REDMOND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. announced Koichi Nishimura will join its board of directors, effective April 1. Nishimura was chairman, president and chief executive officer of Solectron Corp. until his retirement in January. He also has 23 years of experience with IBM Corp. Nishimura,...
WASHINGTON-T-Mobile USA reportedly plans to drop enhanced observed time difference (EOTD) technology as its solution for implementing Phase II enhanced 911 service.T-Mobile's deployments of the technology had been one of the few bright spots for EOTD during a time when its other major U.S....
RICHARDSON, Texas-InnerWireless and AT&T Wireless Services Inc. announced they have enhanced wireless coverage in the Los Cerritos Center shopping center in southern California with InnerWireless' InnerMobile in-building system."By providing coverage to the millions of people who visit the Los Cerritos Center we are ensuing...
NEW ORLEANS-Wireless industry leaders have agreed to implement universal short codes, and wireless users could see cross-carrier short code applications within the next few months.The board of directors for the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association voted Wednesday to go ahead with the plan. The...
WASHINGTON-The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation is slated to hold a hearing this week in the class-action lawsuits against the mobile-phone industry regarding whether phones comply with the 911 strongest-signal rules.The hearing is set to occur in Charleston, S.C.The Wireless Consumers Alliance filed several...
NEW ORLEANS-Siemens Information and Communication Mobile made several announcements at CTIA Wireless 2003 this week in New Orleans.The company announced its SX1 mobile phone for U.S. consumers will be available in the third quarter. The SX1 has strips of keys built into each side...
SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif.-Wynd Communications Corp. launched the Deafwireless Superstore, making wireless products and services for people with hearing loss available via an online store and at nationwide deaf trade events.From the store, Wynd will sell services including its WyndTell wireless services brand, Deafwireless...
CLEVELAND-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. has expanded its next-generation network to the Buffalo and Rochester, N.Y., markets"Now, western New York residents and businesses can enjoy innovative wireless services that will help them manage and simplify their lives," said Dave Davidson, vice president of AT&T Wireless....
NEW ORLEANS-A display celebrating the 20 years of commercial wireless services at the CTIA Wireless 2003 show includes a special feature on ArrayComm Inc.'s chairman and chief executive officer Martin Cooper and the wireless phone Cooper used to place the first potable cellular phone...
NEW ORLEANS-ADC and The Management Network Group demonstrated on-demand revenue management for wireless public access networks at the CTIA Wireless 2003 show.Using ADC's Singl.eView dynamic transaction management platform integrated with the wireless infrastructure, ADC is performing real-time service creation and policy-based charging from authentication,...
NEW ORLEANS-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. announced the formation of the AT&T Wireless Systems Integrator Program to help U.S. companies design and implement wireless data solutions. "By teaming with the systems integrators that these companies already rely on for IT support, we can streamline the...
ATLANTA-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and Cingular Wireless earlier this week announced a joint roaming agreement to improve network quality and encourage expansion of GSM/GPRS coverage in the United States.According to the agreement, Cingular and AT&T Wireless customers will continue to have access to the...
BOSTON-The U.S. cellular market will grow 6 percent annually during the next five years, resulting in penetration of almost 70 percent, according to a new report from research firm Strategy Analytics.This year, Strategy Analytics expects Verizon Wireless to lead the market; Sprint PCS to...
REDMOND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and Cingular Wireless L.L.C. officially formed their previously announced "Roadrunner" joint venture to build out GSM/GPRS service along more than 4,000 miles of rural highways in Arizona, Colorado, Kansas, Minnesota, New Mexico, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas and Utah.The companies also...
VANCOUVER, British Columbia-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and Sierra Wireless Inc. reported the commercial launch of Sierra Wireless' AirCard 750 for AT&T Wireless' GPRS data network.AT&T Wireless said the device will provide data speeds up to 56 kilobits per second and that it is currently...
SECAUCUS, N.J.-Panasonic continued its push into the United States with a new camera phone for AT&T Wireless Services Inc.AT&T Wireless will begin selling the Panasonic GU87, which features an embedded digital camera, as well as support for multimedia messaging services."By combining Panasonic's digital phone...
REDMOND, Washington, United States-AT&T Wireless Services and Cingular Wireless officially formed their previously announced "Roadrunner" joint venture to build out GSM/General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) service along more than 4,000 miles of rural highways in Arizona, Colorado, Kansas, Minnesota, New Mexico, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas...
NEW YORK-The Sony Music Mobile Products Group reported the debut of Java-based Sony Music Mobile on AT&T Wireless Services Inc.'s mMode service offering. Sony said the service will provide customers with access to ring tones, graphics and breaking news about Sony Music Entertainment artists...
NEW YORK-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and Sprint PCS told analysts and investors at a Merrill Lynch communications conference that they expected to launch push-to-talk functions on their networks this year. AT&T Wireless chief financial officer Joseph McCabe said the carrier expects to test the...
The issue with U.S.-based Qualcomm has never been whether it has great technology, but whether its technology can make great market strides. Stalked by what industry watchers call either envy or sheer dominance of GSM-based technology, Qualcomm has had to combat GSM's increasing global...
ATLANTA-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. will use a mobile infrastructure solution from XcelleNet to manage and control wireless devices used by AT&T Wireless sales and marketing employees.XcelleNet's mobile infrastructure will allow employees to wirelessly deploy and update business applications, synchronize data back to enterprise systems,...
CANNES, France-Operators and vendors alike expressed a quiet optimism for the upcoming year as the GSM community gathered for its annual global meeting last week in the south of France. The event focused less on when wideband CDMA launches would occur in Europe and...
MANILA, The Philippines-Smart Communications Inc. has become the second operator worldwide and the first in Asia to offer a Microsoft-powered smart phone, following Orange U.K. last year. Smart is the largest mobile operator in the Philippines.Smart said the "Smart Amazing Phone," featuring Pocket Outlook,...
REDMOND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. launched its Multimedia Messaging Service allowing customers to combine pictures, text, animations and sounds into a single messaging service.The carrier said MMS messages can be sent to and from MMS-capable handsets, which include the currently available Sony Ericsson T68i,...
