Verizon Wireless makes its first music star
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Verizon Wireless named the winner to its Calling All Bands contest, announcing that a Lexington, Ky., quintet, the Parlour Boys, would be first band to gain nationwide distribution through its music portal V Cast Music...
MMA to set mobile TV advertising standards
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Though the mobile TV sector is still a small one, the Mobile Marketing Association is preparing for its growth and the advertising and marketing campaigns that will accompany it...
Bluetooth embraces WiMedia for UWB
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The Bluetooth Special Interest Group today selected the ultra wideband (UWB) technology backed by the WiMedia Alliance as the basis for the next generation of the Bluetooth standard...
CTIA: Accuris adds FMC to roaming platform
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Mobile roaming solutions provider Accuris is launching at CTIA Wireless a new session initiation protocol-infused version of its AccuRoam platform that effectively turns its roaming management platform into a standards-based fixed/mobile convergence gateway....
Axerra, Narad target mobile backhaul
By: By Dan O'Shea
Axerra Networks, a vendor of curcuit emulation-over-packet solutions and Narad Networks, a provider of switched broadband access offerings, announced that they have successfully field tested their solution for T-1 backhaul over hybrid fiber-coaxial cable facilities. ...
Motricity bulks up Fuel platform
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Motricity today announced it has added portal services to its Fuel content distribution platform and has launched its own catalog of music, wallpapers, games and other applications it is offering to its carrier partners...
TELECOMNEXT: Siemens introduces carrier Ethernet products to U.S.
By: By Tim McElligott
LAS VEGAS--Siemens Communications brought its Surpass hiD Ethernet products to the U.S. market this week at TelecomNext along with access solutions and new IMS-based solutions for fixed/mobile convergence...
Nortel, Sierra demonstrate VoIP over 3G
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Nortel Networks and Sierra Wireless today said they have performed successful tests of voice over IP between their product lines, Nortel’s new CMDA 1X EV-DO revision A base station and a pre-commercial Sierra PC card...
TELECOMNEXT: BellSouth offers wireless back-up app
By: By Dan O'Shea
LAS VEGAS--BellSouth announced a new wireless broadband application at TelecomNext here that will give users of wireline data services a wireless back up to those services, as well as allow them to activate a Wi-Fi hotspot at their business location....
TELECOMNEXT: Alltel's Ford bids adieu
By: By Tim McElligott
Alltel President and CEO Scott Ford won't be back to TelecomNext next year. He said farewell to the crowd and to USTelecom in his keynote speech yesterday as he goes off to run the company's wireless business....
UTStarcom faces delisting
By: By Kevin Fitchard
UTStarcom today said it has received notice from the NASDAQ stock market that its stock will be listed from the exchange next week due to delays in filing its 2005 earnings report with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission....
Cingular “Idol” promotion to ship live ringtones
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Cingular today broke a new record in music licensing while simultaneously coming up with one of the most compelling multimedia services in wireless. It announced it would ship ringtones made from the live recordings of contestants on hit-show “American Idol” available for download the day after they are recorded...
Airvana unveils convergence gateway
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Airvana today moved from the base station to the core of the network, announcing a new multi-access convergence gateway that is a far cry from the CDMA 1X EV-DO radio technologies on which it has focused to date...
TELECOMNEXT: Cingular provides basic training
By: By Tim McElligott
LAS VEGAS--In his keynote address at TelecomNext today, Cingular President and CEO Stan Sigman tried to keep the feet of the telecommunications industry planted firmly on the ground given all the heady talk the last two days about its future....
VeriSign buys m-Qube
By: By Kevin Fitchard
VeriSign is acquiring m-Qube for $250 million in cash, adding the small company's premium content delivery platform to VeriSign's growing portfolio of mobile content services....
Ruckus finds its Pioneer
By: By Vince Vittore
Ruckus Wireless announced today that Pioneer Telephone Cooperative, the nation’s third largest co-op, will begin a customer trial of its wireless set-top box technology...
TELECOMNEXT: Siemens announces IMS solutions
By: By Dan O'Shea
LAS VEGAS--Siemens joined what is expected to be a parade of announcements about IP Multimedia Subsystem solutions at the TelecomNext trade show...
McAfee, SmartTrust team up for virus management
By: By Kevin Fitchard
McAfee and SmartTrust announced today that the two are collaborating to create an integrated mobile virus protection platform that combines McAfee’s security software with SmartTrust’s mobile device management and update solution...
Sprint trials muni Wi-Fi
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Sprint today revealed its entrance into the wireless mesh arena just a few short months before divesting its own local access business...
A French engineer in Dallas
By: By Kevin Fitchard
When RF engineers talk about silicon they're usually speaking a foreign language. They use obtuse acronyms like CMOS and ARM...
The age of HSDPA
By: By Dan O'Shea
Deployment commitments and contracts have networks worldwide rapidly moving to the latest 3G technology upgrade...
Making the case for TD-CDMA
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Lone TD-CDMA vendor IPWireless is making a surprisingly large splash in the 3G world...
Sprint takes PBX on the road
By: By Vince Vittore
Sprint is taking what could logically be thought of as the next step in its voice-over-IP evolution with the launch of a new service...
Where's WiBro? In Korea, right now
By: By Dan O'Shea
WiBro, the new mobile broadband standard in South Korea that is deeply aligned with Mobile WiMAX, is rapidly moving from demonstration and trial phase to commercial launch this spring...
TiVo tunes in on wireless
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Wireline/wireless convergence may not have advanced very far yet, but the industry is starting, application by application, to cement it in the mind of the consumer...
