Chris Gent has had quite a year.For the chief executive of Vodafone Group plc, 2000 began with a hostile takeover of Mannesmann AG, parent of its rival Orange plc, and continued with a spending spree for third-generation licenses across Europe. The year also marked...
While the latest wireless handsets feature such technological advancements as wireless Internet access, short message service and ever-decreasing size, the power sources needed to supply those functions have been left out of the limelight. Battery manufacturers are quick to point out that without the...
NEW YORK-In this year's RCR Wireless News Major Players Vendors listing, Nokia Corp. and Ericsson Inc. each moved up a notch, rising to first and second place respectively among equipment vendors that are net income leaders.Lucent Technologies Inc., which had previously topped the charts...
NEW YORK-The major players' rankings reflect the dynamic environment of telecommunications as some stalwarts held their ground, some newcomers joined the group, while still others showed substantial rises or falls in various categories.AT&T Wireless Group, listed this year as an entity distinct from its...
Subscription fraud is as old as the wireless industry itself, and responsible for the creation of numerous companies and products that exist solely to develop new ways to combat this revenue-stealing problem.While carriers continue to battle fraudsters on the voice front, a new problem...
If you were to ask most wireless subscribers what they wanted out of their wireless service, you would get a variety of answers that led to one overriding desire-more. If a little is good, more has to be better.Wireless carriers increasingly are turning to...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Here we go again.After 10 years of asking the question, we finally have an answer."Everybody has been asking when wireless data is going to come," said Tom Wheeler, CTIA president and chief executive officer, at the closing keynote of the organization's Wireless...
NEW YORK-A 6-percent average summer dip in the price of shares in American Tower Corp., Crown Castle International, Pinnacle Towers Inc., SBA Communications and SpectraSite Communications also reflected "a shift of investors out of telecom into what are perceived to be faster growth areas,"...
For more than six months the mobile satellite industry has been trying to polish its image after the well-publicized failure of Iridium L.L.C. tarnished the reputation of all those involved in the industry.While Iridium shuffled in and out of bankruptcy court and deliberated with...
As handset makers continue to stretch their resources in the three digital technologies and future 3G technologies, they are finding an increasing need to outsource a portion of the business.L.M. Ericsson, struggling for profitability in its handset business, has turned to outsourcing lower-end handsets,...
NEW YORK-Like the Wizard of Oz working the controls unseen, electronic commerce could soon become the primary delivery and fulfillment mechanism for all goods and services, regardless of whether consumers buy those goods and services online, by mail order or in a store.Telecommunications, provided...
The realm of wireless data is uncharted territory for most consumers, but carriers also are feeling their way through the darkness, searching for the best way to market data and Internet services to an audience with little or no knowledge of wireless outside voice.Everyone-from...
BOSTON-Two companies released reports that highlight the potential of wireless Internet access and mobile data communications and their possible effect on the electronic commerce market."Mobile Electronic Commerce: The New Economy on the Move," released by the Aberdeen Group, predicts one-third of all wireless subscribers, roughly...
SINGAPORE-Electronics manufacturing and design services provider Flextronics International Ltd. and Chatham Technologies Inc., an integrated electronic packaging systems supplier to the communications industry, signed a definitive merger agreement for a tax-free, stock-for-stock merger.The merger agreement provides that Flextronics will issue a total of up...
NEW YORK-Amid the clutter of conflicting and shifting capital market indicators, the outlook for companies in any sector related to wireless telecommunications nevertheless appears positive.The daily whipsawing of the Nasdaq, where the stocks of many high technology companies trade, may obscure but does not...
Wireless carriers spend billions of dollars on spectrum to support the latest high-speed wireless applications that are designed to change the way the world communicates. Knowing they can't provide that potential to end users without the proper infrastructure, companies are also spending a little...
LAKE CHARLES, La.-Sprint PCS Network Partner US Unwired Inc. launched personal communications service in nine southeast markets, including Anniston, Mobile and five counties in the Birmingham, Ala., area; Hot Springs and four counties in the Little Rock, Ark., area; Jackson, Meridian and Vicksburg, Miss.;...
The term wireless application service provider has been tossed around a lot lately. But what exactly is a wireless ASP and why is it so popular at this stage of the wireless Internet industry?A traditional ASP model is the implementation of an application that...
NEW YORK-The interplay between intelligent networks and Internet Protocol is a battle of the Titans, according to David Berndt, director of wireless mobile technologies for The Yankee Group.Carriers must avoid getting caught in the crossfire while emerging from this transition as winners that take...
The CDMA industry recently chose to standardize Qualcomm Inc.'s High Data Rate technology, but industry analysts wonder when carriers will see a big enough business case to deploy the data-only megabit-speed technology and what type of applications are in store for it in the...
NEW YORK-The conventional wisdom that communications software and enhanced services were "a one-night stand as an investment opportunity," has faded away amid a proliferation of new carrier requirements, said Susan Passoni, vice president of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Securities Corp.Excluding electronic commerce, DLJ projects...
We have e-mail, e-commerce and e-tailers, among other "electronic" conveniences. The "e" phenomenon has spread quickly across all aspects of business and industry, and now wireless customers with questions or problems can access "e-customer service" to find help.Of course, customers still have the option...
BOULDER, Colo.-Carrier Access Corp. and Nera Telecommunications announced the field trial of a new wireless broadband network at TechTel, a competitive local exchange carrier in Lubbock, Texas.The trial will use Carrier Access' Access Navigator/GR-303+Data Host to groom the integrated data and voice traffic from...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-Alltel will test a new wireless voice and data technology that is expected to improve how the company deploys competitive local telephone service by bypassing the normal wired telecommunications access to homes.During the test phase, expected to last several months, Alltel said...
