Verizon Wireless expands EV-DO in NYC
By: By Jason Ankeny
Verizon Wireless this week announced plans to accelerate EV-DO network expansion in the New York City area. ...
Fujitsu follows Intel in WiMAX chip parade
By: By Dan O'Shea
Fujitsu Microelectronics America officially made its long-awaited entry into the WiMAX semiconductor market late last week at Broadband Wireless World...
Intel raises WiMAX ante with new chip
By: By Jason Ankeny
Intel last week raised the curtain on its first-ever WiMAX product...
Vodafone selects Visto for push e-mail
By: By Jason Ankeny
Vodafone announced this week its selection of messaging provider Visto's ConstantSync push e-mail platform to deliver e-mail, contacts and calendar information in real-time to subscribers' handsets. ...
Lucent, Grupo Iusacell to deploy EV-DO
By: By Jason Ankeny
Lucent Technologies today announced an agreement to deploy an EV-DO network for Mexican carrier Grupo Iusacell that will deliver high-speed data, multimedia content and enterprise applications to subscribers in Mexico City, Monterrey and Guadalajara. ...
Verizon Wireless maps out international roaming
By: By Jason Ankeny
Verizon Wireless this week expanded its international roaming service, enabling subscribers equipped with tri-mode and digital wireless handsets to make and receive calls in Canada, Mexico, Bermuda, Dominican Republic, Israel, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, South Korea and Venezuela....
Qualcomm, NTT DoCoMo wrap WCDMA interoperability tests
By: By Jason Ankeny
Qualcomm this week announced the completion of interoperability testing on NTT DoCoMo's 3GPP WCDMA-compliant FOMA network, guaranteeing FOMA compatibility for all of Qualcomm's future WCDMA chipsets. ...
Wi-Fi Alliance expands testing programs
By: By Jason Ankeny
Non-profit industry association the Wi-Fi Alliance this week added four new Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) types to its Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) and WPA2 certification programs. ...
Liberty Alliance releases new specs for identity-based Web services
By: By Tim McElligott
The Liberty Alliance, an industry consortium working for open standards in federated network identity, has released three new interface specifications for identity-based Web services....
Cell phone users not thrilled by video option
By: By Carol Wilson
Watching television over a cell phone makes for a good technology demo, but that doesn't mean it's something customers want, according to a new survey of wireless users by In-Stat. ...
Freescale debuts ZigBee-compliant platform
By: By Jason Ankeny
Processing and connectivity product developer Freescale Semiconductor today announced the wireless industry's first platform compliant with ZigBee sensing and monitoring standard....
Wi-Fi that likes to roam
By: By Jason Ankeny
Wi-Fi hot spots are by no means the technological equivalent of a cop i.e., there usually is one around when you need one. Of course, there are still...
Philadelphia freedom: Officials announce citywide Wi-Fi
By: By Jason Ankeny
Philadelphia officials on Thursday announced the details of a plan to blanket the city's 135-square-mile area with unlicensed wireless Internet access, effectively creating the nation's largest Wi-Fi hot spot. ...
NCTA: Time Warner, Sprint launch MVNO trial in Kansas City
By: By Kevin Fitchard
SAN FRANCISCO--Time Warner today officially unveiled its long-rumored cable MVNO plans with Sprint today, as the two companies announced at the National Cable Telecommunications Association Show that they have launched a market trial of wireless services for Time Warner's cable customers in Kansas City....
Qualcomm to target mass market with push-mobile e-mail
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Reviving a venerable name in e-mail, Qualcomm is trying to accomplish what Blackberry and Seven haven't yet been able to accomplish--bring push-mobile e-mail to the mass market, launching a BREW-based e-mail client called Eudora2Go....
Orange testing IP Wireless TDD technology
By: By Kevin Fitchard
IP Wireless landed a big trial win for its Time Division Duplexing UMTS technology today, announcing Orange has concluded its evaluation of the small vendor's technology and is launching technical and marketing trials in Lille, France....
AirBand dusts off BWA expansion plans
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Southwest broadband wireless access provider AirBand announced today it has acquired the fixed wireless assets of Baltimore ISP Accelacom, marking the company's return to the East Coast after scaling down its operations during the economic downturn...
InFocus: Why service providers should move now to IMS
By: By John Marinho, Lucent Technologies
Moving to IMS now offers both wireless and wireline service providers significant long-term benefits...
Nortel revamps WLAN portfolio with Trapeze technology
By: By Kevin Fitchard
In partnership with Trapeze Networks, Nortel Networks has developed a new line of wireless LAN products, intended to converge office communications onto the same platform and build a better business case for wireless in the office....
Ogo a no-go for Cingular
By: By Jason Ankeny
Cingular Wireless is discontinuing sales of the short-lived Ogo, a wireless handheld device created specifically for e-mail, instant messaging and text messaging that forgoes voice service altogether. ...
Dilithium signs test pact with DoCoMo
By: By Dan O'Shea
Dilithium Networks has announced an agreement with Japan's NTT DoCoMo to collaborate on the development of 3G terminal test cases to advance video telephony interoperability test solutions. ...
Atheros debuts its first cellular chipset
By: By Jason Ankeny
Wireless semiconductor systems developer Atheros Communications made its first move into the cellular market this week, repurposing its fundamental radio technology to create the Atheros AR9100, a single-chip solution implementing a complete cellular transceiver, baseband, application processor, audio paths, power management and keypad, display and USB interfaces....
Adamind launches with a big splash
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The merger and IPO last month of two of the world's leading media adaptation companies resulted in Adamind, a funny name the industry is increasingly hearing more and more about as MMS gears up. ...
Tekelec releases UMA product
By: By Kevin Fitchard
NEW ORLEANS--At CTIA Wireless this week, switching vendor Tekelec introduced a new unlicensed mobile access (UMA) upgrade to its Tekelec 8000 multimedia gateway line. ...
Telcordia launches hosted solution with Movida MVNO
By: By Tim McElligott
NEW ORLEANS--Telcordia Technologies got into the hosted solutions game this week and announced its participation in the upcoming launch of Movida, an MVNO targeting the Hispanic market in the U.S....
