Flarion lays on the capacity 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Flarion Technologies has released upgraded Flash OFDM gear to target triple-play IP services over mobile networks, claiming it can blow out of the water the standard model of counting MBs over the WAN wireless network and deliver a full 1 GB of data to every subscriber each month....

OBSAI releases base station interface specs 

By: By Jason Ankeny

The Open Base Station Architecture Initiative has made available to non-members the first versions of its open base station interface specification documents. ...

Kodiak supercharges its PTT platform 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Kodiak Networks today released a bevy of new advanced voice services for its push-to-talk Real-Time Exchange platform, offering up VoIP-like enhanced features for deployment over the circuit-switched network....

Vcast launches with music video service 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Buried amid the avalanche of new content Verizon Wireless launched over its Vcast consumer 3G services today was an interesting take on music service. ...

Sprint joins WiMax Forum 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Sprint today hinted that WiMax may have a place in its growing menu of wireless access technologies, announcing that it has become a member of the WiMax Forum....

AT&T MVNO becomes a question mark 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

SBC's proposed acquisition of AT&T spells the end of AT&T's plans to launch a mobile virtual network operator with Sprint this year. Though AT&T chairman and CEO David Dorman said that it still plans on launching AT&T Mobile, that launch would be with Cingular, not its competitor. ...

The weird, unwired world 

All of the following stories are true. ROME: Some Italian doctors say excessive text messaging could lead to acute tendonitis...

On the verge of convergence 

By: By Jason Ankeny

The FCC's ruling on VoIP regulations is combining with the growing scarcity of wireless spectrum to make converged cellular/Wi-Fi networks an increasingly viable alternative to traditional system buildouts. How the marriage of two disruptive technologies promises to change the way service providers do business...

The consumer electronics equation 

By: By Vince Vittore

Telcos, consumer electronics vendors see partnering as the way to move forward with HD services...

Good Technology gets better with new enterprise platform 

By: By Jason Ankeny

Wireless messaging services provider Good Technology moved beyond e-mail last week with the launch of GoodAccess...

Nortel launches JV with LG 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Nortel this week announced it is extending Asian reach further, partnering with Korean telecom vendor LG, and that it has reached a critical trial milestone with its high-speed downlink packet (HSDPA) access gear...

Verizon Wireless to use Microsoft technology in Vcast 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Building up to its Feb. 1 launch of Vcast, Verizon Wireless today revealed that it would use Microsoft's Windows Media platform to power its new high-bandwidth video and audio streaming service. ...

WiMAX tests will have Spanish flavor 

By: By Dan O'Shea

The WiMAX Forum has re-scheduled its 802.16-2004 standard plugfest to take place in Spain in July. ...

Adtran launches modular microwave systems 

Adtran today unveiled a new series of microwave products designed to operate in unlicensed 5.8 GHz spectrum, combining TDM and IP functions into a single...

Orthogon unveils 300 Mb/s wireless bridge 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Orthogon Systems is ascribing to the "fatter the pipe the better" philosophy. It released today a new wireless Ethernet bridge that it claims will put...

Path to convergence 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

IMS makes its stateside debut as Sprint seeks to integrate its wireless and wireline technologies...

Vodafone: No new video spec 

By: by Jason Ankeny

Published reports that claim Vodafone Group, Cingular Wireless, China Mobile and NTT DoCoMo are among dozens of companies collaborating on a new mobile...

WiMAX certification held up, but market remains hopeful 

By: By Kevin Fitchard and Jason Meyers

Plans for 802.16-2004 interoperability plugfest now up in the air...

T-Mobile targeted by hacker 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

A hacker broke into T-Mobile’s mobile data network, accessing the e-mail and files of hundreds of customers, including those of the secret service agent...

Samsung to sell Sonus IP switching gear 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Samsung will incorporate Sonus’ packet switch architecture into its wireless infrastructure portfolio, Sonus officials said today. The deal makes Samsung...

Lucent opts to go with Alvarion for WiMAX 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Lucent Technologies today announced it was entering the WiMax market with an OEM deal with Alvarion, selling its BreezeMax line of broadband wireless...

Cingular commits to launching Microsoft devices 

By: by Kevin Fitchard

Newly-minted No. 1 wireless carrier Cingular Wireless gave Microsoft a boost today, announcing with the software giant that they are collaborating with...

InnoPath brings OTA software to Sprint 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Over-the-air update software vendor InnoPath today marked its entry into the U.S. market, announcing a deal with Sprint to support wireless firmware and...

Cingular, Lucent make HSDPA test calls 

By: By Dan O'Shea

Cingular Wireless is one step closer to deploying high-speed downlink packet access technology, having worked with vendor Lucent Technologies to complete...

Cingular adds cell sites in Texas, Florida 

By: by Jason Ankeny

Cingular Wireless has announced the installation of more than 170 new GSM/EDGE cell sites across Texas in conjunction with the company’s $98 million statewide...