ATLANTA-Cingular Wireless L.L.C. introduced a pair of Nokia Corp. handsets for its networks including the GSM/GPRS-enabled Nokia 6800 and TDMA-enabled Nokia 3560.Cingular said the color-screen Nokia 6800 is compatible with the carrier's 850 MHz and 1900 MHz GSM/GPRS network, includes flip access to a...
CRYSTAL LAKE, Ill.-IMan Inc. announced it has successfully completed testing of next-generation UMS (unlimited messaging system) text messaging.The company sent a text message that included 10l,908 characters, or about 1,729 words., which it said is equivalent to four pages of typed text. The SMS...
TAMPA, Fla.-TSI Telecommunication Services Inc. said two regional wireless carriers will use the company's technology to offer ring tones, graphics and other messaging services.Montana Wireless Inc. d.b.a. Blackfoot Communications and 3 Rivers Wireless will use TSI's Message Manager SMS service to offer the applications.
BEIJING—Hong Kong is suffering from a mysterious illness called Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). On 1 April, a rumor surfaced that the whole city would be quarantined and cut off from the outside world. This led to panic buying in supermarkets. To quickly quell...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—In the event of a terror attack on London, the government said it is planning to swamp cell-phone users with short message services (SMSs) in the style of a high-tech air raid warning. According to a civil servant, the technology exists to...
WARREN, N.J.-Mobile virtual network operator Virgin Mobile USA is looking to tap into the hype surrounding the Fox TV show "American Idol" with its own text messaging campaign.The move is a response to AT&T Wireless Services Inc., which has a major deal with Fox...
SHANGHAI, China-A short message service (SMS) advertising campaign in China garnered 200,000 messages from consumers during a 30-day period. Coke launched an SMS-based "Coke Light-Lemon Flavor" promotion in Shanghai in January.The SMS code was advertised through a scroll line on a television ad. The...
OSLO, Norway-Norwegian operator Teletopia made the surprise announcement that it would be using its GSM 1800 MHz license to develop Norway's third independent GSM service. The network, dubbed T3, will be built with Ericsson and Netel technology. Teletopia said in a press release that...
SHANGHAI, China-A short message service (SMS) advertising campaign in China garnered 200,000 messages from consumers during a 30-day period. Coke launched an SMS-based "Coke Light-Lemon Flavor" promotion in Shanghai in January.The SMS code was advertised through a scroll line on a television ad. The...
FALLS CHURCH, Va.-More than 430 billion mobile messages were sent worldwide during 2002, according to a new report from Telecom Trends International. More than 580 million users sent the messages.In 2002, 95 percent of messaging users used text-based messaging, 4 percent of users opted...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-A new report finds that text messaging could present a significant opportunity for fixed-line telephone providers.According to Frost & Sullivan, fixed-line operators should emulate mobile service functionality and maximize use of their fixed network assets to compensate for diminishing revenues."By generating only...
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...
DENVER-As he demonstrated the strength of Palm Inc.'s new product, the Tungsten W PDA phone, senior product manager Stephane Maes showed how the market has segmented over the past few years. Palm recently visited RCR Wireless News to preview the new device the company...
WOODBURY, N.Y.-Comverse Technology Inc. reported that Italian wireless operator Wind Telecomunicazioni S.p.A. launched its My Wind service based on Comverse's Who Called platform.Comverse said its platform notifies consumers by SMS of the phone number associated with not completed inbound calls, which it noted could...
CANNES, France-The 2003 GSM Association Awards were presented this week in conjunction with the 3GSM World Congress being held in Cannes, France. In the technology innovation category, Sharp Corp. won for the Sharp GX10 handheld and Telos Technology and Globecomm Systems Inc. won for...
OSLO, Norway-Norway's Ministry of Transport and Communication made a surprising intervention Thursday, halting a Norwegian Post and Telecommunications Authority (PT) ruling granting sub-operators cheap access to Telenor's short message service center (SMS-C) network.The postponement, or "delayed implementation," kills an incipient SMS price war and...
FORT MYERS, Fla.-Rural wireless operator Bluegrass Cellular signed a two-year service partnership with InterOP Technologies L.L.C. to provide SMS services on Bluegrass' network.InterOP said the partnership includes enhanced messaging service, premium content, over-the-air provisioning, inter-carrier interoperability, privacy page and real-time prepaid SMS services."Bluegrass views...
MANILA, The Philippines-Experts expect the cellular industry in the Asia-Pacific region to generally fare better this year than last year. While the telecom industries in Europe and the United States are expected to face difficult years, with markets already overcrowded and requiring consolidation, many...
CHANTILLY, Va.-The march toward global interoperable text messaging took another step forward as messaging giant LogicaCMG Wireless Networks and InphoMatch Inc. announced they will connect their inter-carrier text messaging systems.Text and multimedia messaging providers have recently begun harping on the need for global messaging...
MANCHESTER, United Kingdom-Despite economic slowing and sector saturation, profitability of some of Europe's savvy-and lucky-wireless operators is managing to improve across a desolate backdrop. Across the Continent, average revenue per user (ARPU) for most operators has been increasing at about 5 percent quarter on...
OSLO, Norway-Norway's leading operator and former telephone monopolist Telenor has suffered a series of regulatory rulings that will bite into the company's profit margins.The latest blow is a Norwegian Post and Telecommunications Authority (PT) decision that Telenor must lower the price it charges other...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-Seemingly learning little from what drove short message service (SMS) into being such an unexpected revenue earner-network interconnection-U.K. cell-phone operators are only now focusing on the fact that users of multimedia message service (MMS) will demand the ability to send pictures to...
ZUG, Switzerland-bmd wireless AG has added new features to its Personal Call Collector, a solution that records information on missed calls when a subscriber is out of coverage or not reachable.PCC notifies the subscribers of the telephone number, date and time of the attempted...
SAN MATEO, Calif.-About 7 percent of all text messages in the United States do not reach their destination, according to a new study from Keynote Systems, a finding that comes as many operators have installed text messaging interoperability and are looking to boost usage...
