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CTIA: As AWS roll out, vendors start pumping out phonesThere isn’t exactly a glut of Advanced Wireless Services phones on the market, but there isn’t a dearth either. As the first AWS networks went live in the last few weeks, handset makers at CTIA Wireless debuted new devices embedded with the new radio chips, trying to avoid the time gap between networks and handsets common to a new technology launch.... CTIA: Qualcomm tweaks 1XLAS VEGAS--For much of the CTIA Wireless show this week, Qualcomm was looking to the future, pointing to key customer wins for its Gobi embedded laptop radio chip, talking up Snapdragon for even smaller devices and assuring the industry that MediaFLO will continue to expand.... CTIA: QuickPlay targets mobile radio, videoLAS VEGAS – QuickPlay, which runs off-deck mobile TV and video, announced this week it will branch into satellite radio with XM Radio Mobile.... CTIA: GenBand touts femtocell opportunityLAS VEGAS – The femtocell market represents a major opportunity for wireless service providers to push even more wireline substitution while making their own networks operate more efficiently, according to media gateway maker GenBand.... CTIA: LTE, sooner rather than laterLAS VEGAS--Long-term evolution may not be so long term after all. As operators rally behind the standard, the wireless industry vendor community is ramping up the development of their radio access gear--or at least giving the appearance of doing so... CTIA: Verizon Business makes PBX mobileLAS VEGAS--Verizon Business this week announced new mobile extensions for PBXs that allow businesses to make their mobile workers more productive while keeping corporate networks more secure... CTIA: Yahoo adds punch to mobile searchLAS VEGAS--Yahoo today debuted a new version of its mobile oneSearch service, led by the addition of technology that lets users search the Web from their phone using simple voice queries... CTIA: AT&T’s de la Vega now in Android ‘camp’LAS VEGAS--While stopping short of announcing formal plans to offer Android phones on his company’s network, AT&T Mobility president and CEO Ralph de la Vega said recent talks with Google and demos of its Android operating system convinced him to one day have Android-based phones in the AT&T device portfolio... CTIA: Vodafone CEO warns against 4G standard warsLAS VEGAS--The wireless industry needs to rally behind a single 4G standard and not waste resources on technology wars in order to take full advantage of the massive opportunity of the mobile Internet, Vodafone CEO Arun Sarin said in his CTIA keynote address here today... CTIA: Mobile social networking bloomsLAS VEGAS--Less than six months after Research In Motion (RIM) launched its Facebook-for-BlackBerry smartphone application at October’s CTIA conference, the company is announcing at this week’s show that the application has been downloaded 1 million times. With explosive growth like this, it is becoming harder to dismiss mobile social networking as a fad... CTIA: Symbian adds database, location managementLAS VEGAS--To help enable more sophisticated mobile applications, operating system vendor Symbian this week at CTIA added an SQL-based database and a new location-based services architecture to its core mobile OS... Q&A: NSN’s Spradley on the U.S. marketNokia Siemens Networks North America chief Sue Spradley has been on the job only eight months, but her region has born results. Spradley talked with Telephony about her recent success in the U.S. as well as what it will take to win AT&T back as a wireless customer.... CTIA: Nokia adds WiMAX to the Internet TabletLAS VEGAS--Nokia today unveiled the first standalone WiMAX data device for the North American market, a version of its N810 Internet tablet embedded with a WiMAX chip as well as Wi-Fi... CTIA: Performance Technologies powers Pocket in TexasLAS VEGAS--Pocket Communications, a prepaid wireless carrier covering San Antonio and south Texas, is preparing to build on its success by expanding its network using Performance Technologies’ SEGway X401 signaling gear, the two companies announced here at CTIA... CTIA: Level 3 takes hybrid approach to backhaulLAS VEGAS--Wireless backhaul has rapidly become not just a big market but a crowded field, with everyone from CLECs to cable companies to broadband wireless companies, not to mention wireline incumbents, looking to capture a piece of the 3G-4G buildouts... CTIA: NewStep announces expanded partnershipsLAS VEGAS--NewStep Networks today announced a partnership with embedded software platform maker D2 Technologies as well as new social network capabilities for its Converged Services Node. Both announcements are aimed at extending the reach of NewStep’s fixed-mobile convergence solutions for service providers... CTIA: AT&T making mobile music simplerLAS VEGAS--AT&T is unveiling new mobile music capabilities in part to make it easier for even the non-hip cell phone user to begin taking their music on the road.... CTIA: Sprint debuts new phone but no XohmLAS VEGAS--Though today was officially the first day of the second quarter, in which Sprint promised to commercially launch its WiMAX network in a handful of markets, CEO Dan Hesse didn’t use the keynote podium or the spectacle of CTIA to unveil the country’s first 4G network. What he did do was unveil a new, exclusive Samsung phone, the user interface of which Sprint and Samsung designed together... CTIA: Virgin Group CEO defends MVNO modelLAS VEGAS--The mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) handset model remains a viable, low-cost alternative for consumers faced with economic downtimes, according to Sir Richard Branson, CEO of the Virgin Group... CTIA: Microsoft updates mobile OS, browserLAS VEGAS--Microsoft used the keynote stage at CTIA in Las Vegas today to officially launch an expected minor update to its Windows Mobile operating system and preview a new version of its Internet Explorer Mobile browser slated for year's end.... CTIA: D2 targets Android for unified communicationsLAS VEGAS--Embedded telephony software maker D2 Technologies today demonstrated its new IP-based communications suite working alongside the Android mobile operating system, enabling phones running Google’s emerging platform to deliver an array of IP-based services.... CTIA: FCC’s Martin opposes Carterphone rules for wireless industryLAS VEGAS--Calling the U.S. wireless industry "the poster child for competition," FCC Chairman Kevin Martin today promised to recommend that Skype’s petition for federal rules to require an open wireless interface for all handsets be dismissed... CTIA: Starent makes jump to GGSNLAS VEGAS--Global operator Vodafone has selected Starent Networks' core network to provide core network data and signaling nodes in Vodafone Germany’s network, marking Starent’s transformation from a vendor dealing solely with the CDMA core to a global equipment maker in the much larger GSM/UMTS world... CTIA: AT&T reveals mystery channelLAS VEGAS--Building on Thursday’s announcement that AT&T’s delayed mobile TV services powered by MediaFLO, a subsidy of Qualcomm, are set to debut in May of this year, the wireless carrier today revealed that it has licensed a channel from Sony Pictures Television... Leap launching first AWS marketLeap Wireless said today it will launch commercial service in its first market using spectrum acquired in the Advanced Wireless Services auction... CTIA: Next-generation backhaul hits the floorWireless backhaul vendors increase capacity, ease Ethernet migration... LTE and WiMAX to share CTIA stageLong-term evolution trumped WiMAX at Mobile World Congress, as GSM operators around the world gathered under the LTE banner, but don't expect the same to happen at CTIA... CTIA: Ericsson pushes UMTS to its limitsThough the industry’s attention may be caught up in 4G, Ericsson isn’t prepared to give up the 3G spotlight just yet. The vendor is highlighting its Evolved High-Speed Packet Access (HSPA) gear at CTIA Wireless this year and promises to demonstrate the maximum capacity that can be squeezed out of a 3G network... AT&T plans mobile TV launch in MayThough a couple of quarters later than planned, AT&T today said it would launch broadcast mobile TV services in May over Qualcomm’s MediaFLO network... CTIA: Motorola getting jump on CDMA-to-LTE migrationMotorola today said it has successfully completed a handoff between a CDMA and Long Term Evolution (LTE) network in its labs, thus demonstrating the viability of the two different technologies working in unison on the same flat IP core... Orange Business debuts mobile management in USRealizing that many corporations face the daunting task of tracking, securing and maintaining the explosion of mobile devices that employees now carry, Orange Business Services this week launched a mobility management service that it says provides an holistic view of the mobile office environment.... 700 MHz auction ends after 261 roundsAuction 73 came to a close this afternoon after 38 days when Round 261 failed to garner a single new bid. The auction raised $19.592 billion, but aside from the cash payout the FCC revealed few of the auctions results... NMS gets into music biz; buys Groove MobileNMS Communications said today it has acquired mobile music company Groove Mobile for $14.5 million, allowing NMS to expand beyond ringback tones into full track music downloads.... |
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