Destination data
By: By Dan O'Shea
When the FCC and the Federal Aviation Administration recently began looking into the possibility of repealing the ban against using cellular phones during commercial airline flights, there was an incredible outcry against the move...
Urban planning (and warfare)
By: By Jason Meyers
The battle for broadband mind and market share certainly is not limited to the wireline side of the telecom industry, where the most contentious issue currently dominating the market is the rising competitive fervor between incumbent carriers with fiber-to-the-home plans and operators of municipal networks with similar ambitions...
The gathering storm
By: By Jason Meyers
There's an article on the WiMAX Trends site by Robert Syputa, senior analyst for Maravedis, that I wish I had written. I like it because it cuts through the bull that most of the wireless industry pitches on the issue of whether broadband wireless technologies like WiMAX, particularly in the mobile format for which it is destined, will be competitive with high-speed cellular data platforms such as EV-DO...
When will EV-DO come to San Francisco?
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Verizon Wireless has built itself quite a 3G network. At a conference in New York today, CEO Denny Strigl announced another 13 markets to Verizon's growing 3G footprint, which now encompasses 52 metropolitan areas and mid-sized cities...
How to be an MVNO
By: As told to Jason Meyers
Whitey Bluestein pioneered the mobile virtual network operator model at MCI in the 1990s. He later helped Visage Mobile become a mobile virtual network enabler, and now he's again advising early-stage companies. Bluestein talked to Telephony about market growth, carriers' wholesale strategies and what it takes to be a good MVNO...
How to be an MVNO, part 2
By: As told to Jason Meyers
Although he didn’t get credit for the MVNO acronym, wireless entrepreneur Whitey Bluestein pioneered the concept of the mobile virtual network operator when he developed a virtual network operation for MCI in the mid 1990s. Here’s more of Bluestein’s interview with Telephony...
Handset skin
By: By Ed Gubbins
Members of the mobile phone industry had better start spending more time thinking about sex, according to the Yankee Group...
Globalizing wireless
By: By Kevin Fitchard
One billion is a big number. It's almost three times the population of the U.S....
Seattle's wireless reign
By: By Tom Huseby
You'd think the Seattle wireless community would lose sleep over its wireless carrier defections...
Caution, dumbing pipes
By: By Kevin Fitchard
SmartVideo recently announced it is developing a free music video channel, paid for by advertising...
Changing the channel on mobile video
By: By Jason Ankeny
Across the span of television history are series like Twin Peaks, Freaks and Geeks and the current Arrested Development, shows that earn impassioned cult followings but made little headway into the mass consumer consciousness...
The clock is ticking
By: By Dan O'Shea
Voice over IP took at least 10 years to effect some change in the traditional wireline telephony industry...
(X marks the spot) So Y are games targeted at men?
By: By Seamus McAteer
It may not be surprising that M:Metrics found males to be twice as likely to download a mobile game than women...
The infancy of IMS
By: By Jason Meyers
The architecture known as the IP multimedia subsystem, or IMS, is at a critical stage in its development. It's one of those emerging technology areas that is not truly or fully understood by the vast majority of the industry...
Beyond the apps
By: By Jason Meyers
The wireless service provider sector has long been criticized for being so focused on the consumer market that it is unable to develop the enterprise realm...
MobiTV goes abroad
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Here's an interesting turn of events: A wireless data service born in the U.S. is headed to Europe, not the other way around...
Triple play or grand slam?
By: By Sarah Hofstetter
The best chance to win and keep a residential long-distance customer is by delivering a valuable bundle with a strong brand and last-mile access. The...
The search for an upside
By: By Jason Meyers
A study released this week by Insight Research points to a new and disturbing trend for carriers: Even as service provider subscribership is increasing, revenue growth isn't keeping pace...
The battle of the WISPs
By: By Kevin Fitchard
I never thought I would say this again, but things are starting to get exciting in the broadband wireless space...
Prepaid's new look
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Prepaid appears to be gaining some carrier cred again. After years of dismissing prepaid as a low-return, unreliable revenue source and making every effort to phase out their prepaid base, carriers may be changing their minds...
A new brand of discontent
By: By Jason Meyers
Think about all the things people love to hate about consumer goods and services. Rapidly escalating prices. Shoddy craftsmanship and inferior quality...
Melodies and maladies
By: By Jason Ankeny
The word on the proverbial street is that most major wireless carriers are balking at Motorola's and Apple's coming iTunes handset...
WiMAX grows up
By: By Dan O'Shea
When Intel put considerable technical and marketing girth behind WiMAX and joined the WiMAX Forum, there were at least a few members of that association...
