Adoption of mobile data in Asia will require restructuring the industry's poor and declining economics.Throughout Asia, many markets are saddled with too many competitors investing furiously to meet pent-up customer demand. Collectively, this level of investment is not economically justifiable. Moreover, the ownership structure...
WOODBURY, New York, United States—Comverse said Guangdong Mobile Communications selected it to expand its Intelligent Short Message Service Center. The new agreement increases Guangdong Mobile's capacity to serve 14 million busy hour short messages in 14 cities throughout the Guangdong province."Millions of China's 120...
BEIJING—Beijing-based telecom consultancy BDA China released a report called "Mobile Data in China," which it claims is the most comprehensive analysis of the sector ever undertaken. According to BDA China, the country' s two mobile operators reported a combined total of 1.5 billion...
OSLO, Norway—Telenor Mobile said it began several location-based short message service (SMS) services through an agreement with Pocket IT. Positioning data from Telenor Mobile's network will be combined with map data from Pocket IT to help consumers find retailers and other locations.One service offers...
STAMFORD, Connecticut, United States—SmartServ Online announced it will provide its SmartServQ wireless short message service (SMS) application to a major wireless service provider in Hong Kong.SmartServQ provides subscribers with services that include access to equity quotes, personalized alerts, customizable watch lists and financial news...
LONDON—According to the GSM Association, about three-quarters of a billion short message service (SMS) messages are sent out every day, a soaring number for the simple wireless application."GSM Text is a global communications phenomena—but SMS has helped create a new global language," said Robert...
HELSINKI, Finland—China Mobile plans to launch an electronic directory service called Sonera Finder for its customers in Peking. Newpalm Information Technology and Sonera Info Communications delivered the service.Sonera Finder provides international contact data via Wireless Application Protocol (WAP), short message service (SMS) and the...
NIEUWEGEIN, The Netherlands—Philippino mobile operator Globe Telecom contracted with CMG Wireless Data Solutions for additional storage and a forwarding facility for its popular short message service (SMS).Globe's SMS volume reached more than 70 million messages each day in the first half of 2001, a...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—The 20 million users of Hotmail e-mail services in Europe might shortly be able to receive their messages via short message service (SMS) following a deal between MIGway, a new joint venture between TDC Mobile International, a Denmark-based cell-phone operator, and CMG...
LONDON—Mobile virtual network operator Virgin Mobile launched a new range of short message service and Wireless Application Protocol (WAP)-based wireless Internet applications built on InfoSpace's wireless platform, the companies announced.The deal is an extension of a previous agreement between the two companies. In February,...
WOODBURY, N.Y.—Enhanced messaging company Comverse, a unit of Comverse Technology Inc., announced the sale of its Intelligent Short Message Service Center to two South American wireless carriers, news that comes just a day after Merrill Lynch downgraded its expectations for the company, sending Comverse's...
BEIJING—Twenty million of China's 123 million mobile-phone users regularly use short message service (SMS) to send each other text messages. China Mobile, the country's biggest operator, predicted that 10 billion messages will be sent this year.Sending an SMS is four times cheaper than a...
BEIJING—Moxze released a new interactive short message service (SMS) game for Chinese mobile users, hoping to tap into the potentially huge Chinese mobile market.Moxze's game, Sheiya, which means "Who is it?" in Mandarin, allows players to attack friends or strangers through SMS messages, thereby...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—The 50 short message service (SMS) content channels being offered by the German cell-phone operator D2 Vodafone are being seen as the precursor for other service providers looking to encourage mobile data traffic use. The Yankee Group claimed that D2 is the...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, United States—In an effort to offer businesses a seamless messaging and billing service, MobileSys is adding TSI Telecommunication Services' short message service (SMS) manager technology to its data platform. The companies said the platform will allow business users to send SMS...
BEIJING—Moxze Ltd. released a new interactive short message service game for Chinese mobile users, hoping to tap into the potentially huge Chinese mobile market.Moxze's game, Sheiya, which means "Who is it?" in Mandarin, allows players to attack friends or strangers through SMS messages, thereby...
FRAMINGHAM, Massachusetts, United States—NMS Communications said the Philippines' IdeaWurx selected its technology to power a short message service (SMS) technology used by Globe Telecom and Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT).IdeaWurx's technology allows messages to be created via voice prompts over the telephone and...
KIEV, Ukraine—The second-largest Ukrainian carrier Kyivstar is placing corporate bonds worth 86.95 million hrivnas (US$16.3 million). The placement will continue until 17 October.The bonds are issued in documentary and non-documentary form and mature in six, 12 and 18 months. The interest rate was fixed...
SAN DIEGO—Qualcomm Inc. said it has a mobile station modem chipset and software solution for third-generation cdma2000 1x voice and short message service handsets for prepaid subscribers."Leveraging existing MSM5105 voice and data-capable terminal designs, handset manufacturers and operators will be able to address new...
IRVINE, Calif.—Toshiba America Electronic Components said it has developed a family of 64 megabit Pseudo Static Random Access Memories for higher-density memory in the next generation of wireless devices.The company said its PSRAM devices support access times of 80 or 85 nanoseconds and are...
WCitiesLocation-based information service provider WCities launched a geo-coded wireless service that provides location-specific information to individual users' cell phones. According to Tan Rasab, the company's chief executive officer, with the service, cell-phone and PDA users can find whatever they're looking for anywhere in the...
NEW YORK-Trivnet, an Israeli software provider, has developed a system designed to answer questions and eliminate concerns that have slowed adoption of the wireless phone as a sales transaction device.Consumers are concerned about inadequate security and its potential to permit fraudulent use of their...
NORTH HOLLYWOOD, Calif.-Walt Disney Internet Group announced two major content distribution deals-moves that came just one week after the company announced a distribution agreement with Taiwan Cellular Corp.-proof Walt Disney is moving rapidly into the worldwide wireless Web industry.Last week Walt Disney Internet...
They go by all sorts of names-clearinghouses, hubs and gateways-and they represent companies' attempts at nailing down the precise formula for a business model aimed at nurturing the wireless Internet marketplace. This business model, the companies say, will tear down the wall between carriers...
