ATLANTA, United States—U.S. company Inet Technologies said it deployed its short message service tracking and billing technology for Globe Telecom in the Philippines. The solution will help Globe validate interconnection billing for SMS messages.
ROCHESTER, N.Y.—Performance Technologies Inc. introduced its SEGway IP-STP, an SS7 signaling router that allows carriers to perform traditional STP functions over IP networks."Our SEGway IP-STP can concentrate SS7 traffic to offload the demands of existing STPs, or it can bypass the STP entirely to...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—Looking to build on the runaway success of short message service (SMS), two more European mobile operators have joined in the rush to be among the first to launch multimedia messaging services (MMS). Vodafone Telecel in Portugal and Telecom Italia Mobile (TIM)...
HONG KONG—MSN announced a new initiative to bring its Hotmail Web-based e-mail service to mobile phones in Asia. MSN has partnered with U.S.-based Mobileway to allow mobile operators in Asia to offer Hotmail via two-way short message service beginning in mid-year.The agreement follows successful...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Wireless giant Ericsson continued to lead the multimedia messaging service infrastructure industry through its new deal with T-Mobile. T-Mobile will use Ericsson's MMS center to launch services in its Hungary market and plans to roll out similar services in its German, Austrian and...
NEW DELHI, India—Indian GSM players this week renewed their attempts to stall the rollout of CDMA services—under the name of "limited mobility" wireless local loop (WLL)—by fixed service providers, by approaching courts to quash the government decision.The Telecom Dispute Settlement Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT) and...
STAMFORD, Conn.—SmartServ Online Inc. said it will partner with "one of the largest wireless carriers in North America" to offer the carrier's subscribers access to financial content and the ability to use SMS to monitor global markets.The "Powered by SmartServ" application will allow subscribers...
BOSTON—TDK Systems announced it has added three new software applications for its Bluetooth products: TDK Mobile, TDK Dialer and TDK blueDial, which all allow users to back up and transfer data stored in mobile phones.With TDK Mobile, users can control and manage Bluetooth-enabled mobile...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—The boom in European short message service (SMS) traffic is forecast to peak in 2003 as other messaging technology bites into the service from 2004 onward, claims new research from Forrester. The company said that as the decline in SMS traffic occurs,...
JAKARTA, Indonesia—General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) technology will not bring killer data applications, at least during this year in Indonesia, according to industry executives.Rudiantara, head of the country's cellular association, said Indonesia's cellular subscribers experienced many new short message service (SMS)-based applications last year,...
MONTREAL—SMS content aggregator and SMS operator Atlas Telecom Mobile (ATM) has licensed Oz Communications Inc.'s Mobile Communities Solution to power its SMS-based content services. Specifically, ATM will use Oz's MCS technology to provide information and new alerts via SMS for this summer's Soccer World...
ORLANDO—Vialto Corp. released it Vialto Server for Carriers, which allows carriers to offer subscription services to business professionals.Vialto Server for Carriers, which complements the Vialto Server for Enterprises, allows employees to wirelessly interact with corporate applications outside the office. It includes voice commands and...
MANILA, The Philippines—Philippine telecom watchdog National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) said it might not be advisable to impose additional taxes on short messaging services (SMS), as this could lead to a public protest. NTC Commissioner Eliseo Rio Jr. said a proposal to impose taxes on...
BEDMINSTER, N.J.—Verizon Wireless said it will install a new short message service gateway from Motorola Inc. to power its Mobile Messenger service."As the nation's largest wireless carrier, Verizon Wireless will provide new interactive messaging services to its customers, and the SMS Gateway will serve...
ATLANTA—Wireless platform provider Air2Web will partner with the National Football League to broadcast the 2002 NFL draft on wireless devices.Air2Web will provide free up-to-the minute news on draft picks as well as news regarding teams, rounds and positions to WAP-enabled phones, devices capable of...
ROME—The market for messaging services continues to lead the development of the worldwide wireless data industry, as shown by several news announcements.First, the GSM Association released figures showing the massive and continuing success of short message services throughout the world. According to the group,...
Send press releases of new products for consideration for future "Products" updates to Global Wireless Products Handsets/devicesNokiaNokia introduced several new handsets that feature multimedia messaging service (MMS) capability, Java ...
HELSINKI, Finland—Norwegian telecom operator Telenor's competitors in Scandinavia are puzzled by the Oslo-based operator's decision to price at the high end for multimedia messaging services (MMS). Telenor intends to charge MMS users a price of US$1.40 to send images and pictures via their cell...
MANILA, The Philippines—Leading Philippine wireless operator Smart Communications and Yahoo Southeast Asia, a leading online and wireless service provider in the region, announced the availability of Yahoo Mail for SMS to mobile-phone subscribers. Smart mobile-phone subscribers can now access Yahoo e-mail directly from their...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.—Following the massive interest in cross-carrier text messaging in the United States, Motorola Inc. released its own interoperability product.Motorola's new Short Messaging Service Gateway, which is an extension of the company's SMS center product, routes messages from one carrier to another, or...
VILNIUS, Lithuania—Lithuanian operator Omnitel has begun a short message service parking payment service, allowing postpaid subscribers to pay for parking with mobile phones.Users send specific messages to a short number when wanting to pay for parking after placing stickers purchased from Omnitel in their...
MobileSpring Inc. and InphoMatch Inc., rival vendors for short message service interoperability solutions, have been working together during the past few months to ensure their cross-carrier messaging systems are themselves interoperable.The teaming comes as no real surprise. By making sure their systems can work...
Nearly six months after United Kingdom-based Virgin Group and Sprint PCS announced they formed Virgin Mobile USA, the U.S. wireless industry continues to wait for the launch of the highly touted mobile virtual network operator venture.But, since the announcement last October, there has been...
