MANILA, The Philippines—Short message service (SMS) technology, more popularly known as text messaging among Filipino mobile users, proved to be a substantial source of revenue for Smart Communications, the wireless provider of telecom giant Philippine Long Distance and Telephone Company (PLDT). In 2001, an...
JAKARTA, Indonesia—Heru Prasetyo, Indonesia's Accenture country manager, suggested cellular operators should increase their average revenue per user (ARPU) from its current less than US$20 to at least US$25 for financing future network expansions."The great portion of prepaid subscribers should not be considered a limiting...
JAKARTA, Indonesia—Southeast Asian operators are predicted to face unprecedented growth in data traffic during the coming years. Operators in the region have witnessed a surge in data traffic through short message service (SMS) traffic, followed by General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) offerings in recent...
BELLEVUE, Wash.—VoiceStream Wireless now offers inter-carrier text messaging to all its subscribers, regardless of handset type or service plan, the company announced.VoiceStream is using InphoMatch Inc.'s InphoXchange technology platform. VoiceStream follows AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and Cingular Wireless in making it possible for wireless...
ATLANTA, United States—Cingular Wireless introduced Interactive Messaging, giving Cingular subscribers the ability to send text messages to wireless users on other carriers' networks.The service will be available in March."Cingular believes intercarrier messaging, which breaks down communication barriers between wireless carriers, is essential to achieving...
WASHINGTON--AT&T Wireless Services Inc. has been awarded the TRUSTe Privacy Seal after completing a comprehensive certification process."Consumer education about privacy issues is critical to establishing consumer confidence. As our customers begin using their wireless phones to communicate in new ways—from text messaging and swapping...
MANILA, The Philippines—Filipinos prefer to use text messages on their mobile phones more frequently than e-mail to stay in touch with each other, according to a recent study conducted by German mobile-phone company Siemens. In the Siemens Mobile Lifestyle Survey, Filipinos were the heaviest...
REDMOND, Wash.—AT&T Wireless Services Inc. launched America Online Inc.'s Instant Messenger services on select AT&T Wireless phones allowing customers to access their AOL Buddy List.The AOL service is available on all 2-way text messaging capable phones, with no additional charges beyond those of AT&T...
TORONTO—Motorola Inc. launched the company's new V101 personal communicator in an exclusive deal with Rogers AT&T Wireless in Canada.The carrier will offer the device, which features phone and text messaging capabilities, a QWERTY keyboard and short message service and instant messaging."The Motorola V101 is...
REDMOND, Washington, United States—AT&T Wireless customers can now send text messages to virtually any wireless phone, regardless of carrier, using only the recipient's phone number.The inter-carrier text messaging capability, provided by InphoMatch, is available to postpaid and prepaid customers in all the carrier's markets....
BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Verizon Wireless unveiled www.vtext.com, a short text messaging Web site designed to help customers send text messages to individuals and groups and set up information alerts.The service works with the carrier's Mobile Messenger text messaging service, allowing the sender to confirm delivery, that...
BEDMINSTER, N.J.—Verizon Wireless unveiled www.vtext.com, a short text messaging Web site designed to help customers send text messages to individuals and groups and set up information alerts.The service works with the carrier's Mobile Messenger text messaging service, allowing the sender to confirm delivery that...
IRVINE, Calif.—Verizon Wireless reached a settlement with Acacia National Mortgage Co. stopping the lender from sending repeated, unsolicited commercial text messages to Verizon Wireless customers signed up for the carrier's text messaging service.Verizon Wireless said it filed a lawsuit against Acacia in Denver District...
NEW DELHI—Saboori Communications launched SaMoSa, which it called the world wide web of short messaging service (SMS). It is the first user configurable SMS service with micro-billing support. The SaMoSa system will enable businesses and establishments to set up their own SMS service without...
Some of the world's largest wireless vendors are working to bypass carrier interoperability issues by supporting a standard they say will let users send advanced short message service messages back and forth between phones, regardless of the network."This is a way to help carriers...
Short messaging service has found a niche in Europe with the youth market sending billions of short notes to each other during the past year. SMS messages often only cost pennies per messages. But with more than 5 billion SMS messages sent each month,...
Motorola Inc. marked its Smart Networks Developers Forum in New Orleans last week with partnerships and new product initiatives.Far away in Oman, the company signed a $5.2 million contract to expand a GSM digital cellular system in the country.Under the deal which takes off...
LAS VEGAS-Sonera's zed portal service won a major victory last week as wireless carrier Vodafone U.K. adopted the services for use in the United Kingdom. Vodafone Group plc offers its own portal service to carriers in conjunction with Vivendi, called Vizzavi, and the carrier...
LAS VEGAS-Telcordia Technologies Inc. announced an agreement with CTI Squared Ltd. to offer robust, carrier-grade, scalable IP-based Unified Communications services for wireless and wireline carriers, ASPs, ISPs and other providers.Telcordia's Unified Communications offering has been enhanced with CTI2's W.W. Office, and now offers end...
@Road, which provides location-enhanced wireless Internet solutions for mobile resource management (MRM), announced it will collaborate with Blue Wireless to develop voice-enabled solutions for the @Road LocationSmart Technology platform. By using Blue Wireless' voice portal technology, @Road said its customers will have voice-based access...
IRVINE, Calif.-Verizon Wireless introduced its Local Digital Prepay Phone In A Box in Southern California, allowing customers to purchase airtime on a pay-as-you-go basis."We recognize that many people would like to have digital wireless service, but are unclear about how to begin," said Mike...
Adicom WirelessAdicom Wireless announced Asymmetric Wireless Data Link, a new broadband wireless access product. AWDL, targeted at both U.S. and European markets, is designed to resolve major challenges wireless service providers face, including universal coverage in a cell and high cost of subscriber unit...
The idea sounds compelling. With Web-enabled cellular telephones, users can dial up their favorite merchants to make automated purchases. It's called mobile commerce, but for skeptics like Lawrence Steinert, it's more a promise than reality.When it comes to new technologies, Steinert is no shrinking...
HandsetsSendoEuropean mobile phone manufacturer, Sendo, launched its second product platform, the S200 dual-band GSM mobile phone. Aimed at the young-at-heart prepaid market, features of the small and light phone include a variety of colors, short message service (SMS) picture messaging, ring-tone sharing and games....
