With nearly all wireless carriers having reported second-quarter results, or at least filing an extension with the Securities and Exchange Commission, N. Moore Capital Ltd. released its quarterly carrier metric rankings that showed continued domination by nationwide carriers, which took the top three positions...
OTTAWA-Canada's nationwide operators plans to unite to agree on common standards for roaming and interoperability among Wi-Fi hot spots they operate with their next-generation mobile networks.The operators, Bell Mobility (in collaboration with Aliant Mobility), Microcell Solutions, Rogers AT&T Wireless and Telus Mobility said the...
OTTAWA-Canada's nationwide operators plans to unite to agree on common standards for roaming and interoperability among Wi-Fi hot spots they operate with their next-generation mobile networks.The operators, Bell Mobility (in collaboration with Aliant Mobility), Microcell Solutions, Rogers AT&T Wireless and Telus Mobility said the...
Heavy call volumes on wireless networks frustrated end users and caused cell sites operating on backup generators and batteries to quickly falter during the massive power outage that crippled the northeastern United States late last week.Given the situation, even the best system would have...
Heavy call volumes on wireless networks frustrated end users and led cell sites, operating on backup generators and batteries, to quickly falter during the massive power outage that crippled the northeastern United States this week.Given the situation, even the best system would have been...
VANCOUVER, British Columbia-Telus Corp. reported its wireless division added 102,800 subscribers during the second quarter, bringing the carrier's total customer base to 3.2 million subscribers. The carrier said customer growth was a 54-percent improvement compared with the 66,700 subscribers Telus Mobility added during the...
VANCOUVER, British Columbia-Telus Corp. reported its wireless division added 102,800 subscribers during the second quarter, bringing the carrier's total customer base to 3.2 million subscribers. The carrier said customer growth was a 54-percent improvement compared with the 66,700 subscribers Telus Mobility added during the...
TORONTO-Spotnik Mobile will provide 802.11b Wi-Fi high-speed wireless Internet access at Timothy's World Coffee locations across Canada.Spotnik will work with mobile operator Telus Mobility to roll out Wi-Fi hot spots at Timothy's 134 locations beginning in August. "Spotnik is focused on providing mobile professionals...
VANCOUVER, British Columbia-Canadian wireless operator Telus Mobility announced a three-year expansion of its CDMA-based digital network into what it termed "small and remote communities across the British Columbia heartland" as part of the British Columbia government's plan to "bridge the digital divide."Telus said the...
Laurent Vermot-Gauchy wants to introduce a new acronym into the location services market-ELS, or enterprise location-centric services.As head of location-services company Maporama, Vermot-Gauchy is looking to sell location information and services to the business market. And Maporama is not alone in its focus on...
Verizon Wireless announced it will shut down its slow-speed wireless data CDPD network by December 2005, following a similar move by CDPD network operator AT&T Wireless Services Inc.The move comes as little surprise because much of the wireless industry is working to migrate to...
VANCOUVER, British Columbia-Canadian telecommunications provider Telus Corp. reported that its Telus Mobility division added 66,700 customers during the first quarter of 2003, which was a 26.3-percent decrease from the 90,500 net subscriber additions the carrier reported for the first quarter of 2002. Telus Mobility...
NEW ORLEANS-MapInfo Corp. has teamed with MasterCard to create a mobile ATM Locator, which allows users to locate more than 35,000 MasterCard, Maestro or Cirrus ATMs using their mobile phones. The ATM Locator is available to Telus Mobility PCS and Mike clients in Canada.
TORONTO-Canadian vendors are seeking more cooperation among carriers to promote interoperability. That's the message from a wireless conference hosted Tuesday by BMO Nesbitt Burns in Toronto.Mike Lazaridis, Research in Motion (RIM) co-chief executive officer (CEO), said, "The most important thing for us in inter-carrying...
OTTAWA, Canada-The volume of text messaging in Canada has increased 98 percent since April-when the nation's wireless carriers set up interoperable text messaging services-increasing the number of text messages sent in Canada to 20 million last month.According to the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association, interoperable...
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Canada and STAMFORD, Conn.-Telus Mobility and SmartServ Online Inc. launched Forbes.com Wireless Powered by SmartServ giving Telus consumers the ability to access real-time Canadian and U.S. stock-market information."Our clients want immediate access to real-time financial services information. This agreement with...
VANCOUVER, British Columbia-Canadian wireless operator Telus Mobility and SmartServ Online Inc. launched Forbes.com Wireless as part of Telus' Wireless Web Premium Services providing subscribers with access to real-time Canadian and U.S. stock market information from Web-ready wireless devices.
BELLEVUE, Wash.-Messaging companies Wireless Services Corp. and CMG Wireless Data Solutions announced they set up a service to allow mobile customers to send text messages to other users in Canada, the United States and Latin America.CMG provides intercarrier text messaging services to Bell Mobility,...
REDMOND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. will stop accepting customers on its slow-speed packet-data CDPD network by next year, and will shut down the network in 2004.The company is working to alert all its CDPD customers of the change, and is offering them incentives to...
TORONTO-Canadian and U.S. wireless carriers are planning soon to offer text messaging services across all their networks.Since April, Canadian cell-phone subscribers have been able to send text messages to users on any of the four national networks, after Bell Mobility, Microcell, Rogers AT&T Wireless...
SCARBOROUGH, Ontario-Canadian wireless provider Telus Mobility said it expanded its CDMA digital coverage across Atlantic Canada through reciprocal roaming and resale agreements with Aliant Telecom Wireless and Bell Mobility.The expansion includes towns in New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island and increases...
TORONTO-The number of Canadians using mobile phones is expected to more than double during the next four years, with the biggest growth spurt in the teenage and corporate applications markets, according to a new IDC Canada report.IDC forecasted that wireless penetration in Canada will...
TORONTO—Wireless carriers Telus Mobility and Rogers Wireless Communications plan to charge new cell-phone users by the minute instead of by the second. This change in billing is expected to help boost revenue.Beginning 1 July, Telus Mobility will switch to per-minute billing for all new...
TORONTO—Canadians are not getting too excited about the possibilities for short message service (SMS), according to a report released by the Yankee Group in Canada. Its research claims only 5 percent of Canadian cellular users are very interested in SMS, while 42 percent have...
