When it comes to wireless plans, it's all about the buffet, J.D. Power and Associates concluded in its semi-annual survey of wireless customers' level of satisfaction with contracts.The firm, which recently gave a nod to regional carriers in its latest survey on call quality,...
According to a report from research and banking firm ThinkPanmure, AT&T Mobility plans to sell up to 7 million femtocells from ip.access Ltd., a picocell and femtocell infrastructure vendor based in Cambridge, United Kingdom.According to ThinkPanmure, AT&T signed a contract with the firm for...
What about the shoe phone?Echoflex Solutions Inc. introduced a self-powered wireless key switch, which the company said can reduce the cost of powering unoccupied hotel rooms. The switch is activated by hotel key cards and generates its own power each time the card is...
Competitive pressures are leading American companies to adopt mobility for the obvious reasons: increasing productivity, decreasing costs and distinguishing themselves among their competitors.The top three carriers in the United States - AT&T Mobility, Verizon Wireless and Sprint Nextel Corp. - are attempting to secure...
LAS VEGAS - EVER SINCE television was invented in 1926, the industry has seen over-the-air broadcasts reach more screens as the medium exploded in popularity. The industry's first push was to get a single TV set into as many living rooms as possible, then...
SO WHAT WILL IT BE for the sequestered 700 MHz D Block? A few tweaks here and there, an approach one lawmaker dismissively coined 'D Block lite'? A complete overhaul? Or something in between?That's the predicament facing the Federal Communications Commission in the aftermath...
The market for Long Term Evolution technology took another step forward last week as seven infrastructure heavyweights announced a framework for licensing the rights to the next-generation wireless standard.Alcatel-Lucent, L.M. Ericsson, NEC Corp., NextWave Wireless Inc., Nokia Corp., Nokia Siemens Networks and Sony Ericsson...
Reps. Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.) and Christopher Cannon (R-Utah) introduced a bill to foster deployment of a national, family-friendly wireless broadband network with open access, an initiative the mobile-phone industry was quick to pounce on.The Wireless Internet Nationwide for Families Act, which includes components of...
LAS VEGAS - "There is an expression - if there is something that people want to watch, you can broadcast it on a rock in the desert and they will watch it," Frank Nein, co-founder, partner and senior VP at Lexicon Digital Communications, said...
The House passed a bill that would repeal the Internal Revenue Service requirement for employees to maintain detailed logs of cellphone and Blackberry use for tax-filing purposes.The Modernize Our Bookkeeping in the Law for Employees CellPhone Act was sponsored by Sen. Sam Johnson (R-Texas),...
Public-safety groups scrambled to salvage support for a private-sector funded national wireless broadband network shared by first responders and a commercial entity, following calls by some House Republicans to abandon in the 700 MHz D-Block re-auction that they consider a fatally flawed experiment."APCO International...
MobiTV Inc. has spent the past 18 months developing new technologies that will speed up the time between channel changes to less than a second and optimize cellular network backhaul by automatically switching video streams from unicast to multicast depending on usage in a...
OK, Mark Twain's "mysterious stranger" was actually Satan's nephew, and we're certainly not deriding the devilish Steve Jobs or his wonderful company - but the theme of unwanted intrusion is apt.That is, if you consider the perspective of incumbent handset vendors and all network...
To hear Cyriac Roeding tell it, CBS Mobile started in 2005 as a "department of one." Just two suitcases and three boxes in tow, Roeding left his home in Europe after convincing top executives to let him build a new mobile business out of...
NXP Semiconductors and STMicroelectronics will combine their wireless businesses to compete in a cutthroat environment for chip makers. The two companies said in a statement they would aim to complete the move by the third quarter, subject to regulatory review and "consultations" with labor...
Nokia Corp. said this week it would finance a $316 million plan to assist German workers displaced by the handset vendor's decision to close a major plant in Bochum, Germany, and move the operation to Romania, where labor costs are lower. Plant closings in...
In Apple Inc.'s secretive world, facts are scarce -- and speculation is the coin of the realm. Thus, over the past week, as analysts reported that major Apple stores' iPhones were out-of-stock in the United States and online shipments delayed by a week, speculation...
Maryland Attorney General Douglas Gansler reached an accord with the four national cellular carriers and the leading handset insurer to improve disclosure of policy terms to consumers. "Before deciding to purchase an insurance policy, Maryland consumers should clearly understand the terms of the policy,"...
Richard Lowe is president of carrier networks at Nortel Networks Inc. The Carrier Networks group, which is Nortel's largest division, includes a large portfolio of mobility and converged solutions including CDMA, GSM, VoIP/IMS, WiMAX/4G. Q: It seems the infrastructure market has experienced some turbulence...
The brave new world of handsets includes no comfort zones (watch out, Nokia!), disruptive influences run rampant, software transcends hardware and micro-segmentation is likely. These were among the conclusions drawn by analyst Stu Carlaw at an ABI Research session that covered the industry in...
Telecom policymakers and special-interest groups are fond of talking about ubiquity, making sure communications -- wireless, wireline, Internet and video -- are within reach of all Americans. Indeed, there are government subsidy programs that address this very issue. Take the stressed universal service regime...
Sprint Nextel Corp. said nothing substantial about its WiMAX plans yesterday and instead fell back on a new touchscreen device as the biggest news to share with a room packed full of invited press and analysts.There's no doubt the company and its new chief,...
Remember the "soccer mom"? First, she was avidly courted as a voter, later as a consumer.If you believe the handset marketers -- admittedly, a leap of faith -- the soccer mom even helped create a new breed of enterprise devices. Because devices are only...
Jim Orr is a principal network architect in the wireless market development group at Fujitsu Network Communications.Q: It seems the infrastructure market has experienced some turbulence over the past several years. How do you view the strength of the infrastructure market today?A: We are...
