The following list details this week's infrastructure awards for the cellular, Wi-Fi, and WiMAX industries. The contracts are broken down by transmission technology, country and vendor. The value of the contract is included when available.Cellular--China: Alcatel-Lucent said it won a contract with China Telecom...
Are more job cuts on the way for Sprint Nextel Corp.?After speaking with Sprint Nextel CFO Bob Brust, Pali Research predicts that the carrier will sacrifice employees in order to save a drowning company. The report's author, Walter Piecyk, said he expects Sprint Nextel...
Standard & Poor's lowered its long-term corporate credit rating on Motorola Inc. on Friday to "junk (bond) territory," according to the Wall Street Journal.S&P's rating change was to "BB+" from "BBB." Moody's Investor Services warned last week that it, too, may cut its credit...
Alvarion Ltd. and NeuStar Inc. became the latest wireless companies to announce jobs cuts amid an increasingly tightening economy.First up: WiMAX vendor Alvarion, which said today it will cut its global headcount by about 110 people, which is 11% of its 1,000-person workforce. The...
Regional carrier Cellular One released an unlimited monthly wireless plan priced at $80, undercutting similar offerings from its nationwide competitors.The carrier's new "All of America" plan includes nationwide unlimited voice and text with no roaming or long-distance charges. Because Cellular One is a GSM...
Buzzwire Inc. bagged a new leader, hiring former Newsweek president and worldwide publisher Greg Osberg to expand its network of content and carrier partners.The Denver-based startup powers Verizon Wireless's m.vcast - a mobile Internet-based video service that debuted in September - as well as...
Rumors of a pending deal to sell the iPhone 3G at Wal-Mart are bouncing around between mainstream media, bloggers and analysts. The San Jose Mercury News reported Friday that Apple Inc. may sell a 4-GB iPhone model for $99. According to analyst Maynard Um...
AT&T Mobility launched an end-to-end solution for its enterprise customers interested in tracking and managing their fleet of vehicles with a solution developed by TeleNav Inc.Starting this week, AT&T Mobility will offer TeleNav's Vehicle Tracker through its wireless network. The GPS-enabled device has been...
In a scant 25 years, wireless technology has revolutionized the world. The cellphone is now a necessity; the network is now a conduit to friends, family, colleagues, TV, e-mail, maps, the Internet - the list keeps growing. The wireless ecosystem we enjoy today was...
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.The macroeconomic weakness and increased uncertainty has spurred enterprises to reduce capital budgets and increasingly...
A leading watchdog group accused the Bush administration in a lawsuit of withholding records on traffic deaths associated with cellphone use by operators of motor vehicles, one of several developments that suggest the driver-distraction debate may be shifting toward advocacy favoring stricter laws and...
Nokia Corp. said last week that holiday-related handset sales will likely fall short of the company's last estimate, issued in mid-November. Three weeks ago, Nokia had forecast 330 million units, a slight drop from the year-ago quarter. Even with its much-vaunted visibility into...
You could see it coming. Once President Bush signed the $700 billion Wall Street bailout bill into law, most certainly it was not going to end there. With clouds of economic turmoil darkening by the day, the auto industry jetted into town with tin...
Next week Alcatel-Lucent CEO Ben Verwaayen will unveil a plan that is geared to turn around the fortunes of the world's largest telecommunications equipment maker - and wireless is expected to be part of that plan.Despite pressure from investors to close up the wireless...
Various metrics for how the handset market is faring at this juncture are swirling like the snow in a paperweight designed to be shaken for pleasant effect. But this swirl of metrics is anything but pleasant. And how and when they settle could well...
Flickr is targeting smartphone users with an upgraded mobile site.The popular photo-sharing destination - which claims it has seen a 50% increase in mobile traffic over the last year - "radically overhauled" its wireless Web site, adding video playback capabilities for iPhone and iPod...
I just got back from a long weekend in a place that is defying the economic downturn, where there is a housing shortage because of all of the people flocking to the area, where the local restaurant has to close early because there aren't...
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, are hoping to use GPS-enabled wireless phones to help them study traffic data. Participants in the study will be asked to download software onto their phone that tracks their movements and submits the information to a server...
The following list includes venture capital and other investments into wireless companies announced during the past week. The value of the investment is included when available.--Awarepoint: Cardinal Partners led a $13.3 million Series D funding round into San Diego, Calif.-based Awarepoint Corp., which provides...
Goodbye Xohm, hello Sprint 4G.Just over a year after inventing a new word for its WiMAX plans, Sprint Nextel Corp. has decided on a name that is easier on the tongue, and eyes, for its next-generation network aspirations. Sprint Nextel will be serving up...
Talk about blazing trails: Ericsson has taken its uber-fast HSPA+ gear commercial in Telstra’s network in Australia, which is now capable of delivering the head-spinning speed of 21mbps — a three-fold improvement over the industry standard speed to date. One slight hitch: You can’t...
