WOODBURY, N.Y.-Comverse said Israel's Matav Digital has chosen its e-mail server to replace and expand its current unified communication services offering.Matav Digital's users with messaging services supported by the interactive TV platform, iTVGate, including SMS messaging, picture, e-mail and multimedia messaging over digital TV...
FORNEBU, Norway-Norway's Telenor said it considering filing a complaint to the country's Ministry of Communication regarding a decision from the Norwegian Post and Telecommunications Authority. The arbitration case decision concerns access for Teletopia to connect to a Telenor Mobil short message service switch.PT determined...
SHANGHAI, China-Motorola unveiled today in Shanghai, China, eight new handsets that feature EMS and MMS messaging technologies; Java capabilities; support for GPRS, EDGE and UMTS/WCDMA; color screens; and polyphonic speakers.Included in Motorola's 2003 lineup are:the Motorola E365 features an embedded camera;the Motorola V600 also...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-The booming market in premium rate short message service (SMS) looks likely to be hit by new regulations if proposals from the Icstis regulatory trade body are accepted. The existing guidelines, which were launched only in May 2002, appear to have failed...
MANILA, The Philippines-The Chairman of the House committee on transportation and communications of the Philippine Congress is reported to have said he will block any move to impose taxes on short message services (SMS), more popularly known among Filipinos as "text messaging." This came...
WOODBURY, N.Y.-Comverse Technology Inc. released a new wireline SMS product, which the company said will allow wireline telephone subscribers to exchange short text messages with one another and with mobile subscribers.Separately, the company released version 2.0 of its Multimedia Messaging Service Center, which includes...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-Much to the annoyance of those promoting competing technologies, GSM continues to grow in worldwide dominance. While the reasons behind its original success have now largely been lost in the fading memories of retired executives from the wireless industry, its future is...
MANILA, The Philippines-Philippine mobile operator Smart Communications and America Online (AOL) have forged a deal that will provide the operator access to an instant messaging service known as ICQ (pronounced "I seek you"). The ICQ messaging service offers Smart's nearly 8 million subscribers the...
GOLDEN, Colo.-nReach will deploy new digital vending ports, private label Web sites and prepaid card locations in seven wireless retail chains in the U.S. on Nov. 29.With the new solution, consumers can buy mobile phone content in-store or on the Web with an nReach...
NEW YORK-Telemac Corp., Los Angeles, said it has received a patent covering a method of prepaid wireless services "where the accounting functions are performed within network-edge devices, i.e. mobile phones, personal digital assistants and subscriber identity module cards, and the tariff data within the...
In spite of mammoth debt, operators are beginning to loosen their purse strings to buy equipment again, according to a report by market research firm Dell'Oro Group.The report said UMTS equipment revenue jumped fourfold to about $800 million in the third quarter of this...
Once the domain of top secret British agents with licenses to kill, wireless handsets that include cameras are now available to the common man as wireless carriers and handset manufacturers continue to slowly introduce the devices.Like most high-tech electronic equipment, these hybrids got their...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Wireless application and entertainment company Aspiro announced it has applied for protection from its creditors through bankruptcy, and as part of its restructuring efforts will sell its text messaging network business to mBlox. The company said it will continue its operations during the...
CANNES, France-GartnerG2, the research and advisory arm of Gartner Group, said short message service (SMS) is potentially a powerful marketing tool in Europe, with SMS use now exceeding Internet use in Europe.According to research the company presented at the Gartner Symposium/Itxpo in Cannes, France,...
CANNES, France-GartnerG2, the research and advisory arm of Gartner Group, said short message service is potentially a powerful marketing tool in Europe, with SMS use now exceeding Internet use in Europe.According to research the company presented at the Gartner Symposium/Itxpo in Cannes, France, more...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-As many mobile operators around the world install and trial their multimedia message service (MMS) infrastructure, those that have launched services have already commenced a pricing war. Two of Europe's biggest operators, Orange and MmO2, which launched their service a few weeks...
MELBOURNE, Australia-The explosive growth of short message service (SMS) in Australia has prompted the Australian Communications Authority (ACA) to consider reserving new telephone number ranges for SMS. At the moment, users can send and receive SMS messages using 04 digital mobile numbers.The proposal is...
NEW DELHI, India-Sri Lankan operator Celltel Lanka has launched a set of secure m-commerce services on a short message service (SMS) platform.The new service called CellWallet stores encrypted electronic information pertaining to a user's credit cards, debit cards and bank accounts, and allows a...
LAS VEGAS-Mobile content provider Cellus USA announced nReach will sell Cellus wireless content through its Mobile Content Kiosk.The kiosks allow consumers to order wireless content, including ringtones, logos, pictures, greetings, SMS games and sports scores, for instant delivery to their wireless phones. Customers will...
NEW DELHI, India-India has become the fourth country in the Asia-Pacific region to have GSM players offering multimedia messaging service (MMS), with BPL Mobile launching the new service in Mumbai, India's commercial capital.So far, MMS has been offered by operators in Singapore, Hong Kong...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-South African mobile network operator MTN claimed it has paid back more than US$370,000 in funds to prepaid subscribers since the relaunch in June of it payback incentive scheme. The paybacks include monthly "pay backs" received by subscribers in airtime and short...
BEIJING-Nokia has launched its new 7650 handset in China, just weeks after Sony Ericsson started selling its MMS-capableT68ie model. China Mobile will launch its MMS service in major Chinese cities later this month. Beginning next year, all Nokia handsets will be equipped with MMS...
TORONTO-Canadian and U.S. wireless carriers are planning soon to offer text messaging services across all their networks.Since April, Canadian cell-phone subscribers have been able to send text messages to users on any of the four national networks, after Bell Mobility, Microcell, Rogers AT&T Wireless...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-Adding to the worries of potential third-generation (3G) operators are announcements from the two public broadcasting organizations in Germany, ARD and ZDF, that they want to levy a monthly license fee on users of 3G handsets.The two broadcasters claim the high-speed data...
