Siemens lands Toronto Wi-Fi network
By: By Carol Wilson
Siemens Communications is making its entry into the North American municipal wireless market, announcing today that it has landed Toronto Hydro Telecom, as a customer...
Crown Castle to buy smaller tower company
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Crown Castle today said it is buying tower company Mountain Union Telecom for $309 million, gaining the company's 547 sites in California, Nevada, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Puerto Rico. ...
Analyst: Google to challenge mobile operators
By: By Carol Wilson
A London analyst firm says Google’s wireless plans will threaten U.S. mobile operators by offering free wireless connections in major cities. Visiongain said in a report released today that Google’s ad-supported offering presents a “significant threat to cellular/mobile operators.”...
Racing to the middle
By: By Kevin Fitchard
If you're a mobile content transaction, you're a hot commodity these days. The once niche industry is rapidly consolidating as the demand for mobile content--and the methods to pay for it--pick up the pace...
Clearinghouse consolidator
By: By Dan O'Shea
There probably was not too much new business to be had at the recent Broadband Wireless World conference in Las Vegas. However, the hardcore attendees checking out every last booth would have found a new player in wireless roaming transactions BSG Clearing Solutions...
A back-end upgrade for mobile advertising
By: By Dan O'Shea
Third Screen Media's database platform helps ad agencies, mobile content publishers and carriers to be on the same page...
CHIPMAKER DANCES AROUND MOBILE WIMAX
By: By Dan O'Shea
Fujitsu Microelectronics America made a big impression on the WiMAX community in April 2005, when it hosted a press conference at Broadband Wireless World...
Enter the content kings
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Amp'd Mobile and Mobile ESPN have been up and running for only a few months, but they've already created the model that many of the new-breed MVNOs are likely to follow. The model? Content rules...
Visto on the legal warpath
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Visto last week claimed its first legal victory in its string of lawsuits against wireless e-mail providers...
Fixed wireless back in favor
By: By Dan O'Shea
Backhaul blues and fixed/portable fuel a fixed wireless resurgence, as mobile WiMAX remains distant...
Cash: Cold, hard and electronic
By: By Tim McElligott
Somewhere between dependency on and freedom from paper money lies the utility and potential of mobile payments...
AOL to resell Clearwire service
By: By Dan O'Shea
Broadband wireless service provider Clearwire and Internet giant AOL have announced an agreement to offer broadband access under the "AOL High Speed - Powered by Clearwire" banner in four of Clearwire's existing markets....
Symbol builds unified RFID-WLAN switch
By: By Kevin Fitchard
This week at Interop, Symbol Technologies introduced a multi-access RF switching platform that integrates WLAN and RFID along with other data and voice access technology....
RIM targets small business; Nokia releases BlackBerry alternative
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Research in Motion has launched a small-business version of its server software, making it available as a free download to any customer purchasing a new BlackBerry device. But the wireless e-mail provider is facing increased competition in the terminal space...
Verizon Wireless takes wireless data lead
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Boasting another 1.5 million subscriber quarter, Verizon had more than just customer gains to brag about today...
Helio launches, targeting the young tech-savvy
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The EarthLink/SK Telecom venture Helio officially launched today, opening its Web portal to orders for its high-dollar technology-focused service...
Digicel stays acquisition course
By: By Dan O'Shea
Caribbean wireless operator Digicel Group said today that it has completed the $196 million acquisition of Bouygues Telecom Caraibe, the wholly owned subsidiary of Bouygues Telecom with assets in Martinique, Guadeloupe and French Guiana...
Visto wins Seven lawsuit, goes after RIM
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Visto has won its federal lawsuit against fellow mobile e-mail firm Seven and immediately turned its legal offense against the sector giant Research in Motion...
Meru lands funding, launches wireless IT backhaul
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Meru Networks today said it has closed its fourth round of funding, bringing in another $25 million for a grand total of $68 million. ...
BBW: Proxim targets municipalities
By: By Dan O'Shea
LAS VEGAS--Proxim Wireless announced at the Broadband Wireless World conference here that it is launching a new family of outdoor, dual-radio Wi-Fi mesh access points for the municipal wireless network market, as well as a grant program that encourages further municipal project development....
InterDigital to get $253M in Nokia patent settlement
By: By Kevin Fitchard
InterDigital and Nokia have settled on a final settlement price in their long-running patent dispute but the two have not yet settled on any future royalty agreements for Nokia's product lines, sending the companies back to the negotiating room....
Alcatel CEO: Chinese not leading price war
By: By Ed Gubbins
Though Chinese equipment vendors such as Huwaei Technologies and ZTE are often feared as cut-throat price warriors, they are not always the worst offenders, said Serge Tchuruk, Alcatel’s Chief Executive Officer, while discussing the intense price pressure squeezing the company’s margins in mobile equipment markets...
Disney Mobile goes to Britain
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The Walt Disney Company is taking its new mobile virtual network operator offering over the Atlantic, announcing today it will launch a U.K. version of its family-focused wireless service over O2's GSM networks....
Nextel still weighing on Sprint profits
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Sprint continued to rack up new customers in the first quarter, but its recent acquisition of Nextel took a toll on the combined carrier’s bottom line...
Aperto offers WiMAX planning
By: By Dan O'Shea
Aperto Networks, one day in advance of the Broadband Wireless World conference in Las Vegas, has announced a marketing relationship with EDX Wireless to offer a network planning tool to WiMAX service providers to help them design, deploy, and optimize their WiMAX networks, the companies said in a statement...
