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Consumers say VoIP not essential; magicJack begs to differ
By Sarah Reedy
Consumers are much less likely to cut back on landline spending than they are on either free or paid voice-over-IP services, according to Alcatel-Lucent's Market Advantage Program study released yesterday...
Can NSN turn CDMA customers into LTE customers?
By Kevin Fitchard
I asked Nokia Siemens Networks head of North America Sue Spradley on Monday whether it would be “weird” to start selling CDMA after being a champion of the GSM family of technology for so long...
Prepaid 3G broadband may be the answer
By Kevin Fitchard
Virgin Mobile (NYSE:VM) may have just provided the wireless industry with a solution to the nagging problem of data caps...
Palm Pre vs. iPhone 3G S: Who’s playing catch-up now?
By Sarah Reedy
The weekend launch of the Palm Pre followed by Apple's introduction of the new iPhone 3G S has the industry taking sides and placing bets on which device will be more successful...
Can femtocells overcome the barriers of physics?
By Kevin Fitchard
In arguing the femtocell's case before the LTE World Summit last month, Simon Saunders, chairman of the Femto Forum, invoked the name of one of telecommunication's great theorists: Claude Shannon...
Self-sustaining mobility
Kevin Fitchard
The alternative energy mobile network seems to have plenty of momentum in the savannahs of Africa, the villages of India and the mountains of Tibet, but...
Femto Apps -- You know you want them!
Peter Jarich
I've been thinking a lot about femtocell-based applications lately. With few commercial femtocell services launched and the...
Redefining wireless software
By Sarah Reedy
For all the talk about how smartphones could pull handset-makers out of their recession-induced slump, it's a term that is losing its meaning...
LTE phones in 2010? Not likely
By Kevin Fitchard
If you want a gauge the chances of long-term evolution handsets emerging next year, you only have to ask a simple question to the right people...
What The Verizon Hub Should Be
Danny Briere
Whenever I look at new offerings from telcos that have a digital home/consumer electronics angle to them, I always ask myself: is this something that a CE vendor could do better?...
The Real Storm Is Yet to Come, Can Wireless Turn the Tide?
Bernhard Kickenweiz, Principal A.T. Kearney New York
Have we hit the bottom of the downturn? Are we finally seeing light at the end of the tunnel?...
Inventing the self-winding phone
By Kevin Fitchard
On its own, your phone charger may not be draining a large portion of the world’s energy resources, but the collective drain of the planet’s 4 billion–plus phones pack quite a punch...
Is Verizon ready for the iPhone?
By Kevin Fitchard
If the rumors are true that Verizon Wireless is negotiating a deal with Apple for the iPhone, then I have two words of caution for Verizon: Be prepared...
How green can mobile phones go?
By Sarah Reedy
Companies in the telecom space have gotten real about going green in the past few years. They’ve had to, as consumers have become increasingly eco-conscious and, more likely, cost-conscious...
How to beat the cap wrap
Vince Vittore
Time Warner is getting a lesson in “squeaky wheel” politics...
(Yet More) Mobile Applications Coming To You Soon
David Patton
Driven by the runaway success of the iPhone and the rapidly growing adoption of Google’s Android OS by handset vendors and mobile service providers, the number of mobile applications is exploding...
Meeting the data quota
By Kevin Fitchard
Data caps on mobile broadband plans are starting to become the norm...
RCS: The Next Step in Mobile Services Evolution
By Diane Myers
In 2009, efforts are underway that will change the IMS service landscape...
Clearwire’s new message
By Kevin Fitchard
Clearwire came out kicking at CTIA Wireless last week, showing that the upstart mobile broadband operator still has a lot of spunk despite its tiny WiMAX footprint...
Living in 2025
By Kevin Fitchard
Though I’m not so vain as to claim it’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for, perhaps to a little bit fanfare I’d like to announce that the focal piece of the interactive feature on the future of wireless communications is now complete...
Introducing the CTIA Live Blog
By Kevin Fitchard
Instead of distributing CTIA’s coverage among news stores, features, blogs and columns throughout the site, we’re consolidating all of our coverage into a single CTIA Live Blog....
Carriers should embrace the beat
By Sarah Reedy
Consumers have demonstrated that their music libraries are nearly as indispensible as their mobile phones...
I’m 4G and You’re Not – So There
By Peter Jarich
I had the honor of presiding over a panel on 4G last year. We had representatives from various industry bodies and vendors...
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