NXTcomm survey: Spending growth ahead
By Dan O'Shea
A survey of 678 telecom industry professionals conducted at NXTcomm in Chicago this week by Tellabs and Telephony magazine found that a whopping 96% of respondents believe that network infrastructure spending will increase during the second half of the year...
Nortel wins down-under WiMAX deal
By Kevin Fitchard
Nortel has scored its first major WiMAX win, announcing this week that Australian cable provider Austar United Broadband will roll out its base station kit in regions of Australia with low broadband penetration...
Hutchison’s 3 taps BREW
By Kevin Fitchard
Qualcomm has landed another major European carrier customer for its BREW application environment, announcing today that Hutchison Whampoa’s 3 Group will support BREW-enabled handsets over its multinational all-3G UMTS network...
NXTcomm: Sprint 4G chief lays out new business model for WiMAX
By Kevin Fitchard
Listening to his keynote address at the FierceMarkets WiMAX Strategies conference, Sprint President of 4G Barry West hardly sounded like an executive with a major wireless carrier. Touting Sprint’s new WiMAX network, he called for an end to handset subsidies, and talked about driving down ARPU for data services and making the new mobile broadband network as inexpensive for the consumer as possible...
NXTcomm: Verizon launches FMC portfolio
By Carol Wilson
Verizon this week launched a portfolio of fixed/mobile convergence products targeting the enterprise segment and drawing on the capabilities of both Verizon Business and Verizon Wireless...
VZW teams with Obopay
By Kevin Fitchard
Verizon Wireless today said it plans to launch Obopay’s point-to-point mobile payment service over its mobile data network, allowing customers to transfer money to other Obopay users and eventually pay for goods at stores directly with their mobile phone...
Nokia merges handset units
By Kevin Fitchard
Nokia today said it is overhauling its company structure, combining its three handset groups into a single business unit, breaking out software and services into a new division and creating a special division in charge of Nokia’s global marketing, sales and supply chains...
WiMAX Forum opens U.S. testing lab
By Kevin Fitchard
The WiMAX Forum said today it is opening its first interoperability and testing lab in the U.S. to complement its facilities in Europe and Asia. AT4, the engineering group that runs the Forum’s validation testing in Spain, is scouting several locations near Reston, Va., which would put the facility right next to Sprint’s own WiMAX research and development facilities...
NXTcomm: NewStep expands handset support
By Carol Wilson
Fixed/mobile convergence software maker NewStep today announced two major agreements that will expand the handset support for its voice call continuity capabilities. Through an agreement with fg microtec, NewStep’s software will run on Nokia handsets in the Symbian operating system. ...
InfoSpace debuts new content platform
By Kevin Fitchard
InfoSpace formally launched its mCore software suite this week, the result of the company’s transformation from a content distributor and aggregator to a content platform provider that draws in multiple technologies, including search, portal, messaging and storefront and Web/WAP solutions...
Report: Sprint looking for WiMAX partner
By Kevin Fitchard
According to news reports, Sprint is on the hunt for new funding to build out its WiMAX network and ease investor concern about the costs of such a capital-intensive project...
Clearwire partners with Echostar, DirecTV
By Kevin Fitchard
Clearwire today said it has signed mutual distribution deals with EchoStar and DirecTV, allowing Clearwire to sell the two satellite providers’ TV services and allowing EchoStar and DirecTV to sell Clearwire’s broadband wireless service...
Sprint buys sixth affiliate
By Kevin Fitchard
Sprint is buying yet another affiliate, agreeing today to acquire Northern PCS Services for $312.5 million and pumping an additional 167,000 direct subscribers and 69,000 wholesale subscribers to Sprint’s dwindling CDMA subscriber base...
Alcatel-Lucent launches mobile commerce platform
By Carol Wilson
The latest Alcatel-Lucent product is based as much on the advice of a bunch of teens and twenty-somethings as on the company’s noted engineering expertise...
Adderton out at Amp’d
By Kevin Fitchard
Amp’d Mobile founder and CEO Peter Adderton is no longer with the virtual operator, Amp’d confirmed today, leaving the door open for new leadership as the small youth-oriented mobile company navigates its way through Chapter 11 bankruptcy...
Nokia’s Wibree incorporated into Bluetooth
By Kevin Fitchard
Nokia’s maligned Wibree technology received a huge dose of legitimization today, as the Bluetooth Special Interest Group announced it is incorporating the Wibree spec into the SIG’s Bluetooth portfolio of technology...
Nokia makes patent claims against Qualcomm’s FLO, BREW
By Kevin Fitchard
Nokia filed its second U.S. countersuit this weekend in its ongoing legal battle over intellectual property, this time claiming Qualcomm’s BREW content delivery platform and its MediaFLO mobile TV technology...
Vendors, carriers rally around Qualcomm
By Kevin Fitchard
LG today joined U.S. mobile operators in supporting chip vendor Qualcomm, asking federal courts to suspend Thursday’s U.S. International Trade Commission’s ban on new handsets containing Qualcomm CDMA radios...
WiMAX Forum launches training program
By Dan O'Shea
The WiMAX Forum, with partners DoceoTech Inc. and Informa Telecoms & Media, has launched the WiMAX Forum Certified Training Program, a series of education programs designed to help both business and technical audiences in the process of learning about or deploying WiMAX...
Vodafone shareholders will vote on Verizon sale
By Carol Wilson
Vodafone officials said yesterday they are not interested in selling or spinning off the companys 45% share of Verizon Wireless, despite pressure from a large shareholder to do so. But it will, by law, have to let its shareholders vote on the issue....
MMA: Nielsen to track mobile data usage
By Kevin Fitchard
LOS ANGELES--Nielsen, the company that measures consumer patterns across all media, this week said it will launch a new wireless measurement service that will track wireless Internet, video and content consumption among the country’s millions of wireless subscribers, just as it tracks watching patterns on TV...
MMA: Coke takes the Sprite brand mobile
By Kevin Fitchard
NEW YORK--Coca Cola today launched a social networking mobile portal built around its Sprite soft drink line targeted squarely at the popular beverage’s largest customer base, teens...
Telecom Italia takes Critical Path
By Dan O'Shea
Messaging software and service vendor Critical Path today announced that Telecom Italia will be using the vendor’s Memova Mobile consumer mobile e-mail platform....
Amp’d goes bankrupt
By Kevin Fitchard
Amp’d Mobile on Friday filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, claiming that its back-end infrastructure couldn’t keep up with the company’s fast growth, leaving it unable to pay its bills...
Preparing for the iPhone onslaught
by Kevin Fitchard
AT&T's competitors gear up for the fierce competition and new opportunities...
