Nine (more) lives
By Jason Meyers
You have to admire the doggedness of the broadband wireless sector. One of the keynote speakers at last week's Broadband Wireless World conference...
Time Warner Wireless
By Kevin Fitchard
After more than a year of enticing the cable industry with the promise of a bundled wireless offering, Sprint has its first bite from an MSO...
Waiting for WiMAX
By Jason Meyers
The brief history of WiMAX is an interesting study in technology development, standardization and spin control...
Forward Motion: The Pilot
As told to Jason Ankeny
Paul Barlock: Marine Corps officer turned businessman. Started in the defense industry, became a telecom power broker at TPS and Advance Power...
MVNO warning signs
By Jason Meyers
To be virtually mobile
Alex Besen cut his wireless teeth in the entrepreneurial wireless fray, as the 11th employee at C Block PCS licensee Pocket Communications...
Mobile goes Def
By Jason Meyers
What did it all mean? Beyond the stickiness, tawdriness and sleaze of New Orleans and the haze of what clearly has become a telecom industry show...
MVNOpportunity
By Jason Meyers
What were we thinking? (A CTIA blog)
March 16, 1:31 pm: Another CTIA Wireless event is winding down, and for what seemed to be an extraordinarily busy show for all in attendance, there was really nothing in the way of milestone news...
Fast Forward: Ericsson's Angel Ruiz
Ericsson, one of most legendary names in wireless, traditionally has been hounded by criticism that it wasn't strong in North America...
The MVNO intangible
By Matthew Corbett
On the eve of the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association's Wireless 2005 event in New Orleans, I am incredibly proud of our space...
Warming the multiplayer bench
By Jason Ankeny
CTIA Wireless 2005 is still a few days away, but mobile gaming--sure to be one of the hot topics on this year's convention floor--is making its fair share of noise this week as well...
Forget the Pepcom party...
By Kevin Fitchard
Just one more week to CTIA, and before you finalize your party calendars, I'd like to add one more event to the schedule...
The n is near
By Jason Ankeny
The race for the 802.11n wireless standard heated up late last week when Motorola agreed to merge its proposal with that of the World Wide Spectrum Efficiency (WWiSE) consortium...
Mobile messaging with a side of spam
By Kevin Fitchard
Remember when it used to be a treat to get a text message? Now the opposite seems to be the case....
Spectrum speculation
By Jason Ankeny
With the February close of the FCC's Auction 58 a clearinghouse for wireless spectrum licenses acquired during past auctions and then returned when the...
One deal behind
By Dan O'Shea
At the tail-end of last year, Sprint and Nextel announced an even-handed merger...
Bridging the divide
By Carol Wilson
While the fight for Philadelphia's wireless soul was long and loud and continues to resonate, there are thousands of U.S. residents for whom a fixed wireless would literally be a lifesaver...
Get niche quick
By Jason Ankeny
The U.S. mobile virtual network operator sector expanded again last week as Sprint announced its newest partner: Movida, a pay-as-you-go carrier targeting...
Fast Forward: Greg Raleigh, Airgo Networks
Multiple Input Multiple Output technology is capable of turning the worst enemy of wireless network planners multipath interference into one of their...
Enter Movida
By Kevin Fitchard
It's been almost four years since Virgin launched the first mobile virtual network operator in the U.S. over Sprint's network, and since then the MVNO hasn't exactly been the rocket ship we imagined...
It's all about IMS
By Kevin Fitchard
The wireless industry has a new acronym to beat to death. It's called IMS--IP multimedia subsystem--and the vendors are bringing down the bat hard at the 3GSM World Congress...
More merger menace
By Jason Meyers
An addendum to last week's column, which lamented how the spate of mega-carrier mergers could threaten innovation and slow the adoption of new technologies: It appears to be happening already...
Music is in the air
By Kevin Fitchard
If the carriers won't provide it, somebody else will. That might just be the case for digital music...
AT&T waves goodbye to IMS--for now
By Kevin Fitchard
AT&T chairman and CEO Dave Dorman yesterday didn't miss his chance to cozy up with his new buddies at Cingular at the expense of some old ones...
