Wireless Business Forecast articles from August 2004

Wireless Business Forecast archives from August 2004

Increased Usage Keeps Tower Builders Alive And Well.(Industry Overview)
August 11, 2004... As the wireless industry continues to experience growth in both subscribership and minutes of use in traditional voice and, more importantly, non-voice applications, the tower industry is picking up the residual benefits from that success....

AT&T Wireless: Counting Down The Days.(merger)
August 11, 2004... One immediate result of the pending merger of Cingular Wireless with AT&T Wireless [AWE] is the perception that one carrier's famine is becoming the feast for others. And while that would have been a bad idea in the past, it just means that...

Launching New Services To Reach All Subscribers.(mobile messaging)
August 11, 2004... With the convergence of the Internet and mobile communications, the use of messaging, mobile data and wireless telecommunications has grown rapidly in the past few years. It's time to launch services, in particular, an integrated messaging...

Is Cellular TV Ready For Prime Time?
August 11, 2004... Here's one more thing for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to worry about: cellular TV. Once considered merely a futuristic concept, cellular TV is becoming a reality. Advanced cellular data services, increased terminal...

What Really Happens To Old Payphones?(Brief Article)
August 11, 2004... They become hot spots. Australia's Telstra plans to convert many or all of its 33,000 standing payphones nationwide into wireless-data hot spots, starting first with a trial of 15 payphones nationwide during this month. Telstra currently...

Rebanding Text, Nextel Again Under Fire.(Brief Article)
August 11, 2004... Late last week, the FCC released the text of its rebanding decision aimed at lessening the congestion on public-safety airwaves. As we predicted, those who opposed the way commissioners handled the rebanding plan want Congress to force the...

Clear Talk's Lifeline Discounts.(Brief Article)
August 11, 2004... NTCH Idaho Inc. in Pocatello, Idaho, which does business under the name Clear Talk, has come up with a prepaid billing plan (assisted by the state and federal governments) that allows some of its economically challenged customers to use a...

Healthcare Expands Bluetooth Usability.(Code Blue Communications Inc.)(Brief Article)
August 11, 2004... Bluetooth isn't just for wireless handsets and headsets anymore. Seattle's Code Blue Communications is teaming with SMART Modular Technologies Inc. and Open Interface North America to expand its Bluetooth wireless solutions and products into...

Deal Sheet.(wireless telecommunication services)
August 11, 2004... Who's Doing What?: U.S. Cellular Corporation [USM] and TDS Telecom, both subsidiaries of Telephone and Data Systems [TDS], headquartered in Chicago; 773/399-8900 Are selling off parts of themselves to Alltel Corp. [AT], headquartered in...

RFID - Paddling And Looking For A Wave.(Radio Frequency Identification)
August 25, 2004... While the radio frequency identification (RFID) market has experienced moderate success with the likes of some consumer applications as the EZPass system for toll collections on major highways, the real market expansion is just now starting...

What's New On The RFID Scene?(Radio Frequency Identification Device)
August 25, 2004... Who's Doing It?: Sybase www.sybase.com AeroScout www.aeroscout.com What and Why: A new partnership between the two melds AeroScout's Active RFID and Real-Time Location System (RTLS) with the Sybase RFID offering, enabling centralized...

Why Wireless Must Address Rural USF Changes.(Universal Service Fund )
August 25, 2004... If ever there were a time for the wireless industry to make its presence known to the FCC, it probably is now. The commission has started the ball rolling regarding the future - meaning from June 2006 on - regulation of rural communications...

Unions Strike Out At Verizon Wireless.(Brief Article)
August 25, 2004... Efforts to unionize a wireless carrier have failed again. Time ran out for the Communications Workers of America and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers at Verizon Wireless, which had been targeted for unionization four years...

Ma Bell Giveth, And She Taketh Away.(Brief Article)
August 25, 2004... In another move aimed at getting the AT&T Wireless/Cingular Wireless merger show on the road, AT&T Wireless and its mom AT&T Corp. have settled their familial differences, with the parent allowing the child to keep its name for the first six...

T-Mobile Increases Hot-Spot Dominance.(Brief Article)
August 25, 2004... The T-Mobile hot-spot juggernaut marches on, this time conquering motel chain Red Roof Inn, proving once again that wireless data isn't only for the hoity-toity. With more travelers (business and pleasure alike) booking their accommodations...

GSM Continues To Attract Users.(Brief Article)
August 25, 2004... According to new research from the 3G Americas group, the Western Hemisphere is jumping ahead when it comes to the takeup of GSM technology. Long the bedrock of European carriers, Latin American GSM customers reached 36 million in June, 1.6...

TBS, Others Pursue Interactive Mobile Opportunities.(Turner Broadcasting Systems International )
August 25, 2004... Despite a recent deal to distribute content on wireless carrier 3 Italy, the Italian mobile video company of Hutchinson Whampoa Group Ltd [HWL], Mitch Lazar, vice president of wireless and emerging technology for Turner Broadcasting Systems...

Letting Your Fingers Do The Talking.
August 25, 2004... It just goes to show that American teens, 20-somethings and even those a little older will text-message to anyone and anything. This summer at the Tweeter Center in Chicago, Evanston, Ill.-based Vibes Media, a six-year-old provider of...

Deal Sheet.
August 25, 2004... Who's Doing What?: Bod Wireless LLC [privately held], headquartered in Colorado Springs, Colo.; 719/439-0590 Is planning, in part, to serve the underserved by buying Optimum Network Services LLC [privately held], headquartered in Colorado...