Sprint, Microsoft search for common interests
By: By Dan O'Shea
Sprint and Microsoft this week jointly announced availability of Windows Live Search on most of Sprint’s mobile phones, as part of a new strategic alliance between the two companies...
AT&T launches first U.S. Mobile WiMAX network
By: By Kevin Fitchard
AT&T said today it has been running an under-the-radar commercial Mobile WiMAX network in Pahrump, Nev., since this summer, using the technology to offer fixed broadband services in a market where it current does not offer DSL...
Clearwire launches first major market
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Clearwire has entered its first major metro market, announcing today it has rolled out services in the greater Seattle-Puget Sound area. The metropolitan region covers Seattle, Tacoma and Everett, Wash., and contains roughly 2 million people...
Microsoft to support metro Wi-Fi
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Microsoft is getting into the municipal Wi-Fi business, announcing this week a partnership with MetroFi to bring content and advertising to the service provider’s free Wi-Fi public access network in Portland, Ore...
European Commission OKs Nokia Siemens
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The European Commission today approved the proposed networks joint venture between Nokia and Siemens, clearing the final major regulatory hurdle to creating the second largest network infrastructure in the world...
Motorola acquires Netopia
By: By Ed Gubbins
Motorola will acquire Netopia for about $208 million in cash, the companies announced today...
Qualcomm scores BREW win with Telecom Italia
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Qualcomm has finally landed its long-pursued goal of landing a BREW customer in the GSM world of Europe, announcing today Telecom Italia Mobile will launch BREW-based games over its 3G network...
DT officially names Obermann CEO
By: By Dan O'Shea
Germany’s Deutsche Telekom announced Monday that its Supervisory Board had named René Obermann as its new CEO, following the weekend resignation of Kai-Uwe Ricke from that position. Obermann had been CEO of DT’s T-Mobile unit...
Samsung launches BlackJack with Cingular
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Samsung today introduced its BlackJack business smartphone in the U.S., adding to Cingular’s growing portfolio of enterprise devices...
Motorola buys Good Technology
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Motorola today said it is buying Research in Motion competitor Good Technology for an undisclosed sum, giving Motorola its own enterprise messaging portfolio to counter RIM’s success in wireless e-mail and Nokia’s own recent acquisition of Intellisync...
NTP goes after Palm
By: By Kevin Fitchard
After dispensing with Research in Motion, NTP has picked the next target on which to bear the weight of its push messaging intellectual property: Palm...
Aruba lays out FMC strategy
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Aruba Networks today announced an aggressive fixed/mobile convergence strategy today, designed to turn its entire portfolio of WLAN switches and access points into a wireless VoIP supporting full mobility inside and outside of the office...
Qualcomm sells more chips
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Qualcomm reported Q4 profit increases of 14% off of growing chipset sales. Qualcomm shipped a record 207 million Mobile Station Modem (MSM) chips in fiscal year 2006, up from 151 million in 2005...
Gmail goes mobile
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Google is taking its highly popular Gmail service to mobile phones, announcing a partnership with Sprint for a new handset version of its multi-functional e-mail and messaging client...
Cingular launches music service
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Cingular today announced the launch of its long-awaited 3G downloadable music service, but instead of running its own branded music store, Cingular is keeping with its open-platform approach and opening up music capabilities to several third-party content providers, including Napster, Yahoo Music, eMusic and XM Satellite Radio...
Pseudowire key to new cellular backhaul options
By: By Joan Engebretson
A technology originally aimed at carrying different types of data traffic across an IP backbone has found a new application that’s not in the backbone. The technology, pseudowire, is now being deployed in Ethernet-based access networks to support a need we’ve been hearing a lot about lately—cellular backhaul...
Amp’d to open content portal in Japan
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Amp’d Mobile is moving overseas to Japan, but it’s not starting a virtual carrier like it has done in the U.S. Instead it plans to open a mobile content portal on the deck of Japanese CDMA provider KDDI...
VZW growth fueled by data
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Much of Verizon Wireless’ growth in the third quarter was driven by mobile data—and it’s not just messaging. Verizon Wireless reported that 55% of its year-over-year growth in data came from other applications like game and music downloads as well as multimedia services from its V Cast consumer service...
Wireless keeps Verizon growing
By: By Carol Wilson
Buoyed mostly by its Verizon Wireless unit, Verizon today reported a 25% increase in revenues and a 2.8% increase in profits that also reflected broadband and data sales. The revenue increase reflects its integration of MCI, which is proceeding on schedule, Chief Financial Officer Doreen Toben said today...
Alltel boosts profits
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Alltel continued its steady growth clip in the third quarter, lifting its earnings to 11% but seeing only moderate subscriber growth of 101,000 net customers...
Sprint performance continues to disappoint
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Sprint continued to plod along after its much-ballyhooed acquisition of Nextel, announcing today lower Q3 profits and a dismal quarter of subscriber growth...
Nortel trials collaborative MIMO
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Already one of the biggest proponents for multiple smart antennas in the WiMAX kit, Nortel Networks is adding a new facet to its Multiple Input/Multiple Output (MIMO) technology...
Verizon Wireless flashes phones
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Verizon Wireless is adding Flash capabilities to its mobile applications deck, Get It Now, possibly opening up the platform to a raft of new content...
Embarq ushers in true FMC
By: By Tim McElligott
Embarq delivered on its strategy today to bring fixed/mobile convergence to the marketplace. The company announced the launch of Smart Connect, a service that allows the seamless transfer of calls between a business’ wireless and wireline networks...
Sprint begins Rev. A rollout
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Sprint today commercially launched its first 3G network upgraded with EV-DO Revision A technology in San Diego, beginning a network-wide rollout that will target 20 more markets...
