RESTON, Va.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. affiliate Triton PCS will offer its subscribers downloadable ring tones and graphics through a new deal with wireless media and entertainment company Ztango Inc.Triton will use Ztango's Mobile Image software product to offer the media applications."We selected Ztango because...
HONG KONG—Verizon Wireless Inc. is the first customer for Lightbridge Inc.'s Mobile Data Manager, a new service that enables carriers to allow users to self-provision data services. Mobile Data Manager is significant because it can generate more traffic, and thus more revenue, for carriers,...
KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.—InterDigital Communications Corp. announced it is playing host to the General Assembly of the UMTS Forum and its members for a two day conference on 3G wireless services that began June 6 in Philadelphia."We are proud to host the UMTS Forum...
TORONTO—Sierra Wireless shares fell 33.8 percent on the Toronto Stock Exchange on 5 June, a day after the company cut its guidance for its second quarter and indicated sales from a key contract with AT&T Wireless Services would be significantly lower than expected.Vancouver-based Sierra...
ATLANTA—Wireless data company Numerex announced it will create a cross-carrier messaging system through a new deal with MobileSpring Inc. and VeriSign Inc.Numerex will use MobileSpring's Metcalf Global Messaging product to ensure its text messages can be sent over networks operated by other carriers. Several...
VANCOUVER, British Columbia—Wireless modem maker Sierra Wireless cut its revenue forecasts due to problems with its supply agreement with AT&T Wireless Services Inc., causing investors to drop its stock and analyst firms to downgrade the company.The company's stock dropped from about $6.50 to about...
CLINTON, Miss.—Following weeks of speculation, WorldCom Inc. officially announced it is exiting the wireless resale business and laying off about 2,200 related employees."After carefully assessing our business and the current market conditions for wireless resale services, we have decided to exit the wireless resale...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden—AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and Ericsson will begin trialing a UMTS network in the Dallas area beginning later this year.The companies, which completed a live UMTS voice call at AT&T Wireless' headquarters earlier this year, said the network will use about 100 cell...
SAN ANTONIO—SBC Communications Inc. said it will begin offering stand alone Cingular Wireless options and discounted service packages as part of its communications and entertainment service portfolio.The Cingular service options will initially be available in the SBC Ameritech states of Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin,...
TOKYO—NEC Corp. said it received an order from Taiwan's KG Telecommunications for mobile handsets for KG Telecom's i-mode service. NEC said the delivery will make it the first supplier of i-mode handsets in Asia outside Japan.KG Telecom will be the first company in Asia...
TOKYO—NEC, the leading handset maker in Japan, announced that it shipped 2.5-generation (2.5G) handsets for China Mobile. China Mobile is the largest mobile carrier in China with 115 million subscribers.China Mobile launched data service based on General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) technology last week....
CHICAGO, United States—More than half the attendees at a recent U.S. wireless conference said they intend to spend more year over year for wireless voice services, and 42 percent said they would spend an additional 11 percent to 20 percent per month on data...
LOS ANGELES—AT&T Wireless Services Inc. continued to bolster the content available on its mMode wireless data service through a new deal with PriceGrabber, which will offer a shopping comparison application."We're always looking to provide additional value to our customers—and PriceGrabber clearly delivers," said Andy...
REDMOND, Wash.—AT&T Wireless Services Inc. added 650,000 net subscribers during the first quarter of this year, exceeding both company and analyst expectations of around 550,000 net additions. The carrier ended the quarter with 19.5 million customers including those acquired through its purchase of TeleCorp...
SAN DIEGO—AT&T Wireless Services Inc. launched its GSM/GPRS network in San Diego including the rollout of its recently introduced mMode wireless data service.The carrier said customers should expect data speeds of around 30 kilobits per second when accessing the network through a wireless handset...
TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo Inc., the largest mobile carrier in Japan, and Bouygues Telecom, the third-largest operator in France, announced they reached a license agreement over i-mode services in France. Following the technology transfer agreement, Bouygues Telecom, a telecom business unit of Bouygues SA, is going...
NEW YORK—AT&T Wireless Services Inc. is expected to raise $3 billion this week by selling five-year and 10-year global bonds, according to Reuters. Cingular Wireless raised $2 billion in a similar sale last December, while Verizon Wireless Inc. raised nearly $4 billion a few...
NEW YORK—Standard & Poor's Corp. lowered the speculative-grade ratings of American Cellular Corp. to CCC-plus from B because the company's annual report indicated it is likely to exceed the debt leverage limits required by its bank loan covenants."According to management and the auditors, if...
ORLANDO, Florida, United States—Following on a meeting of operators and vendors with an interest in Enhanced Data Rates for Global Evolution (EDGE) technology at the 3GSM World Congress in France last month, the EDGE Operators Forum officially formed and met in Orlando in March...
MobileSpring Inc. and InphoMatch Inc., rival vendors for short message service interoperability solutions, have been working together during the past few months to ensure their cross-carrier messaging systems are themselves interoperable.The teaming comes as no real surprise. By making sure their systems can work...
WASHINGTON—A class-action antitrust lawsuit filed against the mobile-phone industry in early January and promptly withdrawn two weeks later is expected to be refiled today in Manhattan federal court, according to a lawyer familiar with the case. The lead plaintiff in the new...
BEDMINSTER, New Jersey, United States—Through a deal with message interoperability company InphoMatch, Verizon Wireless is now the last of the nationwide, consumer-focused carriers to allow its users to send short message service (SMS) messages to subscribers of rival carriers using only a phone number.Verizon...
NEW ORLEANS—The Morial Convention Center in New Orleans now owns a common wireless carrier signal distribution network that supports wireless use by customers of Alltel, Cingular Wireless, Nextel, Sprint PCS, Verizon Wireless and VoiceStream.Jimmie Fore, general manager and president of the Morial Convention Center,...
MANILA, The Philippines—Mobile-phone operators need lots of creativity to be a step ahead of the competition, according to Napoleon Nazareno, president and chief executive officer (CEO) of Smart Communications, one of the Philippines' leading cellular operators.He said that Smart, for example, has launched 130...
