Having the whole family crowd around one screen in the living room is rapidly becoming a thing of the past, as a plethora of options have begun to pop up around the average home, be they PCs, TVs, handheld consoles, smartphones or tablets. But...
Walmart is launching a TV advertising campaign touting its Straight Talk prepaid wireless service, promising savings of up to $850 per year. The advertising effort likely will bring even more attention, and perhaps pricing pressure, to the flat-rate, no-contract segment of the wireless industry.Walmart...
Nokia Siemens Networks scored a service contract to expand Telefonica O2 Germany’s network. Financial details of the contract were not released.The contract calls for Nokia Siemens to provide network implementation, project management and logistics to update current deployments by Nokia Siemens in the country....
With not one bit of modesty, Verizon Wireless today announced launch plans for the latest model in its Droid handset lineup, the HTC Corp. Droid Incredible. Like the other devices in its Droid lineup, the Incredible runs Google Inc.’s Android operating system. The device...
Verizon Communications Inc. said it has broken ground on its Technology Innovation Center in Waltham, Mass., that is to be central to the company’s ongoing deployment of LTE technology.The center, which Verizon EVP and CTO Dick Lynch first mentioned during the 2009 Mobile World...
Novatel Wireless said a2Network Corp., an MVNO for NTT DoCoMo in Japan, is launching its MiFi 2372 Intelligent Mobile Hotspot.Sprint Nextel Corp. and Samsung Telecommunications America have teamed up in an attempt to break the Guiness record for collecting the largest donation of...
RCR Unplugged recently told readers of Intel Corp.'s efforts to port Google Inc.'s Android operating system to its Atom chip, in the hope that the ever-popular Google operating system might add some oomph to the chip firm's foray into the mobile and smartphone space.But...
Sioux Falls is the largest city in South Dakota, with a population of more than 150,000 according to a 2008 U.S. Census Bureau estimate. Like most American cities, Sioux Falls provides a host of public services for its residents, including parks, libraries, fire and...
Leap Wireless International Inc. is using 2010 to catch its breath, or at least that was the sentiment from its CFO Walter Berger who spoke this morning at Goldman Sachs’ Inaugural Technology, Media & Telecom Leveraged Finance Conference. Berger noted that the company spent...
The German government this week took the lead on the deployment of so-called “4G” technologies with the launch of a spectrum auction involving 360 megahertz of spectrum spread across four bands: 800 MHz, 1.8 GHz, 2 GHz and 2.6 GHz bands.The government said the...
The German government this week took the lead on the deployment of so-called “4G” technologies with the launch of a spectrum auction involving 360 megahertz of spectrum spread across four bands: 800 MHz, 1.8 GHz, 2 GHz and 2.6 GHz bands.The government said the...
Even though the wireless handset market will rebound this year, the world's top 10 contract manufacturers will continue to struggle as they try to recover from a disastrous 2009, according to research from iSuppli Corp. Cellphone shipments for the largest original development manufacturers (ODM)...
Adtran Inc. reported first-quarter results, including a 15% increase in sales to $127 million from $110 million during the first quarter of 2009. Net income increased 20% to $18.2 million, or 29 cents per share, compared with net income of $15.2 million, or 24...
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.It is no secret that the wireless sector has transformed and the segment seeing the...
Editor's Note: The companies listed below represent the No. 11 through No. 20 largest wireless carriers worldwide based on subscriber numbers at the end of 2009 unless noted. For a list of the No. 1 through No. 10 largest carriers click here.
The RCR Wireless...
Android scored another victory this week, as chip-giant Intel Corp. announced at its Developer Forum in Beijing it had ported Google Inc.'s OS to its Atom microprocessors, the latest move to ensure the tiny chip supports a plethora of operating systems.SVP and GM of...
Qualcomm Inc.’s FLO TV Inc. subsidiary said it plans to expand its mobile television offering later this year with the inclusion of interactive capabilities, pay-per-day and event passes and a time-shifting viewing option.The company said the interactive feature will allow users to “interact with...
TAIPEI, Tawain--Taiwan was touted as being on the forefront of WiMAX adoption, with Japan, Malaysia and to some extent South Korea not far behind, according to executives at WiMAX Forum Congress Asia 2010. Data package options between carriers are pretty cheap too –...
A few recent developments have made me believe that Cox Communications' wireless offering can be a game changer for the industry. First, I started to watch the TV shows I wanted to watch a few months ago. Second, I watched a Huawei demonstration at...
The WiMAX market is set for a speed boost as a number of chip providers and equipment makers said they plan to accelerate the interoperability of the WiMAX 2 standard. The update is based on the IEEE 802.16m standard and is to build on...
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.That earthquake you felt last week – no, not the “Baja Bumper” (7.2 Richter scale) that hit...
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 my previous Reality Check columns I’ve written about the benefits of SIP and how they can...
The “social” generation tallied another victory this morning as computing giant Microsoft Corp. unveiled the latest attempt to infiltrate this narcissist, though apparently dominate, market made up of consumers that need to share everything they are doing, every moment of the day.The foray involves...
