REDMOND, Wash.-Metawave Communications Corp. and Verizon Wireless are joining to supply smart antenna products.The agreement, which consolidates previous arrangements Metawave had with Bell Atlantic, AirTouch and GTE, calls for Metawave to supply Verizon with a suite of smart antenna systems that will increase the...
BlackstoneBlackstone announced Elaine Moncayo has joined its marketing department as marketing coordinator. In her new position, she will be responsible for internal marketing, including newsletter, brochures, Web site updates and presentations. She will work with both Blackstone employees and distributors in Miami and across...
Their words were cautious yet wise, and at times peppered with remorse, but as Cingular Wireless Chief Executive Officer Stephen Carter and Verizon Wireless President and CEO Dennis Strigl addressed attendees at the wireless keynote session at SuperComm last week in Atlanta, it became...
Deutsche Telekom's recent acquisition of U.S.-based GSM operator VoiceStream Wireless Corp. again showed the ever-shrinking nature of the wireless industry. Including United Kingdom-based Vodafone Group plc's partial ownership stake in Verizon Wireless and Japan's NTT DoCoMo's interest in AT&T Wireless Services Inc., international telecommunications...
WASHINGTON-It is a little hard to tell-and opinions differ-but it appears a bill to give the Federal Communications Commission additional authority to fine local exchange carriers for not opening up their markets to competition could impact wireless carriers just as the industry faces impending...
While some industry observers have been harping on how long the wireless industry will have to wait before it sees the widespread use of mobile data services, a report from Dataquest Inc. offers a more hopeful outlook, forecasting that wireless data subscribers will blossom...
When RadioShack warned last month its second-quarter sales were sluggish, the news did not surprise many. Sure, RadioShack's stock price fell 20 percent, but double-digit losses have become routine. But when the company blamed a $50 million anticipated sales shortfall on wireless handset and...
The use of affiliates to manage and operate local markets is common in the wireless industry. While the larger carriers use affiliates to help build out their national footprints, affiliates are often left behind the scenes operating the networks and providing a local connection...
WASHINGTON-A recently released report from congressional auditors shows that an FBI unit created in 1998 to warn of cyber-security threats and infrastructure protection risks has had challenges getting off the ground.The successes and challenges of the National Infrastructure Protection Center are detailed in a...
Major carriers are using third-party hosting services to gauge consumer activities to arrive at pricing models for m-commerce services.The operators, which include AT&T Wireless Services Group, Cingular Wireless, Verizon Wireless, Alltel Corp. and VoiceStream Wireless Corp., have been using Openwave's Mobile Access Gateway to...
After a year in which its global customer base increased from 53 million customers to a staggering 83 million customers, U.K.-based Vodafone Group plc said it will turn its attention this year from rounding up more subscribers to making money off the ones it...
As part of the carrier's $4 million investment in its Wyoming network, Verizon Wireless launched digital service in Laramie, Wyo. Previously, the carrier only offered analog service in the area. Verizon Wireless also reported the upgrade of its digital network in the area around...
Rural Cellular Corp. reigned supreme during the first quarter of this year, according to Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown's recent metric ranking of 22 U.S. wireless operators. The report ranked each operator on five metrics included in their first-quarter financial results, including penetration gain, average...
Heinz Corp.Heinz Corp., which provides services to wireless carriers, has promoted Rick Vogt to senior project manager. In his new position he will be responsible for Heinz's projects for Cingular Wireless. Vogt has been with Heinz for about a year, and most recently supervised...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission on May 25 denied a petition filed by litigants in a lawsuit complaining that certain of the former GTE Corp.'s billing practices were unjust and unreasonable, but it left open the question of whether the practices are unjust and unreasonable...
Wireless phones and driving appear to go together as well as coffee and doughnuts, according to an online consumer poll conducted by Verizon Wireless, which showed 95 percent of the more than 2,500 respondents admitted to making a phone call while driving.Of those coordinated...
WASHINGTON-If you are a congressman driving one Friday evening to Connecticut while holding a mobile phone in your hand, and your wife exclaims suddenly that you are driving erratically, what do you do?When this happened to Rep. Gary L. Ackerman (D-N.Y.), he introduced legislation...
"Advanced messaging services."It's the catch phrase for the wireless messaging industry today, with most major companies betting everything that services like wireless e-mail access, Internet information and two-way paging will catch on with both consumers and businesses-and will compensate for the radical decrease in...
INDONESIALucent Technologies Inc. has signed two contracts with PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia Tbk to build its nationwide intelligent network and multimedia access infrastructure valued at $17.5 million. "We are pleased to have new supply agreements with Lucent Technologies," said Muhammad Nazif, president director, PT Telkom.CANADATelus...
Most in the wireless industry are convinced that for wireless Internet access to succeed wireless operators have to tear down their current walled-garden plans that limit customer access to a set number of wirelessly enabled Web sites. Some wireless operators have heeded said advice...
Glitches are becoming to phones what muscle spasms are to track athletes-confirmation that travel to the next generation of technologies will experience limps along with leaps.Most of the big name phone makers including Sony Corp., Nokia Corp., L.M. Ericsson, NEC Corp. and Matsushita Industrial...
NEW YORK-Third-generation technology is completely unnecessary for taking advantage of data opportunities, which are growing even though widespread consumer adoption may be years away, according to speakers at the recent WirelessWednesdays "Killer Mobile Applications and Opportunities" seminar."The widespread belief that you need 3G to...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission proposed rules that could lead to the eventual end of analog cellular service, a move that could hurt telematics and other security businesses.However, the commission gave itself a number of "outs.""We seek to ensure that eliminating the analog compatibility standard...
Suddenly, the balance of power in official Washington has swung to The Outlyer.Who could've predicted Sen. Zell Miller (D-Ga.) would become such an unabashed Bush cheerleader or that Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) would ally himself with Finance Committee Chairman Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) on a...
