2008

WiMAX is currently seizing and will grow into a multibillion-dollar fixed and portable wireless market, regardless of its fortunes in the mobile cellular market. 802.16e vendors may or may not …

Gartner Inc. research indicates there are a number of reasons why carriers will continue to spend on network infrastructure in the next five to 10 years. Wireless data boomCarriers in …

One of the most powerful tenets of retail sales is the law of retail location. Seemingly irrespective of what the actual product is, without strong retail distribution points, your product …

In the first half of 2007, mobile subscriber additions slowed to 10.4 million, the lowest level since 2003, and on a percentage basis, to its lowest level ever, according to …

The momentum of 3G data access has picked up speed as customers – particularly business users – experience the value of access to mobile broadband connectivity on their laptops, regardless …

Sanyo Electric Co. Ltd. will sell its ailing handset business — and wireless infrastructure assets — to Kyocera Corp. for about $375 million, the two companies announced.Sanyo’s handset unit had …

Internet protocol-based broadband wireless is the catalyst that will foster services innovation sparking a second stage (Transition stage) of growth in the cellular machine-to-machine (M2M) industry (see chart). Growth will …

Although the global market for mobile handset baseband semiconductors will continue to expand in 2008, business conditions for suppliers of such solutions will become more challenging due to the shrinking …

DirectTV Inc. introduced a new mobile site that will allow its TV subscribers to manage their digital video recorders remotely. The new offering comes nearly a year after TiVo Inc. …

Walking through Fort Lauderdale Airport recently, I heard the oft-repeated warning that the public-safety threat has been raised to orange. I think its time to change the phrasing: When was …

Wall Street Journal editorialists must be feeling downright cocky about now, fresh off their inimitable ‘I-told-you-so’ jab at Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin in the aftermath of Frontline Wireless’ …

The first two handset vendors to report fourth-quarter and full 2007 earnings last week both forecast 10% growth for their sector in 2008, on top of healthy unit volume growth …

Slash and cashVerizon Wireless said Guitar Hero III Mobile is its third-best-selling game of 2007 after only a few weeks of availability. The game, developed by Hands-On Mobile, was launched …

Demand for enterprise mobility should continue to ramp slowly this year, as companies move cautiously on well-thought-out strategies, according to two analysts who study the space.Coincidentally, both analysts – Kitty …

Qualcomm Inc. will shuffle executives to bolster global growth and named CEO Paul Jacobs’ brother, Jeff Jacobs, to the new post of chief marketing officer, the company said.Whether the newly …

Most mobile games challenge players to use their phones to kill alien invaders or drive race cars. But LimeLife Inc. CEO Kristin McDonnell wants gamers to use their phones for …

Despite the unceremonious break-up that shattered plans for a nationwide mobile WiMAX network partnership between Sprint Nextel Corp. and Clearwire Corp., both companies insist their rollout plans for 2008 are …

We are two shows into the 2008 show season and so far not much has been announced to trip up the wireless market. The Consumer Electronic Show had but a …

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin last week said the agency will re-examine the pole-attachment regulatory regime as part of a broader, ongoing effort to promote the deployment of broadband …

The market for WiMAX chipsets will reach almost $500 million by 2012, driven mainly by embedded mobile WiMAX in mobile personal computers, according to new research from high-tech research firm …

The growing availability of cellphones that support music is spurring increasing mobile music consumption in the United States and Western Europe, according to a new report from M:Metrics.The company said …

TD-SCDMA technology likely will be the dominant third-generation technology in China thanks to the government support it receives there, but the technology will face challenges outside the Chinese market, according …

The following infrastructure contracts were announced in December:

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We’ve collected a group of the industry’s leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry. …

A top member of the House Homeland Security Committee advised Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin not to scrap plans to auction the 700 MHz national commercial-public safety license, despite …