(Street Life is a regular feature that profiles what's playing in the stock market.)

ACT I: CALL ME

* The Player: Rogers Communications (TSX:RCI.B)

* Action: Up $1.15 or three per cent in a day (from $34.69 March 24)

* Recent Price: $35.84

* 52-Week High/Low: $52.20/$32.92 When the technology was first introduced, we used to ask, "You can do that with the Internet?" Now the question has morphed into, "You can do that with your phone?" Rogers Wireless and L.A.-based music company Live Nation announced the launch of Wireless Box Office, a first in Canada, which allows a cellphone to become a wireless ticket to certain Live Nation concerts across our country.

To use the new service, a Rogers customer can scroll through phone menus to choose a concert, pay for a ticket using a credit card, and then receive a wireless ticket directly on their cellphone.

A barcode on the wireless ticket will then allow entry into the event through a special VIP entrance.

The product announcement helped boost Rogers' stock price to $35.84, up $1.15 on the day.

But only time will tell if the new generation of music-loving, text-messaging, photo-snapping phone users will create enough demand to push the company's shares back up to the $52 highs hit last summer.

ACT II: TOUGH ACT TO FOLLOW

* The Player: Glentel Inc. (TSX:GLN)

* Action: Down $1.58 or 14 per cent in two weeks (from $10.99 March 12)

* Recent Price: $9.41

* 52-Week High/Low: $12/$7.03 Hollywood may be fickle, but investors can be even worse.

Glentel Inc., a Burnaby-based wireless provider, had an outstanding nine months ending Sept. 30, 2007. In the fall, the company reported a 21-per-cent increase in sales for the period (to $153 million from $126 million in the same nine months of 2006), and a net income of $5.8 million, up from $3 million a year earlier.

Shortly after, the City of Burnaby and the Burnaby Board of Trade named Glentel "Business of the Year" for 2007. Glentel stock went berserk, climbing 42 per cent in three trading days (to $10.80 Oct. 30 from $7.59 Oct. 25).

But come Q4 and year-end announcements, and investors are disappointed with Glentel's 22-per-cent increase in annual sales (to $222 million in 2007 from $181 million in 2006), and 67-per-cent rise in net income for the year (to $10.6 million in 2007 from $6.3 million in 2006).

Glentel shares have slipped back to around $9.50, which must be making the company's management wonder what more they have to do to impress.

ACT III: ACRONYMS ABOUND

* The Player: Research in Motion (TSX:RIM)

* Action: Up $9.86 or nine per cent in a month (from $108.45 Feb. 25)

* Recent Price: $118.31

* 52-Week High/Low: $126.34/$48.49 The Canadian darling of the telecom world has done it again; soon "Crackberry" users will be able to surf, type, text, e-mail and otherwise entertain themselves even faster.

In an interview in the Financial Times, Research in Motion (RIM) president Mike Lazaridis spilled the beans on the upcoming release of a BlackBerry with 3.5G mobile Internet access capability (a potential of 14.4 Mbps downlink speed).

Rumour has it he was speaking of the BlackBerry 9000 with HSDPA (high speed downlink packet access), tentatively scheduled for a European launch in May, but there has not yet been an official announcement.

A few days after the interview, RIM and T-Mobile USA announced the launch of the ultra-thin BlackBerry 8820 that features built-in GPS and Wi-Fi calling, and 1x EV-DO (evolution-data optimized) technology (up to 3.1 Mbps).

All those acronyms must be sounding good to someone. RIM shares have been creeping back up near 52-week highs hit late in 2006.

ACT IV: A GLIMMER OF HOPE

* The Player: Nortel Networks (TSX:NT)

* Action: Up 33 cents or five per cent in a day (from $6.67 March 24)

* Recent Price: $7

* 52-Week High/Low: $5.84/$28.70 It's hard to celebrate when one recalls buying Nortel stock at $124.60 (I'm not naming names), but the company recently made an announcement that, if one dares to read the press releases, warrants at least a sigh of relief if not a whispered cheer.

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. of India, a customer of Nortel since 2004, has made a deal with the company for a US$100-million cellular network expansion in southern India.

Work on the GSM wireless lines is underway and Nortel expects the project to be finished by the end of 2008.

U.S. Cellular, one of the largest wireless companies in the States, has also announced a five-year deal with the Canadian company.

U.S. Cellular will buy Nortel's CDMA switching, base stations and software (for an undisclosed amount), and will receive emergency technical support, performance monitoring and other services.

Those announcements lifted the flailing stock 33 cents (from $6.67 March 24). Only another $1,239 to go to break even on that buy in 2000.

NOTE: The above is not intended as investment advice to buy or sell any mentioned securities. Investors should do due diligence before investing. Quotes are based on results through March 25, 2008.

(Nicole Strandlund can be reached at nicole@businessedge.ca)