Thunder road
By: By Tim McElligott
Sprint succeeded this week in turning everyone's focus to 4G. What happened to 3G? Aren't we all still waiting to experience its full benefit? Aren't there several billions of dollars of return-on-investment that operators are suppose to enjoy first?...
What is 4G?
By: By Dan O’Shea
U.S. mobile carrier giant Sprint announced this week that it has chosen Mobile WiMAX as the technology for its 4G network evolution, thereby helping make Mobile WiMAX synonymous with 4G. But what exactly is 4G? ...
What WiMAX was waiting for
By: By Dan O’Shea
The WiMAX sector got what it was waiting for, the decision by Sprint to deploy Mobile WiMAX over other technology contenders. But, it also got what it really wanted most--a big U.S. mobile carrier stepping up to a microphone ...
Motorola's WiMAX bets pay off
By: By Kevin Fitchard
It looks like WiMAX is here to stay. In just a few short weeks it's gone from a technology with a question mark hanging over its head to the mobile broadband choice for any carrier with spectrum to throw at it. ...
Cingular cleaning out the TDMA cellar
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Cingular caused a big stir today when it revealed it would be charging its 4.7 million remaining time division multiple access (TDMA)subscribers a $5 per month surcharge until they upgraded to a newer GSM model...
Buy me, supply me
By: By Dan O'Shea
The process of procuring network equipment was once a methodical and fairly standard one...
The real FMC/IMS relationship
By: By PK Prasanna
An increasing number of fixed/mobile convergence, or FMC, deployments are being announced worldwide...
Is .mobi a good idea?
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Last week the .mobi domain was open for registration and a rash of companies snapped up the new mobile-specific Web addresses. The interest in the .mobi domain is encouraging, but all of the attention on this new Web domain may be a bit shortsighted...
Taking the V out of MVNO
By: By Whitey Bluestein
With so many high-profile MVNOs launching this year, it's time to think about MVNOs in a different way...
Is Google a threat?
By: By Neale Martin
In this continuing series on competitive challenges from non-traditional competitors, I'm taking the unusual perspective of evaluating threats based on habits...
Merger fallout
By: By Kevin Fitchard
There's a downside to mergers, and Sprint is learning that lesson the hard way...
Wireless time coming
By: By Carol Wilson
In the 21 years I've covered telecom, I've seen fixed wireless access technology burst onto the market on multiple occasions...
Divergent convergence
By: By Andrew Cole
The U.S. is providing rare leadership in convergence strategy and services as the formerly distinct markets of wireless, wireline, cable and content transform into one pervasive digital services market...
It's showtime
By: By Dan O'Shea
Ali G meets Wayne's World. To some of us, there probably couldn't be a more thrilling combination. To other--the majority, I'm guessing--these words are the very epitome of fear itself...
Hunting for the mobile music deal
By: By Kevin Fitchard
If the carriers aren't providing customers the mobile music they want, then customers will go elsewhere to find it, right? Well, that might not always be the case considering the walled gardens that most operators have in the U.S., but mBlox announced a new mobile music store that may provide customers with an alternative...
An Apple a day
By: By Neale Martin
Is AT&T, the modern equivalent of Frankenstein's monster, to be feared or pitied?...
Analyzing the mesh alternative
By: By Matthew Dinsmore
In the effort to make high-speed access available to more people in more places, municipal Wi-Fi networks using meshed Wi-Fi technology are gaining trction in the U.S. Philadelphia has announced details of its planned partnership with EarthLink, and numerous other cities, such as San Francisco and Boston, are seriously considering similar initiatives...
Three keys to MVNO success
By: by Whitey Bluestein
It was only 10 years ago, after a conversation among colleagues, that I developed the concept that became the first mobile virtual network operator....
Wi-Fi Worries
By: by Carol Wilson
There is already enough activity in the municipal Wi-Fi market to be of great concern to incumbent telephone companies. ...
Battle of Egos
By: by Kevin Fitchard
Despite the intense media buildup in the final weeks of February, the BlackBerry saga is still pretty much in a stalemate. U.S. District Court Judge James Spencer rendered no decision Feb. 24, and we're left to wonder still if the world's most popular mobile e-mail service will be shut down any day now....
Nano, nanoo
By: By Dan O'Shea
Are you like me? Do you hate when you're at the theater or in a fine restaurant or attending your daughter's piano recital, and someone's cell phone rings right in the middle of the aloof isolation that you have bought and paid for with your hard-earned dollars?...
Pricing down the music phone
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Today Sony Ericsson released its initial line-up of new phones for the year, unveiling six sleek new camera and multimedia phones, including the first Walkman music phone targeted at the mass market. Or so it claims--the company didn't reveal any pricing details ...
Who needs IMS anyway?
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Convergence is occurring with or without IMS, it seems. Tuesday AT&T launched its new Go Mobile service in partnership with Yahoo. It basically takes the Yahoo portal on the AT&T consumer DSL platform and transfers it to the wireless handset on Cingular's network...
Sideloading the next revolution
By: By Andrew Cole
When the wireless industry started buying 3G licenses in the mid-1990s, they did so with the expectation that these licenses would not only support enhanced voice capacity but also drive the delivery of lucrative, value-added entertainment services. The reality of today is quite different...
Cities get smarter
By: By Carol Wilson
Wireless is rapidly becoming the access technology of choice for municipal networks...
