Motorola buys its way into Clearwire's network
By: By Dan O'Shea
Motorola is acquiring NextNet Wireless, the broadband wireless equipment owned by Clearwire, which also has been the exclusive supplier of equipment for Clearwire's network...
VCom acquires WaveRider, MIMO IP
By: By Dan O'Shea
Broadband wireless access vendor VCom has announced that it has agreed to acquire WaveRider Communications and other subsidiaries of Wave Wireless Corp. in a cash deal worth about $1 million...
Intel to sell smartphone chipset division
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Intel is cutting the cord on its emerging mobile processor business, announcing today it is selling its communications division--which produces the XScale processor--to new market entrant Marvell for $600 million....
Nokia, Sanyo cancel CDMA handset venture
By: By Carol Wilson
Nokia and Sanyo admitted that they will not proceed with a proposed jointly owned company to product CDMA mobile devices...
COMMUNICASIA: Ericsson exec says Nokia-Siemens tie-up expected
By: By Kevin Fitchard
SINGAPORE—Ericsson sales and marketing executive vice president Bert Nordberg today said that the network joint-venture between Nokia and Siemens was a development Ericsson expected due to the need for consolidation in the industry. ...
Siemens, Nokia join consolidation push
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Nokia and Siemens today said they would combine their respective network divisions, creating a huge telecom infrastructure division rivaled only by the Ericsson and the soon-to-be-combined Alcatel and Lucent Technologies. (Photographer: PAUL O'DRISCOLL/BLOOMBERG NEWS/Landov)...
ABI: $50B in IMS service revenue by 2011
By: By Dan O'Shea
ABI Research has put out a new study forecasting that network operators implementing IP multimedia subsystem architectures will generate $49.6 billion in service revenue from IMS-based applications by 2011....
Financial hurdles for ADC/Andrew?
By: By Dan O'Shea
The merger that equipment vendors ADC and Andrew Corporation announced earlier this week is drawing its share of concern from financial analysts following those companies...
New Nextlink gets new CEO
By: By Kevin Fitchard
First Avenue Networks executive Robert E. Beran is joining XO Communications as CEO of its newly reformed Nextlink broadband wireless unit...
ADC, Andrew to merge
By: By Dan O'Shea
Vendors ADC and Andrew Corp. are planning to merge in a stock-for-stock deal, the companies said today...
Capcom buys mobile game publisher
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Capcom Entertainment is the latest major game maker to buy into the mobile gaming space, announcing today plans to acquire Cosmic Infinity for an undisclosed sum...
FiberTower, First Avenue Networks merge
By: By Dan O'Shea
FiberTower and First Avenue Networks, two of the relatively new companies targeting the wireless network backhaul market, have signed an agreement to combine their spectrum assets ...
Ericsson readies for Alcatel/Lucent fight
By: By Dan O'Shea
Sweden-based vendor giant Ericsson held its Capital Markets Day event this week in New York City, and executives from the company touted Ericsson's mobile broadband experience, integrated global approach and its new assets from the acquisition of Marconi that will strengthen the company as it competes against the pending merger of Alcatel and Lucent Technologies...
Clearwire registers for IPO
By: By Dan O'Shea
Clearwire, the broadband wireless service provider founded by mobile pioneer Craig McCaw, is about to find out if Wall Street can fall in love for a second time with broadband fixed wireless firms. ...
Crown Castle to buy smaller tower company
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Crown Castle today said it is buying tower company Mountain Union Telecom for $309 million, gaining the company's 547 sites in California, Nevada, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Puerto Rico. ...
Verizon Wireless takes wireless data lead
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Boasting another 1.5 million subscriber quarter, Verizon had more than just customer gains to brag about today...
Digicel stays acquisition course
By: By Dan O'Shea
Caribbean wireless operator Digicel Group said today that it has completed the $196 million acquisition of Bouygues Telecom Caraibe, the wholly owned subsidiary of Bouygues Telecom with assets in Martinique, Guadeloupe and French Guiana...
Verizon revenue up, income down
By: By Carol Wilson
Revenue was up but income was down at Verizon in the first quarter, due in part to the costs in integrating MCI Communications....
Meru lands funding, launches wireless IT backhaul
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Meru Networks today said it has closed its fourth round of funding, bringing in another $25 million for a grand total of $68 million. ...
InterDigital to get $253M in Nokia patent settlement
By: By Kevin Fitchard
InterDigital and Nokia have settled on a final settlement price in their long-running patent dispute but the two have not yet settled on any future royalty agreements for Nokia's product lines, sending the companies back to the negotiating room....
Alcatel CEO: Chinese not leading price war
By: By Ed Gubbins
Though Chinese equipment vendors such as Huwaei Technologies and ZTE are often feared as cut-throat price warriors, they are not always the worst offenders, said Serge Tchuruk, Alcatel’s Chief Executive Officer, while discussing the intense price pressure squeezing the company’s margins in mobile equipment markets...
Nextel still weighing on Sprint profits
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Sprint continued to rack up new customers in the first quarter, but its recent acquisition of Nextel took a toll on the combined carrier’s bottom line...
Motricity lands $40 million in funding
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Motricity has banked $40 million in funding for its growing content delivery business strategy. The new round brings Motricity venture capital totals up to $120 million....
Kodiak takes on India
By: By Kevin Fitchard
While Kodiak Networks has been touting its push-to-talk solution in the U.S. and Europe, it has found a ripe market for an entirely different type of service in South Asia....
Nokia fight looms for Qualcomm
By: By Dan O'Shea
Qualcomm continues to deliver reliably strong revenue numbers. However, the company also acknowledged that Nokia's license to sell products based on Qualcomm's CDMA patents will end in one year and has not been renewed yet...
