AT&T purchases Edge Wireless
By: By Sarah Reedy
AT&T announced plans today to acquire full ownership of wireless company Edge Wireless. The regional provider has approximately 172,000 subscribers and operates in several markets in the Pacific Northwest...
Next phase for NexTone is NextPoint
By: By Tim McElligott
NexTone and Reef Point put an end to speculation today that the companies would merge by actually doing so and in the process picked up $20 million in additional financing for working capital and researchand development...
LTE--It’s not just VZW’s network, it’s Verizon’s
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Throughout its short history, Verizon Communications has kept its wireline business separated from its wireless business. Last week, however, when the companies announced their plans with Vodafone to jointly pursue Long Term Evolution (LTE) as a next-generation network technology, the name on the press release didn’t have a ‘Wireless’ tacked to its end...
Motorola executive flight continues with CTO
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Motorola Chief Technology Officer Padmasree Warrior has followed CEO Ed Zander out the door...
Wi-Fi takes small steps for FMC
By: By Sarah Reedy
Wi-Fi, although starting to gain traction in the market due to several successful fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) launches and an increasing presence in flagship handsets, remains a niche feature for most mobile phones, according to a report by IMS Research...
Updated: Motorola CEO steps down
By: By Sarah Reedy and Kevin Fitchard
Motorola today announced that Chief Executive Officer Edward Zander will step down from office, effective January 1...
Google comes clean on 700 MHz bid
By: By Rich Karpinski
Google today confirmed it will bid in the Federal Communications Commission’s upcoming 700 MHz spectrum auction, a move that was expected but that had become fuzzier in recent weeks as the wireless industry moved toward the more open network approaches Google advocated...
Verizon conducted WiMAX trials with Vodafone
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Verizon has conducted WiMAX trials with partner Vodafone as part of its 4G technology selection process, Verizon Communications executive vice president and chief technology officer Dick Lynch said Thursday...
Updated: Verizon taps LTE for 4G, citing scale, global harmonization
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Verizon Communications is breaking from the CDMA camp, announcing today that it has selected Long Term Evolution, the 4G technology of competing GSM technologies, as its next-generation network architecture...
Tracking the hubby and kids, WaveMarket takes off
By: By Sarah Reedy
As family tracking services seem to be gaining traction in the mobile handset arena, California-based WaveMarket is emerging as a major force in the market. The mobile location-based search and services company announced its sixth commercial deployment this week, partnering with Canadian communications provider MTS Allstream to bring GPS tracking to its wireless customers...
Meru, Avaya deploy mother of all WLAN networks
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Meru and Avaya have begun deploying what may be the largest private wireless LAN network in the country...
Updated: VZW throws open its network gates to all comers
By: By Kevin Fitchard
In a stunning about-face, Verizon Wireless announced today announced it would open up its network to outside handsets, devices and applications by the end of 2008, creating the first truly open cellular network in North America...
Analyst: Multimedia phones will dominate in 2008
By: By Sarah Reedy
Shipments of multimedia mobile phones will exceed 300 million units – surpassing television purchases – in 2008, according to a research report released today by MultiMedia Intelligence...
Qualcomm, Nokia skirmish heats back up
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Qualcomm and Nokia are back in the courtrooms, this time in Britain, battling over the same patents the two companies failed to reach licensing agreements over last summer...
CDMA sees worldwide growth in Q3
By: By Sarah Reedy
CDMA penetration reached more than 420 million subscribers worldwide in the third quarter of 2007, representing a growth of 20 million net subscribers in the quarter, the CDMA Development Group (CDG) said today...
Nokia Siemens greens up its radio gear
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Nokia Siemens Networks has jumped on the green bandwagon, introducing today a base station kit it claims will reduce energy consumption at the cell site by up to 70%...
AT&T has HSUPA upgrade in 220 markets
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Over the last two months, AT&T has gradually introduced data cards embedded with high-speed uplink packet access (HSUPA) technology, but so far the actual launch of its HSUPA network has been nowhere to be seen...
Mobile phone market grows smarter in Q3
By: By Sarah Reedy
Consumer handset sales in the United States reached 38 million units in the third quarter of this year, with smartphones accounting for 11% of those sold, according to a report released today by the NPD Group. Smartphone sales are up from 4% in the third quarter of 2006, an increase of 163% year over year...
Wi-Fi moving beyond the laptop
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The Wi-Fi Alliance has seen a record surge in new devices certified under its banner in the last year, but what’s more interesting than just sheer volume is the types of devices seeking the Wi-Fi logo...
AT&T takes Napster mobile
By: By Sarah Reedy
AT&T’s music downloading store will officially be open for business on Friday. AT&T is taking Napster, the online downloadable music service, mobile on its latest music phone, the SLM by Samsung...
EarthLink backs away from muni Wi-Fi
By: By Kevin Fitchard
EarthLink’s municipal Wi-Fi business is in tatters, and the Internet service provider itself may pull the plug on the business before too long. On Friday EarthLink Chief Executive Officer Rolla Huff said the company is looking for strategic alternatives to its muni Wi-Fi business...
Microsoft puts a price on Musiwave
By: By Tim McElligott
Openwave Systems has agreed to let its Musiwave unit go to Microsoft for $46 million. After discussions last week, Microsoft also said will take on approximately $4 million in debt...
Surprising news about e-book bestsellers
By: By Joan Engebretson
It’s been 10 years since electronic books arrived on the scene, enabling readers to download full-length text of best sellers to their personal digital assistants—and these e-books have been quietly gathering a following...
Nokia on Google
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Don't expect to find Google's new Android platform on a Nokia phone soon, if ever...
Staking a claim in FMC
By: By Mark Donahue
As service providers roll out the first converged services for consumers and enterprises, fixed/mobile convergence solution vendors have a chance to get their name into the ring in a growing space...
