Image is everything
By: By Dan O'Shea
Bandwidth and signal strength give mobile TV a chance to succeed, but image quality may make the real difference...
MobiTV eyes evolution to new networks
By: By Dan O'Shea
Lost in all the hype about mobile video broadcast networks like Hi-Wire, MediaFLO and Modeo is a sense of what happens to the unicast mobile TV services that have preceded them...
iWLAN another consideration for video convergence
By: By Dan O'Shea
It appears that there is such a thing as more than a single industry standard when it comes to fixed/mobile convergence, or FMC...
Sprint adds three more markets to Rev. A footprint
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Sprint this week said it has finished loading the EV-DO Revision A upgrade in three more of its markets: Miami; Portland, Ore.; and Puerto Rico. ...
TI, Motorola cooperate on 3G, WiMAX
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Texas Instruments and Motorola today said they have entered into a strategic partnership to develop 3G and WiMAX handsets, using TI silicon and Motorola wireless expertise...
Army tests Nokia UMTS gear
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Fresh off its UMTS network win with T-Mobile, Nokia this week announced another 3G deal in the U.S.--but this time not with a service provider...
A Telephony Podcast: CES Recap
Telephony's Dan O'Shea and Kevin Fitchard take a look at the biggest carrier news that came out of this year's Consumer Electronics Show, including mobile video formats and how Apple's new iPhone is changing the wireless landscape...
Soma wins 700 MHz contract
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Soma Networks today said it has made one of its first sales of 700 MHz broadband wireless equipment, selling its FlexMAX system to CTC Telecom in Wisconsin to deploy in hard-to-reach and rural areas...
Carrier Ethernet beginning to dominate
By: By Carol Wilson
Metro Ethernet and cellular backhaul are hot investment areas for service providers, as they continue to converge their data services onto Internet Protocol backbones, according to the latest report from Infonetics, “Service Provider Plans for IP/MPLS: North America, Europe, Asia Pacific.”...
CES: Verizon launches Vcast TV, FiOS 2.0
By: By Carol Wilson
In a major press event at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas and in a Webcast, Verizon today announced the first live TV broadcast service for mobile phones as well as the next generation of its FiOS TV service – promising to leave cable “in the dust” with its new video prowess....
Sprint taps Nokia as third WiMAX vendor
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Sprint today named Nokia as the third infrastructure vendor for its new ‘4G’ mobile broadband network rollout, selecting the WiMAX latecomer from a crowded vendor field all vying for a piece of Sprint’s lucrative multibillion-dollar deployment...
RIM Pearl using Kodiak PTT for Cingular launch
By: By Kevin Fitchard
With a lock on push e-mail, Research in Motion is now looking into wireless’ other successful business application, push-to-talk, but the company is doing it with other vendors’ technologies...
ZTE gains another U.S. mobile contract
By: By Kevin Fitchard
ZTE won a second minor CDMA infrastructure contract in the U.S., announcing today a deployment of its all-IP CDMA 2000 equipment for ClearTalk Wireless, a small carrier with networks in Idaho, Tennessee, Alabama, California and Arizona...
InFocus: Pico Cells, Femto Cells, and DAS
By: By Stefan Scheinert, CTO, LGC Wireless
Some vendors suggest that pico/femto cells will replace the distributed antenna systems (DAS) that have been so widely deployed around the world, but the technical case isn’t quite so clear. In this article, we’ll consider the relative strengths and weaknesses of pico/femto cells and DAS, and see how they can be integrated to provide an optimum solution in many environments...
Samsung develops fused phone memory solution
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Samsung is attempting to bridge the memory divide in mobile phones, announcing this week that it has developed a single memory chip that shares its resources between the communications and multimedia applications of the phone...
Beceem makes grade with Windows
By: By Kevin Fitchard
While the entire WiMAX industry is eagerly awaiting the first rounds of mobile certification this month, Beceem has sought certification from a more unlikely source: Microsoft...
Ellacoya brings DPI to mobile world
By: By Carol Wilson
Deep packet inspection (DPI) technology has been used in telecom for a variety of purposes, but it has now found a new role in the mobile data arena, as a means for wireless service providers to create new service plans that address the growing demand for wireless Internet access...
CDG unveils Ultra Mobile Broadband
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The CDMA Development Group is dumping its old acronym-laden monikers for future technologies and trying out something snazzier for CDMA’s next evolutionary stage...
Nortel wins first WiMAX deal
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Nortel Networks today announced its first Mobile WiMAX contract with Chunghwa Telecom in Taiwan to build a mobile broadband network in Yilan County, directly south of capital city Taipei...
Qualcomm buys Airgo, RFMD’s Bluetooth operations
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Qualcomm today announced it has agreed to buy WLAN technologist Airgo and the Bluetooth assets of RF Micro Devices in separate deals for undisclosed sums. The two acquisitions give Qualcomm its first presence in both the local area network and personal area network wireless sectors, as well as Airgo’s significant work on IEEE 802.11n and Multiple Input/Multiple Output smart antenna technologies...
ITU: Microsoft promises Telco 2.0
By: By Carol Wilson
HONG KONG--Promising to take the telecom industry to the next level in much the same way it has addressed Web services, Microsoft used an ITU Telecom World 2006 press conference today to highlight products and announcements in its advanced telecom initiative...
ITU: Ericsson, Intel team for laptop UMTS applications
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Ericsson and Intel today announced an initiative to explore new mobile broadband applications for laptop PCs, in an effort to increase the proliferation of UMTS among this crucial business sector, which so far has been dominated by Wi-Fi...
InFocus: The capacity challenge
By: By Ross Ernst, TenXc Wireless
Wireless carriers are looking for alternatives that will optimize their available spectrum in moving toward new broadband network technologies. Read more about how non-invasive, low-cost spatial processing techniques are getting a fresh look from network operators for both existing and new broadband network deployments...
T-Mobile USA taps Ericsson, Nokia for 3G
By: By Dan O'Shea
T-Mobile USA, following up on the commitment it made last month to spend $2.6 billion on a 3G network rollout, has named Ericsson and Nokia as infrastructure suppliers for portions of that project...
In the Spotlight: Scott Ulsaker, Pioneer Telephone Cooperative
By: By Dan O'Shea
Scott Ulsaker, director of operations at Pioneer, is an old hand at wireless, having worked on AT&T’s Project Angel fixed wireless endeavor. He spoke with Telephony editor in chief Dan O’Shea recently about using Wi-Fi for in-home wiring...
