The following information includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-MTV Networks International is teaming with VeriSign Inc.'s mobile content subsidiaries to study the international wireless entertainment market, the companies said Thursday. Jamster! and Jamba! will join the Viacom Inc.-owned network to study usage, mechanics and frequency of user downloads and streaming...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-VeriSign Inc. announced a deal with Rural Cellular Corp., which operates in the Midwest, Northeast, Northwest and Southern regions, to provide VeriSign's wireless billing service for RCC's GSM customers. RCC already uses several VeriSign products, including billing and customer management solutions, the...
VeriSign Inc. announced an agreement with Rural Cellular Corp., which operates in the Midwest, Northeast, Northwest and Southern regions, to provide VeriSign's wireless billing service for RCC's GSM customers.RCC already uses several VeriSign products, including billing and customer management solutions, the vendor said. Terms...
Acta Wireless Ltd. is hoping to act as the bridge between having a good idea and turning it into a company. "Our ability is to pick trends early," explained Anders Schonberg, one of Acta's three partners.Acta toes the line between venture-capital company and consulting...
Controversial messaging company SMS.ac is hoping to scrub its image by issuing consumers' rights guidelines for wireless companies. The text-messaging company issued a six-point Consumer Bill of Rights calling on messaging and content providers to offer clear pricing, effective customer service and money-back refunds...
Controversial messaging company SMS.ac is hoping to scrub its image by issuing consumers' rights guidelines for wireless companies. The text-messaging company issued a six-point Consumer Bill of Rights calling on messaging and content providers to offer clear pricing, effective customer service and money-back refunds...
OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-The move toward universal multimedia messaging service interoperability continued with a deal between two of the top U.S. carriers. Verizon Wireless and Sprint PCS are the latest Tier 1 carriers to ink deals allowing subscribers to exchange picture and video messages with...
WASHINGTON-A California-based consumer group last week filed formal complaints with state regulators against Cingular Wireless L.L.C. and Sprint PCS, accusing the No. 1 and No. 3 mobile-phone operators of charging subscribers for unwanted text messages and ringtones. The Utility Consumers' Action Network, headquartered in...
Shares of Sybase Inc. jumped more than 7 percent Thursday after the infrastructure provider and wireless software developer posted higher-than-expected second-quarter profits.The company said a 21-percent increase in its mobile business helped boost the company to a quarterly net profit of $15.9 million, or...
OTTAWA-Canada's wireless carriers introduced intercarrier multimedia message services last week. The initiative enables customers with MMS-capable mobile phones, regardless of the customers' wireless service provider, to send and receive messages with rich content to and from MMS-capable phones of friends, family and colleagues. The...
OTTAWA-Canada's wireless carriers will introduce intercarrier multimedia message services July 1. The initiative will enable customers with MMS-capable mobile phones, regardless of the customers' wireless service providers, to instantly send and receive messages with rich content to and from MMS-capable phones of friends, family...
TORONTO-Wireless security software developer Diversinet Corp. announced a deal licensing VeriSign Inc. to distribute Diversinet's suit of "mobile tokens" and authentication services.VeriSign will market the wireless technology to banks, retailers, online service providers and other businesses through its Unified Authentication offering. The "soft tokens"...
CHICAGO-Dobson Cellular Systems Inc. said it has tapped VeriSign Inc. to provide content and messaging interoperability services for the carrier's 1.6 million subscribers. VeriSign will offer its library of more than 50,000 ringtones, images, games and community services under the deal, and will supply...
CHICAGO-Dobson Cellular Systems Inc. said it has tapped VeriSign Inc. to provide content and messaging interoperability services for the carrier's 1.6 million subscribers.VeriSign will offer its library of more than 50,000 ringtones, images, games and community services under the deal, and will supply interoperability...
The Mobile Marketing Association and wireless carrier association CTIA released guidelines outlining policies for wireless carriers and content providers marketing to consumers. A committee including all five Tier 1 operators helped draft the nine-page document, which addresses issues including advertising and promotions, opt-in and...
The Mobile Marketing Association and wireless carrier association CTIA released guidelines outlining policies for wireless carriers and content providers marketing to consumers. A committee including all five Tier 1 operators helped draft the nine-page document, which addresses issues including advertising and promotions, opt-in and...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-VeriSign Inc. inked a deal to produce mobile games based on Sony Pictures films and TV shows, the companies announced Friday.Ojom, VeriSign's game-publishing unit, secured wireless gaming rights to movies including "Men in Black," "Jerry Maguire" and "Charlie's Angels," and the TV...
Two of the nation's top mobile content providers reported strong first-quarter results last month even as they offered differing forecasts for the second quarter. VeriSign Inc.'s new mobile content operations helped fuel a five-fold increase in its first-quarter profits, the Internet and telecommunications networks...
BURLINGTON, Mass.-Lightbridge Inc. announced plans to sell its wireless technology platform and customer base to VeriSign Inc. for $17.45 million in cash.The e-commerce company said it is off-loading its prepaid intelligent network business, a real-time voice and data usage tracking service marketed to wireless...
The following wireless companies had debt ratings changes by financial services firms this week.Standard & Poor's Ratings Services placed its ratings on four wireless tower companies on CreditWatch with positive implications. The companies are SpectraSite Inc., Crown Castle International Corp., AAT Communications Corp. and...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-VeriSign's new mobile content operations helped fuel a five-fold increase in its first-quarter profits, the Internet and telecommunications networks company said late Wednesday.VeriSign reported a first-quarter net income of $49 million, or 19 cents a share, compared with a $9 million or...
TORONTO-Canadians sent more than 710 million person-to-person text messages from their mobile phones in 2004, up from 352 million during the previous year, according to the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association. The group said Canadian text messaging volumes reached 95.5 million, or more than 3.4...
NEW ORLEANS-Mexican carrier Unefon has selected VeriSign Inc. to implement its iRoam product to expand prepaid roaming services in the United States to its customers.Nearly all of Unefon's customers use prepaid billing. The iRoam product will allow those customers to roam seamlessly when traveling...
