PARIS-Medialive SA snared $4.2 million in Series A funding from Nextel Communications Inc. and Sophia Euro Lab, the French content protection provider announced Friday. Medialive partners with broadband and wireless service providers to protect multimedia content using an open software suite. The 5-year-old company...
PARIS-Medialive SA snared $4.2 million in Series A funding from Nextel Communications Inc. and Sophia Euro Lab, the French content protection provider announced Friday.Medialive partners with broadband and wireless service providers to protect multimedia content using an open software suite. The 5-year-old company said...
WASHINGTON-The stakes continue to rise in the telecom consumer bill-of-rights controversy, with the California legislature ready to write the new rule into law and the California Public Utilities Commission considering a sweeping overhaul of the state's telecom regulatory regime. Sen. Martha Escutia (D), chairwoman...
WASHINGTON-Legislation could be introduced as early as today to write into state law the telecom consumer bill of rights approved last year by the California Public Utilities Commission, a move that comes in response to the agency's recent decision to put new guidelines on...
WASHINGTON-The U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday is expected to hear oral argument as it decides whether a city has to pay attorney fees if it loses a tower-siting case. Mark Abrams, an SMR operator, wanted to use a 54-foot antenna on his property for commercial...
Once lightly regarded as a true competitor for its larger nationwide competition due to its relatively small customer base, not-quite nationwide footprint and questionable network quality, T-Mobile USA Inc. has managed to stake its claim as one of the segment's leading operators in the...
As North American wireless service providers increasingly tout value-added services in an attempt to differentiate themselves from the competition, widespread 32-kilobit subscriber identity module cards are being replaced with more capable 64k SIM cards, a trend that mimics what occurred in Europe a year...
T-Mobile USA Inc. ranked highest among the seven largest wireless service providers in customer-care performance, beating out Verizon Wireless, Alltel Corp. and Nextel Communications Inc., which all performed above average, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2004 Wireless Customer Care Performance Study.The study's...
DALLAS-Alcatel and Intrado Inc. together announced they will provide the Alcatel Multimedia Messaging Services product suite to wireless carriers using Intrado's hosted service facilities. The companies said the agreement reinforces a trend toward managed services that help wireless service providers reduce costs and quickly...
High-profile nationwide carriers and niche-focused mobile virtual network operators are not the only wireless service providers that stand to benefit from specific marketing geared toward the highly desirable youth market. A survey released last week by the National Telecommunications Cooperative Association and the Foundation...
WASHINGTON-Harsh political and industry criticism of the California Public Utilities Commission's bill of rights for telecom consumers likely signals the controversy will carry over into 2005, when pro-business GOP Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger replaces two exiting Democratic commissioners with his own appointments. "I am disappointed...
WASHINGTON-Harsh political and industry criticism of the California Public Utilities Commission's bill of rights for telecom consumers likely signals the controversy will carry over into 2005, when pro-business GOP Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger replaces two exiting Democratic commissioners with his own appointments. "I am disappointed...
In preparation for the upcoming May 24 deadline enabling wireless local number portability in markets outside the top 100, Verizon Wireless said it has continued to work with smaller regional wireless service providers in an attempt to ensure they are prepared to comply with...
San Francisco's Moscone Center meeting and exhibition facility is quickly becoming a haven of high-tech wireless communications technology. The 2 million square-foot facility, developed and owned by the City and County of San Francisco and privately managed by SMG, includes 700,000 square feet of...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission should avoid forcing carriers who have chosen to deploy a handset-based solution to comply with the wireless enhanced 911 Phase II mandates to switch out handsets if they have not reached the 95 percent threshold by the end of next...
LONGMONT, Colo.-911 infrastructure company Intrado Inc. said it has acquired Swiss company bmd wireless AG to more effectively design, build and deliver messaging platforms.Bmd wireless makes core network messaging infrastructure solutions."Our combined strengths will put us in a better position to deliver the benefits...
The wireless industry has had a long and lucrative history with sponsoring sporting events. According to a report released last year by Sports Marketing Surveys Ltd., the telecommunications industry signed 91 sports sponsorship deals in 2002, trailing only the automotive industry's 124 sponsorship agreements....
InnerWireless Inc. will market its InnerMobile in-building wireless distribution system to wireless service providers to enable wireless communications throughout the Sears Tower in Chicago. The wireless system will cover the skyscraper's 110 floors, which encompass 3.5 million square feet of office and retail space...
Most of the world's top mobile-phone makers celebrated major fourth-quarter victories, with record numbers of shipments and revenues boosted by the holiday season, but those in the industry expect the real action is still yet to come."There haven't been a lot of surprises," said...
RICHARDSON, Texas-InnerWireless Inc. announced it will market its InnerMobile in-building wireless distribution system to wireless service providers to enable wireless communications throughout the Sears Tower in Chicago. The wireless system will cover the skyscraper's 110 floors, which encompass 3.5 million square feet of office...
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.-WireIntel is raising the stakes for wireline replacement in the business sector with its patent-pending technology that allows wireless service providers to sell scalable multi-line telephone, data services and telecommunication equipment to businesses.The technology allows businesses to choose between traditional wireline service...
LGP Allgon has been awarded a contract to provide an indoor distributed antenna system to improve wireless phone and data coverage at Moscone West, the expansion of San Francisco's Moscone Center conference facility. The contract was awarded by InSite Wireless, which leases wireless capacity...
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.-WireIntel is raising the stakes for wireline replacement in the business sector with its patent-pending technology that allows wireless service providers to sell scalable multi-line telephone, data services and telecommunication equipment to businesses.The technology allows businesses to choose between traditional wireline service...
FORT WORTH, Texas-LGP Allgon has been awarded a contract to provide an indoor distributed antenna system to improve wireless phone and data coverage at Moscone West, the expansion of San Francisco's Moscone Center conference facility. The contract was awarded by InSite Wireless, which leases...
