The former Motorola engineer Marty Cooper, in fact, made the first-ever wireless phone call in 1973.
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The moves are all tied to a broader call asserting that wireless carrier behavior is changing when it comes to smartphones.
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For at least two years, multiple iPhone carriers lodged complaints with the company that its phone doesn't work well in making calls and doesn't hold a wireless signal for a voice call as well as other devices, these people say.
Rumor has it that the nation's largest CDMA carrier begins rolling out its EV-DO Revision A network this Friday, starting with ten cities (Sacramento and Salt Lake City among them) and a little data card we like to call the Sierra Wireless AirCard 595.
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Web content differs from call center logs and wireless communications.
At CES, BeeWi is also introducing a range of hybrid Bluetooth stereo speakers and headphones with an integrated microphone, so you never miss a call, along with wireless and wired capabilities.
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So Samsung and LG both announced deals with a company called Kineto Wireless Inc. that's developing a hybrid wireless technology that can seamlessly pass a call from a cellular network to a WiFi network without interrupting the call.
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At Cingular Wireless, a national mobile operator, network call traffic surged to 400 percent of its normal level from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.
To complicate matters, only 77% of 911 call centers are in compliance with the wireless locating technology, according to the National Emergency Number Association, a public safety industry group.
Verizon Wireless cellphone bills, which report the location of each call based on the nearest cellphone tower, provide a detailed substitute for the destroyed timesheets.
Call it proof that there's a global wireless karma equilibrium, if you will, that needs to be maintained: China Unicom has warned that its net profit for 2009 will be down a whopping 50 percent, while one of its doppelgangers across the Sea of Japan -- NTT DoCoMo -- has encountered exactly the opposite fortune on news that it has posted a 48 percent year-over-year improvement in black ink.
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But on the same call, Mr. Marcus praised the deal with Verizon Wireless.
When the wireless phones are pulled from the docking devices, the phones will automatically call the bullpen.
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Wireless carriers are worried that the deadline is unrealistic because cellphone providers and 911 call centers aren't on the same page technologically.
"To call for 1970s-style government mandates is frankly dangerous in the wireless space, " says Joseph Farren, director of public affairs for CTIA-The Wireless Association.
But it causes a rift between the agency and wireless carriers because it requires companies to test their 911 systems at local emergency call centers--rather than at the statewide level--within five years, which will require a hefty investment in technology.
By micro-managing the structure of the wireless industry, the commission tasked with overseeing the communications industry risks making the wrong call.
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The wireless system will be tested first at the World Baseball Classic in Arizona in March before getting its call up to the big leagues.
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But cord-replacement applications like the wireless headsets used for consumer cell phones are likely to be very useful for business users such as call-center operators, sales people, or real estate agents on the road, he says.
One of their current projects is the SmartButton, a wireless Bluetooth-enabled badge that connects to your phone and that you press when you want to call someone (you use the phone's voice recognition software to actually dial).
Also, Econet Wireless in South Africa recently introduced Carry Me Home- a death and repatriation insurance policy exclusively for Econet Call Home customers.
Observers were quick to call this early coverage optimistic but Hagan contends that Boingo will benefit from major trends in the wireless, cellular and consumer electronics industries.
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