Early this morning, we reported that SBC agreed to purchase AT&T for $16 billion, and in the report we briefly mentioned AT&T's plans to use its AT&T Wireless brand name under a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO). It appears that...
Jan 31 2005 - 01:20 PM ET | MVNO
Boost Mobile has expanded its push-to-talk service to support carriers in Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina and Peru. The Canadian service is through TELUS while the South American service is through NII holdings. bq. An international surcharge of $.20 a minute...
Hong Kong will beat Cingular to the BlackBerry 7100g. The phone is very similar to the BlackBerry 7100t (T-Mobile) and 7100v (Vodafone). It's Research In Motion's first attempt at a candy bar style phone. Features include: * Innovative 20-character keyboard...
Jan 31 2005 - 12:58 PM ET | Nokia
Nokia today launched Series 60 support for Python, a popular open source programming language. The software is available for free. bq. Python for Series 60 is based on Python 2.2.2; However, in addition to supporting many of the Python Standard...
Jan 31 2005 - 03:37 AM ET | Vodafone
Vodafone K.K. announced that it plans to launch two new sophisticated 2G mobile phones in the middle of February. The Toshiba V603SH is Japan's first "motion sensitive" handset: bq. The one-chip sensor allows customers to perform menu operations by moving...
Jan 31 2005 - 03:16 AM ET | Cingular
SBC Communications, 60% owner of Cingular Wireless, has agreed (WSJ Online subscription req.) to purchase AT&T for roughly $16 billion. SBC is no stranger to large mergers, it approved the $41 billion buyout of AT&T Wireless last year. AT&T had...
According to a PowerPoint document on Motorola's website [link; 4.2MB] a push-to-talk over cellular (PoC) ready version of the Motorola V551 is slated for launch next quarter. The Motorola V551p supports the following PoC features: * Dedicated PTT button (Left...
Jan 31 2005 - 02:44 AM ET | Nokia
The Nokia 2115i has been approved by the FCC, according to documents posted on the agency's website (FCC ID QMNRH-66). While not much info on the Nokia 2115i was posted (a request for confidentiality was made by Nokia), an interesting...
