Phone makers released a variety of high-tech wares in conjunction with the CeBIT show. Among those making announcements were:Motorola Inc., which showed off a range of new handsets. The company unveiled its new 3G V1150, a third-generation phone with a 2-megapixel camera, music player...
LONDON-Vodafone Group plc and Japanese handset maker Toshiba announced a strategic partnership to market a range of exclusive third-generation handsets in Europe, Australia, Japan and New Zealand. The relationship marks Toshiba's entrance into the European mobile-phone market. The companies will work together to market...
LONDON-Wireless carriers Vodafone Group plc and Telesystem International Wireless Inc. said they are in discussions regarding the possible sale of TIW's wireless interests in Eastern Europe.Vodafone said any offer it makes would equate to a value per TIW share close to the closing share...
SYDNEY, Australia-Broadcast Australia subsidiary The Bridge Networks will team with Telstra on a year-long trial of Australia's first multi-channel mobile TV service using digital video broadcast for handheld (DVB-H) technology.Harris Broadcast Systems, a Cincinnati-based communications company, will provide transmission equipment for the transmissions, which...
Sprint PCS' bundled voice plans topped Analysys Research's list of the world's top 10 wireless services based on its ability to produce unmatched levels of voice usage and twice the voice average revenue per user achieved by operators in Western Europe. Analysys Research said...
Leap Wireless International Inc. appointed Albin Al Moschner executive vice president and chief marketing officer and Glenn Umetsu executive vice president and chief technical officer. Both positions are new to the company. Leap said Moschner will be responsible for overseeing Leap's overall marketing and...
The news that Microsoft Corp. will join Nokia Corp. to deliver a mobile-music platform may have been among the more startling developments at last week's 3GSM World Congress, but it was only the first of a half-dozen mobile music announcements both out of France...
TOKYO-MTV Japan and Yamaha said they made available Japan's first music recognition service, MTV Music Finder, to KDDI Corp. subscribers across Japan.In partnership with Shazam Entertainment, a U.K.-based audio recognition company, MTV Japan will work with its local licensee, SystemK Corp., to deliver Shazam's...
TOKYO-Vodafone K.K., the Japanese subsidiary of Vodafone Group plc, said Monday it obtained a license from Japan's Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications to conduct field tests for High Speed Downlink Packet Access technology using experimental radio stations. Accordingly, Vodafone K.K. will begin field...
CAMBRIDGE, U.K.-Location-based services company m-spatial said it will announce at 3GSM Congress the deployment of a location-aware platform for Vodafone UK's wireless data subscribers. The company will unveil its Spatial Platform, which is available to more than 2 million Vodafone live! customers. The offering...
Sprint PCS may be going out on a date with WiMAX, but it does not guarantee a wedding ring. That's the way another technology provider, Flarion Technologies Inc. with its Flash-OFDM, approaches the carrier's decision to join the WiMAX Forum. Since its proposed merger...
Be it through enabling platforms or the resulting customer wins, Hewlett Packard Co. often strives to highlight its role as a wireless player. With three recent carrier contracts, the company is drawing the attention of the wireless industry again. With its Service Delivery Platform,...
Although Cingular Wireless L.L.C. is racing to launch a UMTS/HSDPA network in 15 to 20 markets by the end of this year, the carrier probably will face slim pickings when it comes to phones capable of taking advantage of its shiny new network. None...
The venture capital arm of Siemens said it will join Cardinal Venture Capital and Garage Technology Ventures in investing $3 million in wireless technology company PhoneBites. PhoneBites is developing a mobile-phone application that will allow users to interject sounds into a voice conversation. The...
Similar to mechanics in the automotive world, test-and-measurement companies are the quiet heroes of wireless technologies. They take little credit when the networks hum and huff, yet they witness each technology's creation day and play parts in their burial rites. From handsets to access...
Vodafone Group plc reported its strongest quarter since 2000, posting 5.4 million net customer additions to bring its worldwide subscriber base to 151.8 million. Vodafone's announcement also offered a glimpse into Verizon Wireless' fourth-quarter results to be announced Thursday. According to Vodafone's numbers, Verizon...
Despite a rash of operational difficulties during the past several years that led to its eventual sale to rival Cingular Wireless L.L.C., Forrester Research Inc. found that AT&T Wireless Services Inc. was the leading wireless provider of next-generation business services, according to a survey...
Despite a rash of operational difficulties during the past several years that led to its eventual sale to rival Cingular Wireless L.L.C., research firm Forrester Research Inc. found that AT&T Wireless Services Inc. was the leading wireless provider of next-generation business services. The results,...
LONDON-Vodafone Group plc said it will adopt new accounting rules that could mean slightly lower financials in the near term. However, the market seemed neutral on the news, which has been expected given the new European Union standard will require about 7,000 of Europe's...
LONDON-The Open Mobile Terminal Platform group announced it bulked up its membership to 40 companies with the addition of firms such as Qualcomm Inc., PalmSource Inc. and Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications L.P."2005 promises to be a particularly exciting year for the OMTP group," said...
BERNE, Switzerland-Swisscom Mobile said it has launched the first UMTS mobile phone with a 2-megapixel camera. The Sharp V902 UMTS mobile supports services such as live TV and video telephony.The phone also has autofocus and optical 2-times zoom, as well as digital 10-times zoom...
Wireless has been mobilized in a variety of critical and innovative ways in reaction to the December tsunami disaster. The wall of water that struck parts of Sri Lanka, India, Thailand and elsewhere served to severely disrupt some telecommunications networks. According to company statements...
Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo Inc. made headlines last week by announcing it was part of an effort to develop standards for a new mobile-phone technology that would transfer data more than 10 times faster than current third-generation networks. But exactly what that technology will...
The infamous rumor mill was rampant last week with continuing industry merger and consolidation scenarios and various analysts, media outlets and market watchers making suggestions for the next billion-dollar buy.First there were predictions that Vodafone Group could still make a play for either Sprint...
