Tag archive: cingular wireless

Cingular Wireless announced today that it will be first U.S. cellular operator to offer worldwide high-speed roaming. Cingular GlobalConnect will offer mobile broadband service in more than two dozen countries using a five-band cellular PC card from Option Wireless. Cingular's GlobalConnect plan will be based on the Option GlobeTrotter GT MAX LaptopConnect card, the first five-band cellular device to reach the market. The card can… Read More

The BlackBerry 7100g features a brilliant and large high-resolution color LCD display and RIM's SureType keyboard technology.  SureType effectively converges a telephone keypad and a QWERTY keyboard to fit within the size constraints of a traditional mobile phone, while ensuring dialing and typing remain quick and easy.  It also includes Bluetooth support for use with Bluetooth headsets and car kits for a flexible handsfree… Read More

Two leading wireless carriers, AT&T Wireless and Cingular Wireless, announced the first agreement to offer intercarrier Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS). Starting today, Cingular and AT&TWireless customers can share multimedia messages with each other from their wireless phones. As a result of this agreement, AT&T Wireless and Cingular customers can now send and receive messages that include text, photos, animated graphics, voice… Read More

USA Today reports that Cingular Wireless has made a formal offer to acquire AT&T Wireless in an all-cash deal that would create the USA's No. 1 cell phone carrier, according to executives with knowledge of the offer at two companies involved in the deal. The offer was submitted to AT&T Wireless' board of directors over the weekend, the executives say. A previously scheduled board meeting began Monday and is expected to… Read More

Exclusive to Cingular Wireless, the s307 (GSM/GPRS 850/1900MHz) is the smallest and sleekest clamshell-designed handset in Cingular's portfolio, and is developed for busy professionals who findinformation key to balancing their business and personal lives. According to Allied Business Intelligence, 97 percent of wireless phones will feature color screens by 2008 – a trend Samsung is advancing as a global leader in screen… Read More

Offered only with Yahoo! Messenger, the service enables Cingular Wireless customers to have two-way conversations with PC users with their mobile phones. Yahoo! Messenger users will be able to click on the “Mobile” icon and contact a Cingular customer by typing in a ten-digit Cingular mobile number. The Cingular user will receive the message via text messaging and can reply directly back by sending a text message which will appear… Read More

Also today, T-Mobile USA and Cingular Wireless agreed to expand the roaming arrangement reached by the companies last year, and to extend it until 2006. For T-Mobile's customers, the roaming agreement with Western Wireless expands advanced GSM/GPRS 1900 voice and data service along more than 5,500 highway miles and across much of the Western UnitedStates including Idaho, Utah, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Minnesota, North and South Dakota,… Read More