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Google tweaks mobile tools for iPhone -- again
By: By Rich Karpinski
It’s Apple week in the tech world, what with the MacWorld conference taking center stage in San Francisco. Today, Google announced an update to its online applications that optimizes them for running on Apple’s iPhone...
Level 3’s Crowe sees new market emerge
By: By Carol Wilson
Admitting his company “stubbed its toe” this year, Level 3 Communications Chairman and CEO James Crowe told the CitiGroup’s 18th Annual Global Entertainment, Media & Telecommunications Conference today that the emerging IP optical and IP wireless markets are what “we’ve been planning on and hoping for, for a number of years” and Level 3 is ready to compete successfully...
CES: Enter mobile TV technology No. 3
By: By Kevin Fitchard
If FLO and DVB-H weren’t enough, a new mobile TV broadcast technology has emerged on the already crowded scene...
CES: Samsung says femtocells will go nationwide in 2008
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Samsung’s femtocell pilot with Sprint wasn’t just an early fluke. A Samsung executive said today the Korean vendor has completed trials with several North American CDMA operators ...
Femtocells hit the market, but is anyone buying?
By: By Kevin Fitchard
In the last few months, the market has been flooded with femtocells targeting every conceivable radio interface and frequency. But in truth the industry is far from any kind of large-scale deployment on the home base station technology...
WiMAX Forum to begin mobile certification—no, really
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The WiMAX Forum today said its lead certification lab in Malaga, Spain, is now ready to begin accepting Mobile WiMAX equipment for interoperability testing and certification...
NetCracker takes NExT step at France Telecom
By: By Tim McElligott
For NetCracker, getting a software contract from a company the size of France Telecom is one thing. Getting certified two years later as the corporate de facto standard is another...
Motorola launches first large-scale WiMAX network
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Motorola’s first commercial WiMAX network went live today in 22 cities in Pakistan, making it the first of its three high-profile nationwide network contracts to launch...
AT&T Mobility CEO: 3G chase is over
By: By Kevin Fitchard
AT&T Mobility President and CEO Ralph de la Vega said that AT&T has finally caught up to its CDMA competitors in 3G coverage and data services penetration...
Ericsson, Alcatel-Lucent score wireless wins at XO, MetroPCS
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Alcatel-Lucent will be the vendor of MetroPCS’s expansion out East. Metro said today it has selected Alcatel-Lucent’s CDMA kit for its new network on the Advanced Wireless Services (AWS) frequencies, extending its earlier contract with the vendor for CDMA infrastructure on the PCS airwaves...
VZW's future network
By: By Kevin Fitchard
CTO Dick Lynch discusses how Verizon Wireless isn't changing its business model, but pursuing two separate ones...
Bluetooth turns green
By: By Sarah Reedy
Though the Bluetooth headset appeals to consumers with a promise of unencumbered mobile communication, there has always been one pesky wire standing in the way of it being truly wireless: the charger...
Veraz does its part in Onemax network
By: By Tim McElligott
When Alcatel-Lucent handed the proverbial ribbon-cutting scissors to Raoul Fontanez, Chief Executive Officer of Onemax, at the launch of the world’s first WiMax Rev-e network in the Dominican Republic in October, Amit Chawla, vice president of global solutions and engineering at Veraz Networks, watched as the company basked in the glory of driving the implementation...
NSN to do lab trials of LTE with VZW
By: By Kevin Fitchard
AMSTERDAM--Nokia Siemens Networks will conduct lab trials of its Long Term Evolution gear in the U.S. for Verizon Wireless, NSN head of customer and market operations Christoph Caselitz confirmed today...
LTE--It’s not just VZW’s network, it’s Verizon’s
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Throughout its short history, Verizon Communications has kept its wireline business separated from its wireless business. Last week, however, when the companies announced their plans with Vodafone to jointly pursue Long Term Evolution (LTE) as a next-generation network technology, the name on the press release didn’t have a ‘Wireless’ tacked to its end...
Wi-Fi takes small steps for FMC
By: By Sarah Reedy
Wi-Fi, although starting to gain traction in the market due to several successful fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) launches and an increasing presence in flagship handsets, remains a niche feature for most mobile phones, according to a report by IMS Research...
Verizon conducted WiMAX trials with Vodafone
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Verizon has conducted WiMAX trials with partner Vodafone as part of its 4G technology selection process, Verizon Communications executive vice president and chief technology officer Dick Lynch said Thursday...
Updated: Verizon taps LTE for 4G, citing scale, global harmonization
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Verizon Communications is breaking from the CDMA camp, announcing today that it has selected Long Term Evolution, the 4G technology of competing GSM technologies, as its next-generation network architecture...
Meru, Avaya deploy mother of all WLAN networks
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Meru and Avaya have begun deploying what may be the largest private wireless LAN network in the country...
Updated: VZW throws open its network gates to all comers
By: By Kevin Fitchard
In a stunning about-face, Verizon Wireless announced today announced it would open up its network to outside handsets, devices and applications by the end of 2008, creating the first truly open cellular network in North America...
Nokia Siemens greens up its radio gear
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Nokia Siemens Networks has jumped on the green bandwagon, introducing today a base station kit it claims will reduce energy consumption at the cell site by up to 70%...
AT&T has HSUPA upgrade in 220 markets
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Over the last two months, AT&T has gradually introduced data cards embedded with high-speed uplink packet access (HSUPA) technology, but so far the actual launch of its HSUPA network has been nowhere to be seen...
Wi-Fi moving beyond the laptop
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The Wi-Fi Alliance has seen a record surge in new devices certified under its banner in the last year, but what’s more interesting than just sheer volume is the types of devices seeking the Wi-Fi logo...
Nokia on Google
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Don't expect to find Google's new Android platform on a Nokia phone soon, if ever...
Staking a claim in FMC
By: By Mark Donahue
As service providers roll out the first converged services for consumers and enterprises, fixed/mobile convergence solution vendors have a chance to get their name into the ring in a growing space...
