The carrier will start selling three phones that use Java in about two weeks, AT&T Wireless spokesman Jeremy Pemble said Tuesday. The nation's third largest carrier will also soon introduce a lineup of downloads dominated by entertainment and games, he said. Nextel Communications, Verizon Wireless and Sprint PCS already use Java to sell downloadable games from Sega, as well as weather forecasts and business applications. The downloads cost 99 cents to $5 each and last for a month before expiring.

CNET también está disponible en español, Don't show this again, Panasonic competitors Philips and Siemens have already begun selling SMS cordless phones, and Matsushita plans to introduce them soon, according to sources, Like the other SMS cordless phones, the Panasonic phones, model KX-TCD755, will debut in Europe and Asia, where sending e-mail over the phone jungalow x incipio case for iphone 8 isn't as rare as it is in the United States, Gutowitz said, Panasonic's phone is not expected to be available in the United States for another year, at least..

SMS, which sends text messages of no longer than 160 characters, has been available to U.S. cell phone users for several years. But while about 30 billion SMS messages are exchanged between cell phones each month in Europe, only about 350 million a year are exchanged in the United States. Only 3 percent to 6 percent of people in the United States own cell phones in place of landline phones, according to research firm The Yankee Group. But that could soon grow to about 10 percent in less than two years, other analysts believe. About 94 percent of all U.S. households have both landline phone service and cordless phones.

New landline phones due from Panasonic will be able to exchange text messages with computers and wireless devices, including cell phones, Adding the messaging service, called SMS (Short Message Service), to cordless phones is telephone manufacturers' reaction to the growing number of people abandoning their landline service for cell phones, "This is what carriers are doing to fight back, jungalow x incipio case for iphone 8 or at least stop the decrease," said Howard Gutowitz, chief executive of Eatoni Ergonomics, which makes text messaging software inside the Panasonic cordless phones..

CNET también está disponible en español. Don't show this again. The nation's second largest landline carrier instead forced competitors to spend time and money filing lawsuits seeking the access, the FCC said. "SBC..went out and broke the (requirements) in five different states," Powell said in a statement. "Such unlawful, anti-competitive behavior is unacceptable.". "Instead of sharing, as the law requires, SBC withheld and litigated, forcing competitors to expend valuable time and resources to exercise their rights under the FCC's order," Powell added.