Adderton out at Amp’d
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Amp’d Mobile founder and CEO Peter Adderton is no longer with the virtual operator, Amp’d confirmed today, leaving the door open for new leadership as the small youth-oriented mobile company navigates its way through Chapter 11 bankruptcy...
Nokia’s Wibree incorporated into Bluetooth
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Nokia’s maligned Wibree technology received a huge dose of legitimization today, as the Bluetooth Special Interest Group announced it is incorporating the Wibree spec into the SIG’s Bluetooth portfolio of technology...
Syniverse expands GSM clearinghouse services in Asia-Pac
By: By Tim McElligott
Syniverse Technologies announced a multi-year agreement this week to provide data-clearing services to SmarTone-Vodafone in Hong Kong...
MegaPath extends reach of managed voice, data, security
By: By Carol Wilson
Managed service provider MegaPath today announced it is expanding the reach of its “Duet” service, a managed IP data, voice and security offering targeting small to mid-sized businesses, initially targeting the Northeast U.S. but planning expansion nationwide...
Zhone aims for smarter GPON
By: By Ed Gubbins
Zhone Technologies today unveiled the gigabit passive optical networking (GPON) system it has been promising since the beginning of the year...
Notebaert to retire
By: By Carol Wilson
Qwest Chairman and CEO Richard Notebaert took the industry by surprise this morning, announcing his retirement...
Juniper unveils new core router
By: By Ed Gubbins
Juniper Networks revealed its newest core router today after months of industry speculation...
Nokia makes patent claims against Qualcomm’s FLO, BREW
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Nokia filed its second U.S. countersuit this weekend in its ongoing legal battle over intellectual property, this time claiming Qualcomm’s BREW content delivery platform and its MediaFLO mobile TV technology...
Cisco takes stake in Oversi
By: By Ed Gubbins
Cisco Systems has taken a stake in an Israeli equipment start-up focused on content delivery...
Vendors, carriers rally around Qualcomm
By: By Kevin Fitchard
LG today joined U.S. mobile operators in supporting chip vendor Qualcomm, asking federal courts to suspend Thursday’s U.S. International Trade Commission’s ban on new handsets containing Qualcomm CDMA radios...
WiMAX Forum launches training program
By: By Dan O'Shea
The WiMAX Forum, with partners DoceoTech Inc. and Informa Telecoms & Media, has launched the WiMAX Forum Certified Training Program, a series of education programs designed to help both business and technical audiences in the process of learning about or deploying WiMAX...
Vodafone shareholders will vote on Verizon sale
By: By Carol Wilson
Vodafone officials said yesterday they are not interested in selling or spinning off the companys 45% share of Verizon Wireless, despite pressure from a large shareholder to do so. But it will, by law, have to let its shareholders vote on the issue....
MMA: Nielsen to track mobile data usage
By: By Kevin Fitchard
LOS ANGELES--Nielsen, the company that measures consumer patterns across all media, this week said it will launch a new wireless measurement service that will track wireless Internet, video and content consumption among the country’s millions of wireless subscribers, just as it tracks watching patterns on TV...
Cellular South asks: What’s in your wallet?
By: By Tim McElligott
Cellular South launched a multi-city wireless wallet trial this week in Memphis, Tenn., and Jackson, Miss. ...
Infinera IPO yields $182 million
By: By Ed Gubbins
Infinera raised $182 million in the initial public offering of its stock, surpassing expectations...
MMA: Coke takes the Sprite brand mobile
By: By Kevin Fitchard
NEW YORK--Coca Cola today launched a social networking mobile portal built around its Sprite soft drink line targeted squarely at the popular beverage’s largest customer base, teens...
Verizon to offer certified e-mail service
By: By Carol Wilson
Verizon Online said today it will help its customers identify spam and phishing attempts by offering a free service that identifies e-mail from valid commercial and nonprofit volume senders. ...
AT&T offers accelerated Web apps
By: By Carol Wilson
AT&T is now offering a managed service that allows enterprises to speed up the performance and responsiveness of Web-based applications. ...
Telecom Italia takes Critical Path
By: By Dan O'Shea
Messaging software and service vendor Critical Path today announced that Telecom Italia will be using the vendor’s Memova Mobile consumer mobile e-mail platform....
Aepona, Appium merge
By: By Dan O'Shea
Telecom service layer software firms Aepona and Appium have agreed to merge to chase the growing market for service delivery platforms. That market is forecast by OSS Observer to grow from $1.4 billion this year to $3.2 billion by 2011...
Analysts: Nortel wise to walk away from Avaya
By: By Ed Gubbins
After reportedly entertaining acquisition offers from Nortel Networks, enterprise telephony equipment vendor Avaya today announced an $8.2-billion acquisition by private equity firms TPG Capital and Silver Lake Partners. Some analysts are saying Nortel was right to walk away...
MegaPath adds Juniper to SSL offering
By: By Carol Wilson
Managed services provider MegaPath today announced it is extending its suite of security services to include Juniper’s Secure Access SSL VPN product family for Secure Socket Layer-based remote access...
Amp’d goes bankrupt
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Amp’d Mobile on Friday filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, claiming that its back-end infrastructure couldn’t keep up with the company’s fast growth, leaving it unable to pay its bills...
Redback targets ‘megabit mobility’
By: By Ed Gubbins
Redback Networks introduced a new multiservice edge (MSE) router today with more capacity and functionality than its previous gear...
Verizon VoIP to power WindowsLive calls
By: By Dan O'Shea
Microsoft is adding a free calling service to its online searching service, and will use VoIP from Verizon Business to provide the new feature. Windows Live Call for Free will enable consumers searching www.maps.live.com to find local businesses to make a one-click phone call to many of the advertisers listed there...
Fujitsu enters packet optical game
By: by Ed Gubbins
Fujitsu Network Communications unveiled a new packet optical networking platform this week that combines Sonet and Ethernet switching with WDM....
Preparing for the iPhone onslaught
By: by Kevin Fitchard
AT&T's competitors gear up for the fierce competition and new opportunities...
Access line roll-up continues as Windstream buys CT Communications
By: Tim McElligott
Little Rock, Ark.-based Windstream, the second largest and most rural independent operating company in the country, said last week it will acquire CT Communications...
Tellabs: No big acquisitions anytime soon
By: By Ed Gubbins
Tellabs is considering what to do with its considerable cash stores since it doesn’t see any large acquisitions in its near-term future...
Five win share of second GSA contract
By: By Carol Wilson
The U.S. General Services Administration decided to spread the wealth further in awarding the second of its two Networx contracts, worth up to $20 billion over the next 10 years, naming AT&T, Level 3 Communications, Qwest Communications, Sprint and Verizon Business as winners...
