A technology discourse
The mobile infrastructure market appears to be experiencing an uptick that may or may not be a sign of better things to come. Here's some of what Wireless Review has overheard...
The age of HSDPA
By: By Dan O'Shea
Deployment commitments and contracts have networks worldwide rapidly moving to the latest 3G technology upgrade...
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...
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...
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...
Comtrend brings multimode DSL into the home
By: By Vince Vittore
Comtrend today announced it has developed what could be the first multimode DSL wireless router designed for use in the residential market...
Bango teams with July Systems
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Bango today announced it is teaming up with July Systems to create independent shopping portals for mobile content in hopes of generating more purchases off of the carriers' content decks....
T-Mobile taps Nortel, Azaire
By: By Dan O'Shea
T-Mobile International has hired Nortel Networks and Azaire Networks to help upgrade the carrier's wireless core network in Europe with new capabilities for bridging the operator's commercial UMTS wireless network with Wi-Fi networks to provide seamless roaming communications for subscribers....
Verizon Wireless TiVos DVR scheduling
By: By Dan O'Shea
Verizon Wireless and TiVo have signed an exclusive agreement for the nationwide carrier to debut TiVo Mobile....
Cingular kicks off 3G services with TV
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Cingular today revealed its first consumer 3G service, a mobile television platform featuring channels from ESPN to HBO. ...
802.11n: full steam ahead
By: by Dan O'Shea
The 802.11n standardization process is finally nearing the finish line, after the IEEE's 802.11n Task Group approved a proposal in late January from the recently formed Enhanced Wireless Consortium....
Huawei plugs into Vallent
By: By Dan O'Shea
Huawei Technologies has successfully tested a plug-in management interface at its OSS Joint Lab that was developed by Vallent Corp. ...
Orange taps Sony Ericsson to spearhead music strategy
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Pan-European operator Orange today selected Sony Ericsson as its lead partner in the carrier's mobile music strategy, agreeing to market and sell Sony Ericsson's growing line of Walkman music phones across its European footprint...
Alvarion releases OFDM kit for public safety
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Alvarion today commercially released a version of its BreezeAccess line of broadband wireless infrastructure targeting the 4.9 GHz frequencies used by public-safety agencies in the U.S....
ArrayComm, TI partner for wireless broadband
By: By Dan O'Shea
Smart Antenna vendor ArrayComm and Texas Instruments are working together to integrate ArrayComm's Network MIMO technology with TI's TMS320TCI6482 digital signal processors into a single reference design for wireless infrastructure applications. ...
WiMAX Forum awards 802.16e test contract
By: By Dan O'Shea
WiMAX product certification lab Cetecom Spain and U.K.-based Aeroflex have won a joint contract from the WiMAX Forum to develop the protocol conformance test solution for the 802.16e standard, which will be the basis for Mobile WiMAX...
As RIM's "push" is threatened, Phonified offers "pull"
By: By Kevin Fitchard
With RIM's BlackBerry service under threat of a blackout as soon as tomorrow, it's no news that the vendor's competitors are jumping in to scavenge its lucrative customer base. ...
BlueBeat to power Motorola's iRadio
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Motorola's new music strategy has begun to take a more definite form as it today announced its first music provider for the upcoming iRadio service. ...
WiMAX Forum announces Asia lab
By: By Dan O'Shea
The WiMAX Forum announced today, as forum members and other ecosystem participants convened at the WiMAX Summit 2006 in Paris, that the forum has chosen its second certification test lab, which is also the first in Asia dedicated to serving that region, and the first lab location likely to conduct certification tests for Mobile WiMAX gear. ...
AT&T, Cingular bridge Yahoo content across networks
By: By Kevin Fitchard
In what could be the first step toward network convergence, AT&T and Cingular today announced they are linking AT&T Yahoo content on the SBC wireline network to the Cingular content deck, giving customers a unified content portal across the two networks. ...
Market factors converging for UMA
By: By Dan O'Shea
Convergence, not surprisingly, was a common theme at last week's 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona, Spain...
A new magic box to flatten our perceptions
By: By Kevin Fitchard
At 3GSM, Lucent attempts a revamp of the modern cellular base station...
Crossing the convergence chasm
By: By Kevin Fitchard
BellSouth and AT&T have had their fingers in wireless for more than a decade, both as independent cellular providers and as the owners of Cingular. But their wireless networks hav always remained separate from their wireline businesses. Now, thanks to IMS, they can bridge that gap...
Popular Memory
By: By Kevin Fitchard
New enterprise and consumer applications are craving storage capacity. Witness the wireless industry's run on Flash memory...
IPWireless picked for Sprint 4G trial, Orange deployment
By: By Kevin Fitchard
BARCELONA, SPAIN--IPWireless received two major carrier validations of its TD-CDMA technology this week, announcing at the 3G World Congress that Sprint has selected its technology for a next-generation access trial and Orange will be the first carrier to test its TDtv infrastructure...
