Adobe targets video with Flash Lite, new media player
By: By Rich Karpinski
Adobe put the focus on video at its developer conference this week with a new version of its Flash Light client for mobile devices and a new Internet video player...
AT&T cellular network going all IP
By: By Kevin Fitchard
AT&T is upgrading its core wireless network to an all-IP platform, building on the next-generation architecture Nortel began deploying in 2005...
VZW, Vodafone jointly exploring LTE
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Verizon Wireless is working with part-owner Vodafone on jointly evaluating next-generation, or 4G, network technologies with the aim of converging their technology paths on both sides of the Atlantic...
WKRC in Cincinnati
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The "C" is for convergence, which is what Cincinnati Bell is after as the first U.S. carrier to launch unlicensed mobile access and bridge the mobile phone with the home Wi-Fi network...
BSG clearing the roaming hurdle
By: By Tim McElligott
With one year to go before the quasi-mandate from the GSM Association kicks in and requires wireless GSM operators to comply with its recommendation that they contract with a provider for near real-time roaming data exchange (NRTRDE), BSG Clearing Solutions announced the launch of its NRTRDE service...
Nokia Siemens partners with Airvana for femtocells
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Nokia Siemens Networks is partnering with an unlikely companion for its femtocell platform: CDMA technologist Airvana...
Sprint strikes back at T-Mobile with femtocells
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Sprint unveiled its much-anticipated femtocell service today, rolling out the fixed/mobile convergence technology in two markets: Indianapolis and Denver...
Global Tower acquires AT&T cellsites
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Global Tower Partners today said it has bought 549 cellsites in urban areas across 27 states from AT&T, though it did not disclose their specific locations or cost...
VTap takes Web video browsing mobile
By: By Sarah Reedy
A new service from Veveo aims to make it easy for mobile users to browse the Web’s videos on their handsets...
The need for speed
By: By Kevin Fitchard
It may not have involved a desolate strip in the desert. There were no ambulances standing by. No one was wearing a crash helmet. But Beceem Communications...
Multiplay offerings go wireless
By: By Joan Engebretson
A cellular component is showing up in more and more service bundles -- and should help telcos make inroads against the cable companies that now dominate the multiplay arena...
The climb on uncertain ground
By: By Carol Wilson
The competitive landscape is still shifting, even as bandwidth demand grows and consolidation continues...
Wi-Fi fills cracks
By: By Carol Wilson
The successful use of the Minneapolis Wi-Fi network to aid rescue workers following the collapse of the I-35 bridge is a textbook case of how this technology can aid public safety efforts, according to those involved...
The cost of not collaborating
By: By Carol Wilson
Service providers are always touting the benefits of more effective communication among employees, including better collaboration and greater efficiency...
The third way
By: By Kevin Fitchard
While carriers decide between multicast and unicast mobile TV networks, MBMS may present a way to bridge the two technologies' differences...
Rethinking WiMAX
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Sprint's partnership with Clearwire for WiMAX will create an expansive network, blanketing almost every populated area of the country if all goes according to plan. But in exchange for those economies of scale, its speed to market and the optimization of spectrum assets, Sprint is changing up its original business plan...
Muni Wi-Fi market hits turbulence
By: By Carol Wilson
Cities are advised to set more realistic expectations for wireless access...
Sprint offers first glimpse of WiMAX
By: By Kevin Fitchard
VIENNA, Va.--Sprint took the wraps off its WiMAX networks today, giving the first live demos of its new mobile broadband technology and revealing a name for the planned service for the first time...
Nokia debuts Mosh mobile social network
By: By Rich Karpinski
Nokia has jumped on the social networking bandwagon with a developer release of Mosh, a new site that lets mobile users connect with one another and share content regardless of their device or network...
WiMAX looms as muni network option
By: By Carol Wilson
Wireless access in general, and Wi-Fi technology in particular, has been very attractive to municipalities wanting to improve broadband communications for multiple reasons. But as more cities discover Wi-Fi's limitations, they are also looking at other wireless options, namely WiMAX. Read the latest in this series of special reports...
Muni Wi-Fi boosted by post-disaster performance
By: By Carol Wilson
The performance of the still-nascent Minneapolis Wi-Fi network following the collapse of the Minneapolis I-35 bridge last week should inspire other municipalities to consider being anchor tenants of their own municipal Wi-Fi networks, according to one industry observer...
EarthLink unwires Corpus Christi
By: By Carol Wilson
Today at 10:30 a.m., the wires will be cut in Corpus Christi, as EarthLink announces the completion of the citywide Wi-Fi network there. What began as a city-run network to enable more efficient reading of gas meters now becomes a privately owned network, as Corpus Christi’s city government becomes both the anchor tenant and the fiber network provider to EarthLink’s wireless Internet access service...
Muni Wi-Fi: Its limitations
By: By Carol Wilson
The recent spate of criticism regarding municipal Wi-Fi networks falls into two different categories: technology and business case. Read part three of this special report on muni Wi-Fi...
AT&T Wireless approves Wavecom M2M solution
By: By Joan Engebretson
AT&T Wireless customers that use cellular service for machine-to-machine communications should require fewer service calls for equipment upgrades in the future...
Level 3 provides Leap backbone services
By: By Mark Donahue
Level 3 Communications announced today that it has deployed core network backbone services for wireless provider Leap Wireless International. These include voice termination, intercity private-line and co-location services...
