EarthLink unwires Corpus Christi 

By: By Carol Wilson

Today at 10:30 a.m., the wires will be cut in Corpus Christi, as EarthLink announces the completion of the citywide Wi-Fi network there. What began as a city-run network to enable more efficient reading of gas meters now becomes a privately owned network, as Corpus Christi’s city government becomes both the anchor tenant and the fiber network provider to EarthLink’s wireless Internet access service...

After profits tumble, Sprint sees better days 

By: By Carol Wilson

Sprint Nextel saw its second quarter profits fall 95% over the second quarter of 2006, but Sprint Nextel Chairman and CEO Gary Forsee emphasized the company’s position for growth in addressing industry analysts...

Muni Wi-Fi: Its limitations 

By: By Carol Wilson

The recent spate of criticism regarding municipal Wi-Fi networks falls into two different categories: technology and business case. Read part three of this special report on muni Wi-Fi...

AT&T Wireless approves Wavecom M2M solution 

By: By Joan Engebretson

AT&T Wireless customers that use cellular service for machine-to-machine communications should require fewer service calls for equipment upgrades in the future...

Carrier Access axes management, seeks buyer 

By: By Ed Gubbins

Carrier Access has replaced two co-founders on its management team--including its chief executive officer--both of whom will focus now on exploring “strategic alternatives” for the company as its revenue continues to dwindle...

Level 3 provides Leap backbone services 

By: By Mark Donahue

Level 3 Communications announced today that it has deployed core network backbone services for wireless provider Leap Wireless International. These include voice termination, intercity private-line and co-location services...

Verizon earnings, revenues up on wireless  

By: By Carol Wilson

Verizon reported strong earnings and revenue growth this morning, based in large part on Verizon Wireless’ continued strong performance ...

Muni Wi-Fi: What’s working 

By: By Carol Wilson

The recent spate of negative publicity for municipal Wi-Fi projects comes, somewhat ironically, as the industry is settling into what seems to be a more rational period of deployment based on solid business cases. ...

WiMAX will threaten incumbents’ bundles 

By: By Carol Wilson

Telecom service providers and cable operators are going head to head in assembling quadruple-play service bundles with which they hope to lock up the consumer market. The cable industry has already spent billions to upgrade its networks, while both AT&T and Verizon are now pouring billions into their access networks to be able to deliver video...

AT&T posts second-quarter gains 

By: By Mark Donahue

Buoyed by wireless and IP-based services growth, AT&T reported second-quarter revenues of $29.5 billion—up from the $15.8 billion it posted in the same period last year. But the numbers reflected only a small taste of what could (or could not) come from iPhone sales...

Device management becomes more critical 

By: By Carol Wilson

As wireless data becomes a more important and widely used business tool, device management becomes a key market opportunity for service providers, according to an independent study of CIOs conducted for Mformation Technologies, a provider of device management capabilities...

WiMAX truly disruptive if marketed well, study says 

By: By Carol Wilson

A new study by two industry veterans states that WiMAX technology, if deployed and marketed correctly, is a truly disruptive technology that could unseat the telco-cable duopoly and provide consumer choice in broadband services and devices...

Google makes $4B pledge to 700 MHz 

By: By Carol Wilson

Google said today it has promised to spend a minimum of $4.6 billion in bidding for spectrum in the FCC’s upcoming 700 MHz auction – provided the commission agrees to Google’s version of auction rules...

Ericsson awaits more Cingular spending 

By: By Ed Gubbins

Slow spending from the former Cingular Wireless (now AT&T) dragged down Ericsson’s North American business in the second quarter, but analysts expect a rebound in the second half of the year...

Report finds consumer mobile e-mail a good bet 

Mobile messaging growth will shift over the next 18 months with the transition of enterprise mobile e-mail to mobile e-mail on mass-market consumer phones, consulting firm Frost & Sullivan is predicting...

Hiwire, SES Americom announce mobile TV trial lineup 

By: By Mark Donahue

Hiwire and SES Americom announced today the initial group of TV content companies and channels that will contribute to the lineup for their upcoming mobile TV consumer trial in Las Vegas...

Muni Wi-Fi: Proceed with caution 

By: By Carol Wilson

Even as U.S. municipalities, small and large, continue to plan and build out municipal Wi-Fi networks, new independent research is challenging the return on investment those cities will reap, as well as the wisdom of assumptions being made about economic development benefits...

DavCo, New Edge to link Wendy’s locations 

By: By Mark Donahue

Wendy’s franchisee DavCo said today it will wrap up installation of a private wireless area network it hopes will improve efficiency, profits and the customer experience at its more than 160 Wendy’s restaurants in the Maryland, northern Virginia and Washington area...

Sprint to buy ZTE WiMAX CPE 

By: By Carol Wilson

ZTE USA and Sprint Nextel today announced they have signed a master purchase agreement under which ZTE will supply its WiMAX PC cards and home networking gear to Sprint for its national WiMAX rollout...

T-Mobile extends Nortel contract 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Nortel said this week T-Mobile USA has extended its GSM infrastructure contract with the Canadian vendor for $150 million in new equipment and professional services...

Moto warns of phone sales decline 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Motorola warned last night its handset business continued to suffer in the second quarter as sales of its phones declined in Europe in Asia...

Alcatel-Lucent, Huawei score Indian mobile deals 

By: By Ed Gubbins

Alcatel-Lucent today announced having won a $400 million contract to supply India’s Reliance Communications with CDMA and GSM wireless equipment, while Huawei Technologies won a $200 million contract to do the same...

Carriers attack Martin over ‘Google block’ auction 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

FCC Chairman Kevin Martin’s comments in USA Today advocating open-access usage of license in the upcoming 700 MHz auction didn’t go unnoticed...

XO expands broadband wireless to 36 markets 

By: By Carol Wilson

Partnering with affiliate company Nextlink, XO Communications today announced expansion of its fixed broadband wireless service into 24 new markets, providing alternative last-mile connections to service providers and business customers...

Leap taps Huawei as third AWS equipment vendor 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Huawei has been named a vendor for Leap Wireless' expansion into new territory using spectrum the carrier acquired in the Advanced Wireless Services auction last year. Huawei joins Nortel and Alcatel-Lucent as an infrastructure vendor for the project, which requires new radio gear tuned to the 1.7 GHz and 2.1 GHz frequencies...