Verizon Wireless acquires West Virginia Wireless 

By: By Dan O'Shea

Verizon Wireless has acquired the spectrum licenses and other operating assets of West Virginia Wireless, wahich was owned by Key Communications LLC and managed by PC Management Inc....

3GSM: Ericsson to start LTE interoperability work 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

BARCELONA--Ericsson said it will begin interoperability testing with other vendors on its Long Term Evolution radio technology next quarter and plans to have equipment deployed with its first carrier customer by the first quarter of 2009...

Covad narrows loss for Q4, projects bigger losses 

By: By Carol Wilson

Covad Communications is finding success in selling higher-value products, such as line-powered voice, business ADSL, VoIP and wireless, and was able to cut its losses for the fourth quarter of 2006...

Verizon enhances business continuity 

By: By Carol Wilson

Verizon Business today announced two enhancements to its business continuity services – an automated notification service and integration of software from a leading provider, Strohl Systems, to help businesses plan for, test and execute business continuity programs...

3GSM: ZTE lands Vodafone handset deal  

By: By Kevin Fitchard

BARCELONA--Vodafone’s handset portfolio is taking on a distinctly Chinese flavor...

Venezuela, Verizon reach CANTV deal 

By: By Dan O'Shea

The government of Venezuela has agreed to pay Verizon $572 million for its 28.5% stake in the country's national telecom operator, CANTV, Reuters has reported...

AT&T taps MediaFLO for Cingular TV network 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Qualcomm has racked up another huge win for its Forward Link Only mobile TV technology, announcing on Monday that AT&T has selected its MediaFLO USA subsidiary as the provider of multi-channel broadcast TV service for Cingular...

3GSM: Nokia, Siemens kick off joint venture ahead of closing 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

BARCELONA--Though the financial details of their merger won’t be finalized until later this quarter, Nokia and Siemens used the 3GSM World Congress as a launch pad for their new networks joint venture, unveiling a new logo for the company and revealing aspect of their new product portfolio...

3GSM: ZTE, Samsung developing home base station 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

BARCELONA--ZTE and Samsung today announced at the 3GSM World Congress a collaboration effort focusing on very specific technology, the femtocell, or home base station...

3GSM: Femtocells keep making noise 

By: By Dan O'Shea

BARCELONA--The business case for deploying femtocells in large volumes still may be developing, but vendors attending the 3GSM World Congress here are clearly excited about the next big small thing in wireless, with several product and partnership announcements already made...

Vodafone bid earns India foothold 

By: By Dan O'Shea

U.K.-based Vodafone this weekend announced that its $11.1 billion bid for a controlling interest in India's Hutchison Essar had won out over three competing bids...

CBS launches mobile portals 

CBS is launching three new mobile portals, one offering direct sales of CBS content and the other two offering ad-supported news and sports content engines...

Mobile ESPN returns, launches on VZW deck 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Mobile ESPN is back, this time as a third-party content partner rather than an MVNO. The Disney-owned sports giant today announced an exclusive partnership with Verizon Wireless that will deliver the content engine and portal it developed for its MVNO to VZW handsets as well as launch an ESPN channel over MediaFLO’s new mobile TV service...

NTCA: Start-ups target rural indoor market 

By: By Tim McElligott

ORLANDO--Two start-ups, Home Phone Tunes and iControl Networks, were among the newcomers to the show floor at the National Telecommunications Cooperative Association’s annual meeting this year...

Turner, Ericsson launching CNN Mobile 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Turner Broadcasting is launching a mobile entertainment and news content platform, powered by Ericsson, which it plans to use as a launching point for its TV brands into the wireless world...

NewStep lands BT 

By: By Carol Wilson

Convergence software maker NewStep announced today that BT will roll out an enterprise fixed/mobile convergence service based on its CNS30 product...

The tiniest screen 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

MediaFLO and Verizon Wireless are determined to make the mobile TV experience match the home TV experience—at least for now...

Image is everything 

By: By Dan O'Shea

Bandwidth and signal strength give mobile TV a chance to succeed, but image quality may make the real difference...

MobiTV eyes evolution to new networks 

By: By Dan O'Shea

Lost in all the hype about mobile video broadcast networks like Hi-Wire, MediaFLO and Modeo is a sense of what happens to the unicast mobile TV services that have preceded them...

iWLAN another consideration for video convergence 

By: By Dan O'Shea

It appears that there is such a thing as more than a single industry standard when it comes to fixed/mobile convergence, or FMC...

Made in China 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Huawei is making the old-name infrastructure providers more than a little nervous, but it hasn't assumed top-tier status yet. It still has to make a significant mark in the U.S....

Small screen for rent 

By: By Dan O'Shea

The phrase mobile advertising is so equally fraught with controversy and brimming with revenue potential that the mere mention of it sends the mobile...

Mapping the mobile phone 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

First, digital photography became nearly ubiquitous on the mobile phone. Then music and e-mail penetrated down the tiers of handsets. Now vehicle navigation...

Mobile advertising in motion 

By: By Dan O'Shea

It’s no secret that Superbowl Sunday means as much to the advertising market as it does to the teams that will be playing, but TV is no longer the only medium capable of delivering their messages...

Sen. McCain proposes nationwide emergency network at 700 MHz 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

U.S Senator and presidential candidate John McCain is proposing broadband legislation that would create a nationwide wireless data network for use by public-safety agencies across the country...