Amid criticism, Qualcomm moves forward with BREW, new products
By: By Kevin Fitchard
After two weeks of trading blows with GSM vendors over intellectual properties, Qualcomm today returned to business as usual, announcing a slew of new product initiatives and a key win for its BREW platform in the GSM community. ...
CEO: XO spin-off boosts wireless, CLEC business
By: By Carol Wilson
The breakup of XO Communications stands to benefit both its CLEC business and the wireless assets the company is now spinning off into a separate entity, XO CEO Carl Grivner said this morning in a telephone interview...
Sprint Nextel unveils push to show
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Sprint Nextel today introduced a push-to-show feature for its Nextel product line, allowing customers to use the same Direct Connect push-to-talk channel to instantly send photo files....
Mobinet study: Mobile data growing, but content concerns remain
By: By Dan O'Shea
A growing number of mobile data users remain unimpressed with their content choices, according to the most recent Mobinet study...
InFocus: Improving ARPU through the user interface
By: By Milos Djokovic
Since the first mobile phone, the user interface has been a twelve-button keypad modelled on the 1960s wireline telephone. With 3G, however, the keypad has been replaced by a (sometimes complicated) menu-driven interface. How to make navigating the UI easier for your customers—and boost ARPU in the process...
Sprint heralds 3G with music download store
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Sprint today unveiled its answer to Verizon Wireless’ V Cast, announcing its first consumer 3G service featuring new broadband multimedia features and the first over-the-air download music service in the U.S...
SK-EarthLink to become Helio
By: By Kevin Fitchard
SK-EarthLink today changed its name to Helio and revealed a few more details about the data-centric wireless MVNO it plans to launch next year...
Vote by phone
By: By Stephanie Dell
With elections right around the corner, a new way for voters to cast their ballots may be close at hand. A St. Paul-based electronic systems designer...
Cingular turns on HSDPA in three markets
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Cingular today said it has upgraded its base stations in three of its six existing UMTS networks with high-speed downlink packet access software and hardware...
DragonWave deploys Ontario muni network
By: By Dan O'Shea
Broadband wireless equipment vendor DragonWave announced that the City of Barrie, Ontario, a community of 127,000 people north of Toronto, has deployed DragonWave’s AirPair wireless Ethernet products into a self-healing municipal mesh network...
Office Depot to brand wireless service
By: By Vince Vittore
Office Depot today announced that it has started offering a new wireless service targeting the small business market. Wireless Office Service, which will be powered by AccessLine Communications’ hosted voice over IP, gives users the ability to centralize all employee phone numbers (whether in-office, cell phones or home office numbers) with one single main number....
Samsung lands handset deal with Alltel
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Samsung this week announced it has expanded its handset presence in the U.S., adding Alltel to its rooster of the CDMA device customers...
Nokia moves into China 3G with Putian
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Nokia and China Putian became the latest West-meets-East pairing to tackle 3G technology as the two today announced a joint venture focusing on the development of both Chinese and European 3G standards...
Clearwire goes retail
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Clearwire today announced a distribution agreement with Best Buy to offer its residential broadband wireless service at U.S. stores in markets where Clearwire has coverage...
Study: Realtones generating the most revenue
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Though polyphonic and monophonic ringtones still account for the most overall downloads in the U.S., revenues from digital realtones have far surpassed them, according to a new study by Telephia...
MSpot optimizes radio service for mobile network offering
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Company competes with big names on Sprint's music menu...
COMPTEL: Indiana Fiber Works signs on with GigaBeam
By: By Carol Wilson
Indiana Fiber Works, a dark-fiber access provider in Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky and Illinois, has teamed up with GigaBeam and will purchase 12 of its WiFiber wireless systems from that company to deliver Gigabit services over wireless access and backhaul links. This marks GigaBeam’s first announced CLEC customer....
France Telecom unites brands, will sell services as Orange
By: By Carol Wilson
French giant will focus on strengths of IP/IT/mobile convergence...
SeaMobile makes wireless available on the high seas
By: By Dan O'Shea
Multiple telecom veterns back wireless shore-to-ship service provider...
Philly Wi-Fi decided; all eyes on San Francisco
By: By Kevin Fitchard
On the heels of EarthLink’s win of the Philadelphia municipal Wi-Fi network, competition for a proposed public hotspot network in San Francisco is heating up...
Sprint turning up GPS
By: By Kevin Fitchard
As Sprint is simultaneously seeking an extension to meet Enhanced-911 compliance, the carrier is pushing its new GPS services, and according to Sprint officials it plans to enable commercial location-based data services on all of its current line of new CDMA and iDEN handsets...
Reclaiming wireless
By: By Kevin Fitchard and Vince Vittore
After dumping their wireless assets in an attempt to streamline operations, many rural and independent carriers are looking to get back into the bobile business, this time as MVNOs...
MetroFi launches infrastructure services for municipalities
By: By Dan O'Shea
MetroFi, a Mountain View, Calif. company headed up by Covad Communications founder Chuck Haas, has launched its new Wireless Broadband Service for municipal network rollouts at the MuniWireless 2005 conference in San Francisco...
CTIA: UIEvolution furthers content reach
By: By Jason Meyers
SAN FRANCISCO--UIEvolution used the occasion of the CTIA Wireless IT & Entertainment show here to essentially re-emerge from a relatively quiet period following the company’s acquisition by Square Enix last year...
CTIA: Syniverse clears Cingular deal
By: By Jason Meyers
SAN FRANCISCO--Syniverse Technologies announced at the CTIA Wireless IT & Entertainment show here that it has sealed a three-year contract to provide all clearing and settlement services for Cingular Wireless. ...
