Distilling CTIA Wireless 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Searching for a common theme at CTIA Wireless has become a tricky proposition...

WiMAX to the rescue 

By: By Joan Engebretson

Independent telcos with CLEC arms are some of the earliest WiMAX adopters -- the reason has more to do with regulations than technology...

First Mobile WiMAX products certified (in Korea) 

By: 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...

Mobile backhaul’s true bottleneck 

By: By Sarah Reedy

Increased utilization of 3G networks, more so than the impending 4G requirements, is driving the need for higher capacity backhaul, according to a report released this week by ABI Research...

CenturyTel plans 700 MHz broadband wireless overlay 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

CenturyTel threw itself into the broadband wireless sector today, announcing it would use the 700 MHz licenses won at auction last month to create a broadband wireless overlay network feeding less densely populated areas in its existing wireline footprint....

Auction winners lay bare 700 MHz plans 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Verizon outlines how open-access, LTE and new spectrum fit together. AT&T plans Evolved HSPA and later LTE. Google comes clean. Cyren Call fights back...

CTIA: LTE, sooner rather than later 

By: 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...

CTIA: Vodafone CEO warns against 4G standard wars 

By: By Carol Wilson

LAS VEGAS--The wireless industry needs to rally behind a single 4G standard and not waste resources on technology wars in order to take full advantage of the massive opportunity of the mobile Internet, Vodafone CEO Arun Sarin said in his CTIA keynote address here today...

Q&A: NSN’s Spradley on the U.S. market 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Nokia Siemens Networks North America chief Sue Spradley has been on the job only eight months, but her region has born results. Spradley talked with Telephony about her recent success in the U.S. as well as what it will take to win AT&T back as a wireless customer....

CTIA: Nokia adds WiMAX to the Internet Tablet 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

LAS VEGAS--Nokia today unveiled the first standalone WiMAX data device for the North American market, a version of its N810 Internet tablet embedded with a WiMAX chip as well as Wi-Fi...

CTIA: Level 3 takes hybrid approach to backhaul 

By: By Carol Wilson

LAS VEGAS--Wireless backhaul has rapidly become not just a big market but a crowded field, with everyone from CLECs to cable companies to broadband wireless companies, not to mention wireline incumbents, looking to capture a piece of the 3G-4G buildouts...

CTIA: Sprint debuts new phone but no Xohm 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

LAS VEGAS--Though today was officially the first day of the second quarter, in which Sprint promised to commercially launch its WiMAX network in a handful of markets, CEO Dan Hesse didn’t use the keynote podium or the spectacle of CTIA to unveil the country’s first 4G network. What he did do was unveil a new, exclusive Samsung phone, the user interface of which Sprint and Samsung designed together...

CTIA: Next-generation backhaul hits the floor 

By: Sarah Reedy

Wireless backhaul vendors increase capacity, ease Ethernet migration...

LTE and WiMAX to share CTIA stage 

By: By Joan Engebretson, Kevin Fitchard, Rich Karpinski & Sarah Reedy

Long-term evolution trumped WiMAX at Mobile World Congress, as GSM operators around the world gathered under the LTE banner, but don't expect the same to happen at CTIA...

Gearing up for 700 MHz 

By: By Joan Engebretson

With the dust settling from this year's 700 MHz auction, the winners will begin to formalize their plans for that spectrum and vendors already are gearing...

The new service providers 

By: By Rich Karpinski & Kevin Fitchard

"Service provider" and "network operator" are becoming independent terms in wireless. Read more of this feature article on how companies are evolving...

700 MHz: Meet the new operators -- same as the old operators 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

If there were any surprises in the 700 MHz auction, it was that there were no surprises...

In the spotlight: Alianza CEO Brian Beutler 

Unified communications is moving quickly from enterprise trend to bottom-line requirement for companies of all sizes. To meet this growing need for simplicity, UC pioneer Alianza last week announced a partnership with Digital Bridge Communications to serve as the exclusive provider of the telco's UC applications...

Sprinting toward a new business model 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Think Xohm and chances are you're thinking WiMAX, the underlying technology for Sprint's new 4G network...

Milking 3G 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

With 4G dominating the attention of the industry, 3G seems to have fallen by the wayside. However, a sizable evolutionary path for both CDMA2000 and wideband CDMA still exists...

CTIA: Ericsson pushes UMTS to its limits 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Though the industry’s attention may be caught up in 4G, Ericsson isn’t prepared to give up the 3G spotlight just yet. The vendor is highlighting its Evolved High-Speed Packet Access (HSPA) gear at CTIA Wireless this year and promises to demonstrate the maximum capacity that can be squeezed out of a 3G network...

Are further splits in Motorola's future? 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Motorola announced Wednesday that it planned to spin off its mobile phone business into a separately traded company, unlocking the value of that division as well as giving new focus to its infrastructure group. But if focusing on core businesses is the goal of Moto’s restructuring, does that mean further subdivisions of the company are waiting?...

CTIA: Motorola getting jump on CDMA-to-LTE migration 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Motorola today said it has successfully completed a handoff between a CDMA and Long Term Evolution (LTE) network in its labs, thus demonstrating the viability of the two different technologies working in unison on the same flat IP core...

Google pushes for ‘white space’ bandwidth 

By: By Rich Karpinski

Just like it didn’t win the 700Mhz auction – but played a major influencer role in its outcome – Google made a filing last Friday with the FCC calling for the use of unlicensed over-the-air TV ‘white space’ spectrum to be used for broadband services, though it doesn’t want to provide those services itself....

Verizon Wireless reveals open-network strategy 

By: 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...