Motorola unveils stand-alone Mobile TV player
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 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 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 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 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 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 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...
ZTE handsets debut in North America
By Sarah Reedy
ZTE USA, the United States subsidiary to Chinese company ZTE, today announced that MetroPCS has signed an agreement to purchase ZTE’s CDMA PCS and AWS handsets. The agreement marks the company’s first handset customer in the United States....
NetCracker takes NExT step at France Telecom
By Tim McElligott
For NetCracker, getting a software contract from a company the size of France Telecom is one thing. Getting certified two years later as the corporate de facto standard is another...
Can Hesse stop the bleeding at Sprint?
By Carol Wilson
Industry analysts agree Dan Hesse faces a significant challenge in his new job as chairman and CEO of Sprint Nextel, but generally believe he could well be the man for the job...
Motorola launches first large-scale WiMAX network
By Kevin Fitchard
Motorola’s first commercial WiMAX network went live today in 22 cities in Pakistan, making it the first of its three high-profile nationwide network contracts to launch...
Turin Networks sees CDMA upside in Carrier Access buy
By Ed Gubbins
Turin Networks today announced its intent to acquire Carrier Access for $92.7 million in cash, planning to exploit products in the latter’s development pipeline as well as expand its gear into CDMA networks...
Leap Wireless’ growth falters
By Kevin Fitchard
Leap Wireless’s fast growth in 2007 has slowed down to a trickle. After adding 318,000 net subscribers in the first quarter and 127,000 in the second, Leap tacked on only 36,500 subscribers to the total in the third quarter. ...
Tussle for alternative wireless widens to ‘white spaces’
By Rich Karpinski
Dell, Google, Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft this week led the formation of a new group to encourage the FCC to make available the “white spaces” between digital TV channels for use for wireless broadband services....
LG Voyager more searched than iPhone
By Sarah Reedy
With the holidays rapidly approaching, the LG Voyager may be the more popular gift to give than Apple’s iPhone this year...
Sprint to offer MySpace Mobile for free
By Kevin Fitchard
MySpace’s isolation on the Helio and AT&T content decks has come to an end. Today Sprint announced it would include MySpace’s WAP site in the Sprint Vision portal along with News Corp.’s other mobile-enabled Web properties, Fox Sports and IGN...
Nokia declares first victory in Qualcomm phone wars
By Kevin Fitchard
Qualcomm’s attempt to get Nokia GSM phones banned in the U.S. was halted today as an administrative law judge with the U.S. International Trade Commission ruled that Nokia violated none of Qualcomm's patents...
Survey calls for customer experience overhaul
By Sarah Reedy
When Forrester Research asked nearly 5,000 consumers about their interactions with a variety of companies to gauge the usefulness, usability, and enjoyability of their experiences, wireless carriers kept coming up short...
AT&T Mobility CEO: 3G chase is over
By Kevin Fitchard
AT&T Mobility President and CEO Ralph de la Vega said that AT&T has finally caught up to its CDMA competitors in 3G coverage and data services penetration...
Ericsson, Alcatel-Lucent score wireless wins at XO, MetroPCS
By Kevin Fitchard
Alcatel-Lucent will be the vendor of MetroPCS’s expansion out East. Metro said today it has selected Alcatel-Lucent’s CDMA kit for its new network on the Advanced Wireless Services (AWS) frequencies, extending its earlier contract with the vendor for CDMA infrastructure on the PCS airwaves...
Go2 Media gets on deck with Verizon
By Sarah Reedy
Mobile media company Go2 Media today announced that Verizon Wireless has included Go2’s local content in Verizon Mobile Web 2.0 portal...
Sprint to soft-launch WiMAX before Christmas
By Kevin Fitchard
Within the week, Sprint will turn live its WiMAX networks in Chicago and Baltimore-Washington D.C., Sprint officials said today...
Special Report: Telephony's Best and Worst of 2007
We spent 2007 writing about the news and talking to news-makers. Now Telephony's editors tell you their highlights -- and lowlights -- of the year that was...
Bluetooth turns green
By Sarah Reedy
Though the Bluetooth headset appeals to consumers with a promise of unencumbered mobile communication, there has always been one pesky wire standing in the way of it being truly wireless: the charger...
VZW's future network
By Kevin Fitchard
CTO Dick Lynch discusses how Verizon Wireless isn't changing its business model, but pursuing two separate ones...
