BRUSSELS, Belgium-The European Union Commission ruled European wireless operators could share the cost of building out third-generation networks including the cost of base stations, antennas and radio-access networks. The move is expected to ease some financial pressure from operators who spent more than $100...
FRANKFURT, Germany-Cingular Wireless L.L.C. and T-Mobile USA Inc. parent Deutsche Telekom AG are apparently close to agreeing to the size and stake of a proposed merger between the two companies and could begin merger proceedings as early as next month, according to a story...
FRANKFURT, Germany-Instead of trying to sell off its U.S.-based VoiceStream Wireless Corp. holdings, analysts said German telecommunications giant Deutsche Telekom AG may choose an early public offering of its T-Mobile unit to help the company reduce its more than $60 billion debt load." want...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-T-Mobile USA Inc. officially replaced the VoiceStream Wireless Corp. brand name across the United States today with its T-Mobile brand. The rebranding began in July with the launch of service in California and Nevada and has rapidly expanded across the country.With the name...
BELLEVUE, Washington, United States-T-Mobile USA officially replaced the VoiceStream Wireless brand name across the United States today with its T-Mobile brand. The rebranding began in July with the launch of service in California and Nevada and has rapidly expanded across the country.With the name...
While U.S. wireless carriers have often strayed from the international model when it comes to delivering service, most industry watchers anticipated the U.S.-based GSM carriers would follow a similar path as their worldly brothers when it came to deploying third-generation (3G) networks. Those models...
BONN, Germany-T-Mobile International reported increasing revenue and customer additions in the first half of 2002, although average revenue per user (ARPU) figures increased in only two markets. T-Mobile said group sales were up 53 percent compared with the same period of 2001 to 9.1...
DENVER, United States-The world is watching to see which standard-GSM or CDMA-will succeed as the third-generation (3G) battle revs up in the United States, said Probe Research, but the seemingly inevitable deployment of 3G wireless networks is hitting a brick wall in some areas...
CEDAR KNOLLS, N.J.-The whole world is watching to see which standard-GSM or CDMA-will succeed as the 3G battle revs up in the United States, said Probe Research Inc., but the seemingly inevitable deployment of third-generation wireless networks is hitting a brick wall in some...
SAN FRANCISCO-Starbucks Coffee Co., Hewlett-Packard Co. and T-Mobile International have combined to launch a hot spot service in Starbucks coffee houses, allowing customers to connect to Internet applications using 802.11b technology."As easy as ordering their latte, Starbucks customers can check e-mail, surf the Web,...
BERLIN-Deutsche Telekom AG's recently appointed chief executive officer told a German newspaper last week that the company would accelerate a restructuring program and might pull out of some foreign markets in an attempt to reduce its considerable debt load.Helmut Sihler said the company planned...
ARMONK, N.Y.-Technology giant IBM Corp. released an important new product the company said allows wireless device users to seamlessly roam across a variety of disparate wireless networks-including wireless local area network, cellular, private mobile radio and satellite networks-all without ever turning off the device.IBM...
MUNICH, Germany-T-Mobile said two of its subsidiaries will contribute to helping the victims of the flooding in parts of Europe.RadioMobile in the Czech Republic is donating about $16,000 to a special fund announced by the Czech Red Cross to provide humanitarian aid for the...
DENVER, United States-VoiceStream Wireless' launch of wireless service last month in the U.S. states of California and Nevada not only provided the country's smallest nationwide operator with a footprint in a pair of lucrative markets, but also was the carrier's first public launch of...
PALO ALTO, Calif.-Danger Inc. reported a partnership with T-Mobile USA to develop and sell products based on Danger's Hiptop platform and services. The deal also calls for T-Mobile to be the first wireless operator to offer the Hiptop-enabled device, named the T-Mobile Sidekick, later...
BELLEVUE, Washington, United States-T-Mobile USA, which is known as VoiceStream Wireless in most of the country, launched its T-Mobile-branded Windows Powered Pocket PC Phone Edition for its T-Mobile and VoiceStream customers.The US$600 voice-enabled personal digital assistant (PDA) is powered by Microsoft's software, allowing users...
As the battle for the multimedia messaging service (MMS) market in Europe begins to heat up among the region's wireless carriers, the fight for the MMS infrastructure market has largely drawn to a close-and the undisputed winner is Ericsson."The leader in the MMSC (multimedia...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-Currently known as VoiceStream, T-Mobile today broke into the U.S. market, launching voice and data services in California and Nevada. T-Mobile's Get More services, promoted by spokeswoman Catherine Zeta-Jones, work over a GSM network that promises "more minutes, more features and more services...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-The rebranding that is being implemented by some of the large European cell-phone operators as they push toward a worldwide identity seems to be failing, according to advertising executives. Two operators, T-Mobile and MmO2, have attracted the most criticism as they attempt...
BELLEVUE, Wash.—VoiceStream Wireless Corp.'s parent company T-Mobile International Inc. announced actress Catherine Zeta-Jones would be the global spokeswoman for the company's various wireless services. For the U.S. market, Zeta-Jones will replace current VoiceStream spokeswoman Jamie Lee Curtis whose contract runs out at the end...
BONN, Germany—Research In Motion Ltd. continues to push its voice-capable BlackBerry, with wireless giant T-Mobile now selling the product and Retrieval Dynamics Corp. lined up as a select reseller of the device in the United States."The corporate market is a critical market with more...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—While the cost of integrating a camera into a cell phone is only US$10, silicon chip developer STMicroelectronics has complained that European terminal makers are resisting the move to multimedia messaging service (MMS). The company, which recently acquired the camera-on-a-chip pioneer Vision...
HELSINKI, Finland—Carriers and vendors across the world continue to refine and define their strategies for offering multimedia messaging services, which many in the industry hope will open the way for significant wireless data revenues.News on the front continues to come in massive waves, with...
DUBLIN, Ireland—The imminent launch of the XDA, an O2-branded mobile device manufactured specifically for that operator, is clear evidence that European operators are demanding more input into handset development. However, it is more likely to be an extreme but isolated example of operator control...
