IPWireless to focus on chips
By: By Kevin Fitchard
IPWireless is dumping its infrastructure business in favor of becoming a core technology vendor...
Nextel maintains iDEN not dead yet
By: By Jason Ankeny
While CDMA may rule after the Sprint/Nextel merger, Nextel says there's still life in its iDEN push-to-talk platform. But will Motorola pull the plug?...
IPWireless brings UMTS to 450 MHz
By: By Kevin Fitchard
IPWireless today announced it has developed UMTS basestation and terminal technology for the 450 MHz band considered an alternative 3G and rural access technology in many established and developing markets...
InFocus: Why wireline carriers will be the early adopters of fixed mobile convergence
By: By David Schwartz, LongBoard
A key question is who will be the earlier adopters of fixed mobile convergence--wireline or wireless carriers? Several factors are leading to one answer: wireline carriers serving enterprise customers...
3GSM: Lucent develops IMS enhancements
By: By Kevin Fitchard
CANNES, FRANCE--Lucent Technologies kept the focus on its recent IP multimedia subsystem wins, revealing new enhancements to its IMS this week at the 3GSM World Congress...
3GSM: Handango, Comverse penetrate BlackBerry
By: By Kevin Fitchard
CANNES, FRANCE--Handango is targeting new customers on both sides of the Atlantic, announcing at the 3GSM World Congress new versions of its software download client for Blackberry and BenQ devices...
3GSM: Anritsu teams with Nemo on drive test
By: By Tim McElligott
Anritsu Co. introduced a new test tool and a partner for putting it to work in UMTS/W-CDMA wireless networks at 3GSM this week....
3GSM: NetTest launches new test and OSS solutions for wired and wireless networks
By: By Tim McElligott
Denmark's test and operations support system provider, NetTest, made some noise at 3GSM World Congress this week with several product launches including: a non-intrusive and intelligent KPI/KQI monitoring system for mobile and fixed operators called MetroQuest, a post-processing performance analysis solution for 3G operators called Compass 3G, and a new version of its MasterQuest OSS solution along with a new MasterQuest customer....
3GSM: Back-office vendors remake strategies/products
By: By Kevin Fitchard
CANNES, FRANCE--Back-office software makers Amdocs and Portal Software unveiled new products and ramped up business strategies this week at 3GSM World Congress...
3GSM: Ericsson names first IMS deployments
By: By Kevin Fitchard
CANNES, FRANCE--Ericsson today revealed its first IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) wins. (Photo: PASCAL GUYOT/AFP/Getty Images)...
3GSM: Azure integrates Certo and educates on revenue leakage
By: By Tim McElligott
With its most recent acquisition of Connexn's Certo revenue assurance platform fully integrated, Azure Solutions launched its next-generation platform with Inter-Party management at 3GSM this week in Cannes, France....
InFocus: ATCA ready for prime time in 2005
By: By Raju Penumatcha, Sun Microsystems
For a decade, the telecom industry has been moving away from proprietary hardware and software toward commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) technology. 2005 will be a landmark year in this evolution, as ATCA systems reach a critical mass of support from hardware and software suppliers...
3GSM: Series 60 goes after Chinese market
By: By Kevin Fitchard
CANNES, FRANCE--Series 60 is making its debut in China, gaining a foothold in East Asia after years of being a European centric platform....
3GSM: Orange working with Nortel on HSDPA
By: By Kevin Fitchard
CANNES, FRANCE--While neither company has announced a formal relationship, European wireless carrier Orange and Nortel Networks demonstrated a working HSDPA network at the GSM World Congress today, possibly foreshadowing a trial agreement or a potential 3G contract....
Nokia and Microsoft to launch cross-platform music service
By: By Kevin Fitchard
CANNES, FRANCE--Nokia and Microsoft set aside an old feud in mobile software today at the GSM World Congress to announce a mobile music service that will span both wireless and wireline networks, and integrate both into the Series 60 and Windows XP platforms....
3GSM: Oz launches branded e-mail over IM
By: By Kevin Fitchard
CANNES, FRANCE--Oz today at the GSM World Congress announced it has expanded its symbiotic relationship with the major IM providers to incorporate their e-mail services into its mobile instant messaging client...
3GSM: Microsoft builds mobile content framework
By: By Kevin Fitchard
CANNES, FRANCE--Microsoft’s wireless strategy today took a new twist as the developer announced at the 3GSM World Congress a bold software initiative targeted mobile carriers...
Andrew licenses antenna patents, acquires more
By: By Dan O'Shea
Wireless antenna firm Andrew Corporation has licensed its remote electrical tilt (RET) technology to three separate companies, while also acquiring patents related to RF power amplification from another company...
Comverse announces its presence
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Comverse this week released its first presence server, a standalone designed to add real-time presence functionality to legacy messaging services and evolve into a fully supported IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) application...
Alcatel lands first U.S. mobile core win; partners with Alvarion for WiMAX
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Alcatel has followed up its wireline IP BellSouth win with a major next-generation deal on the wireless side, announcing its subsidiary Spatial Wireless has been selected to provide the voice core for Cingular’s new UMTS network...
Boston Communications debuts new mobile platform
By: By Jason Ankeny
Wireless solutions provider Boston Communications Group announced this week a new mobile services platform consisting of four product sets available to wireless operators on both a licensed and outsourced basis...
End in sight for Nextel/Flarion trial
By: By Dan O'Shea
Nextel Communications has confirmed that it will end its one-year-old trial of Flarion Technologies’ FLASH-OFDM solution on June 30 to begin analyzing the data culled from the test before making any other decisions about deploying the technology...
Sprint gussies up for Valentine's Day
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Just in time for Valentine's Day, Sprint has decided to paint some lipstick on its wireless network, offering "romance" oriented messaging and communication services. ...
Symbol turns on new Wi-Fi switch
By: By Jason Ankeny
Enterprise mobility solutions developer Symbol Technologies announced today the Symbol WS5100, a high-capacity wireless switch created for implementation within large, campus-wide enterprise Wi-Fi deployments. ...
IPcelerate adds wireless, messaging to product line
By: By Vince Vittore
IPcelerate today announced the launch of a new application aimed at providing a link between wireless and wireline messaging. ...
