T-Mobile to Offer Wi-Fi in Red Roof Inn&#39;s US Hotels
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T-Mobile, the US wireless unit of Germany&#39;s Deutsche Telekom AG, won a contract to offer wireless Internet connections in Red Roof Inn&#39;s 359 budget hotels.
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T-Mobile USA has inked a deal to deliver Wi-Fi access to Accor Hotels&#39; Red Roof Inns. Separately, Colubris Networks has been tapped by i-Hotel International to help it deliver high-speed wireless access to hotels across Canada.
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Snacks on SunCom Wireless T-Mobile USA has gobbled up SunCom Wireless, looking to expand the country's fourth-leading cell phone network into Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and the heart of Southeastern United States. You know, the former confederacy.â¦
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T3 Telecom Software, Inc. has integrated with Comtrol's Lodging Link(TM) to work seamlessly with industry leading hospitality Property Management Systems (PMSs).
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(InfoWorld) - Expanding its U.S. turf, T-Mobile USA announced Monday that it will buy SunCom Wireless Holdings for $2.4 billion in cash and assumed debt. T-Mobile, a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom, will make a cash payment of about $1.6 billion for SunCom, which operates wireless networks in the southeastern U.S. and Caribbean. The acquisition will improve T-Mobile's network coverage in North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, T-Mobile said in a news release. SunCom has provided roaming service to T-Mobile in these areas since 2004. It operates a network that includes GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications), GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) and EDGE (Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution). T-Mobile expects to fully integrate SunCom's network into its own, the company said in a news release. T-Mobile, the fourth largest wireless carrier in the U.S., has had limited coverage in parts of the southeastern U.S. The SunCom acquisition allows T-Mobile to continue its strategy to "grow abroad with mobile," RenÃ© Obermann, chairman of Deutsche Telekom's board, said in a statement. The acquisition is subject to governmental and regulatory approvals as well as approval by SunCom shareholders. The companies expect the deal to close in the first half of 2008. At the end of the second quarter of 2007, SunCom had more than 1.1 million customers, up by more than 105,000 customers from a year earlier. Its revenue for the quarter was $242.5 million, up from $206.7 million a year earlier. The agreement, approved by the boards of both companies, will give holders of SunCom common stock $27 per share in cash. The $27 per share purchase price represents a premium of 22.7 percent over the closing price of SunCom common stock on the New York Stock Exchange Friday.
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; STAFF WRITER. Time Warner is testing the addition of cellular service to its offerings, the company confirmed yesterday. Offering cable television, high-speed Internet access and landline
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SAN FRANCISCO -- At the CTIA Wireless IT & Entertainment 2004 conference Monday, Mike Wehrs, Microsoftâs director of technology & standards for its Mobility Division, disclosed some details about Big Redâs future mobile plans.
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TechWeb - The company will be one of the first to test mobile Wimax in the United States.
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NEW YORK -- T-Mobile USA on Tuesday will launch the first cell phone in the U.S. to come with Microsoft's latest version of Windows Mobile, with improved handling of e-mail and tougher security.
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T-Mobile has signed an agreement with six international wireless telephony companies to simplify roaming and billing arrangements for customers using Wi-Fi around the world.
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Remote connectivity service provider iPass Inc has announced a deal with T-Mobile in the UK. It will be its first relationship with a European 3G operator where corporate customers can be billed by iPass for connecting to its network from their laptop.
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(InfoWorld) - T-Mobile USA planned to launch its converged Wi-Fi and cellular service nationwide Wednesday, following theÂ introduction of the serviceÂ late last year in Seattle. The service lets users of a special mobile phone make calls over Wi-Fi from their homes as well as T-Mobile hotspots. Users can also make regular cell phone calls when out of range of a hotspot. Calls hand off between the two networks if a user moves from their home, for example, beyond the range of their Wi-Fi network. T-Mobile has been working on this service for around four years, said Mike Selman, T-Mobile director of marketing. The company began the project after asking customers what would make them give up their landline phones and rely only on their mobile. The answer they most commonly gave was that the phone had to work better in their home, he said. Because cellular networks often don't work as well indoors as outside, T-Mobile is using Wi-Fi to provide better service to customers in their homes. For now, customers can choose from a Nokia or Samsung phone. Each costs $50 with a two-year contract. Customers can use any access point, but T-Mobile encourages them to use either the D-Link or Linksys routers it offers. The access points, which are free after a mail-in rebate, come loaded with software that gives voice calls priority, helping ensure better quality. T-Mobile customers must have a cellular plan of $39.99 or more in order to sign up, and then must pay an additional $19.99 per month for unlimited local and long-distance calls from the hotspots. A family plan that includes up to five lines costs $29.99 per month. T-Mobile is also offering an introductory rate that doesn't expire. Customers who sign up while the offer is valid will pay $9.99 for one line and $19.99 for up to five. Users can also opt to have their Wi-Fi minutes count the same as their cellular minutes under a regular plan, and not pay the additional monthly fee. If a cellular and Wi-Fi network are both in range, the phones default to the lower-cost Wi-Fi network. Also, when users move from one network to the next, the call is billed based on which network started the call. For example, if a user begins a call on the cellular network and then walks into their home, even if the call is transferred to the Wi-Fi network, the entire call will count against their cellular voice plan. Users can make phone calls from any of T-Mobile's 8,500 hotspots across the country, located in Starbucks coffee shops and other locations. The phone automatically connects and authenticates at the T-Mobile hotspots. In many cases, customers can also use other hotspots. If the hotspot has no security, a user can connect to it and make calls. However, if a hotspot employs a browser redirect page that requires a user to agree to terms, the user won't be able to connect. That's because the available phones can't display HTML Web pages. Users can also type in a password to connect to a secured Wi-Fi network. Thomas Hagan, a T-Mobile customer in Midway, Georgia, who tried the service for four weeks, said he had no trouble using the phone in hotels, a local bookstore and his corporate Wi-Fi network. He found it very easy to set up the router in his home and connect to the phone to it. Overall, he was impressed with the call quality over the Wi-Fi network and didn't have any problems with calls dropping when transferred between the cellular and Wi-Fi networks. "The phone was a little larger than my existing phone, so that took a little getting used to," Hagan said, although he added that he ultimately took to the phone. Customers can only choose from two devices and they're both low-end flip phones with limited functionality. T-Mobile relies on technology called Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA) to offer the service. On June 18, Cincinnati BellÂ launched a similar UMA service in its region. Operators including OrangeÂ in Europe have also launched the converged services.
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A pact between GigaBeam, Microwave Satellite Technologies (MST) and Trump properties will see ultra high-speed wireless links installed in twenty of Trump's buildings on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
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T-Mobile USA, the fourth largest US mobile carrier, is expected to announce plans on Friday to deploy a nationwide 3G wireless network.
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Europe : Mobile Internet now provides T-Mobile customers with a mobile broadband connection that will give them high speed Internet access wherever they are.
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T-Mobile USA, the nation's fourth-largest cell phone carrier, has received approval for its $2.4 billion purchase of SunCom Wireless, a regional carrier that primarily serves the southeastern United States.
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Telstra has launched Wi-fi roaming with five international wireless broadband operators giving Telstra customers travelling abroad access to WiFi hotspots in the UK (BT Group), USA (T-Mobile USA), Japan (NTT DoCoMo), Singapore (StarHub) and Malaysia (Maxis