Consortium announces Atlanta NFC trial
By: By Dan O'Shea
Cingular Wireless, Nokia, Philips, financial firm Chase and other companies have announced a trial of Near Field Communication (NFC) technology, for mobile phone applications...
In the spotlight: Keith Richman, Break.com
By: As told to Vince Vittore
Richman spoke recently with Vince Vittore about the emergence of what is being calling the Little Media phenomenon...
Sprint launches movie streaming
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Sprint has been running under the radar a commercial full-length movies streaming service for the last month, officials from the carrier’s movie content provider MSpot confirmed today...
Wireless entertainment takes shape
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The industry is preparing to launch a massive amount of content over the airwaves. To what degree will its format be influenced by existing media?...
Sprint takes a crack at consulting
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Sprint today announced it is launching a new professional services subsidiary focused on bringing wireless solutions to the enterprise...
Cingular launches 3G
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Cingular today unveiled its long-awaited 3G service, BroadbandConnect, announcing it will offer commercial UMTS service in 15 markets. ...
MMA survey finds consumers receptive to mobile marketing
By: By Kevin Fitchard
New survey data from the Mobile Marketing Association has found that anywhere from a quarter to a third of mobile users are interested in receiving mobile marketing promotions....
Cingular launches push-to-talk with Kodiak
By: By Kevin Fitchard
As expected, Cingular Wireless is launching a push-to-talk service, using a solution from Kodiak Networks...
Mobile ops' customer service up slightly
By: By Carol Wilson
Wireless service providers have improved their customer service, particularly their billing, but they still have “a ways to go,” said In-Stat Principal Analyst David Chamberlain, after his survey of 1100 wireless customers...
Ericsson wins softswitch deal with SunCom
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Ericsson today landed its first U.S. mobile softswitch deployment, announcing a deal for its IP switching infrastructure and future Wi-Fi/cellular convergence trials with southeastern operator SunCom Wireless....
AT&T, Cingular test Mobile2Home
By: By Carol Wilson
AT&T and Cingular Wireless are trialing a service which gives customers unlimited wireless minutes when calling between their Cingular Wireless mobile phone number and their primary phone line...
Cingular, Orange team on corporate users
By: By Carol Wilson
Cingular Wireless has landed its largest partner to date for its Cingular WorldView program, announcing today that Orange SA will join. ...
Microsoft launches hosted messaging update
By: By Dan O'Shea
Microsoft has announced version 3.5 of its Hosted Messaging and Collaboration solution, which allows service providers to equip small and mid-sized businesses with enterprise-class e-mail services, mobile device data access, team Web sites and online presence information...
In-Stat: Telemetry prime fixed wireless market
By: By Carol Wilson
Telemetry applications have greater market potential for fixed wireless technology than voice service, according to a new In-Stat report...
Vendors try to capture kids with wireless service, handsets
By: By Stephanie Dell
Amerilink, Cingular test potential for younger users with parental consent...
Study: Mobile gambling to take off next year
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Mobile gambling is poised to lose its status as a non-industry and become a major wireless content generator next year as regulatory and technical hurdles are overcome, according to a new study from U.K. media research firm Visiongain...
MetroFi launches San Francisco coverage
By: By Dan O'Shea
MetroFi, the builder and operator of municipal Wi-Fi networks, is launching of three new wireless "hot zones" in San Francisco this week as part of the city's TechConnect program, MetroFi announced today. ...
Cingular to stay Cingular
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Cingular Wireless today dismissed speculation that it would revert to the name AT&T, following the lead of its newly renamed majority owner SBC...
Lexington pilots SkyTel’s muni Wi-Fi
By: By Carol Wilson
Lexington, Ky., now has broadband wireless in its downtown area as part of a pilot program launched by SkyTel, MCI’s broadband wireless subsidiary...
Cingular, Verizon bulk up on content
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The two largest wireless carriers in the U.S. have beefed up their content decks...
Motive eyes wireless market
By: By Carol Wilson
AUSTIN, Texas--Motive is bringing its automated customer service and troubleshooting capabilities to the wireless industry...
Telus launches EV-DO
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Canada’s Telus today said it has launched EV-DO service in five markets and plans to roll out 3G services to other cities by 2006...
Faith to launch U.S. MVNO
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Japanese content provider Faith is launching what it bills as an upscale mobile virtual network operator in the U.S. using Cingular’s network and back-end management systems supplied by Visage Mobile...
MVNOs give way to full integration
By: By Kevin Fitchard
A joint venture between Sprint and cable TV firms plans for better bundles but also takes steps toward the fuller ideal of cross-network convergence...
Analysis: Motorola’s RAZR madness
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Motorola is looking to take the enormous popularity of its RAZR phone to U.S. CDMA networks, unveiling on Tuesday the RAZR V3c...
