Argogroup earns China deployment
By: By Dan O'Shea
Mobile networking monitoring vendor Argogroup announced that its Monitor Master platform has been deployed in China on a TD-SCDMA network. ...
A-IMS breaks Verizon’s silence
By: By Dan O'Shea
While Cingular Wireless, Sprint and other mobile carriers around the world have long spoken of their intentions and goals for deploying IP Multimedia Subsystem architecture, Verizon Wireless—and other units of its corporate parent, for that matter—stayed relatively quiet, not even publicly committing to trials or naming vendors...
TI links with Japanese vendors for UMTS venture
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The same consolidation of resources occurring among wireless equipment and handset vendors is now happening in the wireless chipset business. Leading wireless semiconductor maker Texas Instruments is partnering with two of Japan’s largest vendors to develop a joint venture called Adcore-Tech, focused on developing, designing and licensing W-CDMA chips...
Nokia trials UMA
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Nokia today said it has launched its first trial of unlicensed mobile access technology in Oulu, Finland, putting its new Nokia 6136 dual-mode phones in the hands of 50 families and using Oulu’s free downtown hotspot network...
Lucent testing UMTS900 with O2
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Lucent Technologies today said it is expanding its 3G trial project with O2 on the Isle of Man to include a field trial of UMTS and high-speed downlink packet access technology over 900 MHz spectrum, the standard European cellular band. ...
UPDATE: Verizon Wireless team touts A-IMS
By: By Dan O'Shea
Industry observers who thought the IP multimedia subsystem concept was the latest in a long line of well-intended but generally convoluted technology standards can now size up Advances to IMS (A-IMS), an evolutionary reference document compiled over the last year by Verizon Wireless and several of its vendor partners...
Earthlink muni-nets gain Ethernet backhaul
By: By Dan O'Shea
EarthLink has rounded out its network backhaul scheme for the municipal wireless networks it is building in Philadelphia, New Orleans and other cities, having announced a partnership this week with broadband wireless vendor DragonWave to provide Ethernet-based backhaul from towers and building rooftops. ...
mBlox to power Skype SMS
By: By Kevin Fitchard
mBlox today announced it has won a contract with Skype to handle the traffic, billing and settlement for Skype’s new SMS service...
Update: Verizon Wireless taps Nortel for faster network
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Verizon Wireless gave its second vendor, Nortel Networks, the go ahead to upgrade its EV-DO networks to their faster iteration, EV-DO Revision A, announcing today it will rollout the software and base station upgrades throughout its Nortel-built 3G footprint this summer...
LongBoard eyes mobile multimedia roaming
By: By Dan O'Shea
Mobile TV and other mobile multimedia services may be fairly new on the scene, but expectations for service quality and continuity already are being set. LongBoard, a Santa Clara, Calif., vendor that recently has focused on how to deliver seamless roaming for fixed/mobile converged voice services, today announced a new platform to enable roaming for mobile video and other multimedia applications...
Cingular launches HSDPA phone
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Cingular today publicly took the veil off its first high-speed downlink packet access phone, the LG Electronics CU500, which the carrier has been selling silently in select markets this spring but is now commercially marketing throughout its UMTS footprint....
Comverse to broker messaging
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Comverse is currently developing a next-generation application called the Message Broker, which is designed to take all of the disparate forms of messaging on a carrier's network and route them through a single box, allowing e-mail to become text messages, multimedia messages to become voice mail and any other combination a carrier can think of....
The upside to different
By: By Tim McElligott
Montana's Chinook Wireless goes against the grain in more ways than one as it converts its network from CDMA to GSM and stakes its five-year plan on being the alternative...
Taking VoIP to the cell phone
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Qualcomm says its new EV-DO Revision A is ready for primetime, supporting the industry's first end-to-end voice-over-IP calls. VoIP to the handset may now be a reality, but it's a reality carriers may be slow to accept...
Satellite allows localized mobile TV
By: By Sarah Reedy
Many said it simply would not work. There was too much technical complexity and too many challenges with the quality of reception. Yet in September at the 2006 IBC Conference in Amsterdam, Netherlands, UDCast plans to announce that it has created a low-cost, revenue-generating satellite distribution system...
Wi-Fi Alliance gears up for 802.11n - Wireless Technology
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The IEEE 802.11n standard may be more than a year away from being finalized, but the Wi-Fi Alliance is already prepping itself for the certification trials of the next-generation of Wi-Fi...
WiMAX wins one convert, awaits more
By: By Dan O'Shea
The WiMAX community late last week was still anxiously awaiting any indication from Sprint that it plans to deploy the technology...
Lucent warns of wireless sales slump
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Lucent Technologies fired an earnings warning shot after market close yesterday, saying its net income would suffer due to poor sales of North American wireless infrastructure. Lucent officials said fiscal third-quarter revenues would fall $300 million from the same quarter a year ago to $2.04 billion, and profits would take an even more dramatic downturn, coming in at 2 cents per diluted share versus the 7 cents reported last year. ...
Allied Telesis launches SOHO wireless router
By: By Dan O'Shea
Allied Telesis, which last month changed its name from Allied Telesyn, has launched a new wireless router/bridge device for small office/home office and small business networks...
WCA spotlights ongoing platform debate
By: By Jason Meyers
The WCA 2006 event held this week in Washington, D.C. provided a stage for much sparring over which technology platform ultimately will win out with large network operators...
Danger creates Sidekick number three
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Danger has developed the third installment of its hip-top messaging phone, known to T-Mobile customers as the Sidekick, and will begin shipping it to T-Mobile USA customers this week. ...
Making the most of microwave
By: By Carol Wilson
Microwave networks are hardly a new technology, but some cellular industry veterans are teaching this old dog some new tricks...
WiMAX makes case in Asia
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Some of the first Mobile WiMAX products began emerging at CommunicAsia this year as vendors began preparing for the first wave of certification...
COMMUNICASIA: Ericsson introduces GSM cell expander
By: By Kevin Fitchard
SINGAPORE—Ericsson is targeting rural regions in Asia with a new cell edge boosting technology that it claims will reduce opex and capex costs for a radio access network by as much as 30%....
EXCLUSIVE: Insight on how the network will evolve
By: By Carol Wilson
A significant new study from Insight Research attempts to take a broad look at possible telecom network evolution strategies, comparing the continued evolution of today’s networks, with the possibility of disruption by a move to an all-Internet approach or an all-wireless approach...
