The upside to different
By: By Tim McElligott
Montana's Chinook Wireless goes against the grain in more ways than one as it converts its network from CDMA to GSM and stakes its five-year plan on being the alternative...
Taking VoIP to the cell phone
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Qualcomm says its new EV-DO Revision A is ready for primetime, supporting the industry's first end-to-end voice-over-IP calls. VoIP to the handset may now be a reality, but it's a reality carriers may be slow to accept...
Satellite allows localized mobile TV
By: By Sarah Reedy
Many said it simply would not work. There was too much technical complexity and too many challenges with the quality of reception. Yet in September at the 2006 IBC Conference in Amsterdam, Netherlands, UDCast plans to announce that it has created a low-cost, revenue-generating satellite distribution system...
Mobile TV misses World Cup opportunity
By: By Kevin Fitchard
This year's FIFA World Cup wasn't just a test of soccer powerhouses, it was a test of the newest technology to hit wireless...
Sparkplug scales with broadband wireless buzz
By: By Dan O'Shea
If it's any indication of what may come for the broadband wireless market, several of the companies making news in the sector recently are guided by veterans of McCaw Cellular...
Study: Carriers respect online customers
By: By Dan O'Shea
The Customer Respect Group, an international research and consulting firm that focuses on how corporations treat their online customers, said its most recent study found that telecom service providers ranked above average compared to a range of other industries...
InPhonic adds Staples to phone sales roster
By: By Kevin Fitchard
InPhonic is rapidly becoming the dominant retailer of online mobile service in the U.S., announcing this week it has won the Web portal mobile business of yet another big box retailer, Staples...
Sony Ericsson doubles profits
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Booming sales of its Walkman line of music phone doubled Sony Ericsson’s profits in the second quarter and boosted the vendor’s handset shipments by 33%, making the joint venture a contender for the fourth slot in global phone sales...
EU threatens to regulate international roaming
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The European Union today threatened to regulate international roaming charges in its member countries, giving European carriers a six-month deadline to voluntarily mark down their prohibitively high roaming rates...
Three WISPs merge into Sparkplug
By: By Dan O'Shea
Chicago-based wireless ISP Sparkplug has merged with Prairie iNet in Des Moines, Iowa and Telespectra in Scottsdale, Ariz., to form a new company under the Sparkplug name that will have operations and networks across eight states...
Lucent warns of wireless sales slump
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Lucent Technologies fired an earnings warning shot after market close yesterday, saying its net income would suffer due to poor sales of North American wireless infrastructure. Lucent officials said fiscal third-quarter revenues would fall $300 million from the same quarter a year ago to $2.04 billion, and profits would take an even more dramatic downturn, coming in at 2 cents per diluted share versus the 7 cents reported last year. ...
Embarq links wireline-wireless voicemail
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Just months independent of parent company Sprint, new ILEC Embarq announced its first fixed-mobile convergence service, an integrated voice mail system combining the mailboxes of a wireless and home phone lines...
NTL gets financing for Virgin, Telewest deals
By: By Kevin Fitchard
NTL today said it has finalized its financing plans for transforming itself from a mere cable provider in the U.K. to a full-service telco with fingers in wireline telephony, broadband and wireless both home and abroad--all wrapped up in the brand name Virgin...
French award WiMAX licenses
By: By Dan O'Shea
There’s no World Cup France, but there are WiMAX licenses. France’s telecom regulatory body, Arcep, announced late last week that it was awarding 35 WiMAX licenses in the 3.4 GHz to 3.6 GHz frequency band...
Municipal networks threaten incumbent revenues
By: By Carol Wilson
A new report from Pike & Fischer’s Broadband Advisory Services says municipal broadband networks do pose a threat to incumbent service providers, particularly where Wall Street and the investment community is concerned...
Lehman Brothers: Wireless capex to increase in 2007
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Cingular may be cutting its capex budget for 2007 after completing the bulk of its AT&T Wireless network integration, but Verizon Wireless, Sprint and T-Mobile are expected to pick up the slack, according to Lehman Brothers...
Allied Telesis launches SOHO wireless router
By: By Dan O'Shea
Allied Telesis, which last month changed its name from Allied Telesyn, has launched a new wireless router/bridge device for small office/home office and small business networks...
UPDATE: Moto’s Clearwire move stirs WiMAX implications
By: By Dan O'Shea
Motorola's acquisition of NextNet puts Clearwire on a path to deploy Motorola’s WiMAX gear, and also may have broader significance for a WiMAX community that is anxiously awaiting word from another major service provider--Sprint--about whether or not it will deploy WiMAX....
Nokia to promote Wi-Fi portfolio on NYC parks
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Nokia is partnering with WiFi Salon to provide hot spot connectivity in ten of New York City’s parks. The vendor, however, is hoping to provide more than just laptop wireless access--it plans to use the deal to showcase its Wi-Fi connected handsets....
Motorola buys its way into Clearwire's network
By: By Dan O'Shea
Motorola is acquiring NextNet Wireless, the broadband wireless equipment owned by Clearwire, which also has been the exclusive supplier of equipment for Clearwire's network...
Telenity adds video
By: By Carol Wilson
Telenity announced today that it has added video to its converged services platform. ...
Amp’d to expand retail channels
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Amp’d Mobile is expanding its retail reach, announcing today a deal with InPhonic to extend the sale of its phone and service plans over the online retailer’s online sales portals...
VCom acquires WaveRider, MIMO IP
By: By Dan O'Shea
Broadband wireless access vendor VCom has announced that it has agreed to acquire WaveRider Communications and other subsidiaries of Wave Wireless Corp. in a cash deal worth about $1 million...
Court rejects AWS auction delay
By: By Kevin Fitchard
A U.S. appeals court Thursday rejected a plea to delay the Advanced Wireless Services auction, opening the way for the start of bidding on the 1100 1.7 GHz and 2.1 GHz licenses on Aug. 9...
WCA spotlights ongoing platform debate
By: By Jason Meyers
The WCA 2006 event held this week in Washington, D.C. provided a stage for much sparring over which technology platform ultimately will win out with large network operators...
