Gaming highlighted a rash of announcements made today at the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association's Wireless I.T and Entertainment show in Las Vegas, providing a peak at what might be some of the hot-selling offerings for the holiday sales season.Nokia and AT&T Wireless said...
WASHINGTON-A think tank funded by the wireless industry and other tech sectors today warned in a new study that U.S. cellular subscribers could pay over $16 billion a year-or about $10 per month extra-to pay for taxes and regulations imposed on the wireless industry....
PARIS-Vivendi Universal and Vodafone Group plc, joint owners of a mobile operator in France that have each been vying to take full control of the company for months, said they will simplify the group's ownership structure and increase their cooperation in the business.The companies...
Longtime wireless modem maker Sierra Wireless announced a significant new business direction with the unveiling of its Voq phone-a device that marks the arrival of a new smart-phone player and another Microsoft Corp. backer.Investors seemed cheered by the bold move, sending Sierra's stock up...
PARIS-Media giant Vivendi Universal is considering merging its French fixed-line and wireless companies into one telecom holding, according to international press reports. Vivendi would combine Cegetel, its fixed-line company, and SFR, its French mobile subsidiary. Both units are minority owned by Vodafone Group plc.Under...
By rolling out services in two U.S. markets, Verizon Wireless has triggered momentum for CDMA2000 1X EV-DO technology, barely two years since the first launch of CDMA2000 1X services in the world.The EV-DO launches, which took place in San Diego and Washington, D.C., are...
TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo Inc. finally hit the 1 million mark for the number of users of its FOMA third-generation W-CDMA service, two years after launching the service and much later than original estimates. After sluggish uptake for its 3G services, DoCoMo improved handset quality by...
A Russian operator has begun a trial of CDMA2000 1X technology at 450 MHz using equipment from Nortel Networks Ltd. The trial is being conducted in Yekaterinburg, Russia's fourth-largest city, by UralWestcom, a joint venture between Russian Telecommunications Development Corp. and Ural Svyza Inform....
LONDON-In the second such European alliance aiming to gain power in numbers, nine second- and third-tier mobile operators joined forces in a new mobile alliance to provide seamless, enhanced voice and data solutions for businesses and consumers across the Continent.MmO2, which operates in the...
LONDON-Vodafone U.K. said it and rival operator 3 have jointly secured the FA Premier League mobile rights in a three-season deal. The rights begin with the 2004/2005 season and run through the 2006/2007 season and give customers access to all 380 league matches each...
SYDNEY, Australia-Portal Software said it is the official billing partner of Personal Broadband Australia, the Australian wireless broadband company backed by U.S.-based Arraycomm Inc. The portal solution for the Australian firm includes end-to-end rating, billing and customer management to support several account models, including...
TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo Inc. finally hit the 1 million mark for the number of users of its FOMA third-generation W-CDMA service, two years after launching the service and much later than original estimates. After sluggish uptake for its 3G services, DoCoMo improved handset quality by...
LONDON-In the second such European alliance aiming to gain power in numbers, nine second- and third-tier mobile operators joined forces in a new mobile alliance to provide seamless, enhanced voice and data solutions for businesses and consumers across the Continent.MmO2, which operates in the...
SINGAPORE-Wireless streaming video company RealNetworks Inc. announced two Asian carriers purchased the company's Helix server and technology, a move to offer streaming video services to wireless users.MobileOne Ltd. (M1) of Singapore and PT Indosat Multimedia Mobile (IM3) of Indonesia purchased the server, following a...
LONDON-European carrier Vodafone Group plc announced a deal with video game company Eidos for the exclusive rights to the Tomb Raider game across 22 countries, a deal that further shows the growing market for exclusive wireless content and downloadable wireless games.Under the terms of...
SYDNEY, Australia-Australian mobile operators Vodafone Australia and Telstra Wholesale announced a network-partnering trial that will see the operators share mobile base-station infrastructure in areas where duplicate coverage exists.If the pilot project in central regional Victoria is successful, Vodafone will move forward to partner with...
LONDON-European carrier Vodafone announced a deal with video game company Eidos for the exclusive rights to the Tomb Raider game across 22 countries, a deal that further shows the growing market for exclusive wireless content and downloadable wireless games.Under the terms of the agreement,...
SYDNEY, Australia-Australian mobile operators Vodafone Australia and Telstra Wholesale announced a network partnering trial that will see the operators share mobile base station infrastructure in areas where duplicate coverage exists.If the pilot project in central regional Victoria is successful, Vodafone will move forward with...
INGAPORE-Wireless streaming video company RealNetworks Inc. announced two Asian carriers purchased the company's Helix server and technology, a move to offer streaming video services to wireless users.MobileOne Ltd. (M1) of Singapore and PT Indosat Multimedia Mobile (IM3) of Indonesia purchased the server, following a...
The mobile commerce industry saw several new announcements and partnerships in conjunction with the Mobile Commerce World Europe 2003 event in London, but the most notable event included a teaming of perhaps the biggest names in the wireless and commerce industries.Nokia Corp. and Visa...
Jeffrey Glass could be considered a player in the mobile-commerce industry, although you won't find the "m-commerce" designation in any of the literature about his company. However, as president and chief executive officer of M-Qube Inc., Glass for almost three years has been encouraging...
TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo Inc. said it plans to offer FOMA video-phone handsets beginning Oct. 1, allowing users to make international video phone calls and 64 kilobit per second data transmissions to the United Kingdom with technology partner Hutchison 3G U.K.The service, which DoCoMo noted builds...
GLEN COVE, N.Y.-Acclaim Entertainment Inc. announced it will develop and license interactive entertainment content for mobile gaming platforms under the new publishing label Acclaim Connected."Mobile gaming represents an opportunistic market that we believe is additive to our core publishing business, which can provide incremental...
TOKYO-Japanese mobile operator J-Phone Co. Ltd. announced that its board of directors proposed a resolution to change its name to Vodafone K.K., which will completely rebrand the mobile operator under its U.K.-based parent's name. K.K. stands for Kabushiki Kaisha, J-Phone said.The resolution is subject...
