Former Motorola CTO joins Cisco
By: By Sarah Reedy
Cisco Systems today announced that former Motorola Chief Technology Officer Padmasree Warrior will be joining the company as its new CTO, just days after her resignation from Motorola...
Ethernet a cable bright spot
By: By Carol Wilson
While most of the cable industry earnings seem headed for the doldrums at best, Ethernet sales to businesses could well represent the rare bright spot...
Nokia Ovi plans grow more ambitious
By: By Kevin Fitchard
AMSTERDAM--Nokia plans to take the offensive with Ovi in 2008. At its annual Nokia World conference, the company unveiled not only a plan to include unlimited music downloads through Ovi with the purchase of a Nokia music phone but also a blueprint for its new Web services portal ...
Wi-Fi more addictive than coffee?
By: By Sarah Reedy
Could Wi-Fi be more addictive than coffee? With Wi-Fi chipset sales poised to reach 300 million units this year, the Wi-Fi Alliance and In-Stat think it just may be...
AT&T purchases Edge Wireless
By: By Sarah Reedy
AT&T announced plans today to acquire full ownership of wireless company Edge Wireless. The regional provider has approximately 172,000 subscribers and operates in several markets in the Pacific Northwest...
Next phase for NexTone is NextPoint
By: By Tim McElligott
NexTone and Reef Point put an end to speculation today that the companies would merge by actually doing so and in the process picked up $20 million in additional financing for working capital and researchand development...
LTE--It’s not just VZW’s network, it’s Verizon’s
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Throughout its short history, Verizon Communications has kept its wireline business separated from its wireless business. Last week, however, when the companies announced their plans with Vodafone to jointly pursue Long Term Evolution (LTE) as a next-generation network technology, the name on the press release didn’t have a ‘Wireless’ tacked to its end...
Motorola executive flight continues with CTO
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Motorola Chief Technology Officer Padmasree Warrior has followed CEO Ed Zander out the door...
Embattled Occam CEO gets 21% raise
By: By Ed Gubbins
Occam Networks gave its chief executive officer a 21% raise in base pay six weeks after angry investors called for the CEO to resign...
IP Prime readies MPEG-2 networks for ‘HD tsunami’
By: By Sarah Reedy
IP Prime developer SES Americom today announced the general availability of its MPEG-4 high-definition television service, the IP-Prime HD-4...
XO taps Cisco for national upgrade
By: By Carol Wilson
XO Communications today said it is using Cisco Systems’ CRS-1 carrier routing system to more than double the capacity of its national IP network...
Northeastern CLEC Broadview going public
By: By Ed Gubbins
Broadview Networks, a Northeastern competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC), is going public...
Wi-Fi takes small steps for FMC
By: By Sarah Reedy
Wi-Fi, although starting to gain traction in the market due to several successful fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) launches and an increasing presence in flagship handsets, remains a niche feature for most mobile phones, according to a report by IMS Research...
Updated: Motorola CEO steps down
By: By Sarah Reedy and Kevin Fitchard
Motorola today announced that Chief Executive Officer Edward Zander will step down from office, effective January 1...
Eagle’s Houston fiber network for sale
By: By Ed Gubbins
Eagle Broadband is showing its Houston-area fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) network to prospective buyers this week, having hired a broker to help sell the assets...
Google comes clean on 700 MHz bid
By: By Rich Karpinski
Google today confirmed it will bid in the Federal Communications Commission’s upcoming 700 MHz spectrum auction, a move that was expected but that had become fuzzier in recent weeks as the wireless industry moved toward the more open network approaches Google advocated...
Verizon conducted WiMAX trials with Vodafone
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Verizon has conducted WiMAX trials with partner Vodafone as part of its 4G technology selection process, Verizon Communications executive vice president and chief technology officer Dick Lynch said Thursday...
Updated: Verizon taps LTE for 4G, citing scale, global harmonization
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Verizon Communications is breaking from the CDMA camp, announcing today that it has selected Long Term Evolution, the 4G technology of competing GSM technologies, as its next-generation network architecture...
All I want for Christmas is Xbox 360 Live
By: By Sarah Reedy
AT CES last year, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates told attendees to expect the integration of Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Xbox Live with its Microsoft IPTV platform to come to the market by Christmas 2007. With December right around the corner, eager Xbox fans have yet to see the online social community move into their living rooms...
In the Spotlight: Zayo CEO Dan Caruso
By: By Carol Wilson
Telephony Editor-in-Chief Carol Wilson spoke to Zayo Chief Executive Officer Dan Caruso about his company’s meteoric rise...
Embarq uses ‘naked DSL’ to slow line loss
By: By Ed Gubbins
Embarq began offering so-called “naked DSL” service this month as a tool to retain customers who no longer want landline voice service...
Tracking the hubby and kids, WaveMarket takes off
By: By Sarah Reedy
As family tracking services seem to be gaining traction in the mobile handset arena, California-based WaveMarket is emerging as a major force in the market. The mobile location-based search and services company announced its sixth commercial deployment this week, partnering with Canadian communications provider MTS Allstream to bring GPS tracking to its wireless customers...
Verizon strikes back on wireless backhaul
By: By Carol Wilson
The empire is striking back on wireless backhaul. But instead of springing Darth Vader and robotic probes to seek out the rebel forces that have been courting wireless carriers with better backhaul solutions, Verizon Partner Solutions has decided to clean up its act...
AppTrigger targets carrier Web 2.0 layer
By: By Rich Karpinski
AppTrigger will release a new version of its application session controller next week to make it easier for service providers to “abstract” away call-control elements using Web services, enabling more rapid Web 2.0-style service delivery...
Meru, Avaya deploy mother of all WLAN networks
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Meru and Avaya have begun deploying what may be the largest private wireless LAN network in the country...
XO seeks to raise up to $900M
By: By Ed Gubbins
XO Communications is seeking to raise up to $900 million in debt and equity, the carrier said in regulatory filings today...
Verizon Business enhances e-bonding
By: By Carol Wilson
In an effort to make the business of doing business easier, Verizon Business today announced expanded e-bonding capabilities and an enhanced customer portal for large business customers and government agencies...
Updated: VZW throws open its network gates to all comers
By: By Kevin Fitchard
In a stunning about-face, Verizon Wireless announced today announced it would open up its network to outside handsets, devices and applications by the end of 2008, creating the first truly open cellular network in North America...
Technology debates fueled OEN’s demise
By: By Ed Gubbins
Executives at Optical Entertainment Network haven’t been available to talk about what led the company to suddenly announce it was discontinuing all services this month. But sources close to the company say a combination of technology debates, deployment challenges and management turnover kept the company from finding the additional financing it needed...
Analyst: Multimedia phones will dominate in 2008
By: By Sarah Reedy
Shipments of multimedia mobile phones will exceed 300 million units – surpassing television purchases – in 2008, according to a research report released today by MultiMedia Intelligence...
