Qualcomm turns down Nokia payment
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Qualcomm today rejected the $20 million payment Nokia offered to keep its W-CDMA licensing deal temporarily intact for the second quarter. Qualcomm said that the payment was not only a fraction of what Qualcomm would be owed for three months of royalties, but Nokia also attached numerous conditions to the payment that Qualcomm found unacceptable...
VZW launches broadband router services
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Seeking to capitalize on its 3G network as a broadband access service, Verizon Wireless has begun selling wireless broadband routers to business customers, positioning them as a network backup to wireline broadband services...
Tellabs launches transport optimization services
By: By Dan O'Shea
Tellabs has launched Transport Network Optimization Services, professional services focused on helping wireless carriers reduce operating expenses, as part of its Tellabs Global Services portfolio...
Vonage restructures, CEO quits
By: By Carol Wilson
Facing an uncertain future for its VoIP service, Vonage today announced it is restructuring to cut costs and will trim both its staff and its marketing efforts. At the same time, the company announced that CEO Michael Snyder is stepping down from that position and from the Vonage Board of Directors...
Vonage drops off radar of rural ILECs
By: By Tim McElligott
Examining the state of competition at the IP Possibilities conference hosted by the NTCA and OPASTCO in Minneapolis today, it was clear that no one is afraid of Vonage anymore....
Amp’d, Telus bring BREW to Canada
By: By Kevin Fitchard
A side effect of Amp’d Mobile’s recent launch with Telus Mobility was BREW’s first appearance in the Canadian market...
Updated: Motorola to sell ECI gear
By: By Ed Gubbins
ECI Telecom has partnered with Motorola to penetrate the North American market, the companies announced today...
Verizon Business adopts new customer service model
By: By Carol Wilson
Verizon Business has launched an ambitious plan to change the way it handles customer service, and is exploring other options as well to bring capabilities such as fixed-mobile convergence to its customers as a network service...
Telsima raises $50 million
By: By Dan O'Shea
WiMAX access equipment vendor Telsima said it’s raised a mother lode of new funding--$50 million--from existing investors NewPath Ventures, New Enterprise Associates, CMEA Ventures, JAFCO Asia and other strategic investors...
Paetec announces national security service
By: By Carol Wilson
Competitive services provider Paetec today announced the national rollout of network-based firewall service designed to create hassle-free security for mid-sized to large businesses and enterprises...
In the Spotlight: Glenn Wellbrock, Verizon Business
By: By Ed Gubbins
Last month, as director of network technology development for Verizon Business, Glenn Wellbrock announced the company’s first commercial 40 Gb/s deployments, saying it was necessary to relieve capacity constraints in some places but that the cost benefits aren’t there. He recently spoke with Telephony’s Ed Gubbins about deploying 40 Gb/s and 100 Gb/s networks, integrating optical and IP networks and breaking down the wall between routing guys and transport guys...
Amp’d nearing 200,000 customers
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Amp’d Mobile today reported adding 84,000 customers new customers in the first quarter, bringing Amp’d Mobile close to the 200,000 subscriber mark and even exceeding its gross additions for the holiday quarter...
Nortel replaces CPO after a year
By: By Ed Gubbins
Nortel Networks is replacing its chief procurement officer a year and two months after appointing him, the company announced today...
Qwest points to business successes
By: By Carol Wilson
Having put its financial house in order, Qwest Communications is now polishing its image as a quality business services provider, and getting considerable help in that regard from recent customer surveys and studies...
Embarq christens new tech center
By: By Tim McElligott
To keep its promise of continuing innovation, Embarq opened its new multimillion-dollar technology center last week, dedicating it to the memory of two former long-time lab employees, Bob Pohlabel and Pete Gaughan...
NextWave scoops up IPWireless
By: By Kevin Fitchard
NextWave Wireless said today it is buying TD-CDMA technology company IPWireless for $100 million, adding the company’s standardized yet niche technology to its growing wireless portfolio...
Japan’s KDDI to launch MVNO in the U.S.
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Japanese CDMA carrier KDDI will enter the U.S. market selling KDDI-branded phones and service over the Sprint network, according to wire reports...
Novel funding sources emerge
By: By Ed Gubbins
In a lackluster market for U.S. venture capital, telecom firms are increasingly turning to newer and more creative sources of funding...
Acquisition puts Sonus on edge
By: By Tim McElligott
Two of Sonus Networks' strategic imperatives the last year or so have been to expand its wireless solutions and extend its focus from the network core out to the network edge...
Mobile banking emerges at CTIA
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The first push to make the mobile phone a maney management machine...
Level 3 doubles CEO’s salary
By: By Ed Gubbins
Level 3 Communications doubled the salary of its chief executive officer, James Crowe, in February, following a highly acquisitive year for the company...
Vonage gets temporary stay
By: By Carol Wilson
Vonage has secured a temporary stay against a federal judge’s order that prevents it from signing up new customers to its VoIP service, now that the service has been judged to violate three Verizon patents...
Alcatel-Lucent lays out wireless product integration
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Alcatel-Lucent wireless business group president Mary Chan has an unenviable job for the next year. She has to integrate three disparate radio access network portfolios into a single cohesive unit, delivering on the new mega-vendor’s promise as a global wireless equipment powerhouse...
Map, location technology get boost from Microsoft
By: By Tim McElligott
If you’re wondering where the next wave of great location applications will come from, look toward Redmond. Microsoft awarded 21 academic researchers $1.1 million today for their work on geographic information visualization techniques and location-based Web searching...
Vonage gets only partial stay
By: By Carol Wilson
A federal judge this morning refused to delay enforcement of a patent judgment against Vonage, instead giving the company only partial relief. U.S. District Judge Claude Hilton said Vonage could continue to use a VoIP platform that violates Verizon patents to serve its current customers, but could not solicit new customers for that service...
Carrier Access cuts costs as revenues dwindle
By: By Ed Gubbins
Carrier Access is restructuring some operations to cut costs this year after another disappointing quarter...
Iowa telcos fight back over blocked calls
By: By Carol Wilson
A group of small Iowa independent telcos and CLECs have banded together to fight back against the industry’s telecom giants, claiming AT&T, Qwest Communications and Sprint are illegally blocking calls in order to avoid paying legal termination fees...
Hammerhead offers PBT/MPLS gateway
By: By Ed Gubbins
Edge networking vendor Hammerhead Systems today introduced a software-based solution for interworking provider backbone transport (PBT) technology with its sometimes rival, multiprotocol label-switching (MPLS)...
Infonetics: BPON sales ‘tanking’
By: By Ed Gubbins
Sales of broadband passive optical networking (BPON) equipment are “tanking” as higher-speed GPON gear enters the market, according to a report this week from Infonetics Research...
