VANCOUVER, British Columbia—Telus Mobility has partnered with analytic and reporting application provider Buystream to offer AirMetrics, a customer relationship management product designed to enhance subscription services offered by wireless carriers.AirMetrics tracks subscriber usage patterns and develops behavior profiles for groups of similar subscribers, helping...
NEW YORK—Canadian wireless carrier Telus Mobility will offer its customers wireless instant messaging (IM) services, including the ability to create buddy lists and communicate with desktop users, through a deal with MessageVine."We are excited to be introducing private-label wireless IM to the Canadian market...
SEATTLE—Canada's Bell Mobility announced it will offer a service through ViAir Inc. that will allow mobile professionals to wirelessly access their personal and corporate e-mail, calendar and contact information.The service supports Microsoft Outlook, Lotus Notes and Internet-based e-mail services. ViAir said almost 30 million...
NEW YORK—Canadian wireless carrier Telus Mobility will offer its customers wireless instant messaging services, including the ability to create buddy lists and communicate with desktop users, through a deal with MessageVine."We are excited to be introducing private-label wireless IM to the Canadian market with...
BURNABY, British Columbia—Telus announced it is currently conducting a trial of a voice portal service that delivers location-based information on businesses, restaurants, events, movies and directions, as well as more personalized local information."This trial is an exciting development in Telus' integrated voice, IP and...
TORONTO-In a joint announcement, four of Canada's wireless carriers announced they are joining forces in an effort to stimulate short messaging service use by creating an interoperable messaging service.Under the deal, subscribers of Bell Mobility, Microcell Connexions, Rogers AT&T and Telus Mobility will be...
TORONTO—Go Prepaid Inc. announced it has added Telus' Talk & Surf Card to its line of prepaid card solutions.The Telus Talk & Surf Card includes toll-free North American internet access, flat-rate long-distance and toll-free voice mail services, so users can access the Internet from...
TORONTO—In a major joint announcement, four of Canada's wireless carriers said they are joining forces in an effort to stimulate short messaging service (SMS) use by creating an interoperable messaging service.Under the deal, subscribers of Bell Mobility, Microcell Connexions, Rogers AT&T and Telus Mobility...
DENVER, United States, and TORONTO—In the first such announcements from operators for second-generation (2G) networks, two separate network sharing agreements were announced this week—one between two U.S. operators and one between two Canadian carriers.In the United States, Cingular Wireless and VoiceStream Wireless entered into...
CAMBRIDGE, U.K.—nGame Ltd. announced a new partnership with Telus Mobility to provide eleven wireless games for Telus subscribers with web-enabled mobile phones.The games are: Rat Race, Air Aces, Alien Fish Exchange, Merchant Princes, Chop Suey Kung Fu, DataClash, Number Shuffle, Poker Dice, Special Ops,...
TORONTO-Canadian wireless carriers are bracing for tougher times as they gear up for faster 2.5-generation (2.5G) services. The four national carriers-Bell Mobility, Microcell, Rogers AT&T Wireless and Telus Mobility-posted disappointing second-quarter results, reflecting the overall slowdown in the market."Canadian pricing is even more competitive...
SEATTLE, United States—Just a month after Canadian carrier Telus Mobility announced it would switch from an airtime billing system to a pay-per-use system, the carrier added Mforma Corp.'s games and entertainment package to its content offerings. Under the agreement, Mforma will offer its content...
SEATTLE-Applications management and platform provider ViAir Inc. said Canadian wireless carrier Telus Mobility will integrate ViAir's WirelessInbox messaging application with its mobility office inbox product, a move which will give Telus' customers wireless access to Outlook and Lotus Notes, the companies said.
In technology as in life, the last protocol on stage is the hero. While time will serve as jury in due course, for now the CDMA operators and manufacturers seem to be gloating, sometimes quietly and sometimes on rooftops, that they are a few...
TORONTO-It is clear that Canada's dominant trunked radio network is going to get much more dominant.Last year's C$6.6 billion (US$4.3 billion) blockbuster deal by Telus to acquire Clearnet Communications means a big boost in Mike, Clearnet's dispatch network. With Mike's iDEN proprietary digital dispatch...
VANCOUVER, British Columbia-Sierra Wireless and Telus Mobility will partner to develop a next-generation CDMA Type II PC card for use in laptops and handheld devices.According to the companies, the new card will provide voice and data communications up to 144 kilobits per second, a...
Indiqu Inc. wants to make your cell phone fun.The mobile games developer and marketer has signed several deals in the past few weeks to expand its coverage and improve its games offerings, all in a push to "transform wireless devices into personal entertainment terminals...
TORONTO-Now that the C$6.6 billion (US$4.3 billion) Telus deal to acquire Clearnet Communications has been finalized, engineering issues are starting to surface.The challenge? How to combine the wireless operations of Telus and Clearnet and determine the best path for third-generation (3G) services. The new...
TORONTO-The consolidation trend in the North American wireless sector is intensifying. The prevailing wisdom is that it is no longer good enough to be merely a regional or national carrier with transborder capabilities. The game plan is to be part of a global presence,...
DENVER, United States-Qualcomm and Ford Motor Co. perpetuated the marriage between wireless communication and mobility, creating a new company called Wingcast, which will develop and deliver wireless mobility and information services to cars and trucks, and give Qualcomm a means to main line new...
PathnetPathnet Telecommunications named Ken Rowen vice president of sales, focusing on competitive local access carriers. Rowen will lead a team responsible for integrating CLECs, regional bell operating companies and independent telephone companies into the Pathnet network in under-served regions of the country. Rowen developed...
Analog DevicesAnalog Devices Inc. introduced the AD9226, a 12-bit, 65 MSPS analog-to-digital converter designed to increase data rates and enable direct intermediate frequency-sampling architectures for communications applications, including next-generation cellular base station and software radio applications. Analog Devices said the key to the AD9226...
Qualcomm Inc. and Ford Motor Co. perpetuated the marriage between wireless communication and mobility last week, creating a new company called Wingcast, which will develop and deliver wireless mobility and information services to cars and trucks, and give Qualcomm a means to main-line new...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-Cuba's government decreed that the new millennium begins on 1 January, 2001, and to mark the event, grand celebrations are being prepared. In tone with the decision, the country's cellular telephony company, Cubacel, is migrating its analog AMPS network to a digital...
