TORONTO-A concept car outfitted with wireless technology from Canadian wireless data and global positioning systems solutions company Baka Trak-IT is being used to demonstrate wireless network operability at this week's Bell Mobility Wireless Internet conference.Dubbed the Baka Wireless Smart Car, the Daimler Chrysler vehicle...
Nextel Communications Inc. said its Nationwide Direct Connect service is now available in the northern region of Baja California, Mexico, including Tijuana, Ensenada, Rosarito, Mexicali and Tecate. The quasi-international coverage, which was launched with Nextel's international partner NII Holdings Inc.'s Nextel Mexico subsidiary, allows...
MOSCOW-Nortel Networks Ltd. said it has won a contract to provide the wireless network of BaykalWestcom with GSM and GPRS equipment and services across portions of Siberia."The network upgrades will position BaykalWestom to introduce text messaging, Internet access, e-mail with attachments, and other wireless...
Sprint PCS reported that an undetermined number of its wireless customers in area codes beginning with 41 and 42 were affected for about six hours Thursday by a software glitch that prevented them from making calls between mobile phones and from receiving calls from...
MOSCOW-Nortel Networks Ltd. said it has won a contract to provide the wireless network of BaykalWestcom with GSM and GPRS equipment and services across portions of Siberia."The network upgrades will position BaykalWestcom to introduce text messaging, Internet access, e-mail with attachments, and other wireless...
HELSINKI, Finland-Due to a rash of deals in recent days, wireless users the world over will soon have access to games and content ranging from the arcade classic Pong to a game based on the TV show "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?"Such deal-making...
T-Mobile USA Inc. this week will continue its innovative marketing campaign with five simultaneous music concerts across the country, all in an effort to help sell its camera phones, messaging features and other advanced services.And it seems the campaign and others like it in...
Due to a rash of deals in recent days, wireless users the world over will soon have access to games and content ranging from the arcade classic Pong to a game based on the TV show "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?"Such deal making...
While most wireless operators are in the midst of launching third-generation wireless data services using traditional base stations over licensed airwaves, an increasing number of smaller, independent companies have begun deploying high-speed wireless data services using unlicensed spectrum and both proprietary and standards-based technologies...
WALL, N.J.-Nortel Networks Ltd. said it will replace Centennial Communications Corp.'s Dominican subsidiary's existing CDMA third-generation network with its CDMA2000 1x access and core networking equipment. The network is expected to be fully operational by the end of 2003 and will increase capacity and...
SEATTLE-Ring tones and music have become a major part of the wireless industry, as providers from the United States to Japan launch new audio services.Indeed, AT&T Wireless Services Inc. will sell ring tones through Yamaha Ringtones, a unit of Yamaha Corp.'s Digital Content Division....
SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Motorola made a handful of public-safety related wireless announcements in conjunction with this week's Association of Public Safety Communications Officials (APCO) conference in Indianapolis.The supplier released a full suite of Project 25 integrated mobile, portable, voice and data communications solutions, including trunking solutions,...
STAMFORD, Conn.-One day after a surprising surge in its stock price, wireless data company I3 Mobile Inc. announced it has signed a non-binding letter of intent with ACE*COMM Corp. to be acquired via a merger with ACE*COMM or a wholly owned subsidiary of ACE*COMM.Shares...
More than a year after announcing plans to sell off or find a partner for its wireless division, Qwest Communications International Inc. last week reported a deal with Sprint PCS that calls for Qwest to transition its nearly 1 million wireless subscribers to Sprint...
Regional wireless carrier Dobson Communications Corp. today announced it will jump into the picture messaging business later this year through a new deal with messaging infrastructure provider LogicaCMG.Dobson will use LogicaCMG's Multimedia Messaging Service Center and Wireless Service Broker to offer multimedia messaging services...
LOS ANGELES-Under an innovative new marketing agreement, wireless data company Moviso will offer prepaid ring-tone cards featuring musicians from record company BMG. Moviso will sell the cards through 7-Eleven and AT&T Wireless Services Inc."BMG recognizes the tremendous marketing and revenue opportunities in prepaid entertainment,...
One day after a surprising surge in its stock price, wireless data company I3 Mobile Inc. announced it has signed a non-binding letter of intent with ACE*COMM Corp. to be acquired via a merger with ACE*COMM or a wholly owned subsidiary of ACE*COMM. Shares...
The country's two largest CDMA carriers posted strong second-quarter results last week, with customer growth surging past last year's results and customer churn rates falling to unexpected lows. The results followed similarly robust second-quarter customer growth announcements last month from nationwide rivals Cingular Wireless...
Cingular Wireless L.L.C.'s rumored $1.4 billion purchase of 34 PCS licenses from NextWave Telecom Inc. was semi-announced last week as NextWave's public-relations agency distributed a press release claiming the two companies had agreed on a deal that if approved by NextWave's bankruptcy court and...
Despite a press release from NextWave Telecom Inc.'s public relations company that a deal had been reached, Cingular Wireless L.L.C. said it is still in negotiations to purchase wireless licenses covering 83 million potential customers in 34 markets from the bankrupt license holder for...
Caution chastened optimism in vendor earnings.While companies like Qualcomm Inc. and Siemens AG enjoyed profits, others like Lucent Technologies Inc. and Nortel Networks Ltd. didn't fare as well.Ahead of its earnings report, Lucent had retracted an earlier optimistic projection to turn a profit...
Beaten back by a lackluster economy and ambivalent wireless users, an assortment of veteran wireless data players has sought refuge in the company of network operators. By targeting wireless carriers, these companies are looking to find a stable customer base amid a cutthroat business...
Like '70s disco or roller skates, the wireless portal is now retro cool. Dude.In the heyday of the late 1990s, the wireless industry was awash with the wireless Internet and the possibilities therein. Wireless players from carriers on down to startups imagined opening Yahoo!-style...
MUNICH, Germany-Siemens' funding arm continued its investment spree, this time announcing an investment in Israeli mobile content company Ki-Bi Mobile Technologies Ltd. Financial details were not disclosed.Ki-Bi Mobile offers a memory-based card similar to a phone card, which allows mobile-phone users to dial a...
