Wireless keeps Verizon growing 

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 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 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 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 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 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 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...

NewStep investors back FMC strategy with $7 million  

By Tim McElligott

NewStep Networks said today it has raised $7 million in Series B funding. Return investors are supporting the company’s standards-based approach to solutions that support fixed/mobile convergence...

Ericsson’s revenues, profits up  

By Kevin Fitchard

Ericsson saw its revenues climb 12% in the third quarter as the vendor achieved gains in network equipment sales as well as a healthy cash infusion from its outperforming handset venture with Sony...

Nokia increases market share, lowers prices 

By Kevin Fitchard

Nokia today claimed that the Finnish vendor boosted its global handset market share to 36%, broadening the gap between itself and rival Motorola, but it did so by slashing phone costs...

Cingular adds 1.4M subs, profits soar 

By Kevin Fitchard

If there were any lingering questions about Cingular’s recovery since its acquisition of AT&T Wireless two years ago, they were dispelled today. Cingular posted record profits and posted subscriber gains of 1.36 million in the third quarter...

Korean vendors face surmounting handset pressure 

By Kevin Fitchard

Both Samsung and LG Electronics’ telecom divisions managed to boost handset sales in third quarter even while facing increasing pressure from Motorola and Sony Ericsson...

Update: AT&T advances muni WiFi strategy in Riverside 

By Carol Wilson

AT&T today announced plans to build a citywide WiFi network in Riverside, Calif., that the company says will be the largest WiFi network in the U.S. designed for both public and municipal use....

Moto’s momentum checked in Q3 

By Kevin Fitchard

Cracks in Motorola’s armor appeared this week, as the handset and infrastructure vendor continued its upward sales trajectory and reclaimed more global phone share but fell short of its revenue guidance and saw its profits fall 45%....

A Telephony Podcast: WiMAX World 2006 

Telephony editors were on site at WiMAX World in Boston last week to cover new developments in the broadband wireless sector. Hear excerpts from live interviews with industry analysts and the WiMAX Forum about recent developments in the WiMAX community and what the future holds...

Microsoft, Orange converge PC and mobile messaging 

Tim McElligott

Microsoft and Orange (France Telecom) launched a new messaging service today that incorporated Microsoft’s Windows Live Messenger and combines the functionality of both PC-based and mobile messaging....

Infonetics: Mobile backhaul moving to IP 

By Dan O'Shea

IP-based systems for providing backhaul capacity for mobile networks are expected to account for 45% of mobile backhaul equipment sales by 2009, according to a new study from Infonetics Research...

GSM operators seek global 3G phone 

By Kevin Fitchard

Global GSM operators are looking to kick-start demand for 3G services by jointly promoting a UMTS phone that will target the mass market...

Sprint reveals CDMA push-to-talk plans 

By Kevin Fitchard

Sprint yesterday laid its plans for its next-generation push-to-talk to service, which will bring fully functioning “walkie-talkie” service to its CDMA network as well as link up with Nextel’s successful PTT service...

Nokia to close Texas plant 

By Kevin Fitchard

Nokia is closing a Fort Worth, Texas, handset repair and distribution facility by the end of the first quarter, laying off 300 of the facility’s 450 workers...

Boston launches muni Wi-Fi project 

By Kevin Fitchard

The city of Boston became the latest municipality to give citywide Wi-Fi a try, announcing today the launch of a pilot project covering 5000 homes in the south Boston neighborhood of Roxbury...

iPass beefs up remote access portfolio 

By Kevin Fitchard

iPass today said it has completed the integration of its recently acquired broadband arm, GoRemote, into its network of secure remote access solutions for enterprise, giving it connectivity options ranging from home Wi-Fi to wide area 3G access...

WiMAX World briefs: Proxim sells fixed WiMAX network in Taiwan 

By Kevin Fitchard

Airspan Networks is commencing shipments this quarter of its new HiperMAX base station supporting both fixed and mobile iterations of WiMAX...

WiMAX World: Sprint targets Chicago, D.C. 

By Kevin Fitchard

BOSTON--Sprint is pitting its two initial vendors against one another in a two-city market deployment, assigning Motorola to build the Mobile WiMAX network in its hometown of Chicago and Samsung to the nation’s capitol...

WiMAX World: Resnick reveals IPR findings 

By Dan O'Shea

BOSTON--WiMAX Forum President Ron Resnick, in a Thursday morning keynote at WiMAX World here, said a study the WiMAX Forum commissioned to determine how the intellectual property rights for WiMAX technology were distributed throughout the industry found that no single company is in a dominant patent ownership position...