WiMAX will threaten incumbents’ bundles
By: By Carol Wilson
Telecom service providers and cable operators are going head to head in assembling quadruple-play service bundles with which they hope to lock up the consumer market. The cable industry has already spent billions to upgrade its networks, while both AT&T and Verizon are now pouring billions into their access networks to be able to deliver video...
WiMAX truly disruptive if marketed well, study says
By: By Carol Wilson
A new study by two industry veterans states that WiMAX technology, if deployed and marketed correctly, is a truly disruptive technology that could unseat the telco-cable duopoly and provide consumer choice in broadband services and devices...
Muni Wi-Fi: Proceed with caution
By: By Carol Wilson
Even as U.S. municipalities, small and large, continue to plan and build out municipal Wi-Fi networks, new independent research is challenging the return on investment those cities will reap, as well as the wisdom of assumptions being made about economic development benefits...
DavCo, New Edge to link Wendy’s locations
By: By Mark Donahue
Wendy’s franchisee DavCo said today it will wrap up installation of a private wireless area network it hopes will improve efficiency, profits and the customer experience at its more than 160 Wendy’s restaurants in the Maryland, northern Virginia and Washington area...
Sprint to buy ZTE WiMAX CPE
By: By Carol Wilson
ZTE USA and Sprint Nextel today announced they have signed a master purchase agreement under which ZTE will supply its WiMAX PC cards and home networking gear to Sprint for its national WiMAX rollout...
T-Mobile extends Nortel contract
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Nortel said this week T-Mobile USA has extended its GSM infrastructure contract with the Canadian vendor for $150 million in new equipment and professional services...
Alcatel-Lucent, Huawei score Indian mobile deals
By: By Ed Gubbins
Alcatel-Lucent today announced having won a $400 million contract to supply India’s Reliance Communications with CDMA and GSM wireless equipment, while Huawei Technologies won a $200 million contract to do the same...
Leap taps Huawei as third AWS equipment vendor
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Huawei has been named a vendor for Leap Wireless' expansion into new territory using spectrum the carrier acquired in the Advanced Wireless Services auction last year. Huawei joins Nortel and Alcatel-Lucent as an infrastructure vendor for the project, which requires new radio gear tuned to the 1.7 GHz and 2.1 GHz frequencies...
Leap starting AWS build
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Leap is moving forward on its network expansion plan with its new Advanced Wireless Spectrum licenses, acquired from last year’s auction...
iPhone activation pays off for Synchronoss
By: By Tim McElligott
A week after AT&T’s and Apple’s big launch of the iPhone, Synchronoss Technologies, the company responsible for coordinating the activation of those phones between the iTunes interface and AT&T’s back office systems, was rewarded with a multi-year contract...
Alcatel-Lucent, Softbank Mobile do femto demos
By: By Dan O'Shea
Alcatel-Lucent today announced that it is collaborating with Japanese service provider Softbank Mobile on a series of demonstrations of its 3G wireless in-building solutions in Japan. Specifically, the demonstrations will showcase the vendor’s Femto Base Station Router...
Alcatel-Lucent to build WiMAX in Russia
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Alcatel-Lucent has landed a deal to build a nationwide rural WiMAX access network in the most rural country in the world, Russia. The mammoth deal will put Alcatel-developed Mobile WiMAX gear in 1000 Russian towns by the end of 2008...
iPhone secrets revealed
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Apple has been notoriously secretive about its suppliers for the new iPhone, but this weekend, after the iPhone became commercially available, analysts, bloggers and assorted techies got their first chance to bust open the mysterious new device, revealing the components within...
VeriSign powers Live Earth SMS platform
By: By Kevin Fitchard
VeriSign will be managing the massive messaging campaign held in conjunction with the Live Earth concert series worldwide, which could generate millions of premium SMS messages globally in a 24-hour span...
T-Mobile launches long-awaited FMC service
By: By Kevin Fitchard
T-Mobile today took the tarp off of its Wi-Fi/cellular integrated service after more than a year of testing and trials, making it the first major U.S. carrier to launch a commercial fixed/mobile convergence network...
Vodafone, Groove trial off-portal music downloads
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Vodafone and Groove Mobile are turning their collaboration over off-portal music downloads into a commercial trial that may result in a full service launch this fall...
Nortel wins down-under WiMAX deal
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Nortel has scored its first major WiMAX win, announcing this week that Australian cable provider Austar United Broadband will roll out its base station kit in regions of Australia with low broadband penetration...
NXTcomm: Verizon launches FMC portfolio
By: By Carol Wilson
Verizon this week launched a portfolio of fixed/mobile convergence products targeting the enterprise segment and drawing on the capabilities of both Verizon Business and Verizon Wireless...
WiMAX Forum opens U.S. testing lab
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The WiMAX Forum said today it is opening its first interoperability and testing lab in the U.S. to complement its facilities in Europe and Asia. AT4, the engineering group that runs the Forum’s validation testing in Spain, is scouting several locations near Reston, Va., which would put the facility right next to Sprint’s own WiMAX research and development facilities...
InfoSpace debuts new content platform
By: By Kevin Fitchard
InfoSpace formally launched its mCore software suite this week, the result of the company’s transformation from a content distributor and aggregator to a content platform provider that draws in multiple technologies, including search, portal, messaging and storefront and Web/WAP solutions...
Clearwire partners with Echostar, DirecTV
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Clearwire today said it has signed mutual distribution deals with EchoStar and DirecTV, allowing Clearwire to sell the two satellite providers’ TV services and allowing EchoStar and DirecTV to sell Clearwire’s broadband wireless service...
Nokia’s Wibree incorporated into Bluetooth
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Nokia’s maligned Wibree technology received a huge dose of legitimization today, as the Bluetooth Special Interest Group announced it is incorporating the Wibree spec into the SIG’s Bluetooth portfolio of technology...
Vendors, carriers rally around Qualcomm
By: By Kevin Fitchard
LG today joined U.S. mobile operators in supporting chip vendor Qualcomm, asking federal courts to suspend Thursday’s U.S. International Trade Commission’s ban on new handsets containing Qualcomm CDMA radios...
WiMAX Forum launches training program
By: By Dan O'Shea
The WiMAX Forum, with partners DoceoTech Inc. and Informa Telecoms & Media, has launched the WiMAX Forum Certified Training Program, a series of education programs designed to help both business and technical audiences in the process of learning about or deploying WiMAX...
MMA: Nielsen to track mobile data usage
By: By Kevin Fitchard
LOS ANGELES--Nielsen, the company that measures consumer patterns across all media, this week said it will launch a new wireless measurement service that will track wireless Internet, video and content consumption among the country’s millions of wireless subscribers, just as it tracks watching patterns on TV...
