Wireless Business Forecast articles from January 2005

Wireless Business Forecast archives from January 2005

This Isn't Your Older Brother's AT&T Wireless.
January 13, 2005... AT&T's widely reported return to the wireless business is not what many people seem to think it will be, argues the Basking Ridge, N.J.-based communications giant. Rather, it will be a highly integrated and focused solution aimed at large...

Executive Q&A: Speakeasy CEO Gives WiMAX Its First Test.
January 13, 2005... It all sounds like a great plan for standardized broadband wireless in theory, but no one really knows yet what a 802.16 wireless deployment will look like on the ground, let alone its return on investment (ROI) for both service providers and...

Show Wrap-Up: CES Unplugged -- It's An Unwired World Now.(Consumer Electronics Show)
January 13, 2005... Last week's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas had a single resounding theme that is excellent news for all levels of hardware suppliers, infrastructure providers, and content publishers in our industry - the future will be unplugged....

Big V Goes 3G To Steal The CES Show.(Verizon Communications Inc. announces expanded 3G coverage)(Consumer Electronics Show)
January 13, 2005... It was a masterful PR orchestration that may bode well for Verizon's future. While Cingular and AT&T Wireless continue to figure out how all their pieces fit together, and Sprint and Nextel try to make it to the altar, Verizon slipped in at...

Features, Not Content, Lead The European Phone Boom.(Brief Article)
January 13, 2005... Western Europe's handset market is absolutely blossoming with color and multimedia functionality, with general mobile-phone sales growth of 24 percent in 3Q04 compared with the same period a year ago and representing more than 34 million units,...

Will Mobile-Fi Run Over WiMAX?(Brief Article)
January 13, 2005... Just when we thought that the 802.16 "WiMAX" protocol was emerging as a likely standard for wireless broadband, the Journal of the Communications Network is about to argue that yet another IEEE protocol, 802.20 "Mobile-Fi" might trump the...

Voice/VoIP Will Go Mobile.
January 13, 2005... The Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) case is being made successfully with consumers, especially by high-speed-access providers like Comcast, which is about to announce phone service attached to its cable access products. Releasing people...

Deal Sheet.
January 13, 2005... Who's Doing What?: Jamdat Mobile [JMDT], headquartered in Los Angeles; 310/636-3100 Is growing by acquisition with its purchase of Downtown Wireless [privately held], also headquartered in Los Angeles; info@downtown-wireless.com What to Expect...

Are Operators Ready For The 'Year of Mobile Marketing?'.
January 27, 2005... This is the year that advertisers will move from test campaigns on the mobile platform to full-blown mobile marketing budgets. Using the cellphone as a promotional device is on a much faster track to acceptance among corporate sponsors than was...

Is There A Wireless Doctor in the House? Who Will Vaccinate Our Phones?(interview, Aaron Davidson of SimWorks International)(Interview)
January 27, 2005... Word came in last week of the second virus found in the wild that is infecting cellphones, and it should send chills down the spines of handset makers and network operators. As mobile users begin to browse for data off the closed reservation of...

From Cool Gadget To Wireless Windfall: GPS Industries Follows The WiFi Signal.
January 27, 2005... This is the way wireless works: Once the basic system for free-roaming connectivity blankets a company, an area, or even a public venue, unforeseen business possibilities emerge from that fundamentally new ability to connect with and among...

Will Nudity Sell on Phones? Well, Duh!(News International introduces wireless application protocol site)(Brief Article)
January 27, 2005... Joining a growing list of adult-content providers pushing nude cuties to cellphones, Sun Newspapers publisher News International launched Sun Mobile, a WAP site accessible to users worldwide. The Sun, which made the topless Page 3 girl a...

Can Online Wireless Marketing Escape The E-Mail Ghetto?(Brief Article)
January 27, 2005... Telecom advertising was the fastest-growing online ad segment in the past year, according to Nielsen NetRatings, and the majority of those ads were for wireless carriers. Telecom generally was up 6 percent year-over-year in its share of overall...

Photos, Photos Everywhere, But Do We Want to Share?(forecasts for cameraphones)(Brief Article)
January 27, 2005... The cameraphone is one of the great digital convergence success stories of our day, but how this win for the handset economy will translate into increased data services activity for the mobile operator segment is an open question. In some very...

Mobile Gaming: Few Big Mergers In The Offing.(Digital Bridges Ltd., Sorrent and THQ Wireless to go public)
January 27, 2005... Following Jamdat's successful IPO last year, mobile game makers Sorrent, Digital Bridges and THQ Wireless may try to go public as well in the future, while others in the crowded development and aggregation field look to consolidate, says Gary...

Deal Sheet.(telecommunications industry and software industry partnrships)
January 27, 2005... Who's Doing What?: IBM [IBM], headquartered in White Plains, N.Y.; 888/839-9289 VeriSign [VRSN], headquartered in Mountain View, Calif.; 866/447-8776 Airespace Inc. [privately owned], headquartered in San Jose, Calif.; 408/635-2000 Join a...