US pagers will start by broadcasting weather, stocks, headline news and sports results, but will become increasingly customised. Of Metrocall's 5.5 million clients, 18 per cent currently use their pagers for email and interactive services.
Most of the systems are based on the CDPD (Cellular Digital Packet Data) standard, which uses cellular phone technology to transmit and receive at a somewhat lethargic 19.3kbps. In other words, the PDA is no longer just mobile but net-connected...
For this reason messages requiring very high levels of security are best passed directly from a user to a destination over the cellular network, thereby bypassing the gateway. But experts have pointed out that using WAP phones for connection to the...
Of the two kinds of telephones - traditional landline and mobile phones - the wireless variety appears to be a bigger business in Africa, according to Ericsson spokesman Per Altan. And although trying to sell mobile phones to people who don't even...
Push-to-talk calls over Wi-Fi would likely be able to reach homes and offices that have so-called voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephones. In the decade since the technology was developed by Nextel Communications and Motorola, push-to-talk...
Cisco Systems has thrown its weight behind an evolving set of wireless standards that will enable cellular carriers to offer new services based on the IP. The networking powerhouse announced on Monday that it was updating several products with...