LONDON—Logica announced it scored a US$2.3 million sale through its reselling deal with Ericsson.Under the deal, Ericsson sold Logica's Telepath short message service (SMS) product to a Latin American carrier. The sale marks Logica's first customer through Ericsson.Late last year, Logica and Ericsson announced...
MISSISSAUGA, Ontario, Canada—Canadian vendor Redknee said it partnered with Germany's mobile operator Viag Interkom to deploy real-time short message rating services.Redknee said Viag has enhanced its prepaid service through Redknee's OASIS line of billing and unified voice and messaging accounting products. Viag customers now...
ATLANTA—Numerex Corp. announced its new expanded long-term wireless strategy, which involves introducing products for machine-to-machine communications working over a variety of technologies.Numerex said its customers will soon be able to send machine-to-machine communications using the company's Cellemetry analog technology, SMS telemetry or—for large data...
HONG KONG-SmartServ Online Inc. announced it has joined with Hutchison Telecom to introduce Hong Kong's International Finance Express SMS service, which allows wireless users to access real-time U.S. and U.K. stock market information over mobile devices.Delayed quotes, price alerts and regular update services are...
ANNAPOLIS, Md.—Under a deal with international wireless infrastructure provider Netsize, TeleCommunication Systems Inc. said it expanded its short message service system to allow customers to send messages across the Atlantic Ocean.TCS customers in the United Kingdom will be able to send SMS messages to...
DENVER, United States—Telstra announced it deployed Logica's Foreign Subscriber Gateway, which will allow the carrier's customers to send short message service (SMS) messages across all the networks in Australia, including GSM and CDMA networks."Since this interconnection took place, there has been a 40-percent increase...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—Having planned to capitalize on the booming short message service (SMS) market by increasing its messaging charges by nearly 140 percent, Germany's T-Mobile has backed down after a wave of consumer and political protest. The company said new customers can now decide...
MANILA, Phillipines—Short message service (SMS) technology remains a dominant force in the growth of data services in Asia, despite the availability of more advanced technologies, such as the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) and General Packet Radio Service (GPRS), a recent report by London-based analyst...
WOODBURY, New York, United States—Wireless messaging company Comverse announced several major China Mobile operators have deployed its prepaid short message service (SMS) product."This prepaid SMS success is a major milestone for our growth in China," said Zeev Bregman, the company's chief executive officer. "It...
JAKARTA, Indonesia—Less than two months since the rollout of General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) services last November, Optus made Australia's first live third-generation (3G) call, the carrier said.Keir Preedy, Optus' acting managing director mobile, said: "While Australians probably won't experience 3G services until mid-2003,...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa—South African mobile network operator Vodacom has launched a new prepaid tariff option offering the cheapest peak time prepaid rates in the country.The product, called SmartStep, charges prepaid calls at 2.70 rand (US$0.24) for the first minute and at 1.55 rand (US$0.14)...
MENLO PARK, Calif.—Interwave Communications, which sells compact wireless voice communications systems and broadband wireless data networks, announced a $4.4 million contract with Micronesian carrier FSM Telecommunications Corp. to deploy its GSM-based cellular and broadband access network equipment throughout Micronesia.Interwave's system provides wireless coverage over...
Qualcomm Inc. announced it signed memoranda of understanding to provide its Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless technology to several wireless operators around the world. BellSouth in Guatemala, Telcel-BellSouth in Venezuela and Vesper in Brazil will now receive products and services based on Qualcomm's BREW...
STAMFORD, Connecticut, United States—Sunday Communications said it will use the SmartServQ wireless short message service (SMS) system from wireless applications and services provider SmartServ Online.Sunday, which develops and provides wireless communications and data services in Hong Kong, will offer financial SMS quotes, alerts and...
STAMFORD, Conn.—Sunday Communications Ltd. said it will use the SmartServQ wireless short message service system from wireless applications and services provider SmartServ Online.Sunday, which develops and provides wireless communications and data services in Hong Kong, will offer financial SMS quotes, alerts and news to...
COPENHAGEN, Denmark—Lack of content will spell the demise of General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) offerings across Europe, according to a new report from Strand Consult, an independent consultancy based in Denmark. The lack of content is due to a lack of revenue sharing models...
JAKARTA, Indonesia—Malaysia's TimeCel recently launched an interactive short message service (SMS) quiz promotion. The promotion, called Juara Lagu 2001 SMS Quiz, runs from 1 to 14 December.Juara Lagu is Sistem Televisyen Malaysia Berhad's (TV3) annual song competition in which Time dotCom group, TimeCel's parent...
COPENHAGEN, Denmark—Lack of content will spell the demise of GPRS offerings across Europe, according to a new report from Strand Consult, an independent consultancy based in Denmark. The lack of content is due to a lack of revenue sharing models and roaming agreements, which...
ARLINGTON, Va.-TeleCorp PCS Inc. introduced downloadable ring tones of popular music and high-resolution graphics that appear on the handsets display area for its SunCom subscribers suing Nokia 5165, 3360 and 8260 handsets.Subscribers can select ring tones and icons through either the SunCom Web site,...
HONG KONG—Hong Kong's six mobile operators announced interoperator short message service (SMS) will become available beginning 3 December.Hong Kong's telecom regulator, the Office of the Telecommunications Authority (OFTA), hailed the announcement. "The new arrangement will allow a customer to send short messages to other...
DENVER, United States—Spurred by recent announcements across the globe and a bold move by AT&T Wireless Services, network operators in the United States are scampering to open up their short message service (SMS) systems in hopes recreating the tremendous success of SMS in Europe."I...
TORONTO-In a joint announcement, four of Canada's wireless carriers announced they are joining forces in an effort to stimulate short messaging service use by creating an interoperable messaging service.Under the deal, subscribers of Bell Mobility, Microcell Connexions, Rogers AT&T and Telus Mobility will be...
SAN FRANCISCO-Telephia Inc. will acquire Mspect and add the company's short messaging service QoS monitoring capabilities to the Telephia Wireless Data Network and Application Performance (Wireless DNA Performance) service, which helps carriers measure and improve the speed and reliability of data services.Wireless DNA Performance...
