• Sandvine says that it has added an unnamed North American wireless carrier to its customer base. Sandvine says its solutions will improve visibility into wireless network traffic and help the service provider offer subscribers more control over their mobile Internet experiences.

• Alaska Communications Systems Group is looking to Interop Technologies to provide its short message (SMS), multimedia message (MMS) and WAP solutions. The carrier will use hosted Interop Technologies solutions to provide text and multimedia messaging and mobile Internet services to its base of 143,000 subscribers.

• JAB Wireless has secured $15 million in senior debt financing from Hercules Technology Growth Capital.  JAB Wireless is the parent company representing brands in the fixed wireless space that provide VoIP and high-speed Internet services. The company plans to use the funds to finance acquisitions and accelerate subscriber base growth. RBC Daniels, L.P. acted as exclusive financial adviser.

• Cetronia Ambulance, with headquarters in Allentown, Penn., has deployed In Motion's onBoard Mobile Gateway to improve medical emergency operations, communications and response times for its medical transportation services for the residents of the Lehigh Valley. The gateway will enable communications between Cetronia's medical devices such as ECGs, driver monitoring and safety equipment and dispatch systems. It also will allow the seamless transmission of information between these systems and Cetronia's operations command and area hospitals while emergency vehicles are at incident scenes and in transit.

• Alltel Wireless is offering subscribers an opportunity to become Chief Basketball Officer (CBO) of fans. In its My Circle Pick & Roll Challenge, a fan will earn a 6-figure "salary" and spend his/her first weekend "on-the-job" traveling by private jet to college basketball conference tournaments. Subscribers can sign up at www.fanu.com/alltel to test their college basketball IQ in a free, weekly pick'em game. The more games a fan picks correctly, the more points he or she accrues. On March 12, the three fans with the highest point total will travel to Charlotte, N.C., to compete in an interview process conducted by a panel of celebrity judges. The grand prize winner and a guest will spend a weekend jetting to his/her choice of college basketball conference tournaments, keeping in touch with friends and family using a new Samsung Hue handset and collecting a $100,000 "salary."

• In related Alltel Wireless news, the operator has names Level 3 its 2007 Telecom Sourcing Supplier of the Year, for its services and network solutions. According to Alltel, Level 3 has been a significant part of its success in 2007. Level 3 achieved this honor based on Alltel's quarterly evaluation of all vendors. The evaluation criteria included quality, delivery, price, technology roadmap and relationship. Alltel and Level 3 have been working together to enable voice and data solutions for Alltel's convergence network – delivering all services over a single IP-MPLS based network – and have supported the steady organic growth Alltel has seen in its voice business. Level 3 is providing Alltel with Level 3 Voice Services, Intercity Transport, Metro Transport Services, High Speed Internet Protocol (HSIP) and Collocation Services.

• Convergys has appointed Igor Sarenac to vice president of Business Development for Canada. Sarenac previously served as vice president of sales and has been with Convergys for three years. Before joining Convergys, he was senior director of sales for Amdocs for five years. He also served as country national manager of sales for Objective Systems Integrators and held similar roles with Ericsson, Architel and Nortel Networks.

• Agilent Technologies has introduced new Interactive Functional Test (IFT) software for its 8960 Series 10 (E5515C) Wireless Communications Test Set. The IFT software provides an automated interface for testing "user experience" by stress-testing cellular mobile devices in real-world network scenarios. By allowing earlier identification of design issues and reducing time to market, this software is ideal for UMTS mobile phone/device developers conducting functional validation, as well as service providers performing acceptance testing.

• Synchronica, an international provider of mobile e-mail and synchronization solutions, has raised $3.642 million in funds through a placement of new ordinary shares with Lanstead Capital L.P. The proceeds will be used for continued development and accelerated commercialization of the company's Mobile Gateway product that will add growth in its core mobile e-mail business.

• Mobile gaming site GatorArcade has signed a deal with Glu Mobile. The partnership with Glu injects a fresh line-up of popular interactive games for the mobile platform into GatorArcade's games library. GatorArcade now offers games from Glu, including Zuma, Diner Dash Mobile and World Series of Poker Pro Challenge to GatorArcade's paid subscriber base. GatorArcade is a brand of digital entertainment company New Motion.

• 3 announced it has selected Fonestarz to host and manage Pix, its new mobile picture service. Pix has now launched on the 3 portal in the UK and Ireland and currently features 20,000 images and animations taken from FoneStarz's catalog of premium content. FoneStarz will license wallpaper and animation content for the services from its 130 content partners and its retail and publishing teams will manage both the UK and Irish Pix channels from its UK headquarters.

• g8wave Holdings, an integrated mobile media company with offices in Boston and London, has announced a partnership with Sapporo USA to launch a suite of mobile services. Through Web and mobile WAP sites, Sapporo will make available mobile content such and ringtones and wallpapers, as well as information on upcoming Sapporo events and information on where to find Sapporo locally, all powered by g8wave's mobile media platform.  Sapporo 's WAP site will be available in both English and Japanese. g8wave also has announced that it is working with BostonNOW and Blitz Live! to power text message news and alerts for the paper's growing readership. A new text poll is running each day on the front page of BostonNOW asking readers to text in with their opinion on hot-button issues in politics, sports, lifestyle, celebrity and culture.