Century Communications announced today a new 900 service, with profits helping to defray the cost of installing and maintaining enhanced 911 services across the country. The 911 Chatline allows callers to choose an area of the country and listen to 911 emergency calls.
Century spokeswoman Fawn Lebowitz explains; “In recent years we’ve seen a dramatic increase [...]
ThinkGeek tests out the Betamax to HD-DVD converter, perfect for the old media files we have carefully preserved at the DailyWireless tower. And only $29.99!
Betamax and HD-DVD are like a match literally made in heaven (you know, that place you go when you die?), and now you can get a slice for yourself.
Features a [...]
iPass on Monday introduced a mobility service that combines Wi-Fi hotspot and 3G access. It’s also the first time iPass, a provider of services to businesses, is offering hotspot access to consumers.
The iPassConnect service, which includes wired hotel broadband, has been an enterprise-level service aimed at businesses. Now the subscription-based service has price plans that [...]
Leap Wireless, the parent company of Cricket Communications, a leading provider of prepaid cellular services, today announced their first Advanced Wireless Services (AWS) spectrum operation, in Oklahoma City. It will include approximately 1.1 million new covered POPs, bringing Cricket’s national covered POPs to approximately 55.1 million.
Top 10 Highest AWS Bidders
Bidders
Net total of high bids
1. T-Mobile
$4.2 [...]
Ever wonder why nobody ever seems to leave comments on DailyWireless? Me too. Tonight I discovered why — they’ve been disappearing through a black hole.
I didn’t realize that there were people making comments until tonight, after Don upgraded Dailywireless to Wordpress 2.5.
Holy smokes. There were a ton of comments archived but never published. They [...]
Here’s another shot of that oft reported Nokia Internet Tablet with WiMAX.
Nokia’s WiMAX Edition will be announced April 1 at CTIA in Las Vegas. Here are some free apps for the web tablet. Looks like it may come with a map application by Wayfinder. Or maybe they’re just kidding.
China Mobile, the world’s largest mobile carrier with over 376 million customers, announced that it will begin testing the country’s homegrown 3G standard — TD-SCDMA — next week. The carrier said it will issue 20,000 handsets and 5,000 data cards to select customers with free airtime. China Mobile will also offer an additional [...]
Friend-finding cell phone service Loopt is now available on some Verizon Wireless, notes C/Net. Starting in April, Verizon will offer the Loopt service for $3.99 a month on 20 popular data-enabled phones
Loopt uses GPS chips in phones to pinpoint a subscriber’s location; then users can broadcast that location information to friends or family. Subscribers can [...]
AT&T Mobility has announced that it will offer MediaFLO mobile television service this May. AT&T originally planned to launch their mobile television service late last year.
AT&T’s service will include the same eight-channel lineup that’s on Verizon’s Vcast, which launched a year ago — CBS Mobile, Comedy Central, ESPN Mobile TV, Fox Mobile, MTV, [...]
The CTIA is aligning with television broadcasters, and urging FCC to license — and auction — TV white spaces, reports RCR Wireless News.
The Cellular trade group floated the idea shortly after Google offered a compromise proposal to unleash propagation-friendly TV white spaces for unlicensed wireless broadband access. Google’s proposal relies on a Motorola technology [...]
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