Ribbit adds voice to Salesforce – at $25 a pop
By Rich Karpinski
Alternative service provider Ribbit this week said it has gone live with a service integrating mobile voice calling and other telephony features into Salesforce.com...
MetroPCS launches in northern Florida
By Kevin Fitchard
MetroPCS has turned up its service in Jacksonville, Fla., transitioning the former PTA and Cleartalk PCS networks into its own footprint...
Alcatel-Lucent’s Olivier Coste on DVB-SH and mobile TV
By Sarah Reedy
Last Friday, Alcatel-Lucent announced it would trial the new hybrid satellite-terrestrial mobile broadcast technology with DISH Network in the United States kicking off this month. ...
Alcatel-Lucent: As CDMA declines, W-CDMA steps up
By Kevin Fitchard
Alcatel-Lucent doubled its sales in Wideband CDMA in the first quarter as the synergies of Alcatel and Lucent Technologies' merged UMTS portfolios begin to emerge, company officials said today...
Leap expands IP core
By Kevin Fitchard
As Leap Wireless grows, so does its IP network. The operator of the Cricket Communications service had added Genband’s latest-generation wireless gateway and more-robust session border controllers from Acme Packet to its networks to meet increasing traffic demands as Leap adds customers and grows its footprint...
Towerstream lights up first building
By Kevin Fitchard
Towerstream is taking a page from Cogent Communications’ book, announcing today that it is providing a gigabit broadband capacity to the General Motors building in midtown Manhattan, marking the first time it has provided service to an entire building rather than an individual business...
Probe clears Cyren Call in D Block failure
By Donny Jackson, MRT
Much-discussed spectrum-lease payments made to potential D Block bidders prior to the 700 MHz auction were not the primary reason the 700 MHz spectrum swath failed to attract a bid that met the FCC’s reserve price, according to a report revealing the findings of a federal investigation of the matter...
VZW: As 3G phones multiply, so do data revenues
By Kevin Fitchard
Verizon Wireless’ data sales jump 49% as Verizon increases install base of 3G phones to 58%, but AT&T outpaces VZW despite lower 3G penetration...
Networking the vote
By Sarah Reedy
By the presidential election this year in November, one-third of the millennial generation, those born between 1982 and 2003, will be eligible to vote....
Nextlink kicks off spectrum clearinghouse
By Kevin Fitchard
Looking to lease some high-frequency spectrum but don't want to pick up the phone? Nextlink, XO Communications' wireless subsidiary, may have just what you're looking for...
SMS, 411 latest to go free
By Rich Karpinski
First came free (ad-supported) voice-over-IP calling. Now even more telecom services are going the free route, including short message service, along with an ever-growing array of free 411 providers...
Barry strikes back
By Kevin Fitchard
As Barry West, 4G president and chief technology officer for Sprint, began his keynote address at the Wireless Communications Association's conference, he couldn't help taking a jab at his chosen technology's detractors...
DISH’s DVB-SH testing could gel with 700 MHz plans
By Sarah Reedy
In another boon to the expanding DVB-SH ecosystem, DISH Network and Alcatel-Lucent today announced they will test the new hybrid satellite-terrestrial mobile broadcast technology in the United States starting in May of this year...
Ericsson North America sales get a boost
By Kevin Fitchard
While its overall outlook for mobile infrastructure sales may be flat, Ericsson may have found a bright spot in North America, traditionally the region at the bottom of the vendor’s revenue chart....
NextWave to unload U.S. spectrum
By Kevin Fitchard
NextWave plans to sell its U.S. wireless spectrum, ending all pretensions of becoming a mobile operator and allowing the carrier-turned-vendor to focus exclusively on its multi-faceted equipment and software businesses....
Moto looks to WiMAX, simplified phone platforms for future growth
By Kevin Fitchard
Motorola’s mounting losses dominated the financial news in wireless today, but the beleaguered vendor pointed toward two strategic shifts that might ultimately pull the company out of the mire, though neither would likely bare results until 2009 when it plans to split into two separate companies...
Pivot's Demise Leaves Quad-Play Opportunity to Telcos
By Sarah Reedy
Just as Comcast and Cox Communications announce that they are abandoning their Pivot wireless phone partnership with Sprint, Compete today released survey findings indicating that most consumers would be interested in buying their wireless service from their existing cable or telco provider....
Towerstream moves to WiMAX
By Kevin Fitchard
Towerstream is officially embracing WiMAX, shifting its technology in the nation’s largest markets away from propriety broadband wireless gear to the new 4G standard going forward. ...
Backhaul, billing systems delay Xohm launch
By Kevin Fitchard
WASHINGTON, D.C.--Sprint’s commercial launch of Xohm is being held up by problems in provisioning backhaul and, to a lesser extent, in implementing its unique customer management and billing system, Xohm President and Sprint Chief Technology Officer Barry West said today...
AT&T touts macro-economic defenses
By Ed Gubbins
AT&T countered widespread fears of slow economic trends with growth in first-quarter profits aided by its wireless and wholesale businesses...
Mobile banking grows in prevalence
By Sarah Reedy
Mobile payment, still a nascent service, is expected to reach 32.9 million users worldwide in 2008 and grow to 103.9 million users in 2011, according to a study released by Gartner. While Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) sites are currently the most popular for accessing banking information, short message service (SMS) will remain the dominant mobile payment technology through 2011...
Radio Disney goes mobile
By Sarah Reedy
Radio Disney this week launched a Radio Disney Mobile Web site and text-messaging program for Disney fans on Web-enabled handsets...
Nokia promises integration of devices and services strategies
By Kevin Fitchard
Nokia’s new services strategy has yet to bear fruit financially, but on the company’s earnings call Thursday, Nokia CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo said Nokia is not only committed to services and applications as the future of the company, but it also plans to build more devices surrounding its growing services portfolio...
Qwest CTO on femtocells, open access and wireless broadband
By Ed Gubbins
As the only Bell carrier without a wireless arm, Qwest Communications can claim a unique intersection with the wireless world and a unique view of the technologies and trends now bridging the wireless and wireline worlds. In the first part of a two-part interview, Qwest’s Chief Technology Officer Pieter Poll explores this terrain, lending his views on a range of pertinent technology issues, including femtocells, open access, fixed-mobile convergence, wireless broadband and more...
MediaFLO goes live in San Diego
By Sarah Reedy and Kevin Fitchard
Qualcomm filled a slightly embarrassing hole in MediaFLO network coverage today, announcing that the broadcast TV service has now officially launched in its hometown San Diego...
