MWC: Mobile TV gets a mixed report card
By: Sarah Reedy
BARCELONA--Despite positive growth, many early adopters give up on mobile TV...
EarthLink departure doesn’t doom muni wireless
By: By Carol Wilson
EarthLink's decision to exit the municipal wireless business and attempt to sell off its current assets shouldn’t adversely affect the current municipal wireless business, according to industry analyst Craig Settles, author of a new book, After Muni Wireless Comes to Town...
MWC: LTE on the brain at GSM World
By: By Kevin Fitchard
BARCELONA--Long Term Evolution is the new rage at Mobile World Congress, the latest incarnation of the GSM Association´s annual European extravaganza. While 3G and mobile data services have dominated the GSM event in the past, 4G has definitely come to the fore with all of the major vendors offering at least some kind of demo of LTE...
Lucrative roaming solution
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Right smack in the middle of Texas, away from the urban centers of Austin and Dallas, one of the most sophisticated cellular networks is operating...
Real Web comes to mobile
By: By Rich Karpinski
Talk about your 180-degree turns. Remember when the mobile Web was about simple text snippets and phone-ready widgets? That's old hat. The latest trend is delivering the Web -- in all its desktop glory -- right to your hip pocket...
Open access & a boatload of cash
By: By Kevin Fitchard
It turns out the two most controversial licenses in the 700 MHz auction generated the least amount of excitement when it actually came down to bidding...
Q&A:Bango's Anil Malhotra
Social networking, advertising and location-based services are among the biggest applications migrating to mobile handsets. The potential for additional revenue streams is definitely significant, but if mobile carriers can't measure their services' traffic, the mobile push could go unnoticed. Enter Bango...
Bell Labs: Reviving an icon
By: By Kevin Fitchard
As the research arm of a monopoly, Bell Labs invented the communications world as we know it. But in today's competitive market, this venerable institution must redefine itself to survive...
NEC, Kineto make UMA’s case for femtocells
By: By Kevin Fitchard
NEC and Kineto have submitted their unlicensed mobile access (UMA) technology to the 3GPP and the Femto Forum in hopes of quickly settling on a standard for the burgeoning femtocell market...
SureWest: No need to own wireless for quad play
By: By Ed Gubbins
Providers of quadruple-play services need not own the wireless part of the bundle, Steve Oldham, president and chief executive officer of SureWest Communications, said this week...
Level 3 execs forego bonuses
By: By Carol Wilson
Level 3 Communications executives have put their money where their mouths are: Chairman and CEO James Crowe and his top four executive team members will not get bonuses for 2007 because of the company’s disappointing performance...
Fujitsu back in the WiMAX game—with a partner
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Fifteen months after announcing its entry into the U.S. WiMAX infrastructure market, Fujitsu has finally released its first product, a Mobile WiMAX kit tuned to the 2.5 GHz and 2.3 GHz frequencies popular both in the U.S. and at home in Japan...
MWC: Software companies align for mobile marketing push
By: By Sarah Reedy
Mobile advertising is slowly moving from an untapped source of revenue to a value-added service for customers and carriers alike. To expedite the process, the Mobile Advertising Alliance, an association of mobile software companies, was announced in advance of Mobile World Congress next week in Barcelona...
Opera revs mobile Web browser
By: By Rich Karpinski
Opera Software, already delivering some of the Web's most widely used and advanced mobile browsers, today announced an update to its core mobile product that it says brings it closer to a desktop Web browsing experience...
Unlocked iPhone market in shades of gray
By: By Sarah Reedy
Apple seems to have a growing problem on its hands – the size of which it may have grossly underestimated. According to last week’s earnings calls, Apple claims to have sold 3.7 million iPhone activations, whereas AT&T reports only 2 million...
700 MHz Auction: Open access assured
By: By Kevin Fitchard
In today’s opening round of the 700 MHz auction, a bidder pushed the C-block nationwide license over the $4.6 billion reserve price set by the FCC, ensuring that whichever bidder wins the license must launch an open-access network that will support any competitor’s device or application...
Has real mobile browsing arrived at last?
By: By Rich Karpinski
Mobile Web browsing sucks. You can’t get much plainer than that. But a new crop of browsers may at last be changing the game...
700 MHz Auction: As open access nears, bidders back off
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The price of the nationwide C-block license in the 700 MHz auction ticked upward today, but it got nowhere near the $4.6 billion reserve price necessary to trigger the open-access provisions of the highly valuable spectrum property...
Ribbit Amphibian ties mobile phone to Web
By: By Rich Karpinski
Telephony startup Ribbit today unveiled its first consumer service -- code-named Amphibian -- running on top of the company’s Web/telephony-integrated development platform...
Mobile social networking firms fight for pocket space
By: By Sarah Reedy
The social networking phenomenon, given credence by Web giants MySpace and Facebook, has taken hold of the mobile market, and every company wants a piece of the action...
Verizon sees no slowdown
By: By Carol Wilson
Verizon today confirmed what AT&T said last week -- if there is an economic slowdown taking place, it isn’t having a major impact on the telecom business...
The search for the golden goose
By: By Rich Karpinski
Advertising on mobile devices and over wireless networks is pegged as a can't-miss proposition, but the sector's killer app is nowhere to be seen -- yet...
CLECs heat up new year
By: By Carol Wilson
Competitive service providers started 2008 with a flurry of announcements, indicating a determination to push hard for market share...
VoIP looks to WiMAX
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Clearwire and Sprint's upcoming WiMAX launches are promising wireless broadband connectivity, but there's another service available in the mix that the two companies aren't so vocal about: voice...
700 MHz auction starts with bangs, whimpers
By: By Kevin Fitchard
As Auction 73 shut down after its first week, things didn’t look good for the planned public safety/private network. After attracting a $472-million bid in the auction’s opening round, it has languished through round 4 as the other nationwide band, block D, and the individual market licenses attracted all of the attention...
