RALEIGH, N.C.-Wireless application company Summus Inc. launched its new "Phil Hellmuth's Texas Hold 'Em" multiplayer poker game, which is available on Verizon Wireless' application download service for $3 per month.The game, featuring the likeness of World Poker Champion Phil Hellmuth, allows players to deal...
Delays in deploying third-generation networks combined with an overall slow economy helped create a 12-percent drop in demand for wireless equipment last year, according to a new report from the Gartner Group, a research and analyst company.But the fourth quarter witnessed an upturn in...
Sendia Corp. has developed a business model around bringing existing wireless enterprise applications to market."We're not an application developer ourselves," explained Alex Klyce, Sendia's executive vice president. Rather, "we extend applications that already exist out to the marketplace." The company's official launch came this...
Qualcomm Inc. announced its BREW application download service will be available in Europe through a new deal with CDMA 450 MHz operator Zapp in Romania."Zapp is proud to be the first CDMA 450 operator to introduce BREW-based services to the market," said Cuneyt Turktan,...
T-Mobile USA Inc. posted first-quarter customer growth second only to Verizon Wireless and more than double its next closest competitor, reaffirming claims that once consumers could port their phone numbers, they would gravitate to carriers offering the highest perceived quality or greatest value wireless...
WASHINGTON-FCC Chairman Michael Powell hinted Thursday that Nextel Communications Inc. may yet be willing to accept spectrum in the 2.1 GHz band instead of the 1.9 GHz band requested as part of a plan to solve public-safety interference in the 800 MHz band. But...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission could fine CenturyTel Inc. $100,000 for not routing ported wireless numbers."Regardless of the status of a carrier's obligation to provide number portability, all carriers have the duty to route calls to ported numbers. In other words, carriers must ensure that...
WASHINGTON-Mobile Satellite Ventures, despite legal and regulatory challenges, is aggressively moving forward with its business plan and appears poised to be first to market with a potentially disruptive technology comprised of satellite and land-based facilities that will bring wireless signals to areas of the...
Nextel Communications Inc. continues to dominate the walkie-talkie space and is not expected to relinquish that lead for some time, despite recent attempts by Verizon Wireless, Sprint PCS and Alltel Corp. to garner some of the push-to-talk pie. Nextel reported more than 13.3 million...
Wireless messaging applications in the United States typically involve voting for reality TV show contestants, participating in trivia contests or requesting some sort of information, and most cost a few dollars or less. But one company is hoping to expand the functions of text...
WASHINGTON-A rural wireless carrier that began porting customers in November told reporters Thursday that 24 percent of its ports had come from wireline customers.Terry Addington, president of First Cellular of Southern Illinois, said porting customers had complained about rising wireline bills and added the...
WASHINGTON-Alexander Good, a former telecom executive and Reagan administration official, has been tapped as the new chief executive officer and vice chairman of Mobile Satellite Ventures.MSV, a mobile satellite service licensee seeking to succeed in a market where others have failed, is currently seeking...
IRVINE, Calif.-Wireless enterprise company Networks In Motion said it released its new AtlasTrack location-services product through Nextel Communications Inc. The company said the Java application allows mobile workers to track tasks and update their work status with location information gleaned through the global positioning...
Countering a proposal by the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association that would grant spectrum in the 2.1 GHz band and force the carrier to pay at least $3 billion for spectrum realignment costs in the 800 MHz band, Nextel Communications Inc. reconfirmed its commitment...
In their spare time after work and on the weekends, three tech-savvy guys in Petaluma, Calif., in about six months have managed to surmount a technical hurdle that the multibillion-dollar U.S. wireless industry has not yet resolved after more than a year of effort.Paul...
WASHINGTON-Nextel Communications Inc., and the rest of the wireless world, will have to wait a bit longer.The Federal Communications Commission late Thursday put out the agenda for its May 13 meeting, and again rules to solve the public-safety interference problem in the 800 MHz...
JENKINTOWN, Pa.-Wireless services garnered 30 percent of total consumer spending during the fourth quarter of last year, which was a 3-percent increase from the previous quarter and just below the 31 percent spent on wired telecommunications services, according to a report from TNS Telecom....
WASHINGTON-Consumer groups and cellular dealers asked the Federal Communications Commission to block the proposed merger of AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and Cingular Wireless L.L.C., while organized labor reiterated its support for the $41 billion transaction. "This merger proposes an unacceptable level of concentration...
Dennis Strigl did not have to be a diligent student to become a first-rate manager."I disliked school," recalls the chief executive officer of Verizon Wireless Inc., the biggest carrier in the United States. "I couldn't wait until 3 o'clock when the bell rang."But before...
The U.S. wireless gaming market recently expanded yet again with the emergence of European gaming powerhouse In-Fusio. The Bordeaux, France-based gaming company has been offering wireless games and technology in Europe since 1999 and last year launched its U.S. efforts."We're setting up now a...
Dear Editor,I read with interest your article on April 1 titled, "Research claims wireless not major threat to wireline," and wanted to share some thoughts on a couple of points.When the Phoenix Center claims that "Consumers do not generally consider wireless a good enough...
WASHINGTON-Nextel Communications Inc. and the rest of the wireless world will have to wait a bit longer.The Federal Communications Commission late Thursday put out its agenda for its meeting May 13 and again rules to solve the public-safety interference problem in the 800 MHz...
SAN DIEGO-Verizon Wireless said it will sell the new VX4600 from LG Electronics Co. Ltd., which features a color screen, text messaging and support for downloadable applications."With the success of the LG VX4400 phone from Verizon Wireless in the market last year, we knew...
In preparation for the upcoming May 24 deadline enabling wireless local number portability in markets outside the top 100, Verizon Wireless said it has continued to work with smaller regional wireless service providers in an attempt to ensure they are prepared to comply with...
