FiberTower targets backhaul
By: By Dan O'Shea
FiberTower arrives on the scene with the belief that better backhaul comes through dedication to the task...
KODIAK covers BREW crew
By: By Dan O'Shea
Kodiak Networks has announced a new software client that will bring its applications to BREW-enabled mobile phones...
Alvarion joins CDMA fray
By: By Kevin Fitchard
NEW ORLEANS--WiMAX proponent Alvarion today announced a surprise move into the CDMA 2000 space, announcing at CTIA Wireless 2005 it is preparing a 1X base station for fixed wireless deployments using technology from recent acquired cellular base station vendor InterWave...
The unsettled future of mobile broadband
By: By Dan O'Shea
The wireless industry is well into its 3G technology evolution, but the viability of one of its 3G standards remains in doubt. Meanwhile, 4G means enough different things to different vendors that none of them wants to embrace the futuristic term....
Is EV-DV dead?
By: By Kevin Fitchard
If not, it's certainly gasping its last breath. As more and more carriers commit to EV-DO technology, more and more vendors are backing away from the once-competitive data and voice combo...
The next generation gap
By: By Jason Ankeny
Everyone in wireless agrees that a new wave of innovation is approaching. But when it will get here--and even what to call it--is anyone's guess...
New Samsung gear aims for North America CDMA market
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Asian giant aims to penetrate world's largest CDMA market with new gear...
Nokia joins WWiSE effort
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Nokia has switched allegiance in the fight over the next-generation Wi-Fi standard, announcing today it has joined the World Wide Spectrum Efficiency Consortium, after initially backing competing group TGn Sync. ...
InFocus: Crossing the mobile enterprise chasm
By: By Eric Chu, Sun Microsystems
By anticipating the next wave of mobile application demand today, enterprise developers are in a strong position to create new products for tomorrow...
Avaya hooks the cellphone to the PBX
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Avaya today announced it has launched a cellular extension application for enterprise PBX’s over Nokia’s Series 60 platform, allowing mobile workers to combine their office and cellular phone numbers and use PBX capabilities like conferencing and call forwarding from their handsets...
Alvarion develops pre-WiMAX Micro base station
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Alvarion this week unveiled a new micro base station in its BreezeMax line, forging ahead with its plans to commercialize its pre-certified WiMax equipment while the WiMax certification process bogs down. ...
Nokia brings IMS to CDMA
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Nokia isn't the first name in CDMA, but today the vendor announced technology intended to bridge that gap. ...
RadioFrame to support Nextel iDEN network
By: By Kevin Fitchard
After more than a year of silence, specialty base station vendor RadioFrame is making some big noise, announcing a huge deal with its old customer Nextel for a massive microcell deployment....
Verizon selects Starent's PDSN for EV-DO network
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Starent Networks has landed a major contract with Verizon Wireless for its Packet Data Serving Node and home agent gear in Verizon's new 3G network as well as much of its current 1X footprint....
Qualcomm announces 3D gaming support
By: By Jason Ankeny
Qualcomm announced Monday new BREW publisher and developer support for the creation of wireless 3D games for its Mobile Station Modem Enhanced Multimedia Platform chipsets. ...
Teleo offering portable VoIP
By: By Carol Wilson
A new software start-up company is targeting road warriors and SOHO workers with a service that links portable voice over IP with cellphones and PCs to create a personal and portable VoIP service....
Nortel, LG conduct HSDPA trials
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Nortel Networks' and LG Electronics' new partnership bore its first fruit today as the two companies announced the completion of a High-Speed Downlink Packet Access call over commercial infrastructure and handsets....
Sprint lays out wireless VoIP migration
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Sprint officials said today that the carrier would center its future 3G migration path around 1X EV-DO technologies, committing the carrier to a future end-to-end VoIP network and officially discarding EV-DV from future consideration....
Cingular, CWA reach tentative agreement
By: By Jason Ankeny
Cingular Wireless has reached a tentative four-year agreement with the Communications Workers of America that would result in an 11% raise for 5300 Cingular workers. ...
Qualcomm, Ericsson pushing CDMA/GSM convergence
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Qualcomm and Ericsson Wednesday said they were conducting dual-mode CDMA 1X and GSM infrastructure trials in South Africa in a bid to show mobile operators there that CDMA can be used as an alternative to the typical GSM 3G technologies....
Anritsu looks ahead to 4G
By: By Tim McElligott
Anritsu Co. introduced a new vector signal generator that can be used for testing high-speed data packet access, 3.5G signals and future 4G technologies. ...
Devicescape announces handset development platform
By: By Jason Ankeny
Wireless device software developer Devicescape this week announced the launch of its Universal Wireless Platform 2.0, a software suite promising manufacturers more efficient device creation. ...
TowerStream exploring VoIP access network
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Metro area broadband wireless provider TowerStream is branching out into the mobile IP telephony arena, announcing today it is leveraging its New York pre-WiMax wireless access network to launch a network of Wi-Fi hot spots geared entirely at users of new VoIP-enabled handsets....
Skype penetrates further into wireless
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The peer-to-peer VoIP technology that has been harassing the wireline voice industry just gained another foothold in the wireless world. Skype users can now send SMS messages to any GSM phone. ...
Wireless Services says 43% of all text messages now spam
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Wireless messaging provider Wireless Services said today that 43% of all text messages sent over U.S. networks are spam messages, based on studies of its own network traffic....
