WASHINGTON-SBC Communications Inc. has asked the Federal Communications Commission for permission to offer long-distance service in Texas. If its request is granted, SBC hopes to bundle wireless, local exchange, satellite TV and long-distance in packages for its customers.SBC believes it has met the 14-point...
TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo unveiled its DokoNavi Global Positioning System-based mobile personal location service. Using a cellular phone linked to a personal digital assistant from Denso, called Naviewn, and GPS technology from SnapTrack Inc., the service can locate users in a wide range of environments.According to...
NEW YORK-Ubiquitous connectivity, driven by consumer demand rather than carrier plan, could well develop into a completely new kind of convergent telecommunications, said Joan Barten Kline of J.D. Power and Associates."Access may become a new product category altogether, instead of the bundling of different...
This holiday season heralded the beginning of the e-commerce revolution, and wireless operators have the opportunity to cash in on it with the growing proliferation of Internet-enabled wireless phones and handheld computers.Optimism among the analyst community is rampant. Most recently, Strategy Analytics predicted the...
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. said Sanyo Electric Co. Ltd. has selected Qualcomm CDMA Technologies' sixth-generation MSM3100 chipset and system software for its Code Division Multiple Access handsets.The MSM3100 chipset and system software delivers data rates up to 86.4 kilobits per second and higher integration, enabling...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission expects to continue to set the regulatory agenda for 2000, believing a philosophy of anticipating problems and setting regulation is better than letting the market monitor itself.The FCC is "very quick to point to wireless as an example of competition,...
LONDON-BulletIN.net Ltd. introduced its BulletIN Corporate service, designed to notify mobile phone users when they receive office e-mail, and forward that e-mail to the phone if requested.
OWNINGS MILLS, Md.-Aether Systems Inc. opened its expanded network operations center, which hosts the company's wireless stock trading, Internet and e-mail services, as well as other wireless data applications.The expanded NOC was made necessary primarily to handle the increased demand expected by OmniSky Inc.,...
WASHINGTON-The wireless industry will enter the third millennium A.D. as the envy of the telecommunications industry. It is arguably the most competitive sector. It is innovative, with three different digital standards and third-generation wireless becoming reality. And it has conquered a huge nemesis: cloning."Cloning is...
NEW YORK-In the last seven years, semiconductor processing capacity has increased by about 2,600 percent while battery technology has improved by approximately 65 percent on a watts basis, said Phillip Redman, program manager, wireless/mobile communications for The Yankee Group, Boston.Moore's Law, which says the...
Lucent Technologies Inc. charged ahead during the first half of the year, recording a substantial jump in profit growth and edging ahead of Nokia Corp. as the major players' leader in net income for the first half of the year.Profit leadersLucent displaced Alcatel as...
NEW YORK-Not unexpectedly, the multiservice telecommunications giants led the way in revenues and profits for the first half of this year.Profit leadersBell Atlantic Corp. led in profits for the period, posting $2.315 billion, a 19.5-percent increase from the same period of 1998. It traded...
NEW YORK-For strategic and financial investors, many domestic wireless carriers possess a strong desirability quotient because they own scarce spectrum in a huge and growing market.Lehman Brothers Inc. projects that wireless penetration in the United States will reach 50 percent by 2002 and 70...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Metrocall Inc. reported revenues for the third quarter, ended Sept. 30, of $143 million, an increase of 44 percent from the previous year's third-quarter revenues of $99.4 million.The company said it had a net loss of $48 million, or $1.15 per share, compared...
REDMOND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. announced a new service plan for its Digital One Rate program.The carrier said it offered a calling plan last week for up to 300 minutes of wireless airtime, with no roaming or long-distance charges, for $60 per month."The success...
Wireless location-based services have been talked about for years and few carriers have deployed them, but reality should begin to set in within the next few years.The Federal Communications Commission's revised enhanced 911 rules released in September have put carriers on notice that decisions...
There was a time, not so long ago, when reasonably priced voice service with decent coverage delighted most wireless subscribers. But subscribers soon were demanding the same features-like voice mail, caller ID and three-way calling-offered on wireline phones.These features, previously known as enhanced services,...
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. said Oracle Corp. chose Qualcomm's pdQ smart phone as one of the key platforms for its Oracle CRM 3i customer relationship management mobile sales and service application.Oracle CRM 3i is a suite of 35 integrated modules that provide marketing, sales, service,...
NEW YORK-As the Internet accelerates the globalization of telecommunications, mergers and acquisitions among traditional and nontraditional players have eclipsed initial public offerings as the preferred strategy for retaining competitive advantage."In the United States, the Internet economy generated $301 billion in 1998 and will generate...
NEW YORK-Bell Atlantic Corp. said Sept.1 it will merge its Carrier Services and Telecom Industry Services groups to enhance the level of service to other telecommunications carriers and improve efficiency.Carrier Services provides access billing services to other telecommunications carriers, and TIS serves wireless carriers,...
Wireless industry members agree smart phones will become a critical differentiating factor for handset vendors and mobile-phone operators within the next two years, but the proliferation of these devices remains relatively unknown.For handset providers, smart phones represent an opportunity to extend their products, boost...
WASHINGTON-Three consumer groups have asked the Federal Communications Commission and the Department of Justice to block AT&T Corp.'s planned acquisition of MediaOne.The Consumers Union, Consumer Federation of America and Media Access Project jointly filed a formal document at the two agencies saying the merger...
NEW YORK-It was just this year that the camel's nose of wireless intelligent networks appeared under the mobile communications' tent, and it is not expected to rise to its full height until the dawn of the new millennium in 2001.A creature of technology to...
