How to mobilize the enterprise 

By: By Peter Semmelhack, Antenna Software

Enterprises no longer need to be convinced of the benefits that mobile applications offer. The debate has moved from “Do we need a mobile application?” to “How can we deploy and manage it?” Enterprises need to identify the requirements of their business, the preferences of end users and IT staff, and select a device/software/network combination that best meets their needs...

CTIA: Azaire converges with CDMA 

By: By Dan O'Shea

At CTIA’s Wireless 2007 trade show next week, Azaire Networks will be showing off its new CDMA network component addressing the packet data interworking function in pre-IMS networks...

ITC weighs Qualcomm chip ban 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Qualcomm appeared before the U.S. International Trade Commission on Wednesday seeking to fight off rival Broadcom from getting a ban on imports of some of its phone technology into the U.S...

VON: Mobile is next great frontier 

By: By Carol Wilson

SAN JOSE--Mobile handsets represent the next great opportunity for the VoIP industry, venture capitalist Vinod Khosla of Khosla Ventures said today in a VON keynote...

Alcatel-Lucent trials UMTS over 900 MHz 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

NBC embraces mobile TV program on-demand 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

NBC Universal today announced a bold plan to make full-length prime-time programs from across its networks available for on-demand streaming over MobiTV’s video content distribution network...

Alcatel-Lucent, Nortel grab WiMAX opportunities 

By: By Dan O'Shea

Alcatel-Lucent and Nortel networks each separately announced this week some progress in working with service providers on WiMAX network deployments...

InFocus: Backhaul requirement for WiMAX-enabled services 

By: By Greg Friesen, DragonWave Inc.

Mobile operators are rapidly deploying 4G technologies such as WiMAX in an effort to increase the mobility of high-speed Internet access. This emerging deployment of high-capacity broadband wireless will enable a new set of customer services focused on the convergence of data, video and voice. All of this activity is driving a new set of backhaul requirements to enable these services...

First PoC network goes live 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Sonim Technologies said today that the first push-to-talk over cellular (PoC) system went live commercially today over KPN’s GPRS network in The Netherlands, bringing to a close a four-year development cycle intended to give GSM operators the same walkie-talkie capabilities as Nextel...

Alcatel-Lucent selling CDMA over government bands 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Alcatel-Lucent unveiled its first CDMA network targeted at government deployments and announced its first government contract today...

Beceem ties up with Samsung for WiMAX 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Beceem Communications today confirmed its chipset relationship with Samsung, formally announcing what everybody already knew: Beceem is supplying Mobile WiMAX silicon to the Korean vendor...

Yankee: 28 million Mobile WiMAX subs by 2011 

By: By Dan O'Shea

The Yankee Group is forecasting a total of 28 million Mobile WiMAX subscribers by 2011, according to research the agency discussed this week as part of a tele-briefing on the state of the WiMAX industry...

Sequans receives Alcatel-Lucent investment 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Sequans said today Alcatel-Lucent has made invested an undisclosed sum into the French chipset maker and agreed to use Sequans’ WiMAX technology in its micro and pico base stations in addition to its former arrangement to supply silicon for customer premise equipment...

Femtocell movement gathers steam 

By: By Dan O'Shea

The market for femtocells essentially very small IP base stations that could be deployed in customer homes to support fixed/mobile convergence and other...

3GSM: Reporter's notebook 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Two years after buying Intellisync, Nokia has finally integrated the company’s mobile e-mail and over-the-air synchronization platform into its own mobile e-mail solution, allowing the carrier to offer to its own enterprise push solution...

3GSM: HP launches first smartphone 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

BARCELONA--HP unveiled its first smartphone at the 3GSM World Congress, showing off a new slimmed down and voice-centric version of its iPAQ wireless PDA line it is targeting at the rapidly growing smartphone sector...

3GSM: CDMA stalwarts cautious over technology’s future 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

BARCELONA--When the industry began laying down its stakes in 3G, Chelmsford, Mass.-based Airvana put all of its bets on a single technology, CDMA 1X EV-DO...

3GSM: Alvarion touts WiMAX deal at GSM’s biggest party 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

BARCELONA--Alvarion thumbed its nose ever so slightly at 3GSM World Congress today, announcing in the middle of GSM’s biggest global event that it had secured a contract for a fixed WiMAX deployment in the Congress’ host city of Barcelona...

3GSM: Ericsson to start LTE interoperability work 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

BARCELONA--Ericsson said it will begin interoperability testing with other vendors on its Long Term Evolution radio technology next quarter and plans to have equipment deployed with its first carrier customer by the first quarter of 2009...

AT&T taps MediaFLO for Cingular TV network 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Qualcomm has racked up another huge win for its Forward Link Only mobile TV technology, announcing on Monday that AT&T has selected its MediaFLO USA subsidiary as the provider of multi-channel broadcast TV service for Cingular...

3GSM: ZTE, Samsung developing home base station 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

BARCELONA--ZTE and Samsung today announced at the 3GSM World Congress a collaboration effort focusing on very specific technology, the femtocell, or home base station...

3GSM: Femtocells keep making noise 

By: By Dan O'Shea

BARCELONA--The business case for deploying femtocells in large volumes still may be developing, but vendors attending the 3GSM World Congress here are clearly excited about the next big small thing in wireless, with several product and partnership announcements already made...

NewStep lands BT 

By: By Carol Wilson

Convergence software maker NewStep announced today that BT will roll out an enterprise fixed/mobile convergence service based on its CNS30 product...

Mapping the mobile phone 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

First, digital photography became nearly ubiquitous on the mobile phone. Then music and e-mail penetrated down the tiers of handsets. Now vehicle navigation...

Made in China 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Huawei is making the old-name infrastructure providers more than a little nervous, but it hasn't assumed top-tier status yet. It still has to make a significant mark in the U.S....