WiMAX World: Is WiMAX all things to all markets?
By: By Carol Wilson
CHICAGO — WiMAX is technologically and economically positioned to be all broadband things to most markets, Padmasree Warrior, chief technology officer for Motorola, told the WiMAX World audience today. ...
WiMAX World: Barry West’s vision for Xohm
By: By Kevin Fitchard
CHICAGO — Barry West likes meat. When he’s in a new city, he would be very pleased if his handheld device could alert him to restaurants nearby that shared his culinary interest, while eliminating those unsavory vegetarian places from consideration. ...
WiMAX sweeping down the plains
By: By Carol Wilson
WiMAX is bringing the first broadband connectivity to rural communities in southeastern Oklahoma, Nortel Networks and three service providers announced today. ...
WiMAX World: Here comes the silicon
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The silicon flowed at WiMAX World this week as several chip-makers unveiled their platforms for future mobile WiMAX gear. ...
MySpace expands scope into the mobile Web
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Fox Interactive Media today said it would launch a free mobile version of MySpace.com for the wireless application browser browser, doing away with the subscription-fee model in favor of a completely ad-supported social networking portal....
VeriSign banking on mobility
By: By Tim McElligott
VeriSign made headway on its plan to help make the mobile device an integral part of the e-commerce infrastructure with a partnership announced today with ClairMail, which will provide a secure two-way mobile customer interaction platform that VeriSign will integrate into its Mobile Banking Solutions....
AT&T suspends parental controls over 911 glitch
By: By Kevin Fitchard
AT&T has temporarily suspended its Smart Limits parental control service after the company discovered the service interfered with emergency 911 calling....
VZW, Vodafone jointly exploring LTE
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Verizon Wireless is working with part-owner Vodafone on jointly evaluating next-generation, or 4G, network technologies with the aim of converging their technology paths on both sides of the Atlantic...
Exploiting education spectrum
By: By Carol Wilson
It's hardly unusual these days for government entities to explore ways of delivering wireless broadband to the masses...
Advertising by SMS
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Europe is inundated, by the U.S. has been relatively spared -- until now...
Leap Wireless, MetroPCS spar over merger
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Both companies say they'd make for an ideal marriage, but they're hashing out a very public pre-nup...
What's Google's interest in wireless?
By: By Kevin Fitchard
First the Google phone, now its partnership with Sprint -- Google's mobile ambitions are extensive, but how far will the Internet giant go?...
WKRC in Cincinnati
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The "C" is for convergence, which is what Cincinnati Bell is after as the first U.S. carrier to launch unlicensed mobile access and bridge the mobile phone with the home Wi-Fi network...
Feeling left out
By: By Mark Donahue
When news surfaced in late August that a New Jersey teenager had rigged his iPhone to work with T-Mobile's network, a message may have been sent to big wireless carriers clinging to handset exclusivity...
SK Telecom props up Helio
By: By Kevin Fitchard
SK Telecom will plow up to $270 million into Helio to keep the company operating, according to EarthLink, SK’s partner in the MVNO joint venture...
iPhone turns Orange in France
By: By Sarah Reedy
Stop number three on Apple CEO Steve Job’s tour of Europe brought news that France Telecom’s wireless division, Orange, will be the exclusive carrier of the iPhone in France. Didier Lombard, CEO of France Telecom, announced the partnership during a conference in Hanoi, saying the phone would be available in November...
Wi-Fi phones gain traction, but at whose expense?
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The European press went into a tizzy this morning over Nokia’s newest handset the 6301 dual-mode with unlicensed mobile access technology. Media outlets like The Times of London portrayed Nokia’s slick new Wi-Fi cellular handset as a major step in the move of voice from the cellular networks controlled by the operators to the far cheaper public Internet...
BSG clearing the roaming hurdle
By: By Tim McElligott
With one year to go before the quasi-mandate from the GSM Association kicks in and requires wireless GSM operators to comply with its recommendation that they contract with a provider for near real-time roaming data exchange (NRTRDE), BSG Clearing Solutions announced the launch of its NRTRDE service...
MetroPCS goes live in L.A.
By: By Kevin Fitchard
MetroPCS turned up wireless service in Los Angeles today, marking its entrance in the country’s second-largest market and a key stepping stone in its plans to expand to the Northeast...
iPhone global expansion continues in Germany
By: By Sarah Reedy
Apple’s global wireless strategy plunged full speed ahead with today’s announcement that T-Mobile International will be the exclusive operator partner for the iPhone in Germany, set to launch on Nov. 9...
Apple’s iPhone launches in Europe
By: By Sarah Reedy
Apple revealed one more glimpse of its global wireless strategy today, announcing it will launch the iPhone in the U.K. with European mobile phone network provider O2 as the exclusive carrier partner. The official launch date is set for Nov. 9. ...
Clearwire goes nomadic
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Clearwire has begun selling laptop PC cards to its broadband access customers in Seattle, allowing them to take their once-fixed Internet connections out into the wider world...
Nokia Siemens partners with Airvana for femtocells
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Nokia Siemens Networks is partnering with an unlikely companion for its femtocell platform: CDMA technologist Airvana...
Sprint, Microsoft deliver location-based mobile search
By: By Rich Karpinski
Sprint and Microsoft are rolling out new mobile search services including the ability to tie search to location using GPS as well as launch voice-commanded Web searches, the companies said today...
T-Mobile acquires SunCom Wireless
By: By Kevin Fitchard
T-Mobile today joined the acquisition fray, announcing it has agreed to acquire regional GSM provider SunCom Wireless for $2.4 billion...
