Star, like other communications companies across Asia, is racing to develop new pager features -- in part a response to competition from increasingly affordable cellular-phone services.
In order to focus on their cellular-phone business, SK Telecom folded their NetsGo internet service provider and Lycos Korea into their subsidiary SK Communications in November 2002.
Their monthly fees remain only a fraction of cellular-phone charges, though the upwardly mobile will probably trade up to a handset as soon as they can afford to.
The cellular-phone business has also made deep inroads in Thailand.
's Wi-Fi handset, a cellular-like phone which latches onto "hotspots" to make calls, are already used to the effects of limited coverage--perhaps even worse than what cell users experience.
Users of Vonage 's Wi-Fi handset, a cellular-like phone which latches onto "hotspots" to make calls, are already used to the effects of limited coverage--perhaps even worse than what cell users experience.
Currently there are three companies competing in the cellular phone business -- one reason a visitor might think Israelis are born with a cell phone in each hand.
This will help SPH - which owns large stakes in Singapore Cable Vision and cellular phone company M1 - deliver multi-media content to PCs and bring data to handheld devices like Palm Pilots and third-generation mobile phones.
You will incur substantial roaming and toll rates, especially if you call another cellular phone on-board the ship.
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This has encouraged literally hordes of nonmeteorologists -- many of whom who do not understand storm structure or behavior -- carrying cellular phone cameras into the field.
That means whenever you make a voice call while the phone is connected to a Wi-Fi network, your Republic phone places it over Wi-Fi rather than using a costlier cellular phone network.
Its E-Plus provides cellular phone service to a customer base of 1.7 million, growing by 70, 000 new customers a month.
But today's students don't even use phone lines--they rely entirely on cellular connections or make free phone calls over the Internet, using programs like Skype.
How do cellular stocks compare with fixed-line phone company stocks in Asia?
Back in January, when I tested the same browser on an entry-level Nokia Windows Phone, it worked fine on both the cellular network and on my Wi-Fi network.
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T-Mobile, using a Nokia phone, is allowing customers to hop between Wi-Fi and cellular.
In Indonesia and the Philippines, 8% to 10% of the people are in the middle-class or upper-class brackets and can afford a cellular phone.
The company's Boost Mobile division, which markets prepaid cellular phone service to young consumers using sports- and music-oriented marketing, has seen excellent growth this year.
Rather, as alleged, Wi-Fi technology shares a common design with cellular phone technology .
He cites cellular phone companies offering downloads as a part of pay-monthly packages.
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Greek companies have acquired Albania's fast-growing mobile-phone operator and a licence to set up a second cellular network.
Pretty much every adult aged 25 to 55 who wants a mobile phone--about 80%, according to the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association--already has one.
In 1993, NTT DoCoMo, Japan's principal mobile-phone carrier, opted for a technical standard called Personal Digital Cellular (PDC), which was incompatible with the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM), the standard adopted by most of the rest of the world.
Even though the middle class in much of Asia is growing fast -- 10% to 20% per annum -- if the number of cellular subscribers rises faster, analysts say, it means phone firms are taking in some customers who can only marginally afford the services.
Motorola and other cell phone companies backed his next idea--software to transmit photos between cellular phones.
The cable companies will co-brand Sprint's cellular service in each of their markets and will sell the phone service through Sprint retail stores, cable retail outlets and other third-party distributors.
Keen to capitalize on the ever-growing segment of landline cutters, US Cellular appears to be launching a home phone service similar to the Home Connect offerings by Verizon and Sprint.
Several wireless-phone makers announced new models aimed at the younger set at this week's Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Trade Show in New Orleans.
Nope, instead your phone has been tracking information about its location in relation to wi-fi hot spots and cellular towers so it can figure out where it is.
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