Unlike calling your phone or using Apple's Find My iPhone service, neither a cellular nor Internet connection is required.
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Like other telecommunications giants of DT's ilk, the onslaught of cellular and Internet-based telephony, along with cable operators offering triple-play packages of cable, broadband and phone services, has put a stranglehold on profits.
It would draw a clearer battle line between traditional cellular networks and Internet companies.
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"The city cannot legislate courtesy and common sense, " said Thomas Wheeler, president of the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association.
Several wireless-phone makers announced new models aimed at the younger set at this week's Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Trade Show in New Orleans.
Pretty much every adult aged 25 to 55 who wants a mobile phone--about 80%, according to the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association--already has one.
It can share its high-speed HSPA cellular data or Internet connection over Wi-Fi with up to 10 devices, such as laptops or other PDA phones.
Implementation of the original law was scuttled after the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association (the lobbying arm of the wireless industry) sued the city.
Lynch has also been honored with the President's Award by the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association (CTIA), and been inducted into the Wireless History Foundation's Hall of Fame.
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Over 170 million people subscribe to cellular service in the U.S., and nearly 80% of consumers between the ages of 25 and 54 have a mobile phone, according to the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association.
Better to model yourself on Cohen and seek your fortune in what he predicts are the growth areas of the 21st century: the electronic microchip, the cellular phone and Internet, new discoveries in DNA and the mapping of the human genome.
Wireless messaging is going through a growth spurt in the U.S. The Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association, a trade group, estimates that, in December, U.S. wireless carriers processed more than 1 billion messages, about four times as many as were sent in December 2001.
They're also used widely in cellular base stations, Internet routers and high-performance data-networking switches.
When considering the great technology advances of the past few decades, GPS tends to get short shrift compared to such culture-rocking innovations as the internet and cellular networks.
The VoIP provider wants to extend Wind's network network across the country while moving subscribers over to Fongo within the space of a year, theoretically creating a perfect match between cheap cellular access and free internet calling.
Have a look at the growth of broadband Internet access, cellular phones.
It started as a small local phone service, but he has since expanded it to include a 25, 000-kilometer fiber backbone, a fat slice of nationwide cellular radio spectrum and an Internet access provider.
The Internet stocks are like cellular telephony a decade ago: Nobody predicted the high saturation rates we're seeing in cellular today.
It started as a small-scale local phone service, but he has since expanded it to include a 16, 000-mile fiber backbone, a fat slice of nationwide cellular radio spectrum and a major Internet access provider.
Abroad it's growing, with a huge cellular operation in South America and 3 million Internet customers in Europe outside Italy.
But today's students don't even use phone lines--they rely entirely on cellular connections or make free phone calls over the Internet, using programs like Skype.
You may face charges from the hotel or airport providing internet service, or from the local cellular company if you roam on its data network -- as most non-residents must.
In order to focus on their cellular-phone business, SK Telecom folded their NetsGo internet service provider and Lycos Korea into their subsidiary SK Communications in November 2002.
Since it had its roots in the cell phone industry, it was expected that Bluetooth phones would flood the market, creating millions of "wireless hubs" that would host a range of connected devices and offering a gateway to the Internet for even more millions of products without cellular radios.
Readers struggling with slow mobile internet connections may soon have a really cool alternative to cellular networks.
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TomTom will likely begin inserting cellular radio chips in its devices to open them up to the Internet.
The PHS300 also connects via USB to cellular broadband cards, allowing more than one computer to access the Internet.
My friends, model this: The Internet is radically different from other technology sectors, like cable and cellular, that required a few years of blind faith and then hit their strides.
Then, the market in 2000 had to deal with the Internet fiasco when stocks were rated on clicks and inflated subscriber counts for cellular telephony.
The "killer applications" of speedy networks (which theoretically can transmit data at 40 times the rate of conventional cellular systems) have been widely touted to be portable videophones, plus access to Internet-based broadband content: games, music and shopping.
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