MEXICO CITY-Mexican mobile operator Grupo Iusacell said its customers can now send short message service messages to rival operators Telecel's and Unefon's handsets in the United States, Canada and Peru. Iusacell said subscribers of its SMS service, called ReK2, can send text messages to...
BERNE, Switzerland-The European Telecommunications Standards Institute said it signed a cooperation agreement with the Fixed Line Multimedia Messaging Service Forum to cooperate on multimedia messaging for fixed-line subscribers starting next year.The groups said they are committed to promoting and supporting an industry standard for...
WOODBURY, N.Y.-Comverse announced the Netherlands' Telfort has purchased services from its Total Communication portfolio for use with its mobile network. Telfort plans to use Comverse's InSight platform and services, Multimedia Messaging Service Center (MMSC), Intelligent Short Message Service Center (ISMSC), Mobile Data Gateway (MDG),...
With upbeat third-quarter results snapping several quarters of melancholy, wireless players may be about to turn their purse strings loose. The good news is infectious, touching not only carriers, but also equipment vendors, chipmakers and startups that are basking again in venture capital. Those...
HELSINKI, Finland-Tecnomen said it will deliver a voicemail and unified messaging system to MTC-Vodafone's new GSM network in Bahrain through a contract with Siemens AG. The value of the deal was not disclosed.The system will provide unified messaging, wireless e-mail, several voicemail services and...
RALEIGH, N.C.-Sony Ericsson Corp. said it has launched a combined GPRS and Wi-Fi PC card known as GC79, which enables notebooks users to access both 802.11b and GPRS networks in hot spots and wide area networks.The card operates on the 900, 1800 and 1900...
The California wildfires that have scorched more than 500,000 acres and claimed at least 15 lives have also had a limited effect on wireless services in the region.Cingular Wireless L.L.C., which also carries T-Mobile USA Inc.'s traffic on its network in the state, reported...
PRINCETON, N.J.-Wireless solutions provider TellShare announced the launch of mLogs, a free audio/video/photo blogging service that allows users to put images from their camera-enabled cell phones directly onto their Web-based mLogs at mlogs.com. The service allows users to upload images, short message service and...
SEATTLE-Mobile application company Mobliss announced two new marketing campaigns around its premium short message service and downloadable mobile services. Fox Broadcasting Co. will offer premium SMS and downloadable services called "Joe 2 Go" that promote its new TV show "The Next Jo Millionaire: An...
LAS VEGAS-Digit Wireless said its Fastap technology was used by the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association at its keynote session at the I.T. show in Las Vegas.The company said CTIA Chief Executive Officer Tom Wheeler used a Panasonic GD87 demonstration model with the Fastap...
LAS VEGAS-Audiovox Communications Corp. is introducing its CDM-9900 series of wireless handsets featuring video capabilities at the CTIA Wireless IT & Entertainment show in Las Vegas. "The CDM-9900 and 9950 are the first handsets to offer both video and still photography in the same...
ANN ARBOR, Mich.-Legend Mobile said it has entered into an agreement with LogoManager of Cambridge, United Kingdom, for the development of branded mobile products based on certain properties under license to Legend. The first product expected from the new agreement is AlphaMobile MB based...
FORT MYERS, Fla.-InterOP Technologies L.L.C. recently announced it has signed multi-year service partnerships with Cellcom, First Cellular of Southern Illinois and thumb Cellular to provide short message service short-code functionality.InterOP's short-code platform features a Web-based architecture that allows carriers to securely create, edit and...
WASHINGTON D.C.-Growth continues in the wireless industry, according to the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association's newly released mid-year 2003 data survey results.The survey showed data service revenues jumped 70 percent from the year-ago period to reach $700 million for the first half of this...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-InfoSpace Inc. unveiled its new Modalyst platform, a set of development tools and technologies the company said will allow those interested in selling wireless applications to do so more quickly.In its unveiling, InfoSpace released the first tools for the platform, which are designed...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc. said it has released a new product known as Global Applications Management Architecture to help operators develop and deliver new data services.The company said GAMA is based what it calls a service delivery paradigm, which "enables applications to access common...
ULYSSES, Kan.-Rural telecommunications provider WestLink Communications signed a deal with Nokia Corp. to replace the company's existing GSM network with Nokia's GSM/GPRS/EDGE core and radio access network equipment and expand WestLink's coverage footprint by as much as 70 percent. The deal, which calls for...
Out of the ashes of failed Wi-Fi startup Mobility Networks rises a new effort, Azaire Networks Inc., a company with much of the same technology and staffing but with a slightly different-and wider-business focus."We're not just focused on wireless anymore," said Naveen Dhar, vice...
Out of the ashes of failed Wi-Fi startup Mobility Networks rises a new effort, Azaire Networks Inc., a company with much of the same technology and staffing but with a slightly different-and wider-business focus."We're not just focused on wireless anymore," said Naveen Dhar, vice...
BEIJING-Schlumberger Smart Cards & Terminals said it will supply Zhejiang Unicom with Simgo, its Java-based over-the-air service management solution. Zhejiang Unicom will be the first China Unicom subsidiary to commercialize its OTA services on 64K subscriber identity module cards.The technology will allow the operator...
European operator MmO2 reported strong customer and data growth across its operations at the end of June. The mobile carrier added 504,000 customers, a 2.8-percent increase over the previous quarter, in saturated markets and boosted average revenue per user in the United Kingdom and...
WOODBURY, N.Y.-Comverse announced the addition of the Notify Me call management solution to its ImPact product portfolio. According to Comverse, Notify Me can increase average revenue per user by generating new operator revenue from uncompleted call attempts. The service uses short message service to...
Telemarketing calls and junk mail have evolved. Now that consumers are used to dodging junk e-mail and Internet pop-up ads on their desktops and wireless messaging and mobile marketing are becoming more mainstream, mobile phones are quickly becoming the next vehicle of choice for...
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. said it won $70 million worth of GSM network expansion contracts from the Philippines' Smart Communications Inc. Deliveries of equipment and services have already begun, the Finnish supplier said.Smart said the contracts will help it address its objectives for capacity expansion,...
