REDMOND, Wash.-Microsoft Corp. signed deals with Vodafone and Bell Mobility to offer its range of wireless content services, further moves by the company to expand its MSN services into the wireless world.Under the Vodafone agreement, MSN Hotmail and MSN Messenger will be available to...
WASINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission today authorized mobile satellite service providers the flexibility to integrate ground-based transmitters into their operations, but it also reallocated 30 megahertz from the troubled satellite sector to the mobile phone industry for third generation wireless services. The FCC will seek...
WASHINGTON-A coalition that has consistently fought against rules allowing for ultra-wideband technologies has fired another salvo in the debate just as the Federal Communications Commission is considering whether to relax rules it adopted a year ago."It would be most unfortunate for the United States,...
DENVER, United States-Major European carriers are conducting Enhanced Data Networks for Global Evolution (EDGE) trials, highlighting a major triumph for a technology once proclaimed dead.Burdened by the cost of third-generation (3G) licenses and technical hiccups with launching Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) networks and...
NEW YORK-Carriers worldwide acquired about 54.7 million new subscribers last quarter, down 5.9 percent from the same period of 2001, bringing the total to nearly 1.132 billion and penetration to 19 percent, reported FastTrack Wireless, a New York-based market forecasting firm.Globally, net additions for...
NEW YORK-Carriers worldwide acquired about 54.7 million new subscribers last quarter, down 5.9 percent from the same period of 2001, bringing the total to nearly 1.132 billion and penetration to 19 percent, reported FastTrack Wireless Inc., a New York-based market forecasting firm.Globally, net additions...
WASHINGTON, D.C.-The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association and the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association announced cross-border, inter-carrier text messaging services enabling text messaging between customers of major U.S. and Canadian wireless service providers have been launched.Participating are Canadian service providers Bell Mobility, Microcell Solutions (Fido),...
CHICAGO-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. said it was the highest ranked wireless operator in Chicago according to a consumer survey conducted by Chicago Consumer's Checkbook.They survey's results showed that AT&T Wireless earned a 93 percent satisfaction rating in overall quality and that the carrier was...
NEEDHAM, Mass.-General Dynamics Network Systems announced its wireless services unit has been granted TL 9000 quality certification following an audit of its business practices by Bureau Veritas Quality International. "The road leading up to the certification was challenging," said Michael Chandler, president of General...
Just months after European carrier Orange released the world's first mobile phone running on Microsoft's Smartphone operating system, the two companies are working to develop a patch for a software bug in the phone's operating system, a bug that allows users to bypass the...
REDMOND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and Fox Broadcasting reported a deal enabling AT&T Wireless customers to text vote and give "thumb up" for contestants on Fox's American Idol television show.AT&T Wireless said its sponsorship will include a range of wireless tie-ins including a promotional...
SAN MATEO, Calif.-About 7 percent of all text messages in the United States do not reach their destination, according to a new study from Keynote Systems, a finding that comes as many operators have installed text messaging interoperability and are looking to boost usage...
BEDMINSTER, New Jersey, United States-Verizon Communications said its wireless division added more customers during the recently completed fourth quarter than the 803,000 net customer additions reported for the third quarter of last year and that it does not see any weakening in customer demand...
BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Verizon Communications Inc. said its wireless division added more customers during the recently completed fourth quarter than the 803,000 net customer additions reported for the third quarter of last year and that it did not see any weakening in customer demand for its...
AT&T Wireless Services Inc. said it will push back the launch of its advanced W-CDMA network by six months and scale down the coverage area to four cities.The carrier said it will deploy a W-CDMA network in San Francisco, San Diego, Seattle and Dallas...
WASHINGTON-It would be nice to say this policy or that technology will shape the direction of the wireless industry in 2003. But neither industry nor official Washington has that luxury. Geopolitics could come to color the wireless world to a far greater extent than...
NEW YORK-Standard & Poor's Ratings Services lowered its corporate credit ratings on Dobson Communications Corp. from B+ to B, citing the impact of lower roaming yield on revenue growth, lower net customer additions compared with guidance for full-year 2002 and overall slower industry growth....
TORONTO-Canadian carrier Bell Mobility announced it will begin offering basic location-based services through its new MyFinder application and that it plans to expand the service with additional features.The service will first be available to users in Quebec and Ontario, and Bell Mobility said it...
NEW YORK-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. said it will delay and scale back the planned rollout of its W-CDMA network, pushing back the date by six months to December 2004 and cutting the number of U.S. cities set to launch to four. The carrier...
cuts back W-CDMA launch plansAnalyst: Continuous upgrades confuse marketAT&T Wireless Services Inc. said it will push back the launch of its advanced W-CDMA network by six months and scale down the coverage area to four cities.The carrier said it will deploy a W-CDMA...
WASHINGTON-It would be nice to say this policy or that technology will shape the direction of the wireless industry in 2003. But neither industry nor official Washington has that luxury. Geopolitics could come to color the wireless world to a far greater extent than...
NEW YORK-Standard & Poor's Ratings Services lowered its corporate credit ratings on Dobson Communications Corp. from B+ to B, citing the impact of lower roaming yield on revenue growth, lower net customer additions compared with guidance for full-year 2002 and overall slower industry growth....
TORONTO-Canadian carrier Bell Mobility announced it will begin offering basic location-based services through its new MyFinder application and that it plans to expand the service with additional features.The service will first be available to users in Quebec and Ontario, and Bell Mobility said it...
REDMOND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and Cingular Wireless L.L.C. entered a definitive agreement to exchange wireless licenses in six states. The cash-free deal calls for AT&T Wireless to give up licenses in Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi and Kentucky in exchange for Cingular's operations on...
