Sprint looking for WiMAX options
By: By Kevin Fitchard
In the last few weeks, numerous potential partners have emerged as possible saviors for Sprint’s ailing WiMAX efforts, but so far there’s been little substance to the rumors except for Sprint’s own admission it’s searching for a suitor...
Mobile ads: Will the carriers be left out?
By: By Kevin Fitchard
As mobile advertising transforms into a multibillion-dollar business, the advertisers are ready to pounce. The only thing they’re missing is the valuable customer data that the operators have stored away in their databases...
Sprint joins all-you-can eat line
By: By Sarah Reedy
In light of Sprint Nextel’s disappointing earnings in the fourth-quarter, the third-largest wireless carrier today announced it is following in its competitors’ footsteps by offering customers an $99 unlimited calling plan...
Exclusive: Reed Hundt on the 700 MHz auction, P2P throttling
By: By Ed Gubbins
SAN DIEGO--Former FCC Chairman Reed Hundt formed Frontline Wireless with plans to build a nationwide emergency communications network using spectrum auctioned off by the FCC. Among other things, Frontline has proposed that the FCC apply open access requirements to the spectrum. Reed spoke with Telephony in an exclusive interview at the OFC NFOEC optical trade show this week...
The backhaul boom
By: By Joan Engebretson
With customer use of data services on the rise, mobile operators face potential bottlenecks in their backhaul networks. Base station manufacturers have increased capacity, but the best approach to backhaul remains a matter of debate — and the answer may differ, depending on a wireless operator’s specific circumstances...
Qwest seeks wireless partner
By: By Sarah Reedy
Qwest Communications is in need of new strategy for its wireless business, but the answer will not come from a physical investment, Qwest CEO Ed Mueller told investors today...
In-home 802.11n upgrades
By: Sarah Reedy
Cell phones: The ultimate remote control
By: By Joan Engebretson
Already some wireless customers are foregoing traditional cameras and MP3 players, opting instead for multipurpose devices that have cell phone capability. Before long, cell phones also could replace remote controls...
As open as they wanna be
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Feeling pressure to open up their networks, wireless operators are tackling the issue in their own ways...
Privacy and the holy grail of mobility
By: By Sarah Reedy
With location-based services, carriers have the power to access the most granular information about their consumers. Whether they use this knowledge for or against the customer is a matter of interpretation. Part 2 of our privacy special report...
LTE grabs MWC spotlight
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Long-term evolution was all the rage at the Mobile World Congress, the latest incarnation of the GSM Association´s annual European extravaganza. While 3G and mobile data services have dominated the GSM event in the past, 4G definitely came to the fore with all of the major vendors offering at least some kind of LTE demo...
Mobile game-changers loom
By: By Rich Karpinski
While Google marketers were using the Mobile World Congress as a mobile coming-out party, Google developers were busy releasing a significant new version of the Android software developer kit...
VC: Slowdown not a telecom phenomenon
By: By Carol Wilson
Even in uncertain times, venture capitalist Matt Rubins of M/C Venture Partners in Boston is still bullish on mobile broadband, CLEC investments and network infrastructure plays in 2008. Rubins spoke with Editor-in-Chief Carol Wilson...
Wireless price wars unlimited
By: By Sarah Reedy
Despite much speculation, Sprint Nextel remained on the sidelines during last week’s race for flat-rate freedom...
Driving wireless into the IP core
By: By Rich Karpinski
The promise of IP-based fixed/mobile convergence is clear: Allow subscribers to maximize wireless and wireline connections, seamlessly moving between networks based on user location and application requirements...
TIA study: Economic downturn won’t deter telecom
By: By Sarah Reedy
According to the Telecommunications Industry Association’s “2008 Telecommunications Market Review and Forecast” for the global telecommunications industry, there has been a healthy uptake of telecom services, both at home and abroad, with international markets seeing more growth than domestic markets...
T-Mobile now unlimited, too -- who’s next?
By: By Sarah Reedy
Contrary to analyst predictions, T-Mobile is the third company to announce it will offer consumers an unlimited pricing plan today...
AT&T: We’ll take the all-you-can-eat special, too
By: By Sarah Reedy
Within hours of Verizon’s announcement of unlimited calling plans, AT&T proved many speculators right and followed up with its own $100 unlimited voice plan for new and existing customers...
Will mobile carriers be pressured into flat-rate pricing?
By: By Sarah Reedy
Just weeks after Sprint announced it will test expanding its flat-rate calling and data packages, Verizon Wireless is taking it one step further...
Vendor integrates telephony into Google apps
By: Rich Karpinski
Curious what a Google-provided – or at least Google-enabled – unified communications offering might look like? Look no further than vendor Voice Mobility, which this week integrated its enterprise messaging capabilities into the Google Apps suite....
MWC: Nortel takes a closer look at EDGE
By: By Kevin Fitchard
BARCELONA--While the rest of the Mobile World Congress did back flips for the latest radio access craze, Long Term Evolution, Nortel Networks was talking 2G. The vendor is proposing that operators take another look at the EDGE networks of yesteryear, and specifically buy its new software upgrade to the GSM base station, Evolved EDGE...
MWC: Linux platforms battle for attention
By: By Kevin Fitchard
BARCELONA--Android prototypes dominated the Linux hype at the Mobile World Congress, but Google’s pet operating system wasn’t the only Linux platform to debut at annual GSM event...
MWC: WiMAX Forum to certify at 700 MHz
By: By Kevin Fitchard
BARCELONA--The WiMAX Forum today said it would include 700 MHz in its future certification profiles, creating a new opening for WiMAX vendors to sell their gear. With the forum officially pursuing 700 MHz, the stage may be set for a showdown between WiMAX and Long Term Evolution as both technologies are now targeted squarely at the spectrum...
MWC: Alcatel-Lucent, NEC form LTE venture
By: By Kevin Fitchard
BARCELONA--Alcatel-Lucent and NEC are creating an joint venture focused solely on Long Term Evolution in a bid to bring the 4G technology to market as quickly as possible. The partnership, announced here at the Mobile World Congress, has been running on silent for the last six months, and has already defined an LTE base station design the two plan to begin production of this year...
Qwest seeks broadband wireless partner
By: By Carol Wilson
Qwest Communications is actively looking for a partner in the broadband wireless arena, company CEO Edward Mueller told analysts today...
