SEATTLE-Specialty retailer Car Toys said it will add Cingular Wireless products and service in all of its 24 Wireless SuperCenters throughout Dallas, Houston and Fort Worth, Texas. Car Toys' Texas locations currently offer wireless products and services from T-Mobile USA Inc., AT&T Wireless Services...
Microsoft Corp. announced two new sales agreements for devices using its Smartphone operating system and reiterated commitments from T-Mobile in the United Kingdom and Verizon Wireless and AT&T Wireless Services Inc. in the United States to sell Smartphone devices.Swedish mobile operator TeliaSonera said it...
Nearly two years after spinning off its wireless business, AT&T Corp. reported a deal to begin reselling AT&T Wireless Services Inc. wireless service as part of a communications bundle to residential long-distance customers in select markets beginning this summer."This combined wireless and wireline calling...
SAN ANTONIO-SBC Communications Inc. is aggressively rolling out plans for a public Wi-Fi network, said company spokesman Michael Coe."We know we are going to pursue the public hot spot arena aggressively, and we are now in the final stages of figuring out the fastest,...
The U.S. paging and messaging industry is still declining. Nationwide carriers are still losing thousands of customers every month-both one- and two-way subscribers-and there is no indication the tide will turn anytime soon.However, industry players continue to offer hopeful outlooks on the future. Some...
BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Verizon Wireless completed the acquisition of 50 PCS licenses and related network assets of Northcoast Communications L.L.C. for $750 million cash.The deal includes 10-megahertz personal communications services licenses covering more than 47 million potential customers and more than 300 cell site locations.The licenses...
WASHINGTON-Senate Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Susan Collins (R-Maine) has launched a probe into whether scandal-plagued MCI, which recently won a $34 million defense contract to supply mobile-phone service in Iraq, should be allowed to compete for federal contracts."Despite evidence that WorldCom (renamed MCI) committed...
MIAMI-Latin American content provider Blah! said it will open a North American office to seek out business with U.S. wireless carriers. Blah! recently signed a deal with Verizon Wireless to offer its content and community messaging services.Founded in June 2000 in Rio de Janeiro,...
The wireless community is this week promoting the importance of safe use of wireless phones and public-safety uses of wireless, in addition to celebrating the instances wireless technology has been used as a safety tool. The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association and its members...
Top execs from Verizon Wireless, AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and Nextel Communications Inc. made appearances at this week's Lehman Brothers conference in New York to discuss their current and future business plans and financial performances. Verizon Wireless' Chief Executive Officer Denny Strigl attributed the...
European carrier Orange SA said it will expand its relationship with Microsoft Corp. to offer text-messaging-based access to Microsoft's instant messaging and e-mail programs to all of Orange's 35 million customers.Under the deal, Orange customers will be able to conduct real-time MSN Messenger instant-messaging...
SBC Communications Inc. is aggressively rolling out plans for a public Wi-Fi network, said company spokesman Michael Coe, according to a CNET report. Coe said the company is shopping around for equipment for public hot spots that will allow SBC customers to access the...
With public hot-spot locations popping up faster than reality-based TV shows, companies that provide support services are finding a market ripe for innovations, the most compelling of which is how to help companies operating in the public hot-spot space make money.One of the newest...
Wireless watchers were inundated with news on the wireless gaming front coming out of the Electronic Entertainment Expo video game trade show, with Nokia Corp. in the lead and continuing to beat the drums for its N-Gage mobile-phone/video-game device.Nokia reported further details about the...
Following another quarter of industry-leading customer additions, T-Mobile USA Inc. stepped up the competitive pressure on its larger rivals by introducing aggressive pricing changes to its rate plans.The most aggressive move was to reintroduce its Get More 1000 plan, which offers 1,000 anytime calling...
Starent Networks calls its solution voice instant messaging-with emphasis on the word "instant," thereby distinguishing itself from the prominent voice solutions already in the marketplace, including push-to-talk service and more traditional voice instant messaging, which suffer some degree of latency.Starent said several major carriers...
With the deadline for reporting first-quarter results last week, a number of carriers posted financial and operating results including another strong showing from nationwide provider T-Mobile USA Inc. and mixed results for rural operators.Seeming to be saving the best for last, T-Mobile USA Inc....
Although GSM proponent Nokia Corp. continues to profess plans to improve its CDMA phone sales, the company's efforts to date in the United States seem relatively unimpressive.Of the two major CDMA carriers in the United States-Verizon Wireless and Sprint PCS-only Sprint sells Nokia phones....
Mobile infrastructure revenue dropped 14 percent in the first quarter of 2003 to $6.4 billion compared with the fourth quarter of 2002, according to a report by the Dell'Oro Group. Credit Suisse First Boston has a further gloomy take, predicting a 20-percent decline in...
Verizon Wireless announced it will shut down its slow-speed wireless data CDPD network by December 2005, following a similar move by CDPD network operator AT&T Wireless Services Inc.The move comes as little surprise because much of the wireless industry is working to migrate to...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-T-Mobile USA Inc. again led the industry in customer growth during the first quarter of 2003, reporting 921,000 net customer additions during the first three months of this year, which was nearly double the 509,000 net customer additions the carrier reported for the...
LOS ANGELES-Wireless watchers were inundated with news on the wireless gaming front coming out of the Electronic Entertainment Expo video game trade show, with Nokia Corp. in the lead and continuing to beat the drums for its N-Gage mobile-phone/video-game device.Nokia reported further details about...
BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Verizon Wireless reported an agreement to join Latin American wireless "infotainment" provider Blah!'s multilanguage mobile chat service. Verizon Wireless said the agreement will allow English-, Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking customers to chat and play games one-on-one with the 2 million Blah! users throughout Latin...
NEW YORK-Verizon Communications Inc. activated 150 of a planned 1,000 Wi-Fi transmission stations throughout New York City, which the company said would allow its Verizon Online customers to have access to high-speed Internet services up to 300 feet from the so-called Verizon HotSpots located...
