Fujitsu back in the WiMAX game—with a partner
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Fifteen months after announcing its entry into the U.S. WiMAX infrastructure market, Fujitsu has finally released its first product, a Mobile WiMAX kit tuned to the 2.5 GHz and 2.3 GHz frequencies popular both in the U.S. and at home in Japan...
MWC: Software companies align for mobile marketing push
By: By Sarah Reedy
Mobile advertising is slowly moving from an untapped source of revenue to a value-added service for customers and carriers alike. To expedite the process, the Mobile Advertising Alliance, an association of mobile software companies, was announced in advance of Mobile World Congress next week in Barcelona...
Sharedband launching bonded DSL in Seattle this week
By: By Ed Gubbins
British startup Sharedband expects to launch its bonded broadband offering in the United States this week, starting in Seattle and planning to expand throughout the country this year...
Soma scores big in India
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Little Soma Networks has hit the WiMAX jackpot, announcing today it is rolling out what it believes is the largest WiMAX network in the world in India...
Free-to-air mobile TV market accelerates overseas
By: By Sarah Reedy
Mobile TV chipmaker Telegent Systems today unveiled the TLG1120, a single-chip CMOS mobile TV receiver supporting all major worldwide broadcast TV standards, including NTSC, PAL, and SECAM TV broadcasts. According to the three-year old startup, the TLG1120 is the first mobile TV receiver to provide global access to free-to-air content...
IPTV standards effort moves ahead
By: By Sarah Reedy
The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) begins work this week on the next phase of its efforts to establish global standards for IPTV, hoping to increase simplification and integration for IPTV manufacturers, service providers and consumers...
Alcatel-Lucent scores U.S. Cellular win
By: By Kevin Fitchard
U.S. Cellular is renewing its CDMA infrastructure contract with Alcatel-Lucent but to what extent neither the vendor nor the carrier is letting on...
MetaSwitch gets cash infusion
By: By Carol Wilson
Data Connection Ltd., the parent company of softswitch maker MetaSwitch, is getting its first large infusion of cash from private equity firm Francisco Partners, and its partner firm, Sequoia Capital, to expand its successful North American operation into the global stage...
Exclusive: Insight Research doubles outlook on OSS spending
By: By Tim McElligott
The telecommunications industry has put its troubles behind it, according to Brenda Belkin, senior analyst at Insight Research...
CES: Microsoft celebrates IPTV success, adds apps
By: By Sarah Reedy
Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Bill Gates kicked off the Consumer Electronics Show this week with encouraging news for skeptical IPTV followers...
What Nokia Siemens will acquire next
By: By Ed Gubbins
With two acquisition announcements in the last three months, Nokia Siemens Networks is clearly in M&A mode, though its next move is anyone’s guess...
UBS: Alcatel faces mobility decline, culture clash
By: By Ed Gubbins
After revenue declines last year and this year, Alcatel-Lucent’s mobility division will likely see shrinking revenue again in 2008, according to UBS Investment Research analyst Nikos Theodosopoulos...
WiMAX Forum to begin mobile certification—no, really
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The WiMAX Forum today said its lead certification lab in Malaga, Spain, is now ready to begin accepting Mobile WiMAX equipment for interoperability testing and certification...
ZTE handsets debut in North America
By: By Sarah Reedy
ZTE USA, the United States subsidiary to Chinese company ZTE, today announced that MetroPCS has signed an agreement to purchase ZTE’s CDMA PCS and AWS handsets. The agreement marks the company’s first handset customer in the United States....
NetCracker takes NExT step at France Telecom
By: By Tim McElligott
For NetCracker, getting a software contract from a company the size of France Telecom is one thing. Getting certified two years later as the corporate de facto standard is another...
Motorola launches first large-scale WiMAX network
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Motorola’s first commercial WiMAX network went live today in 22 cities in Pakistan, making it the first of its three high-profile nationwide network contracts to launch...
