Qualcomm hires Lauer, promotes Jha
By: Dan O'Shea
CDMA innovator Qualcomm has named former Sprint Nextel chief operating officer Len Lauer to the role of corporate executive vice president and as group president overseeing key divisions, according to a statement issued by Qualcomm....
RIM sues Samsung over Blackjack
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Research in Motion thinks the name of Samsung’s new smartphone, the BlackJack, sounds a little too much like its popular BlackBerry line of devices, so the company is taking its grievance to court...
Sprint completes 2006 scheduled Rev. A rollout
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Sprint today said it has completed the Revision A upgrade to its EV-DO networks in ten more markets, reaching the 20-cities rollout plan it scheduled for the end of the year...
Modeo gets interim CEO
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Modeo is set to launch its new mobile TV network in New York by the end of the year, but it will likely be doing so without a permanent CEO...
Your phone’s top model
By: By Kevin Fitchard
CBS Interactive is launching an ambitious artificial reality game based on the CW’s hit show America’s Top Model, wherein subscribers can control their favorite models rise to the top of the modeling elite and pit their models against one another...
CDG unveils Ultra Mobile Broadband
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The CDMA Development Group is dumping its old acronym-laden monikers for future technologies and trying out something snazzier for CDMA’s next evolutionary stage...
Nortel wins first WiMAX deal
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Nortel Networks today announced its first Mobile WiMAX contract with Chunghwa Telecom in Taiwan to build a mobile broadband network in Yilan County, directly south of capital city Taipei...
Qualcomm buys Airgo, RFMD’s Bluetooth operations
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Qualcomm today announced it has agreed to buy WLAN technologist Airgo and the Bluetooth assets of RF Micro Devices in separate deals for undisclosed sums. The two acquisitions give Qualcomm its first presence in both the local area network and personal area network wireless sectors, as well as Airgo’s significant work on IEEE 802.11n and Multiple Input/Multiple Output smart antenna technologies...
Alcatel-Lucent, Nortel finalize UMTS terms
By: By Kevin Fitchard
With the closing of Lucent Technologies and Alcatel’s merger, the two companies are cleaning up their own separate consolidation plans, most notably Alcatel’s plans to buy Nortel Network’s UMTS business...
ITU: Microsoft promises Telco 2.0
By: By Carol Wilson
HONG KONG--Promising to take the telecom industry to the next level in much the same way it has addressed Web services, Microsoft used an ITU Telecom World 2006 press conference today to highlight products and announcements in its advanced telecom initiative...
ITU: Ericsson, Intel team for laptop UMTS applications
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Ericsson and Intel today announced an initiative to explore new mobile broadband applications for laptop PCs, in an effort to increase the proliferation of UMTS among this crucial business sector, which so far has been dominated by Wi-Fi...
Sprint, Cingular target consumer e-mail
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Sprint and Cingular today signaled more aggressive moves into the consumer e-mail market with Sprint releasing a new Java e-mail application powered by Seven and Cingular announcing plans to begin selling the BlackBerry Pearl on Friday...
3Com buys out Huawei stake in H3C
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Chinese infrastructure vendor Huawei has accepted an $882 million bid from 3Com to give up its stake in the two companies IP networking and enterprise router joint venture H3C...
VZW bulks up user-generated video portal
By: By Kevin Fitchard
A day after announcing its breakthrough content deal with YouTube, Verizon Wireless has bulked up its fledgling user-generated video portal with a similar agreement with Revver, a viral video site that not only allows customers to post their own video files, but also shares any revenue they generate...
Motorola invests in Sequans
By: By Dan O'Shea
Motorola Ventures has invested in WiMAX semiconductor firm Sequans Communications, the mobile vendor giant’s latest WiMAX move in a year that already has seen Motorola acquire equipment supplier NextNet Wireless and earn WiMAX deployment projects with Clearwire and Sprint...
VZW snags YouTube deal
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Verizon Wireless has secured a deal with media portal YouTube to air the Web site’s infectiously popular user-generated video content over its V Cast 3G service...
InFocus: The capacity challenge
By: By Ross Ernst, TenXc Wireless
Wireless carriers are looking for alternatives that will optimize their available spectrum in moving toward new broadband network technologies. Read more about how non-invasive, low-cost spatial processing techniques are getting a fresh look from network operators for both existing and new broadband network deployments...
T-Mobile USA taps Ericsson, Nokia for 3G
By: By Dan O'Shea
T-Mobile USA, following up on the commitment it made last month to spend $2.6 billion on a 3G network rollout, has named Ericsson and Nokia as infrastructure suppliers for portions of that project...
Nokia says mobile gaming a growing habit
By: By Carol Wilson
Nokia today released research that shows mobile gamers are playing longer and looking for higher quality in game graphics...
In the Spotlight: Scott Ulsaker, Pioneer Telephone Cooperative
By: By Dan O'Shea
Scott Ulsaker, director of operations at Pioneer, is an old hand at wireless, having worked on AT&T’s Project Angel fixed wireless endeavor. He spoke with Telephony editor in chief Dan O’Shea recently about using Wi-Fi for in-home wiring...
A ride-along with Verizon Wireless
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Thomas Pannackal is one of Verizon Wireless’ system performance engineers, and he is driving a Verizon Wireless SUV decked out with half-a-million dollars worth of Comarco test-and-measurement gear. Last week Pannackal gave Telephony a demonstration of what he and hundreds of other engineers do on a daily basis to keep VZW’s nationwide network optimized...
Juniper, NEC bringing IMS FMC gear to U.S.
By: By Ed Gubbins
Juniper Networks is jointly developing fixed/mobile convergence (FMC) products with NEC that it will bring to North America next year...
Symbian sheds UIQ
By: By Kevin Fitchard
With Sony Ericsson's purchase of UIQ from Symbian, the wireless user interface, or UI, market got a lot clearer. Symbian was in the odd position of developing...
Push e-mail competition heats up
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The consolidation wave among mobile e-mail providers is late, but it's finally made its way to shore. Last year, Nokia bought Intellisync, which many...
The next small thing in wireless
By: By Dan O'Shea
The success of Wi-Fi, the potential of fixed/mobile convergence, the reality of the mobile substitution trend, the evolution of home networking and the...
