GOLDEN, Colo.-nReach will deploy new digital vending ports, private label Web sites and prepaid card locations in seven wireless retail chains in the U.S. on Nov. 29.With the new solution, consumers can buy mobile phone content in-store or on the Web with an nReach...
DENVER-Qwest Communications International Inc. closed 17 of its wireless retail outlets in six states that the company claimed were unprofitable, according to the Associated Press.Qwest Wireless, which had a maximum of 23 retail outlets in the 14 states where it offers service, said only...
LAS VEGAS-Mobile content provider Cellus USA announced nReach will sell Cellus wireless content through its Mobile Content Kiosk.The kiosks allow consumers to order wireless content, including ringtones, logos, pictures, greetings, SMS games and sports scores, for instant delivery to their wireless phones. Customers will...
NEW YORK-Cingular Wireless, which launched service in the New York metropolitan area, opened its flagship store here July 11 on Fifth Avenue and East 47th Street, a few blocks from Rockefeller Center, where the carrier also opened the "Cingular Zone," described as an "experiential...
ARLINGTON, Va.—Organizers of the 2002 International CES Knowledge Circuit conference program, scheduled for January 8, 2002, in Las Vegas, announced they expect to hold more than 100 educational sessions and to host 110,000 attendees.Eleven technology circuits expected to be covered in the conference include...
NEW YORK-ISeg Technologies Inc., McLean, Va., expects to release commercially by mid-June a software package that allows wireless carriers to monitor in real time customer use of different services and to respond accordingly with tailored offers.The company, which also has facilities in Germany, Israel...
The Ohio Public Utilities Commission made a major ruling this month in favor of Cleveland-based wireless reseller Cellnet Telecommunications Inc. in the company's eight-year legal battle with what are now Cingular Wireless and Verizon Wireless.The commission's lengthy and complicated ruling agrees in essence with...
The life of a start-up company is as unpredictable as the weather, and sometimes the plotted course turns out to be the wrong path to success.Such was the case with Reason Inc. Just eight months ago, the company launched as Reason Wireless Ware, selling...
CINCINNATI-Cincinnati Bell Wireless announced that it expanded its southwest Ohio operating region by launching personal communications services in Dayton.The launch coincides with the opening of four new Cincinnati Bell Wireless retail outlets. The launch is being coordinated through a management agreement with AT&T Wireless...
MotorolaMotorola Inc. appointed Dennis Roberson vice president and chief technology officer. Roberson reports to Merle L. Gilmore, president, Europe, Middle East and Africa. As president, EMEA, Gilmore also oversees the company's corporate technical staff functions. Roberson succeeds William Bruan, who retired as senior vice...
MARLBOROUGH, Mass.-InfoCellular Inc. entered into a joint marketing agreement with Onyx Technologies L.L.C. to market the companies' combined product, Info4Score, which is designed to reduce fraud and acquisition time for wireless retail and telemarketing sales channels."Info4Score provides a wireless carrier with an automated system...
BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Bell Atlantic Mobile said its AirBridge Wireless Retail Solutions Group, which is focused on providing wireless credit-card transaction processing, entered into a joint marketing agreement with U.S. Wireless Data Inc.Under the pact, the cellular carrier will distribute U.S. Wireless' proprietary TRANZ Enabler wireless...
WASHINGTON-After months of being publicly pounded on antenna siting, health concerns, unsafe cell phone drivers and blocked E-911 calls, the wireless industry is responding with an approach that relies on good corporate citizenship and uses the power of advertising to stress the public-safety benefits...
NEW YORK-TSR Paging Inc., Fort Lee, N.J., announced Oct. 29 it has closed on a new $175 million credit facility, which represents a $50 million increase over its existing facility.Syndicated among eight banks, the new credit facility was oversubscribed by 70 percent, TSR said....
Lucent Technologies announced it promoted Richard McGinn, current president and chief operating officer, to chief executive officer, effective immediately. McGinn, 51, will replace Henry Schacht, 63, who will remain as chairman. McGinn has been with the company for two years and has a combined...
DENVER-Western Wireless Corp. said it plans to launch personal communications services based on Global System for Mobile communications technology May 1 in Denver. The company plans to open several VoiceStream Wireless retail outlets along the Front Range.Western Wireless will compete with digital cellular carriers...
