Telsima raises $50 million
By: By Dan O'Shea
WiMAX access equipment vendor Telsima said it’s raised a mother lode of new funding--$50 million--from existing investors NewPath Ventures, New Enterprise Associates, CMEA Ventures, JAFCO Asia and other strategic investors...
Amp’d nearing 200,000 customers
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Amp’d Mobile today reported adding 84,000 customers new customers in the first quarter, bringing Amp’d Mobile close to the 200,000 subscriber mark and even exceeding its gross additions for the holiday quarter...
NextWave scoops up IPWireless
By: By Kevin Fitchard
NextWave Wireless said today it is buying TD-CDMA technology company IPWireless for $100 million, adding the company’s standardized yet niche technology to its growing wireless portfolio...
Japan’s KDDI to launch MVNO in the U.S.
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Japanese CDMA carrier KDDI will enter the U.S. market selling KDDI-branded phones and service over the Sprint network, according to wire reports...
Mobile middle man
By: By Dan O'Shea
Innovation isn't a term restricted to describing only new technology developments; it's also applicable to new kinds of business models, and for many corporate enterprises, integrating mobile capabilities into existing business processes can be a big challenge...
Mobile banking emerges at CTIA
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The first push to make the mobile phone a maney management machine...
The new Amp'd model
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Amp'd Mobile may have made its name as a mobile virtual network operator, but it's trying to carve out its future path as a media company...
Virtual realities
By: A Telephony Staff Report
Analysts remain bullish about the long-term future of the mobile virtual network operator model, but in the here and now, many companies are struggling. Why more MVNOs are discovering that life's a niche....
Alcatel-Lucent lays out wireless product integration
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Alcatel-Lucent wireless business group president Mary Chan has an unenviable job for the next year. She has to integrate three disparate radio access network portfolios into a single cohesive unit, delivering on the new mega-vendor’s promise as a global wireless equipment powerhouse...
Nokia forks over $20M to keep Qualcomm patent negotiations going
By: By Kevin Fitchard
With the expiration of its cross-licensing agreement with Qualcomm soon expiring, Nokia today offered up a $20 million payment to the chipset maker, saying it was “fair and reasonable compensation” for the use of Qualcomm’s W-CDMA patents ...
Qualcomm increases legal pressure on Nokia
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Qualcomm has filed another two patent infringement suits on handset and infrastructure maker Nokia, this time claiming Nokia is absconding with intellectual property related to the downloading over GPRS/EDGE networks and speech encoder technologies...
Leap Wireless launches unlimited messaging and data plans
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Following the all-you-can-eat model it pioneered when founded, Leap Wireless today said it is converting all of its Cricket data and messaging plans to unlimited usage, discarding any bucket or pay-as-you-go options from its service menu...
CitiBank, MasterCard pursue mobile banking, finance
By: By Kevin Fitchard
CitiBank and MasterCard have jumped on the mobile bandwagon announcing this week services that turn the phone into a banking and personal finance tool...
T-Mobile, Sony to create hotspot multiplayer gaming network
By: By Kevin Fitchard
T-Mobile is diving into wireless multiplayer gaming, using its Wi-Fi hotspot network in coffee shops, hotels and airports nationwide to offer free trial connectivity to Sony PlayStation Portable, the most popular connected gaming platform on the market...
How to accelerate the adoption of mobile TV
By: By John Smolucha, Enea
With over 1 billion cell phones in use in the world today, and with as many as 2 billion predicted by 2012, the evolution of mobile television has the potential to have as profound an impact on civilization over the next fifty years as broadcast television has had during the previous 50. Yet, despite years of hype, delivery of the world's number-one mass communication medium to the mobile device still has hurdles to overcome before realizing its potential...
CTIA: ABI study shows promise for FMC
By: By Dan O'Shea
ORLANDO--An ABI Research study released this week during the CTIA’s Wireless 2007 trade show hinted at good things to come for mobile operators that invest in fixed/mobile convergence...
BT innovation search goes global
By: By Carol Wilson
Faced with the challenge of injecting growth into what had been a staid company, BT has embarked on several ambitious plans. The most ambitious, BT’s 21st Century Network, is well known throughout telecom for its stated aim of moving all of BT’s services onto an Internet Protocol backbone in time to shut down the “old” PSTN by 2011...
CTIA: MMA launches Women in Wireless initiative
By: By Kevin Fitchard
ORLANDO--The Mobile Marketing Association launched the Women in Wireless initiative, intended to increase the visibility and influence of female industry leaders in an industry traditionally dominated by men...
CTIA: Moto wins ninth WiMAX deal; launches new BTS
By: By Kevin Fitchard
ORLANDO--Motorola continued its momentum in the emerging WiMAX sector, announcing today its ninth Mobile WiMAX contract, this one with Chilean operator VTR. It also released a revamped universal base station that will initially carry its CDMA baseband, but will eventually support Motorola’s other radio technologies...
CTIA: Cingular launches video calling
By: By Kevin Fitchard
ORLANDO--AT&T at CTIA Wireless 2007 launched a video calling service that allows customers with 3G phones to send a live video feed to another cell phone user while in the middle of a phone call...
In the spotlight: Skype’s Libertelli
By: By Carol Wilson
Christopher Libertelli doesn’t think he’s tilting at windmills. The senior director for government at Skype genuinely believes he can do for the mobile phone industry what a man named Tom Carter did for the wireline industry back in 1968...
CTIA: ZTE releases first U.S. phone
By: By Kevin Fitchard
ORLANDO--ZTE at CTIA Wireless unveiled its first handset targeted at the U.S. market, a CDMA EV-DO flip phone that features Digit Wireless’ Fastap 26-button keyboard. Though ZTE has not yet announced a carrier partner, it said the D-Series handset is the first phone it has built specifically for North America...
CTIA: AT&T’s Cingular announces mobile banking plans
By: By Dan O'Shea
ORLANDO--AT&T’s Cingular Wireless division announced at Wireless 2007 here that it has teamed up with four major banking firms and applications developer Firethorn Holdings to allow Cingular customers to use some banking capabilities, such as fund transfers and account balance checks, on their cell phones...
CTIA: VZW gets exclusive Adobe mobile rights
ORLANDO--Adobe Systems announced at Wireless 2007 here that the company had made Verizon Wireless, one of several current carrier partners, its exclusive wireless carrier launch partner in North America for delivering all new Adobe mobile applications...
