Lucent wins $500 million CDMA deal with MetroPCS
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Lucent Technologies extended its exclusive vendor deal with MetroPCS this week announcing a new three-year contract for CDMA 1X and EV-DO infrastructure worth up to $500 million...
ESPN selects Comverse data platform for MVNO
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Comverse Technology will supply the hardware and software platform powering ESPN Mobile’s data services...
Canada turns on full MMS interoperability
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association last Friday flipped the switch on a nationwide MMS interoperability network connecting all of Canada’s Tier 1 operators into a central MMS exchange hub...
WCA: Nextel to try next-gen UMTS
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Nextel is taking another crack at finding a suitable technology for its 2.5 GHz spectrum, announcing today it would deploy IPWireless’ time division-CDMA (TD-CDMA) technology over those airwaves in a limited trial in Washington...
WCA: Broadsoft tests interop with SOMA, adds WISPs
By: By Dan O'Shea
WASHINGTON, D.C.--Broadband wireless equipment vendor SOMA Networks said at the WCA 2005 conference here that it has completed VoIP interoperability testing with Broadsoft, one of the leading VoIP applications software firms...
WCA: MiTAC goes with Fujitsu SoC
By: By Dan O'Shea
Fujitsu Microelectronics America announced at the WCA conference this week that MiTAC Technology Corp., a broadband wireless ODM based in Taiwan, will use the chipset maker's WiMAX system-on-chip (SoC) to build its customer premises equipment...
IMS: Tearing down the stovepipes
By: By Jason Meyers
Supercomm '05 shed more light on a complicated yet highly promising architecture, as well as the applications driving its acceptance by service providers...
Flash-OFDM finds its home
By: By Kevin Fitchard
After years of testing its equipment in carrier trials and commercial pilots, Flarion has gotten the chance to showcase its Flash-OFDM technology in a countrywide rollout...
IP Wireless lands first major carrier win for TD-CDMA
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Europe's T-Mobile gave IP Wireless' Time Division-CDMA technology a huge stamp of validation this week, announcing it would deploy a nationwide broadband network in the Czech Republic using the nascent wireless technology. ...
Nokia to migrate phone browser to open source
By: By Kevin Fitchard
HELSINKI--Nokia announced today it will migrate its mobile Web browser to open source software, partnering with Apple Computer to use its Safari Internet browser as the core engine in its future Web Series 60 phones...
Nokia strikes enterprise convergence deals
By: By Kevin Fitchard
HELSINKI--At its annual Connection event this week, Nokia announced new partnerships with enterprise-focused networking providers Avaya, Cisco and OnRelay, all targeting VoIP and convergence solutions between the corporate PBX and the cellular network...
Nortel wins Bell Mobility EV-DO upgrade
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Nortel Networks today announced it has been tapped by Bell Mobility to supply the EV-DO upgrade to the Canadian provider's CDMA network. ...
Cingular strengthens partnership with Good
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Good Technology has cemented its first U.S. carrier distribution deal with Cingular Wireless and yet another carrier is exploring the enterprise e-mail frontiers beyond Blackberry....
Network fit for an enterprise
By: By Kevin Fitchard
As wireless carriers increasingly eyeball enterprises as their next big market, they are forced to evaluate whether their own networks are capable of handling them...
Nextel takes push e-mail to Java
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Nextel became the latest carrier to add push e-mail to business services portfolio, but it managed to one-up its competitors, using Visto's ConstantSync platform to extend the Blackberry-like service to Java-based devices. ...
WLAN management inspires Cisco to take new initiative
By: By Dan O'Shea
Trapeze picks up Nortel partnership while carriers remain non-factors...
Ericsson partners with ZTE for TD-SCDMA
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Ericsson became the latest carrier to link up with a Chinese vendor, today announcing a strategic partnership with Chinese vendor ZTE for TD-SCDMA technology....
Nortel teams with Wireless Valley for mesh planning
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Nortel Networks said today it has incorporated Wireless Valley's mesh planning software into its wireless mesh infrastructure line in an effort to streamline the deployment of municipal and campus WLAN networks....
InPhonic to take over Sprint’s e-commerce ops
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Sprint announced today that it is outsourcing the entirety of its wireless e-marketing and sales operations to InPhonic, marking the self-styled mobile virtual network enabler’s (MVNE) largest carrier customer to date...
For Sprint, it's all about location, location, location
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Sprint today launched a new portfolio of location-based, presence and geographic services, focused squarely on business customers, a segment the carrier has been taking increasing pains to woo over the last year...
New Microsoft OS gets serious about smartphones
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Microsoft this week unveiled the latest version of its core OS software, promising manufacturers a more customization-friendly platform and support for more new 3G access technologies emerging worldwide....
N+I highlights VoWLAN gear
By: By Dan O'Shea
The already-intense market for voice-over-wireless local area network technology continued to draw attention last week...
The wireless hot seat
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The wireless industry has emerged with a fierce thirst for new technology, sparking deployment of 3G gear. Has wireless entered a new phase of rapid innovation?...
Alvarion adds wireline ISPs to customer list
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Last week, the broadband wireless vendor announced it deployed its BreezeAccess gear for two separate service providers...
Bluetooth joins forces with UWB
By: By Jason Ankeny
The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) this week announced plans to collaborate with ultrawideband technology developers in an effort to enable Bluetooth to meet the demands of high-speed synchronization and the transfer of large data files...
