Leave my phone alone
By: By Kevin Fitchard
In the last few years we've seen a lot of phones come out that do things distinctly un-phone-like. The camera phone trend has finally started producing...
The new, old AT&T
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Cingular may be in the process of becoming the new AT&T, but it's the old AT&T that they should be concerned about, at least for the immediate future....
Satellite's time has come
By: By Andrew Cole
The much-maligned commercial satellite space is experiencing an awakening with the advent of ancillary terrestrial component, or ATC, service players...
Excuse me, your phone is smelling…
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Phones long ago did away the boring ring of cell phones, making cell phones blare everything from James Brown to John Cleese when they want to be answered...
The new iPhone: Long on features, but shortsighted
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Steve Jobs finally did it. The new Apple iPhone was revealed to the world today with much pomp at MacWorld, and in contrast to the mediocre Motorola ROKR two years ago, this phone is impressive...
Oh Modeo, wherefore art thou, Modeo?
By: By Kevin Fitchard
It’s Dec. 19, meaning only 12 days left for Modeo to deliver on its promise of a multicast TV network. Sure, Modeo might slip in their New York launch quietly before New Year’s Day, but they’ve most likely missed the Christmas rush...
Managing a runway star--it ain’t easy
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The phone has turned into a lot of things: first an organizer and phone book, then a crappy camera and finally a digital music player. And its latest incarnation? It’s turned into the modern-day equivalent of the pet rock. ...
Saw it first on my phone
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The TV and the mobile phone screen have been perfectly matched since the first video stream wound its way over the wireless network. There has been plenty of TV content that’s been repurposed for the phone....
The trouble with free…
By: By Kevin Fitchard
While Motorola and Nokia vie to take on RIM in the high-dollar enterprise wireless email space, Google is eyeballing the mobile e-mail market, but from the bottom. ...
Modern English
By: By Tim McElligott
As you can see from the two stories below on Windstream and Embarq, companies, like people, speak different dialects. Both are talking about bundled services...
Palm’s conundrum
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Just when the dust had started to settle, the e-mail wars have started up again. With more than $600 million from RIM under its belt, NTP is turning its attention to Palm...
Amp'd Mobile's international moves
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Though Amp'd Mobile is keeping its MVNO going in the U.S. it seems to be questioning the wisdom of MVNOs in other markets. It has now launched its highly targeted youth-centric content portal in two other countries...
The WiMAX race has begun
By: By Kevin Fitchard
WiMAX World kicks off today here, and the titillation in the air is just powerful. No other technology has been hyped more than Mobile WiMAX in recent years, but for the first time the exhibitors and other assorted boosters...
The Nokia Area Network
By: By Kevin Fitchard
First there were wide area networks, then local area networks, followed by local area and metro area networks. Then infrared and Bluetooth gave us the personal area network. Now Nokia has something new for us...
Calling a WiMAX winner
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The Mobile WiMAX race is on. There's still a question as to how big the potential market for the technology will be, but a lot of big vendors seem to be betting that it will be huge. ...
An American smartphone
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Nokia for years has been pushing the tiniest and prettiest of smartphones, all of which have sold like hotcakes in Europe and other parts of the world, but have performed poorly in the U.S. ...
Auction blocked
By: By Dan O'Shea
The ongoing Advanced Wireless Services auction could have been an occasion for the WiMAX community to further rejoice over an opportunity to gain more usable spectrum, but the truth is that anyone thinking about deploying WiMAX never really had a fighting chance to win spectrum in the AWS auction. ...
The ways of the Wi-Fi Alliance
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The Wi-Fi Alliance announced it would certify pre-standard 802.11n gear today without waiting for the IEEE to ratify a final standard....
Bidders Beware
By: By Dan O’Shea
Spectrum auctions are a dark smudge in America's telecom history book. The intention of such auctions traditionally has been--at least in part--to sell newly available patches of frequency to an up-and-coming crop of new players that will bring about greater competition and customer choice, and potentially new kinds of service....
SOS, different day
By: By Dan O’Shea
Jacob Alexander and two other former Comverse executives have been charged with securities fraud in an alleged stock option back-dating scheme, and Alexander, who resigned from Comverse earlier this year, is reportedly a federal fugitive....
What's next for Sprint
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The shake-up at Sprint is beginning. Chief Operating Officer Len Lauer said last night he's leaving the ailing operator after working with the company for eight years. Sprint has reported some punishing results since it acquired Nextel last year, and even though its executive team has some ambitious plans for the wireless operator's future, it's questionable whether they'll be around to execute those plans. ...
The trouble with MVNOs
By: By Dan O'Shea
Industry observers have begun to condemn the mobile virtual network operator model after one quarter's worth of financial reports from mobile carriers showing sharp drops in their wholesale subscriber numbers. ...
Huawei's global joyride hits the U.S.
By: By Kevin Fitchard
It looks like the U.S. isn't immune to Huawei's global shake-up of the wireless industry. The Chinese vendor just landed its first deal of note with a U.S. wireless carrier, nailing down a three-market contract for CDMA 1X networks with Leap Wireless. ...
Untethering the bundle
By: By Kevin Fitchard
erizon Wireless has untied its Vcast Music service from its overall Vcast package. That may not sound revolutionary, but it holds plenty of significance. Carriers are growing wise to the fact that many data services can't be sold in a bundle....
Network of abstractions
By: Marc Smit
As network operators transition from voice-only to multi-application service providers, they will have to make more efficient use of network resources...
