Nokia breaches 40% mark in handset share
By: By Kevin Fitchard
By its own estimates Nokia achieved 40% global handset market share in the fourth quarter after a strong holiday sales season and increased dominance in the developing markets...
Slow economy doesn't faze AT&T
By: By Carol Wilson
AT&T is expecting a strong 2008, with consolidated revenue growth in the mid-single digits, a significant expansion in margins and continued double-digit growth in earnings per share -- even if the U.S. economy continues to struggle, Senior Executive Vice President and CFO Rick Lindner told financial analysts today...
Soma scores big in India
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Little Soma Networks has hit the WiMAX jackpot, announcing today it is rolling out what it believes is the largest WiMAX network in the world in India...
Motorola mobile device profits plunge in Q4
By: By Sarah Reedy
Driven by disappointing sales of the Razr 2, Motorola today reported fourth-quarter earnings of $100 million, down from $623 million in Q4 of last year. Sales for the Chicago-based communications company fell in the last three months to $9.65 billion from $11.79 billion in the same period a year earlier...
Targeting 802.11n at the enterprise
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Siemens released its line of 802.11n product line today, joining a growing number of wireless LAN vendors that are designing high-capacity wireless LAN gear for the enterprise. The Burton Group believes that 802.11n will even replace wired Ethernet LANs in the next two years). The question is whether the enterprises need them, or can even support them, today...
Free-to-air mobile TV market accelerates overseas
By: By Sarah Reedy
Mobile TV chipmaker Telegent Systems today unveiled the TLG1120, a single-chip CMOS mobile TV receiver supporting all major worldwide broadcast TV standards, including NTSC, PAL, and SECAM TV broadcasts. According to the three-year old startup, the TLG1120 is the first mobile TV receiver to provide global access to free-to-air content...
TDS following in Sprint's footsteps - TDS and Madison WiMAX
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Telephone and Data Systems has launched a WiMAX network in Madison, Wis., tapping into the economies of scale generated by Sprint's upcoming Xohm launch...
GetMobile aims to be ‘AdWords’ of mobile
By: By Rich Karpinski
Mobile content and advertising vendor Quattro Wireless this week unveiled the new GetMobile mobile advertising network, designed to mirror the success of Google’s AdSense online auction format...
Alcatel-Lucent scores U.S. Cellular win
By: By Kevin Fitchard
U.S. Cellular is renewing its CDMA infrastructure contract with Alcatel-Lucent but to what extent neither the vendor nor the carrier is letting on...
The Android conundrum: Which comes first -- the phone or the app?
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Android may have generated a lot of buzz in the wireless community, but one thing it hasn’t yet generated is an actual operating system...
Google tweaks mobile tools for iPhone -- again
By: By Rich Karpinski
It’s Apple week in the tech world, what with the MacWorld conference taking center stage in San Francisco. Today, Google announced an update to its online applications that optimizes them for running on Apple’s iPhone...
Level 3’s Crowe sees new market emerge
By: By Carol Wilson
Admitting his company “stubbed its toe” this year, Level 3 Communications Chairman and CEO James Crowe told the CitiGroup’s 18th Annual Global Entertainment, Media & Telecommunications Conference today that the emerging IP optical and IP wireless markets are what “we’ve been planning on and hoping for, for a number of years” and Level 3 is ready to compete successfully...
CES: FCC chair sets hard date for DTV transition
By: By Kevin Fitchard
FCC’s Kevin Martin says broadcasters will leave 700 MHz in 2009; implies the commission may consider EchoStar-DirecTV merger if they change business model...
CES: Enter mobile TV technology No. 3
By: By Kevin Fitchard
If FLO and DVB-H weren’t enough, a new mobile TV broadcast technology has emerged on the already crowded scene...
CES: Yahoo CEO announces software development platform
By: By Sarah Reedy
As the world is becoming more open, interoperable and social, everything is going mobile, and the future becomes about making the Web experience simpler and more efficient for its more than one billion users to manage their online and offline lives, Jerry Yang, CEO of Yahoo told Consumer Electronics Show attendees today...
CES: Samsung says femtocells will go nationwide in 2008
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Samsung’s femtocell pilot with Sprint wasn’t just an early fluke. A Samsung executive said today the Korean vendor has completed trials with several North American CDMA operators ...
NextWave restructures
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Would-be wireless carrier-turned-vendor NextWave is reorganizing, taking all of the various acquisitions its made over the last three years and putting them into two business units focused on mobile infrastructure and mobile devices...
Broadband business wireless firm expands to NYC
By: By Carol Wilson
Its nickname is humble – BOB Broadband – but a new wireless service provider has lofty ambitions for providing wireless services to large businesses, particularly those in financial services, using licensed spectrum...
Motorola unveils stand-alone Mobile TV player
By: By Kevin Fitchard and Sarah Reedy
Motorola today took the wraps off what amounts to a mobile digital video recorder--a stand-alone large-screen handheld that renders live mobile broadcast video but can time-shift, pause and record content according to users’ wishes...
Huawei sells first U.S. phone to MetroPCS
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Deal marks first appearance of a Huawei handset in North America, but Huawei still has catching up to do match ZTE...
France Telecom reportedly Alvarion’s big WiMAX customer
By: By Kevin Fitchard
WiMAX vendor Alvarion earlier this week said it had landed its first Tier I carrier deal for Mobile WiMAX equipment, refusing to name the provider itself, but Israeli media have pegged the customer as France Telecom. If the tie-up between one of Europe’s largest telcos and Alvarion proves true, the small Israeli broadband wireless company could be propelled to the top ranks of the highly competitive WiMAX market....
Femtocells hit the market, but is anyone buying?
By: By Kevin Fitchard
In the last few months, the market has been flooded with femtocells targeting every conceivable radio interface and frequency. But in truth the industry is far from any kind of large-scale deployment on the home base station technology...
Bridgewater talks about its IPO
By: By Tim McElligott
It has been a while since software start-ups in the telecom industry had the confidence in the market and themselves to launch an initial public offering. But as Tyler Nelson, vice president of marketing for Bridgewater, said of his 10-year-old company: We are no start-up. On Dec. 14, the company closed its IPO at $5.50 per share. The company had been hoping for more, but it’s done, it was successful and it is time to move forward. So far, they’re down a dime, but raised $20 million. Nelson spoke with Telephony’s Tim McElligott about the IPO and what comes next...
UBS: Alcatel faces mobility decline, culture clash
By: By Ed Gubbins
After revenue declines last year and this year, Alcatel-Lucent’s mobility division will likely see shrinking revenue again in 2008, according to UBS Investment Research analyst Nikos Theodosopoulos...
WiMAX Forum to begin mobile certification—no, really
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The WiMAX Forum today said its lead certification lab in Malaga, Spain, is now ready to begin accepting Mobile WiMAX equipment for interoperability testing and certification...
