BUCHAREST, Romania—EuroTel Praha, the Czech GSM operator, announced that with the help of a movable base station connected to the EuroTel network, members of the Czech army can make mobile telephone calls from Kosovo."Our engineers are ready to create and build towers wherever they...
TORONTO—Rogers AT&T Wireless has become the first wireless carrier in Canada to offer ICQ two-way short message service (SMS) messaging on its network. The deal with America Online, which owns ICQ, lets users of Rogers' services communicate with ICQ's 120 million worldwide subscribers. Financial...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa—South African mobile network operator Vodacom has launched a new prepaid tariff option offering the cheapest peak time prepaid rates in the country.The product, called SmartStep, charges prepaid calls at 2.70 rand (US$0.24) for the first minute and at 1.55 rand (US$0.14)...
LONDON—Bahrain's Batelco announced a further round of tariff cuts on its MobilePlus services. The rate cuts have been applied to a range of services, including registration, per-minute rates, monthly rental charges, short message service (SMS), mobile voice mail access and Internet over mobile services.According...
Qualcomm Inc. announced it signed memoranda of understanding to provide its Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless technology to several wireless operators around the world. BellSouth in Guatemala, Telcel-BellSouth in Venezuela and Vesper in Brazil will now receive products and services based on Qualcomm's BREW...
STAMFORD, Connecticut, United States—Sunday Communications said it will use the SmartServQ wireless short message service (SMS) system from wireless applications and services provider SmartServ Online.Sunday, which develops and provides wireless communications and data services in Hong Kong, will offer financial SMS quotes, alerts and...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—KPN Mobile, the financially troubled Dutch operator, will later this month start the first practical i-mode tests in Europe through its joint venture with Japan's NTT DoCoMo. The company said that some 60 national and international content sites would be made available...
STAMFORD, Conn.—Sunday Communications Ltd. said it will use the SmartServQ wireless short message service system from wireless applications and services provider SmartServ Online.Sunday, which develops and provides wireless communications and data services in Hong Kong, will offer financial SMS quotes, alerts and news to...
COPENHAGEN, Denmark—Lack of content will spell the demise of General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) offerings across Europe, according to a new report from Strand Consult, an independent consultancy based in Denmark. The lack of content is due to a lack of revenue sharing models...
JAKARTA, Indonesia—Malaysia's TimeCel recently launched an interactive short message service (SMS) quiz promotion. The promotion, called Juara Lagu 2001 SMS Quiz, runs from 1 to 14 December.Juara Lagu is Sistem Televisyen Malaysia Berhad's (TV3) annual song competition in which Time dotCom group, TimeCel's parent...
SAN RAFAEL, California, United States—Wireless giant Telecom Italia Mobile (TIM) plans to offer a navigation, concierge and mobile-commerce service from Autodesk Location Services, a division of Autodesk, to its subscribers this month.Autodesk said its MobileConnect service will allow TIM to offer a variety of...
PARIS—French mobile music services company Musiwap changed its name to Musiwave. The company said it replaced the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP)-focused name to better reflect the company's focus on various data technologies, such as short message service (SMS) and third-generation (3G) services.
COPENHAGEN, Denmark—Lack of content will spell the demise of GPRS offerings across Europe, according to a new report from Strand Consult, an independent consultancy based in Denmark. The lack of content is due to a lack of revenue sharing models and roaming agreements, which...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—Sweden's largest cell-phone operator Telia has decided to share a percentage of the revenues generated by content services with the developers. The new approach for the company is based on Telia offering the content developers a "direct channel" to its 3 million...
LONDON—Dunkin' Donuts, the international doughnut company, said its Italian sales increased 9 percent during the first three weeks of its short message service (SMS) mobile marketing campaign developed by AdreAct. The campaign, centered in Rome, is scheduled to run through the end of December.
HONG KONG—Hong Kong's six mobile operators announced interoperator short message service (SMS) will become available beginning 3 December.Hong Kong's telecom regulator, the Office of the Telecommunications Authority (OFTA), hailed the announcement. "The new arrangement will allow a customer to send short messages to other...
MUNICH, Germany—Polish mobile operator PTC-Era has chosen a location-based services platform from Siemens and SignalSoft for delivery via Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) and short message service (SMS). PTC-Era is the first Eastern European operator to invest in location-based services for its subscribers, according to...
DENVER, United States—Spurred by recent announcements across the globe and a bold move by AT&T Wireless Services, network operators in the United States are scampering to open up their short message service (SMS) systems in hopes recreating the tremendous success of SMS in Europe."I...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—News International, the vast media organization with outlets in most major countries, is preparing to unveil its proprietary mobile content delivery platform and a new strategy of forming direct relationships with operators, rather than working with intermediaries.The new division, labeled Omnimedia, is...
LONDON—AdreAct said Dunkin' Donuts Italy is using its technology for a wireless marketing campaign for its stores in Rome. The campaign is focused on outdoor wall ads located throughout the city from late October through the end of the year.AdreAct's mobile marketing solution deploys...
MANILA, Philippines—Smart Communications has chosen SchlumbergerSema's Java subscriber identity module (SIM) smart cards as its platform for data services, SchlumbergerSema said.Smart handles about 45 million outgoing short message service (SMS) messages per day. The new SIM technology doubles the memory available to subscribers for...
Mobile users in the United Kingdom have been put on alert. A scam is doing the rounds. Text messages are being broadcast to thousands of mobiles stating they should ring a phone number urgently. Hapless mobile owners who keep calling the number are greeted...
