Alcatel buying Nortel UMTS operations
By Kevin Fitchard
Nortel Networks today said it has agreed to sell its lagging UMTS business to Alcatel for $320 million as part of its new restructuring strategy in which it will exit all businesses where it can't maintain a top three competitive position....
Nokia buys mapping/navigation firm
By Kevin Fitchard
Nokia today said it is purchasing Gate5, a German mapping and navigation software company, for an undisclosed price...
Trapeze CEO promises closer ties to Juniper
By Ed Gubbins
In an exclusive interview with Telephony Tuesday, Trapeze Networks Chief Executive Officer Jim Vogt shed some light on its recent addition of Juniper Networks as an equity investor, promising a deeper relationship with Juniper is soon to follow...
FCC accelerates AWS auction
By Kevin Fitchard
The FCC has added two additional bidding rounds per day to the Advanced Wireless Services auction, an action that is likely to see the total bids escalate beyond the $13.6 billion already raised...
First Avenue becomes FiberTower
By Carol Wilson
First Avenue Networks has completed its merger with FiberTower Corp. and has now adopted that name and stock symbol, the company announced today....
Wi-Fi Alliance to certify pre-standard 802.11n gear
By Kevin Fitchard
The Wi-Fi Alliance said today it is making the contrary move of certifying standard products based on the still incomplete IEEE 802.11n specification...
Kineto supports UMA over UMTS
By Dan O'Shea
Kineto Wireless, the primary developer behind unlicensed mobile access (UMA) technology for fixed/mobile convergence services, has announced that its client software for mobile/Wi-Fi handoffs now supports UMTS...
Juniper takes stake in Trapeze
By Ed Gubbins
Juniper Networks joined Nortel Networks and Motorola as an investor in wireless LAN (WLAN) equipment vendor Trapeze Networks this week...
Qualcomm releases CDMA chip for emerging markets
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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...
