Lenexa uses Alvarion WiMAX
By: By Carol Wilson
Lenexa, Kan., a suburb of Kansas City, will build a city-wide wireless broadband network to connect government buildings, city vehicles, traffic signals and video cameras using Alvarion network technology. The goal is to use the WiFi technology to reduce pollution by better managing traffic flow...
Verizon and Alltel interconnect with MMS
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Alltel today announced it has signed MMS interconnection agreements with Cingular Wireless and Verizon Wireless, allowing customers from all three networks to exchange picture and video messages....
Tech companies launch Digital Communities initiative
By: By Carol Wilson
Intel this morning will unveil a new international initiative to help communities build out wireless infrastructure and expand broadband penetration...
Sprint pens deal with NFL
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Sprint is linking up with the National Football League to become the exclusive provider of content for its Vision data customers...
AOL launches mobile storefront
By: By Dan O'Shea
America Online has launched a mobile services portal called AOLMobile.com, with information on service providers, devices and services, including content applications, that users can purchase through the portale. ...
Wireless email has big appeal
By: By Carol Wilson
Consumers are eager to get their hands on wireless email, but want to control access and expect the service to be cheap, according to a new survey by Ipsos Public Affairs on behalf of Critical Path, a provider of messaging software and services....
AOL acquires skins-maker Wildseed
By: By Kevin Fitchard
America Online announced today it is acquiring wireless start-up Wildseed, a wireless technology that has developed Smartskins technology used to customize generic handsets....
ESPN Mobile give Brightpoint device deal
By: By Dan O'Shea
ESPN Mobile, which is due to launch as an MVNO early next year, has chosen Brightpoint North America to manage logistics services, such as inventory management, custom packaging, reverse logistics, and fulfillment services, for the range of mobile devices it will be offering. ...
InPhonic to resell Cingular’s service
By: By Kevin Fitchard
InPhonic today announced it is partnering with Cingular to help the carrier find mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) partners and resell its minutes through its own MVNO Liberty Wireless...
Some Bells using wireless stores to sell bundle, Yankee says
By: By Carol Wilson
BellSouth, Qwest and SBC Communications are beginning to use their wireless sales as a launch pad to sell wireline services, as part of a service bundle, according to a new report out today from the Yankee Group. ...
Vendors reveal slew of wireless deals
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Despite the slow summer season there was no dearth of wireless next-generation deployment announcements coming from vendors this week. ...
Sprint to offer wireless consulting
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Sprint is venturing into wireless consulting, announcing today the formation of its Mobile Business Assessment unit in an effort to bring more of its business and enterprise customers under the wireless data umbrella...
Firefly finds nationwide network with DBS
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Firefly Mobile announced it has selected DBS Communications as its network enabler for its new Firefly “tween” phone targeting the consumer market’s youngest demographic...
Virgin expands rating functions with Telcordia
By: By Dan O'Shea
Virgin Mobile USA said it is using an Advanced Rater capability from Telcordia that will give the wireless MVNO more flexibility to quickly launch and manage different prepaid pricing packages, promotions and discounts...
Sprint targeting retail outlets, ATMs with CDMA access
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Sprint is aiming to leverage its CDMA data networks in the retail sector, using it to provide the access link over which credit checks and account authorization requests would travel to ATM machines and business locations...
Vonage makes Brightpoint master agent
By: By Dan O'Shea
VoIP service provider Vonage has named Brightpoint Activation Services, a unit of logistics and distribution firm Brightpoint, as a master agent for marketing and support of Vonage service plans, devices and new customer account activations...
Nortel, Bell Canada head north for muni network test
By: By Vince Vittore
Bell Canada and Nortel announced today they will launch a free municipal wireless network in Chapleau, Ontario, as part of a test bed environment to study the impact of technology on rural towns...
Skype partners with Boingo
By: By Dan O'Shea
IP telephony provider Skype is creating Skype Zones, an offering under which Skype users can use Boingo Wireless Wi-Fi access hot spots for voice calling. ...
Wi-Fi use to lure foot traffic
By: By Carol Wilson
Three Iowa cities are using a free Wi-Fi service to help economic development in their downtown areas. ...
Service providers target young minds
By: By Kevin Fitchard and Carol Wilson
Finding new revenue means tailoring services to specific market segments, and no segment is hotter--or more influential--than tech-savvy kids...
Sprint, T-Mobile offer MMS interoperability
By: By Dan O'Shea
Sprint and T-Mobile USA announced this week that they are offering Multimedia Messaging Services (MMS) interoperability between users of the Sprint PCS Picture Mail service and customers of T-Mobile...
Sprint begins EV-DO launch
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Sprint today said it would launch its first 3G networks this month, kicking off a nationwide CDMA 1X EV-DO rollout first targeting airports and downtown business districts and expanding to 60 metropolitan areas covering 143 million people...
Disney, Sprint team on niche service
By: By Carol Wilson
Walt Disney Co. has teamed with Sprint to create a wireless service aimed at families, a move that may herald more mobile virtual network operators built around affinity groups rather than networks...
TowerStream expands NYC footprint
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Wireless ISP TowerStream announced this week that it has expanded its New York City network to cover Brooklyn and Queens. ...
Competing in a converging world
By: By Jeanette Carlsson
Convergence offers telecom providers a world of opportunities. But before they can profit, they must make tough strategic and technical choices...
