November 2009

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We’ve gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.In the mobile …

Ericsson – Cesare Avenia has been chosen to oversee the execution of Ericsson’s new brand strategy as Chief Brand Officer. Avenia, who joined Ericsson in 1994, is currently Head of …

Patent pool administrator Sisvel Group said it is holding an open meeting Feb. 2 to gauge interest in developing a patent pool for LTE technology. Companies that think they own …

Sprint Nextel Corp. expanded its mobile WiMAX service to San Antonio and Austin, Texas, marketed under the Sprint 4G brand. The service runs off of Clearwire Corp.’s network and provides …

North America has become Ericsson’s largest sales region and its second-largest employment region with the just completed acquisition of Nortel Networks assets and the recent outsourcing win from Sprint Nextel …

AT&T Inc.’s Pioneers New Jersey Chapter is teaming up with Junior Achievement of New Jersey this week for their second AT&T/JA Worldwide Job Shadow Initiative. The program will see AT&T …

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SAN DIEGO – Highlighted by the event’s name, this week’s 3G CDMA Americas Regional Conference took a step back from the hype surrounding so-called “4G” technologies and instead focused on …

DUBLIN—With a government mandate to innovate around future technology growth areas like information communications technology, a number of Irish companies have responded to the charge with diverse products and services …

Qualcomm Inc. said LG Electronics Co. Ltd. is one of three major phone makers that agreed to license its 4G high-speed wireless technology, solidifying its position in the mobile market …

Hello! And welcome to our Friday column, Worst of the Week. There’s a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so this column is a chance for …

A member of the Association of American Universities, the National Association of State Universities and the Big Ten athletic conference, and the nation’s first land-grant college, Michigan State University (MSU) …

Part 2 of a 2 part interview with Jim Orr, Principal Network Architect, Fujitsu Network Communications.

Part 2 of a 2 part interview with Curtis Rapp, VP – Sales & Marketing, air2web

Part 2 of a 2 part interview with Arnon Friedman, Marketing Director, Texas Instruments Infrastructure

Part 1 of a 2 part interview with Jim Orr, Principal Network Architect, Fujitsu Network Communications

Part 1 of a 2 part interview with Curtis Rapp, VP – Sales & Marketing, air2web

Part 1 of a 2 part interview with Arnon Friedman, Marketing Director, Texas Instruments Infrastructure

SAN DIEGO – The CDMA Development Group handed out their 2009 CDMA Industry Achievement Awards at this year’s 3G CDMA Americas Regional Conference in San Diego, Calif., this week. Winners …

HELSINKI, Finland – The fall in the handset market stopped in the third quarter, helped by clearing of inventories of unsold phones and booming sales on the so-called grey market …

Pakistan: Nokia Siemens Networks has been selected by Telenor Pakistan to deploy energy-efficient off-grid sites to rural regions of the country. United States: Mediacom has chosen Huawei to provide NG-DWDM …

Clearwire gets more funding from Sprint, other investorsFrom: RCR Wireless NewsClearwire Corp. confirmed it would gain another $1.564 billion in funding from its existing partners to help it continue to …

DUBLIN—The Irish are embracing mobile broadband services using both 3G cellular technology and mobile WiMAX, according to statistics from the government’s Commission for Communications Regulation, or ComReg, the equivalent of …

Word hit the streets yesterday from the National Telecommunications Information Administration and the Rural Utilities Services that there’s only going to be one more round of broadband funding. Nothing earth-shaking …

Clearwire Corp.’s third-quarter operating loss widened as the operator built out new markets and increased its cost per gross addition from $404 a year ago to $563 today. Revenues were …