700 MHz auction ends after 261 rounds
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Auction 73 came to a close this afternoon after 38 days when Round 261 failed to garner a single new bid. The auction raised $19.592 billion, but aside from the cash payout the FCC revealed few of the auctions results...
VON: Applications trump network, Sprint VP says
By: Sarah Reedy
San Jose – The wireless industry is moving from an environment where the network was key to one in which applications and content reign, according to Ben Vos, vice president of core technologies at Sprint Nextel....
VON: Low-power devices, true Internet access to drive mobile usage
By: Rich Karpinski
SAN JOSE -- New Internet technologies like online video and social networking are driving massive increases in broadband traffic, but for that usage to move to mobile networks requires new developments in mobile performance, software compatibility and core network capabilities. ...
DragonWave unveils 1.6-Gig backhaul link
By: Kevin Fitchard
DragonWave today said it has broken the wireless backhaul speed barrier, announcing the latest generation of its wireless Ethernet radio, the Horizon Duo, which can deliver capacity up to 1.6 Gb/s....
Parsing the CTIA keynotes
By: By Kevin Fitchard
CTIA is again delivering a lineup of heavy-hitters at its annual spring conference with CEOs and division presidents from all corners of the industry...
The foibles of 700 MHz
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The auction goes on and on, but the potential winners are already weighing the spectrum's benefits -- as well as its limitations...
Updated: WiMAX silicon vendors get active ahead of CTIA
By: Kevin Fitchard
As LTE and WiMAX prepare to square off at CTIA, WiMAX chipset makers are ensuring they have plenty of ammunition....
Ericsson says ready to supply 700 MHz gear
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Ericsson today said it plans to produce network infrastructure and device-side chips for the 700 MHz frequencies in both the High-Speed Packet Access (HSPA) and Long-Term Evolution (LTE) flavors, giving it a product for any of the eventual Auction 73 winners--no matter who they are...
NextWave targets TV over WiMAX
By: By Kevin Fitchard
NextWave revealed a new video delivery platform today designed to deliver Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (MBMS) capabilities to new WiMAX networks, using technology from its IPWireless and PacketVideo acquisitions...
Alcatel-Lucent cracks open the wireless data network
By: Kevin Fitchard
Alcatel-Lucent took the wraps off of a wireless network data traffic management solution today squarely targeted at a problem that hasn’t yet become big in the industry but potentially could become an enormous issue for wireless networks: the lack of visibility into how customers are using data connections. ...
Sprint T-Mobile: New mega-carrier or four-network nightmare?
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Wall Street claims T-Mobile is eyeballing financially weakened Sprint, but would integrating Sprint’s alien network technologies into its global GSM footprint be more trouble than it’s worth?...
WiMAX spotlight shifts to India
By: By Kevin Fitchard
While Sprint sorts out its financial woes, South Asia and India have started hogging the WiMAX limelight. This week Tata Communications became the second major operator to wholeheartedly embrace WiMAX in India, and the third on the subcontinent....
Sprint looking for WiMAX options
By: By Kevin Fitchard
In the last few weeks, numerous potential partners have emerged as possible saviors for Sprint’s ailing WiMAX efforts, but so far there’s been little substance to the rumors except for Sprint’s own admission it’s searching for a suitor...
IMS Plugfest tests BSS; Up next: cable, 4G
By: By Rich Karpinski
The IMS Forum today announced preliminary results of its fourth Plugfest for testing interoperability of IP Multimedia System applications and services, with a focus on bringing operations and billing systems into the fray...
LTE grabs MWC spotlight
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Long-term evolution was all the rage at the Mobile World Congress, the latest incarnation of the GSM Association´s annual European extravaganza. While 3G and mobile data services have dominated the GSM event in the past, 4G definitely came to the fore with all of the major vendors offering at least some kind of LTE demo...
As open as they wanna be
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Feeling pressure to open up their networks, wireless operators are tackling the issue in their own ways...
MWC: Nortel takes a closer look at EDGE
By: By Kevin Fitchard
BARCELONA--While the rest of the Mobile World Congress did back flips for the latest radio access craze, Long Term Evolution, Nortel Networks was talking 2G. The vendor is proposing that operators take another look at the EDGE networks of yesteryear, and specifically buy its new software upgrade to the GSM base station, Evolved EDGE...
MWC: WiMAX Forum to certify at 700 MHz
By: By Kevin Fitchard
BARCELONA--The WiMAX Forum today said it would include 700 MHz in its future certification profiles, creating a new opening for WiMAX vendors to sell their gear. With the forum officially pursuing 700 MHz, the stage may be set for a showdown between WiMAX and Long Term Evolution as both technologies are now targeted squarely at the spectrum...
MWC: Alcatel-Lucent, NEC form LTE venture
By: By Kevin Fitchard
BARCELONA--Alcatel-Lucent and NEC are creating an joint venture focused solely on Long Term Evolution in a bid to bring the 4G technology to market as quickly as possible. The partnership, announced here at the Mobile World Congress, has been running on silent for the last six months, and has already defined an LTE base station design the two plan to begin production of this year...
MWC: LTE on the brain at GSM World
By: By Kevin Fitchard
BARCELONA--Long Term Evolution is the new rage at Mobile World Congress, the latest incarnation of the GSM Association´s annual European extravaganza. While 3G and mobile data services have dominated the GSM event in the past, 4G has definitely come to the fore with all of the major vendors offering at least some kind of demo of LTE...
Open access & a boatload of cash
By: By Kevin Fitchard
It turns out the two most controversial licenses in the 700 MHz auction generated the least amount of excitement when it actually came down to bidding...
Hands on the home
By: By Mark Donahue
Residential gateways, IP set-top boxes, voice-over-IP terminals -- and soon you can add femtocell and WiMAX base stations. The list of customer premises equipment is growing, both in number and complexity, as service providers roll out richer services to more people...
Fujitsu back in the WiMAX game—with a partner
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Fifteen months after announcing its entry into the U.S. WiMAX infrastructure market, Fujitsu has finally released its first product, a Mobile WiMAX kit tuned to the 2.5 GHz and 2.3 GHz frequencies popular both in the U.S. and at home in Japan...
700 MHz Auction: Open access assured
By: By Kevin Fitchard
In today’s opening round of the 700 MHz auction, a bidder pushed the C-block nationwide license over the $4.6 billion reserve price set by the FCC, ensuring that whichever bidder wins the license must launch an open-access network that will support any competitor’s device or application...
700 MHz Auction: As open access nears, bidders back off
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The price of the nationwide C-block license in the 700 MHz auction ticked upward today, but it got nowhere near the $4.6 billion reserve price necessary to trigger the open-access provisions of the highly valuable spectrum property...
