Samsung: The Teacher’s Pet
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Like the kid who brings the apple to class and raises his hand at every question, Samsung is doing everything conceivable to draw attention to its WiMAX portfolio. While other vendors set commercial availability dates for their WiMAX base stations, Samsung points to the commercial WiBro network up and running in Korea. This article is part five of a six-part online series...
WiMAX World: Soma to use Sequans chips
By: By Dan O'Shea
BOSTON--Broadband wireless equipment vendor Soma Networks announced today--while 2006 WiMAX World pre-conference workshops were going in advance of tomorrow's show opening--that it will integrate 802.16e-2005 chipsets from Sequans Communications into its Mobile WiMAX products...
T-Mobile takes cues from MySpace, Apple
By: By Dan O'Shea
As the newly spectrum-rich T-Mobile USA migrates its network to 3G, there will be no mistaking from where the carrier will be taking its inspiration for devices, applications and marketing...
Fujitsu does WiMAX infrastructure
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Fujitsu is expanding its interest in WiMAX from chipsets to a complete radio access infrastructure line, unveiling today a Mobile WiMAX base station portfolio targeted at the North American market...
Comptel: Nextlink opens wireless channel
By: By Carol Wilson
ORLANDO--Nextlink, the broadband wireless arm of XO Holdings, today announced a reseller program to make wireless connections for both backhaul and last-mile connections easier to access...
Alcatel: The Overachiever
By: By Kevin Fitchard
If WiMAX were a science fair, Alcatel is striving to take first place. It doesn’t just want the ribbon and the pat on the back, it wants to run away with the prize, creating the perfect project that judges will moon over while the rest of the kids shuffle awkwardly in front of their paper-mache volcanoes and electromagnets. This article is part four of a six-part online series...
T-Mobile: $4.2 billion spent, $2.6 billion to come
By: By Dan O'Shea
Officials from Deutsche Telekom and its subsidiaries, T-Mobile International and T-Mobile USA, gathered in New York City this morning to provide an update on how the entire corporation is positioned in the U.S. market following the recent Advanced Wireless Services spectrum auction, in which T-Mobile USA was the leading bidder and license winner...
BellSouth goes unwired in two more markets
By: By Dan O'Shea
Continuing its strategy to roll out broadband wireless access in more markets, BellSouth this week said it will launch service in select parts of Albany, Ga., and Paducah, Ky., by later this month...
Alvarion: The Pipsqueak
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The run-away leader in WiMAX’s first, fixed-wireless iteration, Alvarion has a global market share of 81%, according to Sky Light Research. But now that Tier 1 infrastructure vendors have chosen to enter the market with Mobile WiMAX products, Alvarion has suddenly relocated to a very big pond, where it’s not only a small fish--it’s swimming against barracuda. This article is part three of a six-part online series...
Cingular completes GSM integration
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Two years after its acquisition of AT&T Wireless, Cingular Wireless has finished integrating the two carriers’ GSM networks—known as the “blue” and the “orange” networks, respectively—creating a unified “gold” network of almost 47,000 cell sites across the country covering more than 270 million people...
BenQ shuts down Siemens handset division
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Siemens’ former handset division suffered its last gasps over the weekend, as its previous and current owners lobbed responsibility for the phone unit back and forth...
Activation a Cingular sensation for Synchronoss
By: By Tim McElligott
As a long-time AT&T Wireless supplier for activation services, Synchronoss Technologies faced a situation every vendor dreads when its largest customer gets acquired. But according to a success story released by Synchronoss today, Cingular Wireless bought into the managed activation concept and has become Synchronoss’ largest customer...
Nortel: The Lab Rat
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Nortel Networks is aching for a rumble. Or, to use Nortel’s new WiMAX general manager Peter MacKinnon’s more domestic imagery, it’s ready to pit its WiMAX gear against any other vendors in a “competitive bake-off” to see whose is superior. Part two of a six-part online series...
Amdocs takes over billing at Vodafone Netherlands
By: By Tim McElligott
Vodafone Netherlands said this week it is handing over wholesale and retail billings responsibilities to Amdocs. The companies signed a five-year managed services contract that includes the consolidation of billing, provisioning and partner settlement systems....
Mobile ESPN closes shop
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Disney today shuttered Mobile ESPN after just a 9-month run, fueling speculation that the MVNO business model may be unsustainable. The media conglomerate said it would continue its mobile content efforts under a different strategy...
.mobi registration opens
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Registration for new .mobi domain names opened today to the general public after wireless companies and trademarked entities got their first crack at the new internet suffix over the summer....
Motorola: The College Boy
By: By Kevin Fitchard
If any vendor can claim to have momentum on Mobile WiMAX, it’s Motorola. Not only did it come away with a major piece of Sprint’s multibillion-dollar deployment, it’s guaranteed itself a sizable slot of the wireless ISP business with its investment in Clearwire. For good measure it’s even landed a few smaller WiMAX contracts worldwide, including one for a national broadband network in Pakistan. Part one in a six part online series...
MVNOs gear up marketing
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Amp’d Mobile announced its second distribution deal this week, extending its retail presence to 600 Circuit City stores in addition to its distribution deal with Best Buy and its own online sales portal....
Rebtel gets $20 million from VCs
By: By Carol Wilson
Rebtel Networks, a Swedish start-up using VoIP to offer inexpensive international mobile roaming service, today announced $20 million in VC funding....
Agere focusing on music chips
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Agere is placing its bets on mobile music, announcing today its new line of entry-level GSM/EDGE chip will support full CD-quality music playback out of the box....
A Telephony Podcast: Mobile Multimedia
Telephony Senior Editor Kevin Fitchard analyzes a new partnership between Cingular Wireless and YouTube, discussing what it means for the wireless service provider and for the future of mobile multimedia content and delivery. Download this podcast now...
Music moves: Cingular sponsors YouTube band battle
By: By Kevin Fitchard
In what is shaping up to be a significant day for mobile multimedia, and music in particular, Cingular announced it would be the first major company to partner with online video portal YouTube, sponsoring a battle of the bands for the enormously popular Web site. In addition, Sony-Ericsson said it is launching a new full-track over-the-air song download service independent of its carrier customers...
Ericsson creates multimedia division
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Ericsson announced today it is restructuring its core technology businesses, creating a new business unit devoted to multimedia application development and refocusing its R&D efforts by hiring 500 new engineers to work solely on new technologies...
Amp’d gains subscribers
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Amp’d Mobile today offered its first insight into its market performance, announcing its customer base is rapidly approaching the 50,000 subscriber mark after nine months of operation...
CTIA wrap-up: Briefs from the show floor
By: By Kevin Fitchard
