Like '70s disco or roller skates, the wireless portal is now retro cool. Dude.In the heyday of the late 1990s, the wireless industry was awash with the wireless Internet and the possibilities therein. Wireless players from carriers on down to startups imagined opening Yahoo!-style...
NEEDHAM, Mass.-ATM operators could benefit from offering prepaid wireless airtime at U.S. automated teller machines, according to new research from financial services company TowerGroup. According to TowerGroup, non-financial electronic transactions are being aggressively explored as possible revenue streams for ATMs. At the same time,...
BANGKOK-Verizon has agreed to sell its 10-percent stake in Thai telecom company TelecomAsia to Golden Tower Trading Ltd. and Mission Gain Investments Ltd. for an undisclosed amount."Our decision to exit from this investment is based solely on our strategic decision to focus on the...
Despite positive second-quarter financial results from Boston Communications Group Inc., the company's stock was down nearly 35 percent Thursday on the news that its largest customer, Verizon Wireless, might transition from the BCGI prepaid solution to its own in-house platform. BCGI said its contract...
CHICAGO-Lucent Technologies Inc. further dampened Wall Street zeal with its announcement that it would not see black until next year, citing poor demand for its products.The company said it expects revenues for its fiscal third quarter to fall by approximately 18 percent from $2.4...
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. said it scored another carrier deal for its BREW application download service, with Telefonica Moviles Peru planning to offer BREW services in the country by the end of the year.In other BREW news, application company Dwango North America Inc. said it...
MEXICO CITY-Verizon Communications Inc. and Vodafone Group plc have reportedly rejected a sale of their controlling interest in Mexican wireless carrier Grupo Iusacell SA submitted by UBS Securities L.L.C.Iusacell said in a government filing that Verizon and Vodafone "won't conduct any kind of negotiation...
With a competitive environment similar to a high-profile sporting event, an increasing number of wireless carriers have recently thrown their marketing and sponsorship efforts behind sporting events and venues."Sporting events are a marketer's dream," said Tracy Rummel, founder of The Brand Soup Agency, which...
BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Verizon Wireless entered the camera phone race with a new picture-messaging service and advanced phone from LG Mobile Phones.The move was expected, as RCR Wireless News reported on the forthcoming phone earlier this month.Verizon introduced the new LG VX6000 with an integrated digital...
Verizon Wireless announced its subscribers will be able to vote on the selection of the most valuable player in the WNBA All-Star game using a short code voting system.Fans can pre-register for the wireless voting directly from their Verizon Wireless phones by sending the...
WASHINGTON-A bill to ban driver use of handheld cell phones in California unexpectedly died in the state legislature after a Senate amendment so watered down the measure as to prompt the bill's chief sponsor to seek its defeat.The Assembly in May passed legislation to...
Two firms released different ratings on wireless vendor Lucent Technologies Inc. Deutsche Bank Securities maintained a hold rating, while Independent Research Group upgraded Lucent from sell to neutral.In a research note, DBS analyst George Notter attributed the rating to expected weak second-quarter sales owing...
WASHINGTON-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and Verizon Wireless asked a federal appeals court here to overturn a Federal Communications Commission ruling permitting mobile satellite service operators to use their frequencies to provide land-based mobile-phone communications."Converting a satellite-only authorization into a license for mixed satellite and...
Verizon Wireless entered the camera phone race with a new picture-messaging service and advanced phone from LG Mobile Phones.The move was expected, as RCR Wireless News reported on the forthcoming phone last week.Verizon introduced the new LG VX6000 with an integrated digital camera, which...
In a move many industry analysts say eventually will level the wireless data playing field, Cingular Wireless L.L.C. launched commercial EDGE services in Indianapolis, allowing the carrier to offer data speeds it claims will range from 75 to 135 kilobits per second and peak...
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...
IRVING, Texas-Nokia Corp. announced two new CDMA phone deals, moves that follow on the company's promise to expand its CDMA phone business, but ones that do not involve big-name CDMA carriers.Nokia said it will sell its advanced 1xRTT-capable 3586i through U.S. Cellular, and its...
The tightened economy seems to be pushing the wireless enterprise market in opposite directions. On one hand, big-name technology players are bolstering their wireless enterprise efforts, hoping to entice new business customers looking to use wireless services to cut down on operational expenses. But...
WASHINGTON-Nextel Communications Inc. came out of nowhere to win the auction of bankrupt WorldCom Inc.'s wireless assets with a $144 million bid, more than doubling the original offer by BellSouth Corp. two months ago. The results of the auction, conducted over long hours on...
WASHINGTON-It is back to square one in the search for the next president of the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association. Rep. Chip Pickering (R-Miss.) turned down the job last week."It was the hardest professional decision that I have ever had to make," Pickering told...
Intrigue and espionage are not relegated to summer's blockbuster movie season. Verizon Wireless filed a lawsuit late last month against Nextel Communications Inc. claiming the Reston, Va.-based carrier used a series of deceitful tactics to garner information on Verizon Wireless' press-to-talk service, which was...
Following a competitive first quarter that witnessed the wireless industry meeting modest customer addition expectations, moderating customer churn results and a drop in customer revenue, analysts and investors are hinting that the wireless industry should report slightly improved results during the recently completed second...
Following a competitive first quarter that witnessed the wireless industry meeting modest customer addition expectations, moderating customer churn results and a drop in customer revenue, analysts and investors are hinting that the wireless industry should report slightly improved results during the recently completed second...
Verizon Wireless is set to launch a color-screen mobile phone from LG Electronics that includes an integrated digital camera and support for multimedia messaging services, according to the carrier's Web site.The device is notable because Verizon has largely remained out of the camera-phone market...
