Nortel lays down royalty rate for LTE
By Kevin Fitchard
Nortel has always claimed to hold a substantial amount of the intellectual property in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing access (OFMA) and multiple input/multiple output (MIMO) smart antenna technology that will power the world’s future 4G networks, but this week it actually put a number to its claims. ...
T-Mobile launches 3G in New York
By Kevin Fitchard
New York just gained its fourth 3G network. T-Mobile today said it has turned up its wideband CDMA network in the Big Apple, the first of what the service provider said would be multiple 3G service launches throughout the year....
MagicJack attacks
By Sarah Reedy
MagicJack founder, and inventor of its technology, Dan Borislow, doesn’t like the term voice-over IP (VoIP). He thinks it has a negative connotation in an industry prone to struggles. ...
Alcatel-Lucent’s Olivier Coste on DVB-SH and mobile TV
By Sarah Reedy
Last Friday, Alcatel-Lucent announced it would trial the new hybrid satellite-terrestrial mobile broadcast technology with DISH Network in the United States kicking off this month. ...
Alcatel-Lucent: As CDMA declines, W-CDMA steps up
By Kevin Fitchard
Alcatel-Lucent doubled its sales in Wideband CDMA in the first quarter as the synergies of Alcatel and Lucent Technologies' merged UMTS portfolios begin to emerge, company officials said today...
Putting the squeeze on HD
By Carol Wilson
Coming late to a market is not usually a sign of innovation, but as Thomson makes a U.S. push with its SmartVision IPTV system, the global video company is banking on doing things better than the existing players...
Ericsson North America sales get a boost
By Kevin Fitchard
While its overall outlook for mobile infrastructure sales may be flat, Ericsson may have found a bright spot in North America, traditionally the region at the bottom of the vendor’s revenue chart....
Moto looks to WiMAX, simplified phone platforms for future growth
By Kevin Fitchard
Motorola’s mounting losses dominated the financial news in wireless today, but the beleaguered vendor pointed toward two strategic shifts that might ultimately pull the company out of the mire, though neither would likely bare results until 2009 when it plans to split into two separate companies...
Nokia promises integration of devices and services strategies
By Kevin Fitchard
Nokia’s new services strategy has yet to bear fruit financially, but on the company’s earnings call Thursday, Nokia CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo said Nokia is not only committed to services and applications as the future of the company, but it also plans to build more devices surrounding its growing services portfolio...
NSN Still Struggling Under Price Pressures
By Kevin Fitchard
In Nokia’s earnings call today, CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo summed up the first 12 months of Nokia’s networks joint venture with Siemens in one statement: “Overall progress has been difficult but steady,” he said....
NAB: Is network-based DVR an IPTV savior?
By Carol Wilson
LAS VEGAS--There is a small groundswell of support among U.S. IPTV players to see network-based digital video recording become part of the video ecosystem, enabling high-definition content to be more easily delivered over bandwidth-constrained copper networks...
Why Enablence is acquiring Wave7 Optics
By Ed Gubbins
Enablence Technologies, a four-year-old Canadian component vendor, has agreed to acquire fiber access equipment vendor Wave7 Optics....
Qualcomm the big question mark in 4G cross-licensing
By Kevin Fitchard
Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, NEC, NextWave Wireless, Nokia, Nokia Siemens Networks and Sony Ericsson have all signed a pact agreeing to the fair cross-licensing of intellectual property they collectively own in building new Long Term Evolution equipment and standards. Qualcomm did not...
First Mobile WiMAX products certified (in Korea)
By Kevin Fitchard
The WiMax Forum has certified the first Mobile WiMax products, announcing this week that four base stations and four data cards have received the Forum seal...
Level 3 European CEO, content president resigns
By Ed Gubbins
Brady Rafuse, president and chief operating officer of Level 3 Communications’ European business and president of its content markets group, has resigned, the company confirmed to Telephony today...
CTIA: LTE, sooner rather than later
By Kevin Fitchard
LAS 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...
U.S. IPTV operators slow to install
By Sarah Reedy
North America has the highest overall total average installation times for IPTV, coming in around 5.16 hours in-person, according to a study published this week of the top 60 operators in Asia, Europe and North America...
Orange Business debuts mobile management in US
Carol Wilson
Realizing 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....
VON: Dialcom takes on big guys in unified collaboration
Sarah Reedy
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Unified collaboration provider Dialcom introduced the North American market to Spontania, a real-time collaboration platform, at the VON show this week. ...
Verizon Wireless reveals open-network strategy
By Kevin Fitchard
Verizon Wireless kicked off its developer program in New York today, revealing the first details of just how open-access will work on CDMA network. Verizon will maintain control over pricing plans for third -- party services and devices on its networks, but it appears surprisingly willing to give outsiders access to key elements of the network...
Adva CEO: How AT&T is holding Ciena ‘hostage’
By Ed Gubbins
Adva Optical Networking announced restructuring moves this week after reporting a disappointing” 2007. On the company’s quarterly earnings call Tuesday, CEO Brian Protiva spoke out on a number of topics in response to analyst questions...
VON: Broadsoft marketplace brings carriers into Web 2.0 equation
By Rich Karpinski
VoIP platform vendor BroadSoft announced at the VON.x show this week a set of APIs and developer programs that will let developers integrate voice into their Web applications, leveraging service provider networks...
Qualcomm buys ad-targeting firm
Kevin Fitchard
Qualcomm is throwing its hat into the mobile advertising ring, announcing on Tuesday the $32-million purchase of Irish wireless content-targeting technologist Xiam, which has developed a platform that bridges the carrier’s customer data with advertising and content delivery platforms....
NextWave targets TV over WiMAX
By Kevin Fitchard
NextWave revealed a new video delivery platform today designed to deliver Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (MBMS) capabilities to new WiMAX networks, using technology from its IPWireless and PacketVideo acquisitions...
Verizon builds 18-city optical mesh
Verizon Business will deploy a combination of optical mesh networking gear and reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexers (ROADMs) across the US this year that the carrier expects will radically change its network provisioning processes by allowing far more automation and efficiency....
