Microsoft eyes mobile music play
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Microsoft may be moving beyond selling portable digital music players to hawking digital music over the airwaves. It said today it is negotiating with Openwave to buy the company’s mobile music platform, Musiwave, in order to integrate it with Microsoft’s consumer entertainment applications and the Zune platform...
XO slashes loss despite flat revenue
By: By Ed Gubbins
XO Holdings dramatically cut its losses on relatively flat revenue in the third quarter...
Qualcomm flies high in Q3, but warns of descent
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Qualcomm boosted revenue and sales impressively in the last quarter, but cautioned of troubled quarters ahead as legal and competitive pressures take their toll on the chipset maker’s bottom line...
Updated: Sprint, Clearwire kill WiMAX venture; future deal still possible
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The proposed venture that would marry Sprint and Clearwire’s WiMAX assets has been canceled as the two companies were unable to come to terms quickly enough, Clearwire said today...
Analyst: iPhone goes to Europe
By: By Sarah Reedy
With the much-awaited launch of the iPhone today in Europe, T-Mobile and O2 are set to enjoy the same sales boom as AT&T in the United States...
MWA: Axiom, Freedom4 argue for U.K.-wide WiMAX
By: By Tim McElligott
Freedom4, the go-to-market brand chosen last month by U.K.-based Pipex Wireless, will give users freedom from restricted wireless access...
Mobile gaming growth slows
By: By Sarah Reedy
Despite gaming developers’ and publishers’ high hopes for mobile games, second-quarter earnings indicate a slowdown in the market’s growth as the industry fails to attract new gamers...
Falling prices tempt RLEC consolidators
By: By Ed Gubbins
While integrating its acquisition of CT Communications, executives of Windstream Communications reiterated the case for future acquisitions this week, and some analysts say recent changes in the market could encourage further consolidation among rural carriers...
T-Mobile spurs U.S. wireless growth
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Once again, T-Mobile USA led its European counterparts in growth, adding 857,000 new subscribers in the third quarter, driven by the continuing success of its MyFaves offering...
MWA: Nakina brings Network OS to Juniper partnership
By: By Tim McElligott
DALLAS--Putting action behind its self-described status as a multi-vendor provider of systems for managing its and others’ network gear, Juniper Networks took Nakina Systems into its J-Partner Solutions Alliance Program this week...
AT&T bulks up mobile music with Pandora
By: By Kevin Fitchard
AT&T has joined Sprint in offering the Pandora Internet radio service over its music phones, creating a personalized music channel for subscribers that may lead to discovery of new music and AT&T’s other music services...
MWA: Oracle unifies inventory management
By: By Tim McElligott
DALLAS--A new inventory management system conceived and put into development two years ago within MetaSolv came to market this week as Oracle’s Communications Unified Inventory Management...
Verizon plums enterprise sales channels
By: By Carol Wilson
Verizon Business is taking a new sales tact for enterprise customers, announcing in a Web conference yesterday that it is creating a new agent partnership program that targets its largest customers ...
Cisco reports solid first quarter
By: By Sarah Reedy
Cisco Systems continued its solid streak for the first quarter of fiscal 2008, reporting revenues of $9.6 billion from $9.4 billion in the previous quarter...
Tellabs CEO to resign
By: By Ed Gubbins
Krish Prabhu has announced he will resign his position as president and chief executive officer of Tellabs by March 1, 2008...
MWA: Time for Time Warner Cable to be a Catalyst
By: By Tim McElligott
DALLAS--Leave it to a cable company to come in and identify a long-standing and growing concern that mobile operators have been too busy growing to address...
Femto Forum gains followers
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The new industry advocacy group of femtocells is building up its ranks, announcing this week a new roster including heavy hitters from the wireless industry. The Femto Forum’s membership now includes operators such as Telefonica O2, Rogers Wireless and India’s Bharti Airtel as well as infrastructure vendors Motorola, Alcatel-Lucent and Nokia Siemens...
Nokia scores big with first Ovi customer
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Nokia’s Ovi content portal may not be the operator bane industry experts first predicted. In fact, the world’s largest operator, Vodafone, may consider it a balm...
Surewest on the hunt for M&A
By: By Ed Gubbins
Surewest Communications is actively seeking acquisitions to help scale its fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) business, the company said today, emphasizing that it is not looking only for properties in geographic proximity to its California network...
L.A. firm launches interactive TV channel overseas
By: By Sarah Reedy
IPTV Corp. is formally launching an interactive television channel on News Corp.’s British Sky Broadcasting (“Sky”) satellite television service this week in the United Kingdom and Ireland...
DPI holds promise as content protector
By: By Carol Wilson
Although deep packet inspection (DPI) technology has become controversial as a means for service providers to offer tiered services or base the way they treat Internet traffic on the nature of the application, continued developments in this arena are a strong indication that DPI is likely to become more important to network operators in the coming years. Read more of this DPI special report...
MWA: LaJoie says ahoy to TM Forum
By: By Tim McElligott
DALLAS--In his keynote address at the TM Forum’s Management World Americas, Time Warner Cable Chief Technology Officer Mike LaJoie said joining the TM Forum along with several other cable providers is “an opportunity to raise all tides and float all boats.”...
MWA: CA cracks the BlackBerry management problem
By: By Tim McElligott
DALLAS--With its business from managed services providers such as Verizon Business, BT Business Services and Sprint nearly doubling over the last year and momentum building from its 2006 acquisition of Wily Technology, CA expanded its managed services portfolio with a new Mobile Device Management solution, which it introduced this week at the TM Forum’s Management World Americas...
RIM targets small businesses
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Research in Motion is launching a scaled-down BlackBerry server architecture it hopes will spread RIM’s appeal from the big enterprise to the small office...
CDMA drives Nortel profit despite deferred sales
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Nortel Networks is back in the black, posting a third-quarter profit of $27 million after slipping back into a loss at the halfway point of the year...
Global Crossing loss grows but revenue up
By: By Carol Wilson
Despite widening losses, Global Crossing is viewing its third-quarter numbers as highly positive for the company, as it focuses on its growing revenues and cash EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization) rather than earnings per share...
Adva’s Alcatel-Lucent partnership hits ‘bottom’
By: By Ed Gubbins
Adva Optical Networking’s partnership with Alcatel-Lucent has thinned about as much as it can, the equipment vendor said today...
Acquisitions impact Citizens’ earnings
By: By Sarah Reedy
After a busy year of acquisitions and integration, Citizens Communications today reported a fall in earnings for the third quarter of 2007 due in large part to higher expenses associated with the acquisitions...
U-verse rollout to slow, cost more with Southeast expansion
By: By Ed Gubbins
AT&T has lowered its expectations slightly for the deployment of its U-Verse IPTV service through 2008...
MWA: Amdocs adds Portugal to Vodafone client list
By: By Tim McElligott
DALLAS--Vodafone Portugal has selected Amdocs operations support systems to streamline its network resource and capacity management in both its 2G and 3G networks. Amdocs said from the TM Forum’s Management World Americas event that it also will support Vodafone’s new DSL service with its OSS...
