Sprint Corp. signed Wi-Fi roaming agreements with four broadband Internet service providers and a virtual network enabler that the carrier said will increase the number of Wi-Fi locations accessible by its customers to more than 19,000 domestic and international hot spots. The agreements, which...
Sprint Corp. signed Wi-Fi roaming agreements with four broadband Internet service providers and a virtual network enabler that the carrier said will increase the number of Wi-Fi locations accessible by its customers to more than 19,000 domestic and international hot spots. The agreements, which...
FORT WORTH, Texas-Citing disappointing wireless sales, RadioShack Corp. posted a 13-percent drop in net income during the first quarter from $68.3 million last year, or 41 cents per share, to $55 million this year, or 34 cents per share. The results were at the...
ATLANTA-Cingular Wireless L.L.C. announced a new music service that will offer ringtones of singles before the songs are released to the public. The carrier will offer ringtones in advance of, or in conjunction with, the radio debut of new tunes. Cingular Sounds has launched...
BETHLEHEM, Pa.-Wireless software developer Padcom Inc. said it will team with Nextel Communications Inc. to market a roaming product between the iDEN infrastructure and other networks.Dubbed TotalRoam, the offering is designed to create a virtual private network for Nextel users moving from the carrier's...
Cingular Wireless announced a new music service that will offer ringtones of singles before the songs are released to the public. The carrier will offer ringtones in advance of, or in conjunction with, the radio debut of new tunes. Cingular Sounds has launched with...
"We have run out of people (in the United States) who can pass a credit check and want a wireless phone," said Roger Entner, vice president of North American wireless telecommunications for research and consulting firm Ovum. With 182 million wireless subscribers in the...
With the overwhelming array of wireless content and applications on the market, even the nation's biggest carriers are struggling with what to offer and how to present it to the consumer. It may be no surprise, then, that smaller carriers are working overtime to...
ATLANTA-Cingular Wireless and The U.S. Army announced a computer-aided dispatch solution enabled for Cingular's nationwide wireless data network that allows the military and civilian police officers at Fort Hood in Texas to access incident information on wireless rugged laptops mounted in their patrol vehicles....
Once satisfied to quietly grab some shelf space for their titles on a carrier's deck of wireless offerings, mobile game publishers are now trying to make a little more noise. While they may be big in the world of wireless entertainment, game developers and...
IBM Corp. said it built a wireless data network in Fresno, Calif., for the police department that will allow officers to transmit text, images and videos via in-vehicle computers and personal digital assistants. The microwave transmission network works in the 900 MHz frequency band."To...
LONDON-The backlash against proposed rates to license digital rights management technology continued this week, with a powerful group of wireless carriers threatening to abandon the open-standard system. The GSM Association blasted royalties for the technology proposed earlier this year by the MPEG Licensing Authority...
The backlash against proposed rates to license digital rights management technology continued this week, with a powerful group of wireless carriers threatening to abandon the open-standard system.The GSM Association blasted royalties for the technology proposed earlier this year by the MPEG Licensing Authority for...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-T-Mobile USA Inc. is offering a software upgrade for the iPAQ h6315 Pocket PC from Hewlett-Packard Co. The carrier recently suspended sales of the device due to unexplained software problems.The carrier posted the software upgrade on its Web site at www.t-mobile.com/hpupdate. T-Mobile said...
WASHINGTON-The U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday morning heard two cases with potential impacts on wireless data services.In Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. v. Grokster Ltd., the court seemed to be skeptical that a test could be developed to determine when new innovations are used primarily for copyright...
When it comes to mobile phones, Sprint PCS has long been in a class of its own. Since the carrier's beginnings, Sprint has traveled its own path in the handset market. Instead of relying on stock phones, Sprint has carved out its own phone...
T-Mobile USA Inc. suspended sales of the Hewlett-Packard Co. iPAQ h6315 smart phone due to unexplained software bugs, a move that illustrates the extremely advanced levels of technology packed into high-end devices as well as the risks carriers face in selling them. Wireless stands...
NEW ORLEANS-Whether it's downloading video clips, buying ringtones or simply sending a photo to a friend, the key to enticing consumers to spend more on wireless data can be summed up in one word: simplicity. That was the message from carriers, content providers and...
The mobile virtual network operator market welcomed back one of its early members last week as former Boost Mobile L.L.C. executive Peter Adderton announced plans for Amp'd Mobile Inc., a venture set to launch later this year. Adderton's non-compete clause with Nextel Communications Inc,...
NEW ORLEANS-ChangingWorlds Ltd. Launched its ClixSmart Intelligent Wireless Portal Platform in North America at the CTIA show. "With ClixSmart's personalization technology our customers can release the untapped revenue potential of their wireless data services and increase subscriber average revenue per user," said Vincent Ryan,...
NEW ORLEANS-Sprint Corp. said business customers will be eligible for a credit of 10 percent of their monthly wireless data bills if service quality falls below certain levels. Sprint said service level agreements, or SLAs, are intended to erase artificial barriers between wireless and...
NEW ORLEANS-Carriers' efforts to increase wireless data revenues took a big step forward this week at CTIA Wireless 2005 as the nation's two largest carriers quietly confirmed their networks are multimedia message service interoperable.Cingular Wireless and Verizon Wireless said they've been MMS interoperable for...
NEW ORLEANS-America Online Inc. announced deals with two U.S. wireless carriers.Cingular Wireless L.L.C. said it is working with AOL to give Cingular Wireless customers easy access to AOL's new mobile portal, Instant Pictures and mobile You've Got Pictures services.The Instant Pictures feature for the...
NEW ORLEANS-Brightpoint Inc. said it has launched a new line of business called Advanced Wireless Services, which will focus on delivering bundled wireless products to meet customers' wireless data needs.Products the company plans to provide include Windows-based smart phones and Pocket PCs, activation services,...
