Wireless Business Forecast articles from April 2004

Wireless Business Forecast archives from April 2004

Rural WISPs Ramp Up High-Speed Access Services.(Wireless Internet Service Provider)
April 21, 2004... With all the talk of rural areas going either unserved or underserved by wireless carriers, especially when it comes to high-speed data services, there is one company that is making inroads when it comes to offering customers a choice and...

NPRM Proposes Smart Broadband In FSS Band.(notice of proposed rulemaking)
April 21, 2004... The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted unanimously last week in favor of pursuing a staff-recommended notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) that would allow the introduction of wireless broadband services in the 3,650 MHz-3,700 MHz...

Is Usability The New Killer App?
April 21, 2004... According to Openwave Systems Inc. [OPWV], a provider of messaging software products and services for the wireless and wireline industries, strongly believes wireless data applications are progressing in the Americas at a "significant" rate....

One New Exec Helps VeriSign Ramps Up Its Wireless Triple Threat.(interview of Vernon Irvin)(Interview)
April 21, 2004... With 20 years of "doing it all" experience under his belt, Vernon Irvin is reshaping how security giant VeriSign is perceived by its wireless industry customers Who hasn't noticed the prominent "VeriSign [VRSN]" logo at the bottom of...

More Corporate Customer Care, Please.(Brief Article)
April 21, 2004... The Yankee Group says U.S. enterprises are spending a bigger part of their budgets on wireless services for their workers, but many company telecom managers still don't know how to coordinate who needs what. According to its most recent...

Cingular Gamers 34 Nextwave Licenses.
April 21, 2004... Cingular Wireless, which apparently has more money than anyone ever thought, just paid $1.4 billion in cash for 34 licenses belonging to NextWave Telecom Inc., which originally won them in the late Nineties but then went bankrupt (albeit, they...

That Heavy Churning Doesn't Mean Butter.(survey of wireless telecommunications)(Brief Article)
April 21, 2004... Another group's research is bolstering the "don't blame local number portability" side of the story when it comes to customer churn, warning the industry that the worst is yet to come. Scottsdale-based In-Stat/MDR is backing up Wireless...

American University: One Big Hot Spot.(Brief Article)
April 21, 2004... The T-Mobile HotSpot division is the latest wireless provider to sign up for classes at American University in Washington, D.C. A new contract between the school and the country's largest provider of Wi-Fi technology gives students, faculty and...

BellSouth Equips 10 LatAm Affiliates With Fixed Gear.(Brief Article)
April 21, 2004... BellSouth [BLS] has spent an undisclosed amount of cash to outfit 10 of its Latin American carriers with the means to sell custom-configured Axesstel Inc. [AXES.OB] CDMA2000 1x advanced fixed wireless desktop phone terminals to their customers....

More Machines, Fewer People.(Wireless telecommunications)(Brief Article)
April 21, 2004... With the success of cellular telephony pushing the U.S. subscriber count to 162.5 million since 1983, the next frontier will be machine-to-machine communications, which according to ABI Research is set to grow at 40 percent annually through...

Buddy, Can You Spare A Dime?(Brief Article)
April 21, 2004... A recent survey conducted by The New York Times showed a number of wireless CEOs increased their 2003 paychecks, including base salaries, bonuses and incentives. Here are a few of the results: Edward Barnholt, Agilent Technologies [A], $6...

Deal Sheet.(Wireless telecommunications services mergers)(Multimedia Digital Utility Services)(YDI Wireless Inc.)
April 21, 2004... Who's Doing What?: CareDecision [CDED.OB], headquartered in New York City; 631/544-0181 Finalized its acquisition of Multimedia Digital Utility Services [privately held], headquartered in Richardson, Texas; 817/481-5186 What To Expect...