Editor's note: At the end of each year, the RCR Wireless News editorial staff looks back on the news events that made headlines and decides which were the most significant, industry-impacting stories during the past 12 months. While our list does not include the...
ATLANTA-BellSouth Corp. expanded its pre-WiMAX network to Palatka, Fla., offering wireless broadband services starting at $30 per month. BellSouth previously launched services in Athens, Ga. "Palatka was an obvious choice for BellSouth to offer this exciting technology," said Marshall Criser, state president of BellSouth's...
Wireless operators are playing the retail field, selling some high-end phones exclusively through nontraditional channels. And the nation's largest big-box retailer is becoming a first-stop shop. Verizon Wireless quietly launched a high-end Samsung handset exclusively through Best Buy late last month, snubbing its company-owned...
KIRKLAND, Wash.-Wireless broadband service provider Clearwire Corp. reported a distribution agreement with retailer Best Buy to offer Clearwire's service in select Best Buy locations across the country by the end of October.Best Buy will sell Clearwire's plug-and-play wireless modem, which the company said could...
The burgeoning Voice over Internet Protocol industry clipped a hurdle last week as Sprint Nextel Corp. reported that its subsidiary, Sprint Communications Co. L.P., has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against VoIP service providers Vonage Holdings Corp., theglobe.com Inc. and its operating subsidiary Voiceglo...
Canadian telecom giants Rogers Communications Inc. and Bell Canada said they plan to jointly build and manage a nationwide wireless broadband network that could include roaming opportunities with Craig McCaw's U.S.-based wireless broadband provider Clearwire Corp. Bell Canada and Rogers said they will pool...
Canadian telecom giants Rogers Communications Inc. and Bell Canada said they plan to jointly build and manage a nationwide wireless broadband network that through a potential roaming agreement could include Craig McCaw's U.S.-based wireless broadband provider Clearwire Corp. Bell Canada and Rogers said they...
Clearwire Corp. raised an additional $250 million in financing, according to reports, bringing the carrier's total war chest to a staggering $600 million. The news highlights investors' apparent interest in the wireless broadband space, as well as the technology's potential to agitate entrenched wireless...
SYDNEY-Chipmaker Intel Corp. continued to push WiMAX technology with its $27.9 million investment in wireless broadband carrier Unwired Australia. Under the deal, Unwired Australia said it will use Intel's WiMAX chips in its efforts to expand the technology across Australia's cities. Unwired Australia said...
ASPEN, Colo.-With the ashes of recently deceased gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson still raining down from the sky, the Progress and Freedom Foundation brought its gonzo deregulation motto to the mountains of Colorado for its annual Aspen Summit. This year's event centered on the...
SYDNEY-Chipmaker Intel Corp. continued to push WiMAX technology with its $27.9 million investment in wireless broadband carrier Unwired Australia. Under the deal, Unwired Australia said it will use Intel's WiMAX chips in its efforts to expand the technology across Australia's cities."Twelve months ago, wireless...
Craig McCaw's Clearwire Corp. raised an additional $250 million in financing, according to reports, bringing the company's total war chest to around $600 million. The funds came from 31 unnamed investors.A Clearwire official was not immediately available for comment.The company's massive fundraising efforts give...
Sprint Corp.'s pending acquisition of Nextel Communications Inc. will endow the new operation with a substantial war chest of network and spectrum assets, including a significant swatch of spectrum in the 2.5 GHz spectrum band covering 80 percent of the country's population. While both...
AT&T Corp. is reportedly set to begin testing a wireless broadband network in the Atlanta area using an early version of WIMAX technology. AT&T, which is in the process of being acquired by SBC Communications Inc., will use four towers in the Atlanta and...
Integrated telecom services provider CT Communications Inc. said it agreed to sell its rights to certain wireless broadband spectrum assets to Clearwire Corp. affiliate Fixed Wireless Holdings L.L.C. The spectrum assets include Broadband Radio Service spectrum and Educational Broadband Service spectrum that CTC had...
Integrated telecommunications services provider CT Communications Inc. said it has agreed to sell its rights to certain wireless broadband spectrum assets to Clearwire Corp. affiliate Fixed Wireless Holdings L.L.C. The spectrum assets include Broadband Radio Service spectrum and Educational Broadband Service spectrum that CTC...
BellSouth Corp. is not letting its minority stake in wireless operator Cingular Wireless L.L.C. deter its own wireless efforts as the regional telecommunications provider announced a pair of wireless initiatives. BellSouth said it plans to deploy a wide area wireless broadband network beginning in...
WASHINGTON-Sometime this month, the Supreme Court will determine the future of broadband. "The next important piece of the broadband puzzle will be revealed when the Supreme Court rules in Brand X," said Thomas Navin, chief of the FCC's Wireline Competition Bureau. "How the Supreme...
WASHINGTON-Sometime this month, the Supreme Court will determine the future of broadband. "The next important piece of the broadband puzzle will be revealed when the Supreme Court rules in Brand X," said Thomas Navin, chief of the FCC's Wireline Competition Bureau. "How the Supreme...
OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-Sprint Corp. reported a deal with Intel Corp. to engage in joint efforts to advance development of the 802.16e WiMAX standard. The deal calls for both companies to collaborate on technical specification, perform equipment trials and conduct interoperability testing to examine possible...
Sprint Corp. reported a deal with Intel Corp. to engage in joint efforts to advance development of the 802.16e WiMAX standard. The deal calls for both companies to collaborate on technical specification, perform equipment trials and conduct interoperability testing to examine possible wireless broadband...
WASHINGTON-Vonage Holding Co., the largest independent Voice over Internet Protocol provider, has solved the problem at least one customer was having when Clearwire Corp. blocked access to Vonage's VoIP service, said Jeffrey Citron, Vonage chief executive officer, on Capitol Hill Tuesday. Clearwire is a...
WASHINGTON-In arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court, justices seemed skeptical the government could designate something an information service if it has elements of telecommunications. "What I am still waiting to hear is how you get that out of the definitions?" asked Justice Antonin Scalia....
Canadian telecommunications provider Bell Canada reported an alliance with Craig McCaw's U.S.-based wireless broadband network operation Clearwire Corp. The alliance includes a $100 million investment, as well as a further investment in McCaw's NR Communications operations that currently provides wireless broadband services in parts...
