Yearly Archives: 2008

WiMAX opportunity bright, though challenges remain

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....

Carriers need to spend money to make money: Why carriers need to spend to grow revenues and maintain margins

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

Location, location and (still) location: How wireless remains tethered to the store

One of the most powerful tenets of retail sales is the law of retail location. Seemingly irrespective of what the actual product is, without...

Rich mobile vision to drive investment

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...

Wi-Fi and 3G cellular: Learning to live together

The momentum of 3G data access has picked up speed as customers - particularly business users - experience the value of access to mobile...

It’s official: Sanyo sells handset division to Kyocera for $375M: Kyocera inherits major portion of Sprint Nextel portfolio

Sanyo Electric Co. Ltd. will sell its ailing handset business -- and wireless infrastructure assets -- to Kyocera Corp. for about $375 million, the...

Open-access strategy to push M2M business to enterprises

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...

Mobile semiconductor suppliers face challenges to remain competitive

Although the global market for mobile handset baseband semiconductors will continue to expand in 2008, business conditions for suppliers of such solutions will become...

DirectTV users get mobile access to their digital recorders

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

Apples and oranges

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...

Off the wall, again

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...

Samsung, Sony Ericsson post solid results: Vendors’ earnings, volumes set stage for this week

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...

Etc.

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,...

The mobile enterprise, 2008: ‘all over the map’

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...

For Qualcomm, it’s all in the family

Qualcomm Inc. will shuffle executives to bolster global growth and named CEO Paul Jacobs' brother, Jeff Jacobs, to the new post of chief marketing...

Mobile games get TV boost: Licensing deals expand reach, attract diverse demographic

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

Despite separation, Sprint Nextel, Clearwire remain committed to mobile WiMAX

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...

Hedgehogging: hedge*hog*ging v. Interrupting conversations in an office environment by poking your head over the top of the cube.

We are two shows into the 2008 show season and so far not much has been announced to trip up the wireless market. The...

FCC to revisit pole attachments as part of broadband initiative

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...

WiMAX chips to generate $500M by 2012

The market for WiMAX chipsets will reach almost $500 million by 2012, driven mainly by embedded mobile WiMAX in mobile personal computers, according to...

Music-enabled phones spurring mobile music usage in U.S., W. Europe

The growing availability of cellphones that support music is spurring increasing mobile music consumption in the United States and Western Europe, according to a...

TD-SCDMA protocol to face challenges beyond China

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...

December infrastructure awards

The following infrastructure contracts were announced in December:

Analyst Angle: Driving connectivity

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...

Lawmakers worry over fate of 700 MHz D Block

A top member of the House Homeland Security Committee advised Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin not to scrap plans to auction the 700...
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