IPhone users currently can use either the Edge network or wi-fi for data service.
The carriers will block listed phones from accessing carrier networks for voice and data service.
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Clearwire is looking to build a high-speed voice and data service based on next-generation wireless standard WiMax.
Roger Ehrenberg blogs at www.informationarbitrage.com and runs Monitor110, an Internet data service for institutional investors.
Eventually, Aircell plans to support cellular data service, enabling users to send text messages from their phones.
The OTC Fundamental Data Service will provide information on more than 800 companies trading on the OTC market.
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His market data service is a must-have item for investment professionals in the U.S. and, increasingly, in Europe.
Mobile phone provider Three says it will not charge customers extra to upgrade to the 4G data service.
His Bloomberg market data service is a must-have item for investment professionals in the U.S. and, increasingly, in Europe.
This options trading platform is being launched after a market data service for options was created late last year.
This will be in addition to the free month of data service that already went to Sidekick data customers.
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North Korean mobile phone provider Koryolink is planning to launch a 3G data service for foreign visitors and residents from abroad.
Messaging revenue (as described in Note 5 to the Selected Data, below) continued to be an important component of data service revenues.
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Cubby is the cloud data service to simply and securely share information across PCs, Macs, iPads, iPhones, Android devices, or with other people.
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Carriers are looking to deploy picocells in dense urban hot spot areas to provide high-speed mobile data service where it is most needed.
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The grand-daddy of Internet services is Minitel, the ubiquitous on-line data service created by France Telecom (an arm of the government) in 1978-82.
France Telecom now has 14 million wireless voice customers in France, but only 600, 000 are signed up for its current wireless data service.
The trick for Arraycomm will be convincing those carriers to offer yet another data service while they're still pushing the ones they've already built.
By the end of the year, it will have begun work toward its ultimate goal: giving away free wireless data service around the country.
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The deal gives the company something that has been in seriously short supply in the mobile business: new spectrum to expand wireless data service.
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The company not only stands to win new subscribers, but also to increase the percentage of its customers who pay for data service each month.
There is no rational reason they will not allow customers to select a carrier that will provide data service unless it is simply about their revenues.
Qwest plans to sell access to its network directly to businesses, offering them speedier Internet access, integrated phone and data service, and (it claims) lower costs.
The company is trying to encourage those people to pay more per month to get wireless data service, but without having to create a new plan entirely.
That means high-speed data service isn't available in many areas.
If you are a U.S. cellular customer and travel to Canada, you will be paying for roaming voice and data service at a much higher rate than at home.
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Since most Indian consumers pay for cellular and mobile data service on a pay-as-you-go basis, Peeks there will be offered on a prepaid basis, as well as by monthly subscription.
Farmeron is a Web data service that farmers can use to aggregate the troves of information produced about their animals: diet, health, reproduction, milk production and medicine or drug dosage.
"If you can sell someone VoIP service in addition to data service, the chance of that customer leaving goes from likely to not likely at all, " says SG Cowen analyst Jim Friedland.
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