IRVINE, Calif.-FieldCentrix announced today that Verizon Wireless will become its FX Connect partner and will provide wireless network capabilities to FieldCentrix Enterprise customers.FieldCentrix's Enterprise program works to integrate wireless communications, handheld computers and the Internet to automate field service operators.FieldCentrix provides wireless, Internet-based software...
SALT LAKE CITY-Verizon Wireless introduced it Mobile Messenger two-way text-messaging service to customers in Salt Lake City.Verizon Wireless explained there was no need for customers to subscribe to the service, since any customer with a two-way text messaging-capable phone can just "pay as they...
MOUNTAIN LAKES, N.J.-Sprint PCS increased its share of the consumer wireless telephone service market, according to a report on consumer wireless phone service by market research firm Solomon-Wolff Associates.The report showed Sprint PCS now accounts for nearly 15 percent of all wireless phone users,...
WASHINGTON-A Georgia man last week filed lawsuit against mobile-phone giant Nokia Corp. and others, claiming cell phone use caused his brain cancer. The mobile-phone-cancer lawsuit is the latest in a mushrooming field of litigation that is beginning to hang over the wireless industry.In addition...
In a move to transform itself into the chief platform enabler among software developers and carriers, Qualcomm Inc. has developed an open, CDMA-based technology that will allow third-party users to write applications for mobile phones from a variety of vendors.The product, known as Binary...
News of the Federal Communications Commission's plan to delay the auction of 700 MHz spectrum from March to September, caused a slight panic for shareholders of Nextel Communications Inc. stock last Wednesday who saw the announcement as bad news for the carrier.The companies stock...
Several large wireless operators showed proof of continuing strength in the wireless industry, amid rumblings of a general slowdown in the economy. AT&T Wireless Services Inc., Sprint PCS, Verizon Wireless and Powertel Inc., all released fourth-quarter earnings reports last week showing positive results.AT&T Wireless...
WASHINGTON-Is the fourth time the charm?The Federal Communications Commission last week delayed the 700 MHz (746-806 MHz) auction set to begin March 6 for the fourth time. The auction of spectrum currently occupied by TV broadcasters transitioning to digital is now set to start...
NEW YORK-The pace of mergers and acquisitions slowed considerably during the last quarter of 2000, although the year closed with an all-time high of 9,602 transactions in all industries, Los Angeles-based Mergerstat reported.For the full year, the domestic M&A market posted about $1.4 trillion...
Openwave Systems Inc., the offspring of Phone.com and Software.com's recent union, became the darling of Wall Street last week following its announcement to introduce a new browser for packet-based GPRS and third-generation wireless networks, and it already has a customer in KDDI of Japan.The...
Wireless carriers believe in the power of advertising. Two of the major advertisers in last month's Super Bowl were the nation's two largest wireless carriers, Verizon Wireless and Cingular.But wireless carriers have been reluctant to push advertising over their wireless networks, saying they don't...
WASHINGTON-Wireless carriers should be exempt from the actual or threatened rolling blackouts that have plagued California in recent weeks in the same way wireline carriers are exempt, two of the largest carriers said last week."We would like to be placed in the same category...
After 101 rounds and $16.85 billion, the Federal Communications Commission's auction of 422 personal communications services licenses ended last Friday. The auction, which began Dec. 12, broke the previous record of $9.2 billion for PCS spectrum set in 1996."This most recent auction demonstrated the...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission took several actions to try to clarify the transition from analog to digital TV broadcasting and when the wireless industry will have access to those channels.The commission declined to set out a mandatory band-clearing plan for the 700 MHz band...
NEW YORK-The first fruits of the merger between Phone.com and Software.com sprouted last week as Openwave Systems Inc. reported a profit for its second fiscal quarter and painted a rosy picture for the future.The company's revenues increased 36 percent to $109.7 million from $80.8...
WASHINGTON-The Supreme Court last week agreed to decide whether wireless carriers have the right to attach antennas to utility poles under government-regulated rates, a case with major business implications for mobile-phone and fixed wireless operators that want to bring Internet-based services to business and...
Early expectations of the wireless Internet sweeping the country have suffered the realities of the limitations the service offers in comparison to the wired Web. While the number of wirelessly enabled sites grows daily, the lack of access and content these sites provide has...
Wireless service providers offering analog phone service to their subscribers are forced to walk a fine line between alienating established customers who rely on analog service and the increased profitability possible from value-added services offered on digital networks.As carriers acknowledge, analog service is still...
AT&T Wireless Services Inc. made the move to invest in the infrastructure services necessary to comply with the Federal Communications Commission's Phase II E-911 mandate with a multi-year agreement with emergency communications service provider SCC Communications Corp. Under the agreement, SCC will provide call...
GREENVILLE, S.C.-Verizon Wireless launched digital wireless services in Florence, Lee, Sumter, Clarendon and Williamsburg counties in South Carolina."With this significant digital expansion into eastern South Carolina, Verizon Wireless has positioned itself as the wireless carrier with the largest digital coverage in the area," said...
With celebrity endorsements becoming common in advertisements for wireless carriers, Cingular Wireless knew it needed a recognizable figure to kick off the advertising campaign promoting its nationwide service.The country's second-largest wireless operator, formed by the combination of BellSouth Corp.'s and SBC Communications Inc.'s wireless...
TAMPA, Fla.-GTE Telecommunication Services Inc. announced it will no longer market itself with GTE or Verizon Information Services and will note the distinction by changing its name to simply TSI Telecommunication Services Inc."Formally adopting the name TSI reinforces our unique and distinctive position within...
WASHINGTON-In a move being watched closely by the wireless industry, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration proposed rules to reimburse the Pentagon and other federal agencies relocated to other frequencies to free up spectrum for third-generation mobile-phone systems.The initiative, announced by NTIA chief Gregory...
WASHINGTON-The wireless industry last week suffered two stunning legal setbacks in health-related litigation, capped by the decision of wealthy Baltimore superlawyer Peter Angelos to take control of an $800 million mobile phone-cancer lawsuit in Maryland.It was an unprecedented week that left the industry in...
