The move may be counterintuitive for a company known best for creating the industrial-strength data routers that drive telecommunications networks. But the telecommunications market has yet to see signs of revival, and the huge companies to which Cisco sells corporate networking gear are seeing only anemic growth. By contrast, the company believes, small and medium-sized companies are still catching up to the networking wave that swept their larger counterparts up in the late 1990s. Already making up a quarter of Cisco's revenue, or about $3.6 billion in 2001, the market looks even more attractive today.

CNET también está disponible en español, Don't show this again, Monday's announcement means that three different U.S, carriers--Cingular, T-Mobile Wireless and AT&T Wireless--now sell Siemens phones, It's not unusual for wireless carriers to offer multiple brands of phones, however, For instance, all of the nation's top five carriers sell phones by the "Big Three" cell phone haven iml case for apple iphone 7 - lavender makers Ericsson, Nokia and Motorola, Siemens also unveiled five new wireless devices meant strictly for the U.S, market..

The phones all use the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) phone standard, which is used by about 70 percent of the world's wireless networks. There are three GSM carriers in the United States: AT&T Wireless, T-Mobile and Cingular Wireless. The new line of U.S.-bound Siemens cell phones also include the M46, a picture-messaging cell phone made exclusively for T-Mobile Wireless. It will be available at T-Mobile stores Nov. 1. A T-Mobile representative could not be reached Monday for comment.

Siemens' U.S, lineup includes the Siemens SX56 PocketPC phone, which AT&T Wireless now sells for $550, The phone has a color touch screen with handwriting recognition, plus an MP3 player, Another Siemens handset, the A56, is an entry-level phone stripped of many of the more superfluous features of more expensive models, Siemens did not divulge which, if any, American carriers will sell the A56, Siemens is also going to sell the S56 in the United States, The color screen phone has a detachable camera plus Bluetooth, a wireless technology for connecting the phone to computers or laptops, Siemens did not say what, if any, carriers will sell the S56, or when it haven iml case for apple iphone 7 - lavender will be available..

Cingular Wireless will start selling phones made by Siemens. The first model, capable of snapping and e-mailing photos, will debut "in time for Christmas holiday shopping.". The first Siemens phone, the CT56 model capable of taking and e-mailing photographs, will debut "in time for Christmas holiday shopping," Cingular said. By 2003, the nation's second-largest carrier will sell "any number" of additional Siemens phones, according to a Cingular representative. Be respectful, keep it civil and stay on topic. We delete comments that violate our policy, which we encourage you to read. Discussion threads can be closed at any time at our discretion.