Speaking at Morgan Stanley’s 13th
Annual Communications Conference in Washington, D.C, AT&T Wireless’ president and CEO Ralph De la Vega said
he sees wireless data revenue growth in the 50%-plus range from
applications such as messaging, email, and browsing.
Belongs
to the 17-in MacBook Pro, proclaims Ryan Faas (computerworld.com). “The
brightness and color brilliance is out of this world,” he says. What’s
more, the system “delivers all of the processing power, RAM options and
storage capacity of an iMac — along with approximately the same screen
real estate,” making it “a desktop replacement in virtually every sense
of the word.”
Early
users of Nokia's N-Gage gaming platform discovered phrases in the
licensing agreement that said users would be unable to transfer
purchased games from one handset to another. Nokia initially confirmed
that discovery. Today, it clarified that there had been
miscommunication and that users will be allowed to transfer games. The
mechanism to do so, however, is not yet available and Nokia has not
said when it will be ready.
Today
FCC Chairman Kevin Martin made public the agency's plans to hold
another auction for spectrum. This new auction, called AWS III, would
sell off a 25MHz chunk of airwaves in the 2155-2180MHz range. The
winner of this spectrum would be required to offer free broadband
services to 50% of the population within four years, and 95% of the
population by the end of the license term. The FCC did not provide any
details on when this auction might occur, but it is scheduled to vote
on the matter June 12. There is also no word whether or not this new
auction would affect the terms of the unsold 700MHz D Block from the
recent spectrum auction. The FCC has asked the public for ideas on what
to do with that block of spectrum.
Today
Alltel Wireless announced that it has formed an agreement with Best
Buy, which will begin selling Alltel wireless phones and services.
Alltel's products will only be available at 40 Best Buy retail stores
located within Alltel's coverage footprint. Customers will be able to
buy new phones and activate new service plans, as well as make changes
to existing plans. The agreement goes into effect May 25.
A
new Nokia phone has recently been approved by the FCC. This slider seen
in the documents could be the Nokia E66, which is an expected update of
the E65. These filings do not reveal too much information, nor do thy
confirm, exactly which model it is, but it will likely run the latest
version of the S60 platform. It has quad-band GSM/EDGE radios, as well
as three separate 3G configurations. One version will have just 2100MHz
for Europe, another will nave just 850 for Australia, and a third will
have 850/1900 for the U.S.
Speaking at Morgan Stanley’s 13th
Annual Communications Conference in Washington, D.C, AT&T Wireless’ president and CEO Ralph De la Vega said
he sees wireless data revenue growth in the 50%-plus range from
applications such as messaging, email, and browsing. 
