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CES: Enter mobile TV technology No. 3
By Kevin Fitchard
If FLO and DVB-H weren’t enough, a new mobile TV broadcast technology has emerged on the already crowded scene...
Motorola unveils stand-alone Mobile TV player
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...
Femtocells hit the market, but is anyone buying?
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...
WiMAX Forum to begin mobile certification—no, really
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...
Motorola launches first large-scale WiMAX network
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...
VZW's future network
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 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 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...
LTE--It’s not just VZW’s network, it’s Verizon’s
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...
Wi-Fi takes small steps for FMC
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...
Verizon conducted WiMAX trials with Vodafone
By Kevin Fitchard
Verizon has conducted WiMAX trials with partner Vodafone as part of its 4G technology selection process, Verizon Communications executive vice president and chief technology officer Dick Lynch said Thursday...
Updated: Verizon taps LTE for 4G, citing scale, global harmonization
By Kevin Fitchard
Verizon Communications is breaking from the CDMA camp, announcing today that it has selected Long Term Evolution, the 4G technology of competing GSM technologies, as its next-generation network architecture...
Wi-Fi moving beyond the laptop
By Kevin Fitchard
The Wi-Fi Alliance has seen a record surge in new devices certified under its banner in the last year, but what’s more interesting than just sheer volume is the types of devices seeking the Wi-Fi logo...
Broadband at low frequencies
By Kevin Fitchard
CTC is using former TV spectrum for broadband and VoIP, and more could follow its lead next year...
Watching WiMAX
By Kevin Fitchard
The aura around WiMAX has become overpowering of late. Anything that can be ascribed to an access technology has been ascribed to WiMAX: the bridging force of the digital divide, broadband anywhere, Wi-Fi on steroids...
Sequans puffs out its chest
By Kevin Fitchard
WiMAX World was definitely Motorola's party, but tiny Sequans Communications almost stole the show...
VZW, Vodafone jointly exploring LTE
By Kevin Fitchard
Verizon Wireless is working with part-owner Vodafone on jointly evaluating next-generation, or 4G, network technologies with the aim of converging their technology paths on both sides of the Atlantic...
The need for speed
By Kevin Fitchard
It may not have involved a desolate strip in the desert. There were no ambulances standing by. No one was wearing a crash helmet. But Beceem Communications...
Rethinking WiMAX
By Kevin Fitchard
Sprint's partnership with Clearwire for WiMAX will create an expansive network, blanketing almost every populated area of the country if all goes according to plan. But in exchange for those economies of scale, its speed to market and the optimization of spectrum assets, Sprint is changing up its original business plan...
Sprint offers first glimpse of WiMAX
By Kevin Fitchard
VIENNA, Va.--Sprint took the wraps off its WiMAX networks today, giving the first live demos of its new mobile broadband technology and revealing a name for the planned service for the first time...
WiMAX looms as muni network option
By Carol Wilson
Wireless access in general, and Wi-Fi technology in particular, has been very attractive to municipalities wanting to improve broadband communications for multiple reasons. But as more cities discover Wi-Fi's limitations, they are also looking at other wireless options, namely WiMAX. Read the latest in this series of special reports...
WiMAX will threaten incumbents’ bundles
By Carol Wilson
Telecom service providers and cable operators are going head to head in assembling quadruple-play service bundles with which they hope to lock up the consumer market. The cable industry has already spent billions to upgrade its networks, while both AT&T and Verizon are now pouring billions into their access networks to be able to deliver video...
WiMAX truly disruptive if marketed well, study says
By Carol Wilson
A new study by two industry veterans states that WiMAX technology, if deployed and marketed correctly, is a truly disruptive technology that could unseat the telco-cable duopoly and provide consumer choice in broadband services and devices...
Sprint to buy ZTE WiMAX CPE
By Carol Wilson
ZTE USA and Sprint Nextel today announced they have signed a master purchase agreement under which ZTE will supply its WiMAX PC cards and home networking gear to Sprint for its national WiMAX rollout...
Alcatel-Lucent to build WiMAX in Russia
By Kevin Fitchard
Alcatel-Lucent has landed a deal to build a nationwide rural WiMAX access network in the most rural country in the world, Russia. The mammoth deal will put Alcatel-developed Mobile WiMAX gear in 1000 Russian towns by the end of 2008...
