Mid-Tex launches converged CDMA/GSM network
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Mid-Tex Cellular has launched the industry’s first dual-mode CDMA/GSM network, using Vanu’s software-defined radio solution...
Mobile VoIP to dominate, study says
By: By Carol Wilson
A new study from a London-based research firm claims that mobile voice-over-IP will become a mainstream form of communication by the end of 2012, based on rapid growth of voice-over-3G wireless users...
MWA: Time for Time Warner Cable to be a Catalyst
By: By Tim McElligott
DALLAS--Leave it to a cable company to come in and identify a long-standing and growing concern that mobile operators have been too busy growing to address...
MWA: CA cracks the BlackBerry management problem
By: By Tim McElligott
DALLAS--With its business from managed services providers such as Verizon Business, BT Business Services and Sprint nearly doubling over the last year and momentum building from its 2006 acquisition of Wily Technology, CA expanded its managed services portfolio with a new Mobile Device Management solution, which it introduced this week at the TM Forum’s Management World Americas...
Updated: Google pursues open OS to penetrate wireless market
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Google today finally revealed its long-awaited ‘Gphone’ plans, but instead of producing its own handset, the Internet giant is taking a completely different approach: proliferating its software and applications through standards...
Signals from Earth; signals from space
By: By Kevin Fitchard
TerreStar pursues a satellite/3G hybrid...
Apple comes full circle on iPhone applications
By: By Rich Karpinski
A month-long spat has led the company to cautiously open its handset...
VoIP deja vu
By: By Joan Engebretson
A new crop of start-ups offers bypass calling using unlimited data plans. If the past is prelude, they could be the next Skype or Vonage...
Broadband at low frequencies
By: By Kevin Fitchard
CTC is using former TV spectrum for broadband and VoIP, and more could follow its lead next year...
Tellabs, Carrier Access joint backhaul effort stalls
By: By Ed Gubbins
The wireless backhaul product developed jointly by Carrier Access and Tellabs has been snubbed by the operator for which it was created, Carrier Access revealed this week...
VON: New world of unified communications on display
By: By Sarah Reedy
BOSTON--FirstHand, Allworx and D2 Technologies were among several companies at the VON show in Boston this week touting new technologies that allow users to move between calling networks and reduce their contact numbers to just one...
VON: Level 3 adds SipStorm, Jangl
By: By Carol Wilson
BOSTON--Highlighting what it calls innovative uses of a mature VoIP platform, Level 3 Communications announced two new service provider customers: SipStorm, a wholesale provider of converged applications and services, and Jangl, a fixed-mobile convergence provider...
CTIA Wrap-up: The IT
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Though the entertainment seemed to overwhelm the IT at this year’s CTIA IT & Entertainment show, there were still plenty of enterprise applications on display at the fall show...
CTIA: Facebook founder challenges operators to open networks
By: By Kevin Fitchard
SAN FRANCISCO--Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz told operators to “leave some money on the table” Wednesday in his keynote plea to the wireless industry to open up their networks and only seek service revenues in areas where they offer true added value to the mobile Internet experiences. Only under those conditions will wireless content services flourish, Moskovitz concluded...
CTIA: OpenMarket keeping operators in value chain
By: By Tim McElligott
From CTIA’s Wireless IT and Entertainment event this week, OpenMarket, a subsidiary of Amdocs, introduced a new release of its messaging and financial processing platform that it said can make operators’ billing and payment systems as good or better than the smooth-running credit card transaction network...
Watching WiMAX
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The aura around WiMAX has become overpowering of late. Anything that can be ascribed to an access technology has been ascribed to WiMAX: the bridging force of the digital divide, broadband anywhere, Wi-Fi on steroids...
Pondering the business of FMC
By: By Kevin Fitchard
It's not a question of whether Verizon follows Sprint and T-Mobile down the fixed/mobile convergence path, it's just a question of when and how, according...
Verizon Wireless adds over-air updates
By: By Verizon Wireless
Verizon Wireless is launching InnoPath’s firmware over-the-air (FOTA) update technology, the companies said this week, phasing the technology into new phone launches throughout the remainder of the year and 2008...
Motorola jumps back into the Symbian fold
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Motorola has reconciled its differences with the Symbian operating system, taking a 50% stake in UIQ Technology, the Sony Ericsson-owned developer that builds user interfaces on Symbian software...
Telephony LIVE: Innovation wins out for award winners
By: By Carol Wilson
DALLAS--One service provider made lemonade out of service interval lemons, and another figured out a way to make fixed/mobile convergence real for its customers. All six winners of the first annual Telephony Innovation awards are finding new ways to solve customer problems...
Telephony LIVE: Verizon CTO on IMS, FMC and Web 2.0
By: By Ed Gubbins
DALLAS--Verizon Chief Technology Officer Mark Wegleitner offered roadmaps for several of the carrier’s coming technology decisions in a keynote presentation here at the Telephony LIVE show this week, including its view of debates surrounding IP multimedia subsystem (IMS), fixed/mobile convergence (FMC) and Web 2.0...
Kineto releases UMA femtocell software
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Kineto said today it is releasing a femtocell software solution based upon unlicensed mobile access (UMA), the GSM tunneling architecture it uses to deliver voice calls from a Wi-Fi hotspot to the cellular core...
Sequans puffs out its chest
By: By Kevin Fitchard
WiMAX World was definitely Motorola's party, but tiny Sequans Communications almost stole the show...
Getting in the FLO
By: By Sarah Reedy
Qualcomm's MediaFLO gains momentum with the help of Motorola...
Dual-mode D-Day
By: By Joan Engebretson
As cellular and Wi-Fi networks converge, network operators are calculating their optimum market and technology tactics...
