NextLink taps Ceragon for broadband wireless
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Ceragon Networks scored a massive win for its wireless point-to-point solution this week, announcing that NextLink, XO Communications’ broadband wireless division, is deploying its FibeAir high-capacity links in 75 U.S. markets...
Moto adds Symbol WLAN technology to portfolio
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Motorola is expanding its MOTOWi4 family of access products to include indoor WLAN technology, incorporating the recently acquired Symbol Technologies enterprise wireless portfolio into the business unit...
VZW extends TCS E911 deal
By: By Dan O'Shea
Verizon Wireless has extended an existing contract with TeleCommunication Systems for hosted E911 location services...
T-Mobile’s HSDPA solution is totally RAD
By: By tim McElligott
Starting in Germany, T-Mobile International will begin using RAD Data Communications as its partner for backhaul in its 3G and high-speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) network...
MFA Forum tackles backhaul
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The MFA Forum, which promotes deployment of multi-protocol label switching, has launched a new initiative to address the role of IP/MPLS for backhaul transport of traffic from mobile radio access networks...
FMC’s back office bump
By: By Dan O'Shea
Sometimes it seems fixed/mobile convergence is moving at a snail’s pace—and not for lack of interest among potential customers...
ADC adds to amplifier family
ADC, a Minnesota-based network infrastructure equipment company, has two new additions to its ClearGain line of tower-mounted amplifiers. Click here for more, in this issue's Proving Ground section...
Service building blocks
By: By Dan O'Shea
A look into the work being done to create a more seamless system in the wireless back office...
Aepona riding the long tail of service delivery
By: By Tim McElligott
The term “long tail” is not your typical networking lingo fad like “paradigm shift” or “customer centricity,” but it could be, if abused...
IneoQuest jumps on wireless video quality
By: By Tim McElligott
Following up on the success of its Video Quality Management System, IneoQuest Technologies this week introduced a new system for reducing network operational expenses related to video deployments that uses multi-dimensional monitoring and analysis technology...
Amp’d, Telus bring BREW to Canada
By: By Kevin Fitchard
A side effect of Amp’d Mobile’s recent launch with Telus Mobility was BREW’s first appearance in the Canadian market...
Mobile middle man
By: By Dan O'Shea
Innovation isn't a term restricted to describing only new technology developments; it's also applicable to new kinds of business models, and for many corporate enterprises, integrating mobile capabilities into existing business processes can be a big challenge...
Alcatel-Lucent lays out wireless product integration
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Alcatel-Lucent wireless business group president Mary Chan has an unenviable job for the next year. She has to integrate three disparate radio access network portfolios into a single cohesive unit, delivering on the new mega-vendor’s promise as a global wireless equipment powerhouse...
T-Mobile, Sony to create hotspot multiplayer gaming network
By: By Kevin Fitchard
T-Mobile is diving into wireless multiplayer gaming, using its Wi-Fi hotspot network in coffee shops, hotels and airports nationwide to offer free trial connectivity to Sony PlayStation Portable, the most popular connected gaming platform on the market...
How to accelerate the adoption of mobile TV
By: By John Smolucha, Enea
With over 1 billion cell phones in use in the world today, and with as many as 2 billion predicted by 2012, the evolution of mobile television has the potential to have as profound an impact on civilization over the next fifty years as broadcast television has had during the previous 50. Yet, despite years of hype, delivery of the world's number-one mass communication medium to the mobile device still has hurdles to overcome before realizing its potential...
CTIA: ABI study shows promise for FMC
By: By Dan O'Shea
ORLANDO--An ABI Research study released this week during the CTIA’s Wireless 2007 trade show hinted at good things to come for mobile operators that invest in fixed/mobile convergence...
BT innovation search goes global
By: By Carol Wilson
Faced with the challenge of injecting growth into what had been a staid company, BT has embarked on several ambitious plans. The most ambitious, BT’s 21st Century Network, is well known throughout telecom for its stated aim of moving all of BT’s services onto an Internet Protocol backbone in time to shut down the “old” PSTN by 2011...
CTIA: Moto wins ninth WiMAX deal; launches new BTS
By: By Kevin Fitchard
ORLANDO--Motorola continued its momentum in the emerging WiMAX sector, announcing today its ninth Mobile WiMAX contract, this one with Chilean operator VTR. It also released a revamped universal base station that will initially carry its CDMA baseband, but will eventually support Motorola’s other radio technologies...
In the spotlight: Skype’s Libertelli
By: By Carol Wilson
Christopher Libertelli doesn’t think he’s tilting at windmills. The senior director for government at Skype genuinely believes he can do for the mobile phone industry what a man named Tom Carter did for the wireline industry back in 1968...
CTIA: VZW gets exclusive Adobe mobile rights
ORLANDO--Adobe Systems announced at Wireless 2007 here that the company had made Verizon Wireless, one of several current carrier partners, its exclusive wireless carrier launch partner in North America for delivering all new Adobe mobile applications...
CTIA: Alcatel-Lucent unveils CDMA intelligent antenna solution
By: By Dan O'Shea
ORLANDO--Alcatel-Lucent announced at its annual press and analyst breakfast at Wireless 2007 that the company has developed a beamforming intelligent antenna solution for carriers using CDMA 1X networks that allows up to twice as much voice capacity as existing 1X architectures...
CTIA: Qualcomm lays out UMB roadmap
By: By Kevin Fitchard
ORLANDO--Qualcomm committed to developing an Ultra Mobile Broadband product line today at CTIA Wireless 2007, naming product numbers for what will be its future line of UMB handset and base station chips...
CTIA: Verizon Wireless does Rev. A with Alcatel-Lucent
By: By Dan O'Shea
ORLANDO--Verizon Wireless announced at the CTIA Wireless 2007 trade show that it was giving existing vendor Alcatel-Lucent a three-year deal worth about $6 billion to be its primary vendor to deploy CDMA EV-DO Rev. A...
Cable, AT&T prepping for convergence battle
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Converged services between wireless and wireline networks are finally emerging in the U.S. as cable operators begin to see results of their joint venture...
