- Wanted: Wireless-VoIP Connection
Cablevision Systems Corp. wants to pair its voice-over-Internet Protocol telephony network with wireless providers, a move that would allow wireless customers to use their wireless handsets and receive wireless calls over their wireline Cablevision voice service. At the Standard & Poor’s Telecommunications Conference in New York last week, Cablevision executive ......
- Verizon Wireless announces wireless broadband networkexpansion to Champaign-Urbana.
INTERNET BUSINESS NEWS-(C)1995-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD US wireless network operator Verizon Wireless, a joint venture between Verizon Communications (NYSE:VZ) and Vodafone (NYSE:VOD)(LSE:VOD), announced on Friday (25 January) that it has expanded the national rollout of its high-speed wireless network to Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA. According to the company, the expansion spans ......
- Wireless Purchase Decisions Get Personal, Confusing
Now, more than ever, consumers have an abundance of choices in wireless service, handsets, content and accessories. In 2006, the explosion of niche players, combined with enhanced services from traditional wireless carriers, is making purchase decisions — and the consumer shopping experience — extremely personal and confusing. This year, many ......
- Port Whining: Latest FCC Guidance Lacking, CTIA Contends
New York— The prospects for wireless local-number portability (LNP) are getting clearer, even though the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association (CTIA) isn't completely happy with the FCC's latest guidance. In an order released Oct. 7, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) appears to have resolved all of the uncertainties surrounding the ......
- FCC Sets Rules for Spectrum Sale
The FCC last week made it easier for Google and others to compete with AT&T and Verizon for increasingly mobile video and broadband wireless customers. The commission opened the door to what one legislator likened to a world of Dick Tracy-like wrist-radio-TVs with broadband access. But the FCC did not ......
- AT&T makes agreement to supply David Matthews Band
ringtones.
INTERNET BUSINESS NEWS-(C)1995-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD AT&T Inc (NYSE: T), a communications holding company, on 14 November said it has made an agreement with Dave Matthews Band that will give wireless customers first-ever access to selected ringtones. The company also said that this initial offer is to be followed ......
- The Great Share Chase
The hard hit telecom business is outspending other tech categories on advertising. The launch of mLife by AT&T Wireless a year agao began an aggressive, expensive fight among wireless carriers for marketshare. Carriers also race to raise brands above petty fray for slow-growing basic voice services and to position them ......