Alltel Wireless, America’s largest network, announced today that its full lineup of advanced wireless services is now available to customers in southern and eastern Idaho. Alltel acquired the two Idaho markets last year in a wireless property exchange with U.S. Cellular of Chicago, fulfilling a substantial portion of the divestiture requirements related to Alltel’s merger [...]
Saudi Telecom (STC) has selected Ericsson as the prime supplier for its new HSPA network, which will enable STC to introduce a wide range of premium quality multimedia and high-speed data services to the Saudi users. Under the agreement Ericsson will deliver packet core, radio access and transmission for the new network in the central [...]
QUALCOMM said it does not expect Nokia’s announced plan to ramp down its CDMA2000 R&D and manufacturing to impede the growth of CDMA2000 or to impact QUALCOMM adversely. Despite its efforts over the past several years to increase its share of CDMA2000 handset sales, Nokia has had very little success in competition against many of [...]
Essen, Germany – Nokia’s iconic 8800 mobile phone has won the “best of the best” prize at the red dot design awards, the world’s largest design competition. The 8800 beat off all competition to become the only mobile phone to receive this renowned design quality award. The Nokia 8800 was singled out for its innovative, [...]
A recent research study has revealed that consumers across all age groups consider Microsoft Office to be foremost among the features they would wish to have on their mobile phones in the future. The research was carried out through ORC International’s new online mobile consumer panel – ORC OmniPanel. Findings from the study underline the [...]
Rogers of Canada and Research In Motion (RIM) have released the all new EDGE powered 7130g BlackBerry handheld. Rogers is the latest provider to pick up the new 71xx series handset following short after Cingular and Verizon Wireless. The BlackBerry 7130g operates on Rogers Wireless’ GSM/GPRS/EDGE network, Canada’s largest high-speed wireless data network. Rogers Wireless [...]
