Telco video delivery expands
By: By Steve Hawley
Analysts, myself included, have been suggesting that IPTV, today thought of as the set of video services delivered to consumer homes via “wireline” access networks using IP, would someday become the subset of something bigger. That day seems to be coming fast. Let’s look at two recent developments for a status report and insights as to future direction...
Split personality
By: By Jason Meyers
SAN FRANCISCO--In its marketing efforts, The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association touts its Wireless IT & Entertainment show as one show with two personalities. Only half of that is right: It is, in fact, one show...
Diddy dally
By: By Dan O'Shea
The last time we went to a big wireless industry trade show, it was in New Orleans, a city that many of us probably haven't visited since, and, sadly,...
E-mail free for all
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Who isn't getting into the mobile e-mail business these days? Nokia became the latest entrant earlier this month with a new client-server solution...
Qualcomm's GSM hunt
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Qualcomm made an announcement yesterday that could almost be considered a tease. It named its first BREW customer in Europe, a feat it's been trying to accomplish for years. The thing is, the customer, Nordisk Mobiltelefon, is a CDMA carrier. The Holy Grail Qualcomm's looking for, its first GSM customer, is still elusive...
ROK critics
By: By Tim McElligott
There is a time and place for most human activity. But one activity seems to be losing both its time and place: daydreaming...
A market of one
By: By Vince Vittore
Critics took less than a week to take aim at the new ROKR device from Motorola and Apple, which combines a wireless handset with an iPod...
Is two billion the peak?
By: By Kevin Fitchard
A new study by Informa Telecom & Media has the global wireless industry on track to break all previous year's records for growth, adding a projected 380 million net subscribers by year end. ...
Yankee finds muni love
By: By Carol Wilson
It's too early to do those end-of-the-year news roundups that publications routinely use to fill space while the staff goes to holiday parties and on vacations, but I don't think it's too much of a stretch to say that municipally owned broadband networks, and all the controversy they've generated, are among the bigger stories of 2005....
3G shots fired
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Sixty bucks for a broadband connection doesn't seem like a bad deal. ...
A Confluence of Next
By: By Jason Meyers
We have a mantra around here that aptly defines the pervasive content themes of Wireless Review and its sister publication, Telephony: What's next. ...
The revolutionary
By: As told to Jason Meyers
Terry Vega: Helped launch some of the first wireless networks as head of Lucent's wireless infrastructure unit. Helped launch Telcordia into new sectors as head of wireless and emerging markets. Now heading Motorola's CDMA device business, helping launch it toward the next big wireless thing....
OFDM--The new CDMA?
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Qualcomm has come a long way from being a one-technology horse. The king of CDMA just added Flarion's significant portfolio of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) intellectual property to its growing list of technologies. Couple that with its efforts in wideband CDMA and multicast multimedia, and Qualcomm is much more than just a champion of its original CDMA patents...
AOL's wireless AIMs
By: By Kevin Fitchard
America Online just a made a curious move. It signaled a new intensity of interest in the ways of wireless this week by buying start-up technology firm Wildseed. Acquisitions are nothing new for AOL. In fact, most of the parent company's vast empire was built off one acquisition or another...
Data goofs and cracks in the garden wall
By: By Kevin Fitchard
First some housekeeping. In last week's column, I chided Verizon Wireless for not revealing any data revenue numbers. Well, I turned out to be completely wrong. Verizon Wireless, in fact, did reveal in their second-quarter results that it took in $438 million in data revenues for the second quarter...
Cooling concerns | public Wi-Fi hot spots
By: Dan O'Shea
The public Wi-Fi market continues to grow at a healthy pace, with the total number of public hot spots worldwide at 68,644, according to numbers released last month by JiWire...
.mobi isolates mobile Web
By: Kevin Fitchard
Last month the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) created a domain suffix. Along with .com, .edu, .org, and .net, we now have .mobi...
The kids are alright
By: By Carol Wilson
The youth market has always been a wireless service provider's best friend...
The next wireless growth spurt
By: By Jason Meyers
Observers of the wireless business generally agree that even as mobile services become more popular and varied, the sector itself is essentially getting smaller...
Adding up VW's math
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Verizon Wireless yesterday broke all industry records adding an astonishing 1.9 million subscribers in the second quarter...
Kiddie phones
By: By Kevin Fitchard
I'll be the first admit that the Firefly "tween" phone is a bit creepy. Like the idea of a children's credit card or lipstick for preadolescent girls, a kiddie cell phone gives me the shivers. Or maybe I'm just jealous and spiteful. Isn't there anything left exclusively for adults these days?...
Sprint and the race for 3G
By: By Kevin Fitchard
It took a year, but Sprint is finally ready to play in the 3G sandbox...
Small wireless operators catch MMS interop bugs
By: By Kevin Fitchard
As U.S. carriers are turning up interoperability between their multimedia messaging service, or MMS, networks, independent wireless carriers are quickly joining in...
Mouse roars
By: By Dan O'Shea
When ESPN, the sports entertainment juggernaut owned by Disney, confirmed earlier this year that it would launch a wireless MVNO, there was some speculation that the service might be a trial balloon of sorts for a much broader Disney MVNO...
Forward Motion: The cable guy
By: As told to Dan O'Shea
Tom Cullen, president and COO, Tensorcomm. Fought on both sides of the telco-cable broadband war, first with MediaOne and later as EVP of cable TV force Charter Communications. Witnessed critical moments in the maturity of broadband, such as cable modems. More recently put himself in position to witness similar moments in the maturity of mobile broadband...
