Alcatel: The Overachiever 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

If WiMAX were a science fair, Alcatel is striving to take first place. It doesn’t just want the ribbon and the pat on the back, it wants to run away with the prize, creating the perfect project that judges will moon over while the rest of the kids shuffle awkwardly in front of their paper-mache volcanoes and electromagnets. This article is part four of a six-part online series...

Alvarion: The Pipsqueak 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

The run-away leader in WiMAX’s first, fixed-wireless iteration, Alvarion has a global market share of 81%, according to Sky Light Research. But now that Tier 1 infrastructure vendors have chosen to enter the market with Mobile WiMAX products, Alvarion has suddenly relocated to a very big pond, where it’s not only a small fish--it’s swimming against barracuda. This article is part three of a six-part online series...

Cingular completes GSM integration 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Two years after its acquisition of AT&T Wireless, Cingular Wireless has finished integrating the two carriers’ GSM networks—known as the “blue” and the “orange” networks, respectively—creating a unified “gold” network of almost 47,000 cell sites across the country covering more than 270 million people...

Activation a Cingular sensation for Synchronoss 

By: By Tim McElligott

As a long-time AT&T Wireless supplier for activation services, Synchronoss Technologies faced a situation every vendor dreads when its largest customer gets acquired. But according to a success story released by Synchronoss today, Cingular Wireless bought into the managed activation concept and has become Synchronoss’ largest customer...

Agere focusing on music chips 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Agere is placing its bets on mobile music, announcing today its new line of entry-level GSM/EDGE chip will support full CD-quality music playback out of the box....

CTIA wrap-up: Briefs from the show floor 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Motorola, Nokia to coordinate DVB-H interoperability 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Rival phone makers Nokia and Motorola today said they would cooperate to ensure interoperability among their new digital video broadcast-handheld (DVB-H) devices and network equipment in an effort that could be the first step toward creating an interoperability certification process....

Cingular unifying backhaul with Tellabs gear 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

As part of its massive network integration effort and new UMTS rollout, Cingular has begun wrapping up all of its disparate backhaul pipes into a single transport network, funneling all TDM, ATM and IP traffic over a single platform, Cingular’s key backhaul technology provider revealed in an interview...

InFocus: Extending CDMA coverage overseas 

By: By John Spindler, Vice President of Marketing, LGC Wireless

Cellular providers with CDMA-based systems often have to disappoint their customers who travel to Europe, Asia, or the Middle East. According to the CDMA Development Group...

Kineto supports UMA over UMTS 

By: By Dan O'Shea

Kineto Wireless, the primary developer behind unlicensed mobile access (UMA) technology for fixed/mobile convergence services, has announced that its client software for mobile/Wi-Fi handoffs now supports UMTS...

Qualcomm releases CDMA chip for emerging markets 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Qualcomm today released one of the first chipsets in its new line of single-chip CDMA silicon, targeted at emerging markets where the price of CDMA networks and handsets can be cost prohibitive....

VZW brings 3G to upstate New York 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Verizon Wireless this week said it has extended its 3G EV-DO network to upstate New York, upgrading CDMA 1X base stations to the high-data-rate technology from Buffalo to Albany....

Nortel ticks off another UMTS win 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

With questions swirling about the future of Nortel Networks' UMTS division, the Canadian vendor announced a major 3G and high-speed downlink packet access upgrade contract with France's Bouygues Telecom...

Tropos does dual-mode mesh 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Tropos Networks has upgraded its WLAN mesh networking gear to handle 5 GHz router-to-router connections...

ZTE wins data card contract with Telus 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

ZTE today announced its first wireless win in North America, an agreement with Telus to supply EV-DO cards for the company's new metropolitan 3G network...

DBS companies drop out of AWS Auction 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

DirecTV and EchoStar today bowed out of the Advanced Wireless Services auction after initially battling T-Mobile fiercely for nationwide licenses over which the mobile carrier wants to deploy a 3G network....

Update: Huawei lands U.S. CDMA deal 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Huawei has won its first major wireless infrastructure contract with a U.S. carrier, announcing today it will deploy its CDMA 1X equipment in Leap Wireless’ growing regional network...

KT, Arraycomm test A-MAS 

By: By Dan O'Shea

South Korea service provider KT is planning with ArrayComm a fourth quarter test of multi-antenna signal processing software intended to enhance KT's WiBro network capabilities...

Sprint WiMAX choice a mixed bag for vendors 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Sprint’s decision to launch a nationwide Mobile WiMAX network may not have shaken up wireless vendors yet, but it certainly gave them a rattle...

WiMAX move adds new wrinkle 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Will Sprint's decision to adopt WiMAX alter the evolution of mobile networks?...

Improving mobile video 

By: By Sarah Reedy

As mobile technology users become more sophisticated, text messages and still images won't always suffice...

Update: Sprint embraces WiMAX 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Sprint today revealed it has selected Mobile WiMAX as the technology to power its next-generation “4G” mobile broadband networks, announcing both Motorola and Samsung as its major infrastructure vendors...

Wavion releases first MIMO products 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Wavion today took the wraps off of its first metro Wi-Fi access points, which use spatially adaptive transmission techniques and multiple antennas to increase range, coverage and capacity in municipal wireless networks....

Merger drags down Sprint; Rev. A upgrade planned for Q4 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Sprint's merger pains got worse in the second quarter, as the company today announced not only disappointing profits and revenue for the last quarter, but also one of its lowest gains in mobile subscriber growth in years....

Cingular penalizes legacy TDMA users 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Cingular will start charging a monthly $5 fee to customers still using its legacy time division multiple access networks in an effort to coerce them into upgrading to a GSM phone and service plan. ...