDON-O2 and SEVEN have partnered to launch xmail, a new mobile e-mail service for wireless devices.The application offers over-the-air synchronization on Microsoft Pocket PC-enabled devices, and therefore does not require a cradle for synchronization. The product is available for a free 10-day trial period...
WASHINGTON-The wireless-telecom industry slump has hit its trade association.The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association confirmed on Thursday that it is laying off 9 percent of its staff effective May 31 although the impacted staff members were notified in late March.Sources said the cuts encompass...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-Alltel Corp. reported $1.1 billion in wireless service revenues during the first quarter of 2003, which was a 17-percent increase compared with the $944 million the telecommunications provider posted during the first quarter of 2002. Wireless income also increased seven percent from...
DALLAS, Texas-Texas Instruments Inc. said it earned $117 million in the first quarter in contrast with a $38-million loss in the year-ago period, signaling an uptake in its semiconductor business.The company earned seven cents a share in the quarter compared with a net loss...
BEIJING—In a report entitled "Management and Development of China Telecom in 2003," equipment manufacturer Zhongxing Telecom (ZTE) predicted fixed-line carrier China Telecom will adopt W-CDMA technology as its third-generation (3G) standard instead of the homegrown TD-SCDMA technology. China Telecom would build a trial network...
NEW ORLEANS--The second day of keynote speeches at this year's Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association show in New Orleans had a similar theme to last year's event with wireless local area network technology dominating much of the conversation as well as repeat appearances by...
MILAN, Italy-Telecom Italia and parent Olivetti announced a plan to merge, in an attempt to simplify the group's complicated ownership. Olivetti will offer seven shares for each Telecom Italia share. Olivetti holds 55 percent of Telecom Italia, which owns wireless subsidiary Telecom Italia Mobile,...
ORLANDO, Fla.-Data on Air Inc., which for the past seven years has worked in wireless data networking, carrier billing, provisioning, WAP hosting and reporting, announced plans to change its name and business direction in order to focus on multimedia content.Data on Air will change...
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.- Bill Nguyen, the entrepreneur who sold Onebox.com (now Openwave Systems Inc.) to Phone.com for $850 million, is back at the head of wireless e-mail company Seven, just in time to see the company score European wireless giant Orange plc as a...
CANNES, France-Operators and vendors alike expressed a quiet optimism for the upcoming year as the GSM community gathered for its annual global meeting last week in the south of France. The event focused less on when wideband CDMA launches would occur in Europe and...
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-Wireless corporate e-mail company Seven announced it scored Orange as a new customer, and that the carrier will offer Seven's unique network-based corporate information product in the United Kingdom.Seven's service, dubbed Office Freedom by Orange, gives mobile workers wireless access to Microsoft...
Schooling the everyday Joe in the benefits of wireless has long been a major task before the industry, and wireless players have funneled millions of dollars into the effort. Wireless data is a hard sell, so the argument goes, and the technology's value must...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-BellSouth's Latin American operation saw a fall in income of US$2.23 billion in 2002, a 23-percent drop compared with the previous year. These results form 10 percent of BellSouth Corporation's total income, and reflect the figures of seven of the 11 countries...
DENVER, United States-Major European carriers are conducting Enhanced Data Networks for Global Evolution (EDGE) trials, highlighting a major triumph for a technology once proclaimed dead.Burdened by the cost of third-generation (3G) licenses and technical hiccups with launching Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) networks and...
DALLAS-Texas Instruments Inc. suffered a fourth-quarter loss of $589 million, or 34 cents a share, on revenue of $2.1 billion. This contrasts with a $116 million loss, or seven cents a share, last year.However, the company's shares rose because of TI's sales leap to...
MOSCOW-The Russian Ministry for Anti-Monopolist Policy (MAP), which last year ordered the major national communications holding company Svyazinvest to dispose of non-core wireless assets, changed its mind and allowed the holding to play a role in the mobile market.In February 2002, Svyazinvest completed the...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-The National Telecommunications Council in Ecuador (Conatel) did not award a new personal communications services (PCS) license to the consortium headed by Andinatel as expected last week.The regional state-owned company was the only participant in the auction and offered more than the...
AT&T Wireless Services Inc. said it will push back the launch of its advanced W-CDMA network by six months and scale down the coverage area to four cities.The carrier said it will deploy a W-CDMA network in San Francisco, San Diego, Seattle and Dallas...
