For years push-to talk has been a function available from Nextel (nasdaq: NXTL - news - people ), the wireless-service provider best known for catering to businesses where instant communication is useful.
And yesterday, in an attempt to claw back ground from Verizon Communication's joint wireless venture with Vodafone and Sprint Nextel, Cingular yesterday launched BroadbandConnect--its own high-speed wireless Internet service--in 16 markets.
EarthLink announced a buyout of wireless data-service provider Omnisky (nasdaq: OMNY - news - people ).
Now that SMS is taking off, a new data-service wireless-application protocol, or WAP, is taking hold for digital cellular networks.
Global service at Verizon Wireless carries 24-hour customer service from trained Verizon Wireless U.S. based employees.
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The agreement ends a lawsuit from Virginia-based NTP, which alleged that RIM's BlackBerry wireless e-mail service infringed upon their patents.
The hearing was part of an ongoing a lawsuit from Virginia-based NTP , which alleges that RIM's BlackBerry wireless e-mail service infringes upon its patents.
Co-CEO JimBalsilleJim Balsille: This afternoon a U.S. judge concluded hearings on whether to shut down the company's hugely popular BlackBerry wireless e-mail service but didn't issue a ruling.
Time Warner Cable announced new city-wide wireless service for its Austin customers.
The news comes 4.5 months after the Dallas-based carrier turned on its LTE network, becoming the first U.S. operator to offer the high-speed wireless service.
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In the second quarter, the company reported its best-ever wireless service margins, driven by improved operating efficiencies, fewer handset upgrades and further revenue gains from the company's 43 million high-value smartphone subscribers.
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And there have been enough users and positive feedback from citizens that the city has already expanded the Wi-Fi coverage area and is planning on eventually providing free or low-cost wireless service across the entire city.
He published his concept on an Arpanet mailing list in 1982 (he called his piece "Electronic Mail for People on the Move"), and went on to found RadioMail in the early 1990s -- a wireless email service (surprise, surprise).
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And it has a respectable business plan: to provide telecom services to those parts of the world where wireless or fixed-line service doesn't really exist--Equatorial Africa and the upper reaches of the Amazon--or where it's inadequate, as in many areas of Africa, India and Latin America.
Just as many analysts predicted following the two companies' failure to secure any spectrum during last year's FCC auction, both DirecTV and DISH-parent EchoStar have signed agreements with Craig McCaw's Clearwire to provide qualifying customers with high-speed wireless internet service (and by qualifying customers, we mean anyone who lives within a Clearwire coverage zone).
"We're pleased to join with RadioShack to deliver high-quality, no-contract wireless services including our award-winning Muve Music service, " said Robert Young, executive vice president, field operations for Cricket.
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His three big bets--the Nextlink national voice and data network, the Nextel wireless service and the Teledesic satellite venture--are now at critical junctures.
We're so there, which is why we harrassed Verizon Wireless into sending us LG's VX8000 cameraphone so we could check out their new V CAST wireless video-on-demand service.
Next up, an ambitious effort to inaugurate a low-cost fixed wireless phone service in Mexico early next year (the technology is wireless, but the range of use will be about 2 kilometers).
Next up, an ambitious effort to inaugurate a low-cost fixed wireless phone service in Mexico early next year (the technology is wireless, but the range of use will be about 1 mile).
Clearwire is looking to build a high-speed voice and data service based on next-generation wireless standard WiMax.
Most such businesses can't afford the staff and hassle required to navigate a sea of local, long-distance and wireless carriers, Internet and application service providers and Web site and e-mail hosts.
Around the same time in 1995, McCaw went for Nextel, a fixer-upper with bad wireless service and a collapsed stock price.
Despite falling prices for high-speed bandwidth and wireless service, telecom budgets keep growing because of increased usage and new services such as virtual private networks, voice-mail storage and Web hosting.
FusionOne and VeriSign do it as a back-up service for Verizon Wireless and Cincinnati Bell , but so far their lockers are limited to storing address books.
The fellows came from Israel, India and the U.S. (text-to-video service Wibbitz, wireless energy savings device Wifinity Tech and lifestyle brand Holstee, to name a few).
There is active 3D television with goggles and loaner blu-ray discs, surround sound, multiple wireless tablets that control everything from lights to curtains to room service menus - in seven languages, internet radio with thousands of choices, free international phone calls, the list goes on and on.
Their antenna system is also closely related to a ground-based wireless technology called local multipoint distribution service (LMDS).
Its largest such partnership is its deal with Verizon Wireless to bundle its VoIP service with high-end Android and BlackBerry handsets.
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It leases and manages antenna space on its multi-tenant communications tower sites to wireless service providers and radio and TV broadcast companies.
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