VoIP looks to WiMAX
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Clearwire and Sprint's upcoming WiMAX launches are promising wireless broadband connectivity, but there's another service available in the mix that the two companies aren't so vocal about: voice...
700 MHz auction starts with bangs, whimpers
By: By Kevin Fitchard
As Auction 73 shut down after its first week, things didn’t look good for the planned public safety/private network. After attracting a $472-million bid in the auction’s opening round, it has languished through round 4 as the other nationwide band, block D, and the individual market licenses attracted all of the attention...
Nokia breaches 40% mark in handset share
By: By Kevin Fitchard
By its own estimates Nokia achieved 40% global handset market share in the fourth quarter after a strong holiday sales season and increased dominance in the developing markets...
Soma scores big in India
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Little Soma Networks has hit the WiMAX jackpot, announcing today it is rolling out what it believes is the largest WiMAX network in the world in India...
TDS following in Sprint's footsteps - TDS and Madison WiMAX
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Telephone and Data Systems has launched a WiMAX network in Madison, Wis., tapping into the economies of scale generated by Sprint's upcoming Xohm launch...
CES: Enter mobile TV technology No. 3
By: By Kevin Fitchard
If FLO and DVB-H weren’t enough, a new mobile TV broadcast technology has emerged on the already crowded scene...
NextWave restructures
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Would-be wireless carrier-turned-vendor NextWave is reorganizing, taking all of the various acquisitions its made over the last three years and putting them into two business units focused on mobile infrastructure and mobile devices...
Broadband business wireless firm expands to NYC
By: By Carol Wilson
Its nickname is humble – BOB Broadband – but a new wireless service provider has lofty ambitions for providing wireless services to large businesses, particularly those in financial services, using licensed spectrum...
Motorola unveils stand-alone Mobile TV player
By: By Kevin Fitchard and Sarah Reedy
Motorola today took the wraps off what amounts to a mobile digital video recorder--a stand-alone large-screen handheld that renders live mobile broadcast video but can time-shift, pause and record content according to users’ wishes...
Huawei sells first U.S. phone to MetroPCS
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Deal marks first appearance of a Huawei handset in North America, but Huawei still has catching up to do match ZTE...
France Telecom reportedly Alvarion’s big WiMAX customer
By: By Kevin Fitchard
WiMAX vendor Alvarion earlier this week said it had landed its first Tier I carrier deal for Mobile WiMAX equipment, refusing to name the provider itself, but Israeli media have pegged the customer as France Telecom. If the tie-up between one of Europe’s largest telcos and Alvarion proves true, the small Israeli broadband wireless company could be propelled to the top ranks of the highly competitive WiMAX market....
Femtocells hit the market, but is anyone buying?
By: By Kevin Fitchard
In the last few months, the market has been flooded with femtocells targeting every conceivable radio interface and frequency. But in truth the industry is far from any kind of large-scale deployment on the home base station technology...
Bridgewater talks about its IPO
By: By Tim McElligott
It has been a while since software start-ups in the telecom industry had the confidence in the market and themselves to launch an initial public offering. But as Tyler Nelson, vice president of marketing for Bridgewater, said of his 10-year-old company: We are no start-up. On Dec. 14, the company closed its IPO at $5.50 per share. The company had been hoping for more, but it’s done, it was successful and it is time to move forward. So far, they’re down a dime, but raised $20 million. Nelson spoke with Telephony’s Tim McElligott about the IPO and what comes next...
WiMAX Forum to begin mobile certification—no, really
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The WiMAX Forum today said its lead certification lab in Malaga, Spain, is now ready to begin accepting Mobile WiMAX equipment for interoperability testing and certification...
Can Hesse stop the bleeding at Sprint?
By: By Carol Wilson
Industry analysts agree Dan Hesse faces a significant challenge in his new job as chairman and CEO of Sprint Nextel, but generally believe he could well be the man for the job...
Motorola launches first large-scale WiMAX network
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Motorola’s first commercial WiMAX network went live today in 22 cities in Pakistan, making it the first of its three high-profile nationwide network contracts to launch...
Sprint to soft-launch WiMAX before Christmas
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Within the week, Sprint will turn live its WiMAX networks in Chicago and Baltimore-Washington D.C., Sprint officials said today...
700 MHz: Google in; Time Warner, Comcast out
By: By Rich Karpinski
AT&T and Verizon are in the mix too, as bidders line up for January's wireless spectrum auction...
VZW's future network
By: By Kevin Fitchard
CTO Dick Lynch discusses how Verizon Wireless isn't changing its business model, but pursuing two separate ones...
Veraz does its part in Onemax network
By: By Tim McElligott
When Alcatel-Lucent handed the proverbial ribbon-cutting scissors to Raoul Fontanez, Chief Executive Officer of Onemax, at the launch of the world’s first WiMax Rev-e network in the Dominican Republic in October, Amit Chawla, vice president of global solutions and engineering at Veraz Networks, watched as the company basked in the glory of driving the implementation...
NSN to do lab trials of LTE with VZW
By: By Kevin Fitchard
AMSTERDAM--Nokia Siemens Networks will conduct lab trials of its Long Term Evolution gear in the U.S. for Verizon Wireless, NSN head of customer and market operations Christoph Caselitz confirmed today...
Wi-Fi more addictive than coffee?
By: By Sarah Reedy
Could Wi-Fi be more addictive than coffee? With Wi-Fi chipset sales poised to reach 300 million units this year, the Wi-Fi Alliance and In-Stat think it just may be...
LTE--It’s not just VZW’s network, it’s Verizon’s
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Throughout its short history, Verizon Communications has kept its wireline business separated from its wireless business. Last week, however, when the companies announced their plans with Vodafone to jointly pursue Long Term Evolution (LTE) as a next-generation network technology, the name on the press release didn’t have a ‘Wireless’ tacked to its end...
Motorola executive flight continues with CTO
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Motorola Chief Technology Officer Padmasree Warrior has followed CEO Ed Zander out the door...
Wi-Fi takes small steps for FMC
By: By Sarah Reedy
Wi-Fi, although starting to gain traction in the market due to several successful fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) launches and an increasing presence in flagship handsets, remains a niche feature for most mobile phones, according to a report by IMS Research...
