OXFORD, United Kingdom—In what appears to be almost an unseemly rush to protect their parochial businesses, five Asian operators—CSL of Hong Kong, Maxis of Malaysia, MobileOne (M1) of Singapore, Smart of the Philippines and Telstra of Australia—have formed the Asia Mobility Initiative (AMI), which...
In the sweepstakes of third-generation (3G) contracts, smaller equipment vendors hope to outplay the bigger names by taking advantage of their product strengths and delays in Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) rollouts.Companies like Motorola, Nortel Networks and Lucent Technologies are at the low ebb...
ANN ARBOR, Mich.-Borders Group Inc. reported T-Mobile USA Inc.'s HotSpot service is now available in all Borders Book & Music locations in California, Florida, Georgia, Michigan, New Jersey, Texas and Washington. The company added that the service would be available in a majority of...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-T-Mobile USA Inc. launched its video messaging service allowing customers to record and send video messages with sound from wireless phones.The carrier's initial handset offering for the service is Nokia Corp.'s 3650, which sells for $199 after rebate. In addition to its video...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-T-Mobile USA Inc. and Cingular Wireless customers can sign up to receive up-to-the-minute news updates on the Iraq war through text message alerts.The service works through technology from wireless application company InfoSpace Inc. and uses content from the Associated Press. To set up...
WASHINGTON-T-Mobile USA reportedly plans to drop enhanced observed time difference (EOTD) technology as its solution for implementing Phase II enhanced 911 service.T-Mobile's deployments of the technology had been one of the few bright spots for EOTD during a time when its other major U.S....
BELLEVUE, Wash.-Former T-Mobile USA Inc. chief executive officer John Stanton, who announced on Monday that Robert Dotson would replace him as CEO of T-Mobile USA, is considering a life in politics."I have clearly given it some serious thought, will continue to give it serious...
NEW ORLEANS--The second day of keynote speeches at this year's Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association show in New Orleans had a similar theme to last year's event with wireless local area network technology dominating much of the conversation as well as repeat appearances by...
BOSTON-The U.S. cellular market will grow 6 percent annually during the next five years, resulting in penetration of almost 70 percent, according to a new report from research firm Strategy Analytics.This year, Strategy Analytics expects Verizon Wireless to lead the market; Sprint PCS to...
HANNOVER, Germany-Nortel Networks issued separate announcements with two carriers, T-Mobile International and MmO2.T-Mobile selected the Brampton-Ontario-based vendor as a preferred supplier to deliver GPRS across it main markets in Europe, including Germany and the United Kingdom.Under the motto "O2 can do," wireless service provider...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Wednesday proposed fining T-Mobile USA US$1.25 million for not providing wireless enhanced 911 (E911) Phase I within six months of a request. The fine represents more than 450 requests."We believe that the factors cited above, particularly the very...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday proposed fining T-Mobile USA Inc. $1.25 million for not providing wireless enhanced 911 Phase I within six months of a request. The fine represents more than 450 requests."We believe that the factors cited above, particularly the very large...
LONDON-European mobile data users are set to enjoy greater competition on tariffs and devices following the decision by T-Mobile to more than halve its mobile data charges and push the BlackBerry device to single business users and high-end consumers. In an attempt to stimulate...
NEW YORK-T-Mobile USA has cut the price of its Wi-Fi Internet access service at 1,200 retail locations, including Starbucks coffee shops, to $30 for a monthly pass and $6 for a daily pass, CNet reported. With 20 or fewer people using the service at...
LONDON-European mobile operators Orange, Telefonica Moviles, T-Mobile AG and Vodafone Group plc signed an agreement to form a new Mobile Payment Services Association designed to deliver an open, commonly branded solution for payments from mobile handsets.The association said the payment solution will work across...
CHANTILLY, Va.-Wireless interoperability company InphoMatch said T-Mobile customers in the United Kingdom will now be able to send text messages to non-GSM wireless subscribers in the United States.InphoMatch manages the text messaging interoperability agreements for T-Mobile USA Inc., as well as a variety of...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-The potential for more intimate cooperation between cell-phone operators MmO2 and T-Mobile seems likely following the announcement that MmO2 has extended a third-generation (3G) network sharing agreement with the German operator.Peter Erskine, MmO2's chief executive officer (CEO), said the network-sharing and roaming...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-Following last week's decision from cell-phone operator MmO2 that it will delay the deployment of its U.K. third-generation (3G) service until the latter half of 2004, other European mobile operators provided more details of their 3G launch plans this week.In the United...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-T-Mobile USA Inc. said it added 1.017 million net customers during the fourth quarter of 2002, including 1.078 million net contract subscribers that now make up 86 percent of the carrier's 9.9 million subscriber base at the end of the year. T-Mobile USA...
WASHINGTON, D.C.-The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association and the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association announced cross-border, inter-carrier text messaging services enabling text messaging between customers of major U.S. and Canadian wireless service providers have been launched.Participating are Canadian service providers Bell Mobility, Microcell Solutions (Fido),...
LONDON-The U.K. mobile landscape looks set for change after the U.K. Competition Commission recommended in a report released today that the four U.K. mobile operators reduce their mobile termination charges by 15 percent before July 25 this year.MmO2 said it would delay its U.K....
LONDON-The U.K. mobile landscape looks set for change after the U.K. Competition Commission recommended in a report released today that the four U.K. mobile operators reduce their mobile termination charges by 15 percent before July 25 this year.MmO2 said it would delay its U.K....
LONDON-Vodafone Group has ended talks with MmO2 regarding its Dutch mobile subsidiary, according to international press reports. Deutsche Telekom is the only named company still considering the business, according to the reports.Vodafone reportedly ended the talks after closely examining the company's books. The unit...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-Seemingly learning little from what drove short message service (SMS) into being such an unexpected revenue earner-network interconnection-U.K. cell-phone operators are only now focusing on the fact that users of multimedia message service (MMS) will demand the ability to send pictures to...
