Qualcomm releases CDMA chip for emerging markets
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Qualcomm today released one of the first chipsets in its new line of single-chip CDMA silicon, targeted at emerging markets where the price of CDMA networks and handsets can be cost prohibitive....
RCN adds wireless
By: By Carol Wilson
RCN today announced it has added wireless service to its bundled offering, partnering with MobilePro initially in its Boston market....
ABI: DBS/WiMAX partnerships?
By: By Dan O'Shea
Wireless DBS, the bidding entity backed by DirecTV and Echostar, among others, may have dropped out of contention for spectrum licenses in the Advanced Wireless Services auction, but these companies still potentially could partner with WiMAX service providers to launch mobile-like services, according to ABI Research....
Vodafone sheds another operator
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Global mobile operator Vodafone today said it has agreed to sell its minority stake in Belgian carrier Proximus to Belgacom in a move that could be precursor to exiting its U.S. joint venture with Verizon Communications....
CBS to ship video clips over Bluetooth
By: By Kevin Fitchard
CBS today said it is planning a marketing initiative that will allow mobile users with Bluetooth-enabled phones to download promotional clips from its new fall TV shows directly to their handsets at billboard locations in New York....
SkyPilot adds Colorado, Maine deployments
By: By Dan O'Shea
SkyPilot Networks announced that its Wi-Fi mesh equipment has been deployed in Vail, Colo., and in the Rockland-Thomaston areas of Mid-coast Maine....
Redefining business continuity
By: By Carol Wilson
Like all major telecom service providers, AT&T got a wake-up call in 2005, when a series of hurricanes wiped out networks throughout the Southeast and forced many businesses to consider a more serious approach to disaster recovery and business continuity than they had taken in the past...
Comverse acquiring amid scandal
By: By Dan O'Shea
While Comverse Technology’s former chairman and CEO remains a fugitive from federal prosecutors, the mobile multimedia software company hasn’t slowed its aggressive growth strategy. Comverse announced today it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire privately held French firm Netonomy ...
Lauer to leave Sprint
By: By Dan O'Shea
Sprint put out a statement late Monday saying that chief operating officer Len Lauer is leaving the company, effective immediately and that the COO job is being eliminated...
Nortel ticks off another UMTS win
By: By Kevin Fitchard
With questions swirling about the future of Nortel Networks' UMTS division, the Canadian vendor announced a major 3G and high-speed downlink packet access upgrade contract with France's Bouygues Telecom...
Tropos does dual-mode mesh
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Tropos Networks has upgraded its WLAN mesh networking gear to handle 5 GHz router-to-router connections...
ZTE wins data card contract with Telus
By: By Kevin Fitchard
ZTE today announced its first wireless win in North America, an agreement with Telus to supply EV-DO cards for the company's new metropolitan 3G network...
Bob Egan on MVNOs
By: By Kevin Fitchard
TowerGroup Emerging Technologies Research Director Bob Egan has been one of the industry’s biggest naysayers on MVNOs, which didn’t exactly make him popular among what was expected to one of mobile’s hottest sectors. But a lot of signs are now pointing to Egan being right...
DBS companies drop out of AWS Auction
By: By Kevin Fitchard
DirecTV and EchoStar today bowed out of the Advanced Wireless Services auction after initially battling T-Mobile fiercely for nationwide licenses over which the mobile carrier wants to deploy a 3G network....
Infonetics: Mobile video a $5.6 billion market by 2009
By: By Dan O'Shea
Infonetics Research has released a report suggesting that if mobile video service providers can overcome challenges related to content and quality, mobile video services revenue could be worth $5.6 billion by 2009...
Update: Huawei lands U.S. CDMA deal
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Huawei has won its first major wireless infrastructure contract with a U.S. carrier, announcing today it will deploy its CDMA 1X equipment in Leap Wireless’ growing regional network...
KT, Arraycomm test A-MAS
By: By Dan O'Shea
South Korea service provider KT is planning with ArrayComm a fourth quarter test of multi-antenna signal processing software intended to enhance KT's WiBro network capabilities...
Playing Lost and Desperate
By: By Kevin Fitchard
ABC Entertainment is taking the mobile promotion of its hit TV shows “Lost” and “Desperate Housewives” beyond the wallpapers, film clips and mobisodes it launched last year to create the first mobile games based on TV shows...
Sprint WiMAX choice a mixed bag for vendors
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Sprint’s decision to launch a nationwide Mobile WiMAX network may not have shaken up wireless vendors yet, but it certainly gave them a rattle...
WiMAX move adds new wrinkle
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Will Sprint's decision to adopt WiMAX alter the evolution of mobile networks?...
MVNO returns counter hype
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Sprint and Verizon Wireless reported some surprising wholesale subscriber figures in the second quarter. The two are the leading providers of network...
Improving mobile video
By: By Sarah Reedy
As mobile technology users become more sophisticated, text messages and still images won't always suffice...
Motricity gets funding
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Motricity today announced $32 million in funding, which it will put toward developing new content services and possibly tactical acquisitions in new markets...
T-Mobile bids for 3G spectrum
By: By Kevin Fitchard
T-Mobile has taken an aggressive stance early in the AWS auction as it fights for future UMTS spectrum and as its rapid growth clip entered an unexpected lull in the last quarter...
No merger for Andrew Corp.
By: By Dan O'Shea
Wireless equipment maker Andrew Corp.'s proposed merger with ADC Telecommunications is off. Andrew has released a statement saying the two companies mutually agreed to terminate the deal they announced on May 31. ...
