CANNES, France-CNN Interactive last week announced at the GSM World Congress its CNN Mobile service, a mobile telephone news and information service using a platform it co-developed with Nokia Oy. The service will allow consumers to get text-based CNN news on their handsets, and...
NEW ORLEANS-The Universal Wireless Communications Consortium and the GSM North American Alliance announced plans to work to achieve interoperability between TDMA and GSM technology, a move that could facilitate national and global consolidation among carriers with incompatible technologies and in particular allow SBC Communications...
NEW ORLEANS-1999 could be a key year for many carriers in determining if wireless users want to access the Internet from mobile devices.Nextel Communications Inc. announced it will begin rolling out limited mobile Internet access service to six East Coast markets during the fourth...
NEW ORLEANS-Lucent Technologies Inc. announced at Wireless '99 two new wireless intelligent network applications-Calling Name caller ID and a short messaging solution that allows originated transmissions on handsets, for Time Division Multiple Access and Code Division Multiple Access networks. The TDMA solutions will be...
At CTIA's Wireless '99: The Jambala Wireless Application Protocol Gateway, which will allow operators to improve and expand wireless data services to their customers, said the company.An open-application platform, the Jambala WAP Gateway is a network node that serves as a bridge between the...
CanadaCell-Loc Inc. announced it expects to receive funding from the National Research Council of Canada's Industrial Research Assistance Program to assist in continued research and development of a Code Division Multiple Access Cellocate System. The Cellocate System is capable of locating any cellular telephone...
SEATTLE-Tegic Communications announced Nov. 24 that Finland-based Benefon has licensed its T9 text input product."T9 enables users to enter text as they would on a desktop keyboard, using just one key press per letter," said Jorma Nieminen, president and co-founder of Benefon.According to Tomi...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-Cellular penetration rates now exceed 50 percent in Finland. But real penetration rates are much higher if you ignore the very old and the very young. Pretty well every Finn who can walk and talk now has a mobile phone.Amongst Finnish youth,...
ERICSSONEricsson Inc. introduced a snap-on wireless modem that allows users to browse the Internet and send or receive faxes and e-mail without cable hookups or a phone line. The DI 27 eliminates the need to connect a personal computer modem card and telephone line...
NEW YORK-Earlier this month, Charles E. Hoffman, president and chief executive officer of Rogers Cantel Inc., temporarily assumed a new identity as a retail sales clerk to gain first-hand understanding of his wireless customers.After four hours on the job, the CEO concluded, "It's obvious...
SONYSony Electronics' Personal Mobile Communications-America announced the availability of a dual-mode 800 MHz analog/Code Division Multiple Access version of its D-Wave Zuma wireless handset. The lithium ion battery provides up to 2.3 hours of talk time or up to 45 hours standby time in...
GLOBECOM SYSTEMSGlobecomm Systems Inc. announced commercial availability of its Systems Explorer II Portable Satphone, a satellite phone system that uses Integrated Services Digital Network technology. Explorer II is made in the United States and weighs 32 pounds. The system can be configured from the...
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.-Ericsson Inc. last week introduced a snap-on wireless modem that allows users to browse the Internet and send or receive faxes and e-mail without cable hookups or a phone line.The DI 27 eliminates the need to connect a personal computer modem...
To the Editor: In response to your article "Wireless data industry continues evolution," I was somewhat surprised to see a figure of 132,000 wireless data users. We have at least that many wireless data users ourselves. If they are referring to Cellular Digital Packet Data...
Metapath Software Corp. today introduced its Cerve Provisioning Manager 2.0, which will be commercially available during the fourth quarter.The Cerve product is a real-time provisioning platform designed to decrease carriers' time-to-market for new products and services and reduce operating costs. The product acts as...
DUBLIN, Ireland-One application driving the increasing amount of data traffic on mobile networks is short message service (SMS), which allows phone users to send a message from one handset to another. But while SMS is undoubtedly a useful service-and can reach subscribers in areas...
DENVER, United States-Analysts from consulting firm Strategy Analytics debated the future of data transmission over cellular networks in a June conference call, concluding that while current usage levels are low in both Europe and the United States, there is great potential for such services.In...
PeruPageMart Wireless Inc. teamed with Peruvian paging carrier Uniworld S.A., to make Peru the first South American market to join PageMart's network. Service is expected to begin by the fourth quarter. In the past year, PageMart's network was expanded into Mexico, Guatemala, Panama, Costa...
The European wireless community has been reasonably successful at being able to feel superior to its U.S. counterparts. Europe has a unified digital standard. It offers short message services. It introduced introduced PCN.But today I feel equal. A study by Strategy Analytics called Creating...
China Telecom (Hong Kong) in late April announced the purchase of Jiangsu Mobile Communication for US$2.9 billion. China Telecom said the purchase gives it close to 4.8 million cellular subscribers in China, according to The Wall Street Journal. Jiangsu, one of China's largest and...
NokiaGSM phonesNokia Corp. introduced three new GSM (Global System for Mobile communications) phones operating on the 900 MHz frequency band. The Nokia 8810 has a protective slide cover and is accented with a touch of silver. It offers built-in data communications capabilities with infrared...
Northern Telecom Ltd. and Matra Communication launched a joint-venture subsidiary in France. Matra Nortel Communications will provide French customers with one-stop access to a range of integrated solutions, including multimedia products, said the companies. The company is expected to begin operations in May once...
BellSouth Wireless Inc. sold the majority share of its Cellemetry Data Service to NumereX Corp.Under the terms of the agreement, the two companies will form a joint venture called Cellemetry L.L.C., to which NumereX will make an initial in-kind cash contribution of $7.5 million...
Global System for Mobile communications (GSM) now accounts for 31 percent of the world's wireless market, and the GSM industry is well on course for the `"early achievement" of 100 million customers during 1998, said Adriana Nugter, chairman of the GSM MoU Association, in...
