Wireless Business Forecast articles from February 2005

Wireless Business Forecast archives from February 2005

Do They Protest Too Much? Muni Wireless Debate Turns Bitter.(municipal to introduce wireless internet access services)
February 10, 2005... Just as Philadelphia prepares this week to unveil details for its citywide wireless service, debate over the wisdom of municipal WiFi projects went white-hot last week. A well-publicized and promoted report from the New Millennium Research...

Getting On Target: Carriers Must Segment Their User Bases...Yesterday.
February 10, 2005... Cellphones quickly have become the most intimate gadgets yet invented, and we take them personally. Yet, when it comes to marketing and support, carriers continue to use the bluntest instruments of mass marketing (price points, price points and...

WBF Analysis: Sony PSP Snags A First Date, But What About A Second?(Playstation 2 Portable)
February 10, 2005... The long-promised -- and delayed -- Sony Playstation 2 Portable (PSP) will be released in the United States March 24, says the media behemoth. Challenging the 2.8 million-seller Nintendo DS handheld game console that launched last November, the...

Where To Cast VCast?(Verizon Wireless Inc.'s website links broken)
February 10, 2005... It's probably not a good sign that the VerizonWireless.com link to its own VCast home page was broken when we tried to access it recently (2/6/05). Also, Verizon says its new 3G multimedia service is available to 75 million people in 30 cities,...

Mobile Marketing May Hit $253 Million This Year.
February 10, 2005... Mobile marketing has been getting tons of press and hype in recent months but precious few numbers indicate, even speculate, the amount of ad dollars being spent on the platform. The new media research firm that specializes in online ad...

Will WiFi Wilt Wireless Data ARPU?(average revenue per user)
February 10, 2005... About $12 billion in mobile-carrier revenue is at risk from aggressive growth in private and public WiFi networks, says Strategy Analytics President Harvey Cohen. Hot spots represent low-cost, higher-speed alternatives to accessing data through...

Wireless Struggles With Its Own Insecurity.
February 10, 2005... Let's be clear from the outset: The security of mobile phones from viruses and WLAN networks from spying remain more theoretical than real. The initial infections of Symbian phones detected late last year were trial viruses that did no damage,...

Deal Sheet.(wireless telecommunication contracts)
February 10, 2005... Who's Doing What: Sierra Wireless [SWIR], headquartered in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada; 604/231-1100 Collaborates on HSDPA tech and market solutions with Nortel [NT], headquartered in Brampton, Ontario, Canada; 888/901-7286 What to...

Tira Wireless: Change Is The Name Of The Game.
February 24, 2005... As the mobile content industry expands by double digits during the next few years, more and more companies that develop, manage, certify and aggregate that content for the carriers will have to make business decisions about how and how much...

Cellular's Nightmare Scenario: VoWiFi Everywhere.(wireless voice over Internet Protocol)
February 24, 2005... Part One of an exciting new series The Kool Aid has been drunk. The train has left the station. The toothpaste is out of the tube. Pick your own tired business metaphor, but every one of them is true of wireless voice over Internet Protocol...

Why We Should Want Our SMS-TV.(short messaging service)
February 24, 2005... If you are a carrier or a short messaging service (SMS) aggregator, then the odds are you may want your SMS-TV without even knowing what it is yet. The rudimentary format, which allows users to interact with TV programming via SMS messaging, is...

Swing, Swing, Swing.(Microsoft Corp.)(Nokia Corp.)
February 24, 2005... If any persistent themes emerged from the 3GSM World Conference in Cannes last week, one was IP telephony infrastructure (see related story in this issue), and the other was music, music everywhere. Handset manufacturers, software providers and...

Wireless In The Driver's Seat.(Wireless communications services)
February 24, 2005... Wireless will be the key driver of telecom revenue growth for the foreseeable future. With U.S. spending expected to total $158.6 billion in 2005, the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) is predicting 9.3-percent growth and 10-percent...

The FCC Wants Wireless Broadband.(Federal Communications Commission)
February 24, 2005... The FCC task force report and policy recommendations on wireless broadband seemed to indicate that the commission is eager to see these technologies deployed quickly, and that it intends to flex some rules where necessary and stay out of...

Deal Sheet.
February 24, 2005... Who's Doing What?: Motorola [MOT], headquartered in Schaumburg, Ill.; 847/576-5000 Entered into a co-marketing alliance with Skype Technologies SA [privately held], headquartered in Romanel Sur Morges, Switzerland; 011 44 790 069 3764 ...