CTIA: Mobile WiMAX in Muskegon?
By: By Dan O'Shea
LAS VEGAS--As the CTIA's Wireless 2006 trade show was winding down here, Samsung Telecommunications America turned a few of the remaining heads with an announcement that it will work with regional service provider Arialink in Michigan to deploy what it claimed could be the first commercial Mobile WiMAX network in North America...
CTIA: mPortal powering Disney family app
By: By Kevin Fitchard
LAS VEGAS--Pantech and LG Electronics won the handset deals. Telcordia won the data hosting contract. And now mPortal put the world on notice that it is powering Disney Mobile’s new Family Center communications and access portal...
CTIA: Qualcomm TV debuts
By: By Kevin Fitchard
LAS VEGAS--Though Qualcomm billed it merely as a demo, a live Forward Link Only (FLO) network blanketing Las Vegas was in full operation in all but name only, powering concept TV phones and multimedia devices both in and outside of CTIA’s Wireless 2006 conference this week...
CTIA: End-to-end VoIP can wait, says Sprint
By: By Kevin Fitchard
LAS VEGAS--Sprint is planning an aggressive rollout of EV-DO revision A networks starting this year and culminating in the second half of 2007 with almost the entirety of its CDMA network upgraded...
CTIA: Alvarion sets Mobile WiMAX demo
By: By Dan O'Shea
LAS VEGAS--Broadband wireless access vendor Alvarion announced at Wireless 2006 here that it will be demonstrating its new 4Motion Mobile WiMAX solution during the event. The demonstration will feature dynamic bandwidth allocation to multiple services and seamless hand-offs. ...
CTIA: Qualcomm lands first content partner for MediaFLO
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Qualcomm’s MediaFLO today revealed its first major content partner for its multicast TV service, announcing that Network Live, a joint venture between AOL, XM Satellite Radio and AEG, would supply streaming live concert feeds and performer interviews to the aspiring mobile TV network...
Kineto brings UMA to TI's WiLink
By: By Dan O'Shea
Unlicensed Mobile Access technology pioneer Kineto Wireless has announced that Texas Instruments is enabling Kineto's UMA client software for handset designs using TI's new WiLink 5.0 mobile WLAN platform and its OMAP-Vox chip architecture...
Argus' Tempest TE20B protects power investment
Argus Technologies' new outdoor battery enclosure, the Tempest Te20b, allows more battery power in a compact footprint...
Handset powerhouse
By: By Stephanie Dell
With a plethora of battery-draining apps being added to wireless handsets, chip-makers are devising increasingly sophisticated power management solutions...
New school
By: By Stephanie Dell
A new speech-enabled mobile Web application program at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C., earns an A for allowing students easy access to applications designed to enrich their mobile lives...
CTIA: Nortel demos HSDPA at 7.2 Mb/s
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Nortel Networks today claimed it was the first network vendor to cross the data rate halfway mark in the development of high-speed downlink packet access networks, announcing today it had completed the first 7.2 Mb/s trial calls using its UMTS infrastructure and Qualcomm's latest 3G chipset....
CTIA: Sprint building out 3G, lays out revision A plans
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Sprint is accelerating its 3G rollout plans, committing to an covering an additional 40 million people in its EV-DO footprint by the end of the year and announcing plans to begin a networkwide upgrade to EV-DO revision A in the third quarter...
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....
InFocus: Service delivery in a changing world
By: By David Croslin
Read more about how MCI began designing and implementing an architecture similar to IMS, known as the Services on Demand Execution Environment, or SODEE, to offer a unique blend of services to fit customer needs...
InFocus: Passive active, and hybrid solutions for in-building wireless
By: By John Spindler
As carriers and enterprises consider how to best extend their mobile cellular networks to improve in-building coverage, one decision centers on system architectures. Here are the pros and cons of active, passive and hybrid architectures, along with some guidelines that should help buyers make informed decisions...
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....
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...
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...
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...
Why infrastructure still matters
By: By Dan O'Shea
The mobile network equipment market has been squeezed by increasing competition and declining opportunity in recent years, but recent innovations are providing a reason to get excited about infrastructure again...
