Building future networks with MIMO and OFDM 

By: By John Hoadley

Fast-rising consumer appetite for wireless broadband and the high-bandwidth applications it’s beginning to deliver, including games, photos and video, creates a technology dilemma for today’s network equipment makers and wireless carriers...

VON: Level 3 launches E-911 service, deals 

By: By Dan O'Shea

BOSTON--VoIP customers have another nine days to acknowledge notification from their VoIP service providers of the limited ability of VoIP offerings to support E-911 before those services are disconnected. Meanwhile, Level 3 Communications is seeking to help its interconnected VoIP providers comply with the Federal Communications Commission mandate for E-911 support with its new E-911 Direct service, launching this week at the VON trade show...

Long road to recovery begins after Gulf Coast hurricane 

By: By Carol Wilson

Wireless technologies provide some relief, but rebuilding will be slow...

Verizon Wireless to do global 3G roaming with Vodafone 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Verizon Wireless is capitalizing on its links with the old country, launching a new 3G data card service with Vodafone, the multinational GSM carrier that jointly owns the U.S. operator with Verizon Communications. ...

Airgo boosts MIMO chip to 240 Mb/s 

By: By Dan O'Shea

Airgo Networks, the pioneer developer of multiple input/multiple output technology for wireless broadband applications, has announced the third generation of its True MIMO chipset, supporting data rates up to 240 Mb/s. ...

SmartTrust to power Cingular 3G activation 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

SmartTrust will provide the activation services for Cingular Wireless’s new 3G services, supplying its over-the-air (OTA) delivery platform to process new customers and download and install new software on subscriber handsets....

Motorola, Apple unveil ‘iPod Phone’ 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Motorola and Apple today unveiled their much-anticipated music phone at a media event in San Francisco, putting certainly not the first music-enabled handset on the market but definitely the most ballyhooed....

Wireless ISPs ready to heed call for help 

By: By Carol Wilson

About 8000 wireless ISPs are standing at the ready, prepared to provide voice over IP service to relief shelters around the country, at the direction of the Federal Communications Commission....

Wireless carriers restoring service in storm-ravaged South 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Several wireless carriers today said they have made significant strides in restoring cellular coverage in areas decimated by Hurricane Katrina. Both T-Mobile and Verizon Wireless said they have managed to restore some wireless service to flooded New Orleans, and many other areas ravaged by the category 4 Hurricane have been completely brought back on line....

Restoration proceeds, except in New Orleans 

Telecom service providers in the hurricane-ravaged areas of Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi are still assessing just how badly damaged their facilities are, even as they start what all agree will be a massive and lengthy recovery process...

Boingo bulks up airport hotspot portfolio 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Boingo Wireless today announced roaming deals that will expand its hotspot footprints to 36 new airports in North America and Europe, adding critical nodes in areas that traditional account for the bulk of business hotspot activity...

Nokia using Kineto UMA technology 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Nokia Thursday revealed that Kineto’s network controller and gateway is powering its Unlicensed Mobile Access platform. The technology is currently part of Nokia’s commercial solution is being tested in several trials in Europe, officials from the two companies said....

Cisco and Intel to collaborate on Wi-Fi 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Cisco and Intel this week said they are expanding their networking technology collaboration to include wireless LAN, agreeing to release a new set of products based on Intel’s Centrino and Cisco’s Unified Wireless architectures...

Kodiak licenses PTT technology to Sony Ericsson 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Kodiak Networks today said it has entered into an agreement with Sony Ericsson to license its Push-to-Talk (PTT) technology to the handset vendor and jointly market GSM PTT products...

Tellabs, Carrier Access team on wireless backhaul 

By: By Ed Gubbins

Carrier Access signed a “memorandum of understanding” with Tellabs to develop a solution to reduce wireless backhaul transport costs for service providers, the company announced today...

Verizon Wireless to trial end-to-end VoIP over 3G 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Verizon Wireless will conduct trials in early 2006 of CDMA 1X EV-DO Revision A, the next step in the evolutionary path of CDMA2000 and the first cellular technology capable of supporting end-to-end Voice over IP. ...

PhoneDo unveils new name, new FMC platform 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

SIP convergence server maker PhoneDo is now sporting a new name as well as new line of core fixed-mobile convergence products...

CoManage acquisition highlights Syndesis growth strategy  

By: By Tim McElligott

Provisioning and activation provider, Syndesis, will announce a definitive agreement to acquire data integrity management specialist, CoManage, this Tuesday as it embarks on a growth strategy that includes targeting wireless operators and extending into adjacent technologies such as service assurance and data integrity management....

Mobile industry gets closer to loosening content control 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Cingular's recent move to open up its data networks to outside content providers is the first major move by a U.S. carrier to challenge the walled garden approach to wireless data...

Gesturing toward the future 

By: By Marisol Mastrangelo

People who own personal electronic devices such as a mobile phone or PDA won't have to struggle with tiny, hard-to-see display screens thanks to a team of Scottish researchers...

Verizon Avenue launches fifth rural fixed wireless system 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Verizon Avenue said today it has launched a fixed broadband wireless access system in the small community of Rantoul, Ill., making it the fifth network it has deployed to date...

Qualcomm buying Flarion 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Qualcomm today said it is buying orthogonal frequency division multiplexing innovator Flarion, signaling that the world’s leading CDMA technologist may be considering OFDM as the basis for its future mobile technology migration plans...

Andrew to sell location gear to Nokia customers 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Andrew Corp. has inked a deal with Nokia to supply the wireless location systems to its GSM base stations, opening up a potentially highly lucrative sales channel for the radio systems vendor...

Radcom wins first U.S. 3G monitoring contract 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Radcom won’t name the customer, but the network testing and monitoring vendor said today it has landed its first deal with a U.S. carrier for 3G monitoring solution...

Converged access is where the action is in telecom 

By: By Rob Munoz

The convergence of communications and computer access technologies is emerging as a growing market force sweeping across each of the two industries. This convergence is happening on a large scale within wireline and wireless access infrastructure equipment...