By Patrick Nixon | Business News Americas
Unified communications will be a key focus for the recently merged Enterprise unit of French telecoms equipment supplier Alcatel-Lucent(NYSE: ALU) and call center specialist Genesys in Latin America, Sergio Valencia, Alcatel-Lucent's Enterprise director for Mexico, Central America and the...
SHANGHAI, China – Sprint Nextel Corp. has been transitioning and remaking itself for at least two years now. During that time, much more has changed in the mobile industry than stayed the same. Many of the situations that the carrier faces today are not...
Newbay - with offices in Dublin, Ireland and Seattle, Washington - believes it can help to lighten the virtual load with its own personal cloud concept.
The iPhone App Store stole headlines last week, but it's the ever-growing cloud above that ultimately will be more important to developers of mobile consumer applications.Cloud computing - applications "in the sky" accessed through the Internet, as opposed to native applications - is not...
Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Inc., held forth from London this morning to orchestrate consumer frenzy over the iPhone's arrival in the United Kingdom, the first in as many as three European markets to announce this week.One can only imagine the spectacle of a...
AT&T Inc. reported an agreement with Eurpean Wi-Fi provider The Cloud that adds more than 9,000 Wi-Fi locations available to its customers traveling in the United Kingdom, Germany and Scandinavian countries.Following the deal, AT&T's worldwide Wi-Fi service now comprises more than 57,000 hot spots...
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. CellularNigeria: Alcatel-Lucent said it signed a contract with Globacom...
WASHINGTON-A federal appeals court has ruled that the Federal Communications Commission has the authority to require wireless carriers and tower owners to abide by the National Historic Preservation Act, including accepting the definition of eligible properties. The ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals...
Two recent Wi-Fi network announcements reinforced the notion that Wi-Fi business models vary from place to place. In Pittsburgh, a free outdoor Wi-Fi network is in the works to provide coverage throughout the city's central business district along with its Golden Triangle, North Shore...
LONDON—Wi-Fi network operator The Cloud announced the launch of its Ultra Wi-Fi offering, an all-you-can-eat plan that offers Wi-Fi access in 9 U.K. cities and about 7,000 hotspots throughout the country. Bobby Sarin, The Cloud’s chief operating officer said the Ultra Wi-Fi service gives...
LONDON-Vonage Holdings Corp. reported plans to partner with European Wi-Fi hot-spot operator The Cloud to offer Internet-based mobile-phone calls. The companies are working to launch a service that would allow Vonage subscribers with Wi-Fi phones to make calls from The Cloud's U.K. hot spots...
LONDON—Vonage Holdings Corp. reported plans to partner with European Wi-Fi hot-spot operator The Cloud to offer Internet-based mobile-phone calls. The companies are working to launch a service that would allow Vonage subscribers with Wi-Fi phones to make calls from The Cloud’s U.K. hot spots...
LONDON-U.K. Wi-Fi operator The Cloud struck a deal with NWP Spectrum, which operates pay phones and Internet terminals across the country, to offer Wi-Fi services at an additional 7,000 locations. The Cloud will now offer Wi-Fi in up to 10,000 U.K. hot spots.The partnership...
WATERLOO, Ontario-Research In Motion Ltd. scored gains above analyst expectations, upbeat news that sent the company's stock up about 6 percent to about $15 per share in trading.RIM reported revenues for the fourth quarter of $87.5 million, up from expectations and above the $74.2...
The attitudes of the late 1990s, where operators found it necessary to have a presence in as many countries as possible, have begun to fade as the cost of having many fingers in many pies becomes glaringly clear.Deutsche Telekom used to boast that it...
BEIJING—In July, China became the world's biggest mobile-phone market. The country's Ministry of Information Industry (MII) announced the country had 120.6 million mobile phone subscribers at the end of July, about half a million more than in the United States.China added 3.8 million new...
If the debate over third-generation mobile-phone spectrum depended solely on financial lobbying clout, the well-heeled cellular industry would be awash in radio frequencies by now. Case closed. Complete, total victory. But the mobile-phone industry is up against interest groups with the kind of politically...
WASHINGTON-The New York Yankees may have won the World Series but in the world where politics and policy converge, as another famous Yankee once said, "it ain't over 'till it's over."That is certainly true in NextWave Telecom Inc.'s quest to keep its 90 personal...
It's the content stupid!With WAP backlash increasing worldwide, those in the know have pointed to what they call the poor implementation of WAP technology as the major culprit behind its less-than-enthusiastic response, not the technology itself.As such, the wireless industry is looking to the...
A new chief executive and reinstated supply contracts have cast a positive light on MobileMedia Corp.'s bankruptcy restructuring. Prudential Securities sees the Chapter 11 filing as positive for the industry and expects the company may put itself up for sale.Glenayre Electronics Inc., Motorola Inc.,...
It was suggested in a recent RCR article that the Telecommunications Act of 1996 answered the question of "Who is in charge here?" by clearly placing the Federal Communications Commission in charge of regulating the telecommunications industry. The new law was said to have...
Cellular carriers and manufacturers need to appreciate the value of analog technology well into the future if they want to succeed, said industry consultants at an annual strategic cellular and wireless radio seminar.For the first time in the seven-year history of the seminar, presented...
