Moto Q1 sales slip as handset division takes a pounding
By Kevin Fitchard
Falling handset market share sent Motorola’s revenues into their first decline in four years, leading to Q1 loss of $181 million, but the harried vendor managed to beat Wall Street expectations and its own projections, sending its shares up 2%...
Qualcomm buys assets from WiMAX company
By Kevin Fitchard
Qualcomm has bought the system-on-a-chip engineering assets from WiMAX chipset maker TeleCIS Wireless for an undisclosed sum, bolstering its OFDM portfolio and giving Qualcomm a possible Mobile WiMAX portfolio if it chooses to support the technology...
Icahn blasts Motorola board in open letter
By Ed Gubbins
Billionaire investor Carl Icahn appealed to Motorola shareholders to elect him to the company’s board in a letter dated yesterday. In the letter, which will be mailed to shareholders along with proxy ballots allowing them to elect him for the board, Icahn pledged to apply his business expertise to improve Motorola’s management...
Qualcomm turns down Nokia payment
By Kevin Fitchard
Qualcomm today rejected the $20 million payment Nokia offered to keep its W-CDMA licensing deal temporarily intact for the second quarter. Qualcomm said that the payment was not only a fraction of what Qualcomm would be owed for three months of royalties, but Nokia also attached numerous conditions to the payment that Qualcomm found unacceptable...
VZW launches broadband router services
By Kevin Fitchard
Seeking to capitalize on its 3G network as a broadband access service, Verizon Wireless has begun selling wireless broadband routers to business customers, positioning them as a network backup to wireline broadband services...
Tellabs launches transport optimization services
By Dan O'Shea
Tellabs has launched Transport Network Optimization Services, professional services focused on helping wireless carriers reduce operating expenses, as part of its Tellabs Global Services portfolio...
Amp’d, Telus bring BREW to Canada
By Kevin Fitchard
A side effect of Amp’d Mobile’s recent launch with Telus Mobility was BREW’s first appearance in the Canadian market...
Telsima raises $50 million
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 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 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 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 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 Kevin Fitchard
The first push to make the mobile phone a maney management machine...
The new Amp'd model
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
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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...
