Napster launches ringtone service
By: By Jason Ankeny
Digital music service Napster on Monday announced the launch Napstertones, a new ringtone service offered in conjunction with mobile content publisher Dwango Wireless. ...
Wireless ISP turns on service to Rio Rancho's citywide Wi-Fi
By: By Jason Ankeny
Azulstar Networks launches fixed, mobile VoIP services in New Mexico...
Alvarion lands two ISP deals in major U.S. markets
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Alvarion today announced it has won two major deployment deals in major U.S. markets for its BreezeAccess point-to-multipoint gear....
Progress Telecom launches wireless affiliate
By: By Carol Wilson
Regional broadband service provider Progress Telecom has launched a new initiative, PT Wireless, aimed at helping wireless service providers achieve greater network coverage and call quality, and at helping municipalities build Wi-Fi networks....
Verizon Wireless expands EV-DO in NYC
By: By Jason Ankeny
Verizon Wireless this week announced plans to accelerate EV-DO network expansion in the New York City area. ...
Rogers Wireless chooses Visto messaging platform
By: By Jason Ankeny
Canadian provider Rogers Wireless announced today its selection of messaging provider Visto's ConstantSync push e-mail platform to deliver e-mail, contacts and calendar information in real-time to subscribers' handsets. ...
Sprint signs Wi-Fi roaming pacts
By: By Jason Ankeny
Sprint this week announced Wi-Fi roaming agreements with four broadband Internet service providers and a virtual network enabler, expanding its international network of Sprint PCS Wi-Fi Access hot spots to more than 19,000. ...
Verizon Wireless maps out international roaming
By: By Jason Ankeny
Verizon Wireless this week expanded its international roaming service, enabling subscribers equipped with tri-mode and digital wireless handsets to make and receive calls in Canada, Mexico, Bermuda, Dominican Republic, Israel, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, South Korea and Venezuela....
Cingular Sounds makes noise with exclusive ringtones
By: By Jason Ankeny
Cingular Wireless today announced "Cingular Sounds," a new mobile music program enabling subscribers to download new singles as exclusive 30-second ringtones, either before or concurrent with their release to traditional broadcast outlets....
MobilePro closes MVNO deal with Verizon Wireless
By: By Jason Ankeny
CloseCall America, a subsidiary of wireless technology and broadband communications provider MobilePro, today announced plans to launch a prepaid mobile virtual network operator service on the Verizon Wireless network....
Cell phone users not thrilled by video option
By: By Carol Wilson
Watching television over a cell phone makes for a good technology demo, but that doesn't mean it's something customers want, according to a new survey of wireless users by In-Stat. ...
Sprint tunes in MSpot Radio
By: By Jason Ankeny
Rumors of the radio star's demise at the hands of video may have been greatly exaggerated--last week, Sprint PCS announced the launch of MSpot Radio, ...
Youth movement helps Push-to-Talk growth
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Despite its initial success with the blue- and white-collar crowds, Push to Talk has a new patron: youth...
NextWeb expands Los Angeles pre-WiMAX network
By: By Jason Ankeny
Wireless Internet service provider NextWeb last week announced completion of the first phase in its plan to extend its pre-WiMAX network across the greater Los Angeles area, an expansion that will make the company’s high-speed service available to close to 50,000 additional business customers upon its conclusion...
Talkin' baseball: Cingular, MobiTV launch Mobi-MLB
By: By Jason Ankeny
With a new major league baseball season now officially underway, Cingular Wireless and mobile broadcaster MobiTV this week teamed with MLB Advanced Media to launch Mobi-MLB, which will deliver Cingular subscribers live audio from every regular-season game through to the final out of the 2005 World Series. ...
Mobile TV gets its day in Cannes
By: By Kevin Fitchard
International content show MIPTV has added something new to its conference plans this year in Cannes, France. The TV and Internet content group is hosting the world's first mobile TV festival, showcasing a selection of "made-for-mobile" short movies, programs and cartoons from all over the world....
GigaBeam launches 70/80 GHz in New York
By: By Kevin Fitchard
GigaBeam this week announced its first deployment of 70/80 GHz point-to-point fixed-wireless gear in the U.S. on Trump Tower in New York. ...
Qualcomm to target mass market with push-mobile e-mail
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Reviving a venerable name in e-mail, Qualcomm is trying to accomplish what Blackberry and Seven haven't yet been able to accomplish--bring push-mobile e-mail to the mass market, launching a BREW-based e-mail client called Eudora2Go....
Alltel launches EV-DO service
By: By Jason Ankeny
Service provider Alltel announced today the launch of high-speed EV-DO wireless services in its Tampa, Cleveland and Akron, Ohio, markets...
MCI doubles worldwide Wi-Fi footprint
By: By Jason Ankeny
MCI announced last week that it will nearly double its Wi-Fi hot spot coverage...
Boost founder's next venture a new kind of MVNO company
By: By Jason Ankeny
Amp'd Mobile to operate over Verizon Wireless' EV-DO network...
Help for the lost
By: By Stephanie Dell
Every minute that passes in a suspected child abduction is critical, and every person in the area of the kidnapping is a potential witness...
Nortel revamps WLAN portfolio with Trapeze technology
By: By Kevin Fitchard
In partnership with Trapeze Networks, Nortel Networks has developed a new line of wireless LAN products, intended to converge office communications onto the same platform and build a better business case for wireless in the office....
Sprint launches new business service; offers first mobile data SLA
By: By Kevin Fitchard
NEW ORLEANS--Seeking to leverage both its wireless and wireline access, Sprint at CTIA Wireless launched an access management service geared at enterprises and introduced its first wireless data service level agreement....
Tekelec releases UMA product
By: By Kevin Fitchard
NEW ORLEANS--At CTIA Wireless this week, switching vendor Tekelec introduced a new unlicensed mobile access (UMA) upgrade to its Tekelec 8000 multimedia gateway line. ...
