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...
Verizon Wireless has signed an agreement with Triad Holdings L.L.C. to acquire Triad's PCS licenses covering the Southern Oklahoma BTA of Ardmore and Lawton-Duncan. The new area, which covers total pops of 267,000, will become part of the Verizon Wireless South area. Verizon hopes...
NEW YORK-Unplugged Games Inc., founded last year with $2 million in venture financing, made public May 15 an agreement reached last month to supply AT&T Wireless Services Inc.'s Digital PocketNet customers with interactive games for multiple players.The New York-based start-up began offering "a limited...
NEW YORK-Wireless data is like a diamond in the rough, waiting for ways to smooth out its rough edges into sparkling facets that will attract growing numbers of consumers into increasing amounts of usage.Where there is a business problem, so too exists a business...
WASHINGTON-In an unexpected twist pitting billionaire Craig McCaw against a mobile-phone industry he once towered over, sources say the Federal Communications Commission may propose making some mobile satellite service spectrum-including that held by McCaw's New ICO and other struggling satellite firms-available for third-generation wireless...
WASHINGTON-The FCC's Wireless Telecommunications Bureau on Thursday denied a request from AT&T Wireless Services Inc. to keep confidential test results showing some enhanced 911 Phase II technologies won't work for the carrier."We find that the public interest requires that these materials be made available...
NEW YORK-Good news for carrier access to capital arrived from the debt markets May 9 as WorldCom Inc. broke a record for debt deal size by a U.S. corporation and a unit of Verizon Communications Inc. issued convertible bonds that comprised the third-largest sale...
Symbian received an important lift after Nokia Corp. said that half its third-generation mobile phones will use the company's platform by 2004.The move ends speculation on whether Symbian's stakeholders, including Nokia, L.M. Ericsson and Motorola Inc., will actually use the company's operating platform. A...
If the economy is going south for both vendors and operators in the United States, part of the solution may lie in going south, literally.According to a Strategis Group study conducted on international roaming focusing on TDMA technology, there is huge market potential in...
Dear Editor,We first want to thank reporter Heather Forsgren Weaver for attending our press conference in Washington D.C. As you know, we believe strongly in Project LOCATE's mission and the importance of deploying Phase II technology. It is heartening to see the rest of...
