AT&T Mobility released its first High-Speed Uplink Packet Access data card, and said that it had begun adding HSUPA upgrades to its network. The upgrades are expected to increase uplink speeds from the current maximum of 384 kilobits per second to average speeds of...
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. reported $2.39 billion in earnings for the third quarter, an increase of 1% from the same period last year, due largely to growth in its cellphone and chip-making businesses.The world's No. 2 handset manufacturer brought in $5.2 billion in sales...
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--Bangladesh: L.M. Ericsson announced it signed a framework agreement with...
VERIZON WIRELESS AND VODAFONE GROUP PLC will move toward a common network technology path for their respective networks and specifically mentioned the use of LTE technology without a formal commitment to that choice, according to remarks by company executives last week.Arun Sarin, CEO of...
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--Bosnia and Herzegovina: M:Tel, the mobile arm of Telekom Srpske,...
Nokia Corp. unveiled four handsets along with its "Ovi" Internet-based content services in what appears to be an early example of how the Finnish company will dovetail its hardware business with a future-facing Internet services business model. The handsets appear targeted at the European...
LG Electronics Co. scored a pair of carrier wins last week spanning the range of wireless offerings. One of the deals was with the industry's largest player and long-time LG partner AT&T Mobility, while the other was with mobile virtual network operator and first-time...
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: Motorola Inc. said it won a contract with China...
AT&T Mobility is hawking its MobiTV, XM Radio Mobile and music portal services with the launch of LG Electronics Co.'s new trax handset, an HSDPA-enabled, clamshell-style handset. The handset will be available tomorrow at AT&T Mobility stores and online for $130 with mail-in rebate...
The nation's first, and so far only, carrier to announce plans for a nationwide mobile WiMAX network now faces the successful completion of tens of thousands of construction projects before it reaches reality.Just a few weeks after announcing plans to collaborate on the development...
Sierra Wireless Inc., the maker of wireless PC cards, posted strong revenue and earnings yesterday on robust demand for its products, the company said. "Intense focus on our core business of wide-area wireless for mobile computing has driven a remarkable business recovery, following our...
AT&T Mobility has extended its Video Share application to almost 160 markets. The one-way live video application was launched late last month in three markets, and the carrier said at the time that it planned to expand the launch to all of its HSDPA...
Editor's Note: Welcome to a special edition of our Monday 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. In the coming weeks look for columns from Jupiter Research's...
Femtocells, or access point base stations, are making some big waves in the wireless industry this month. Shortly after ABI Research released a positive report on the outlook for femtocells, Alcatel-Lucent and Nokia Siemens Networks each announced new partnerships and detailed plans for their...
Welcome to our Monday column, Analyst Angle. Every Monday, the industry's leading analysts give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry, from carriers to content to handsets to infrastructure.The July 4th holiday is just behind us, and I'm still reveling in...
The wireless industry has watched since 2001 as Sony Corp. and L.M. Ericsson joined forces to tackle the handset market. Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications focused on profitability first and has attained fourth place in global handset-vendor rankings. The JV's financial success has been reflected...
IMAGINE THIS made-for-TV moment:An outsized individual-a Sumo wrestler, say-is about to perform the much-revered cannonball maneuver into the deep end of a swimming pool. A traditional cast of bon vivants garbed in linen suits and straw hats, ladies in polka-dot dresses with matching broad-brim...
In the midst of a lull between completing the buildout of 3G networks and beginning work on next-generation networks, U.S. telecom companies are expected to keep their wireless capital spending mostly flat this year as they figure out how to better sell applications to...
Third-generation networks are expected to capture only 30 percent of the machine-to-machine communications market by 2012, predicts a new report from ABI Research."Municipal Wi-Fi and WiMAX will both challenge 3G cellular technology as the most suitable methods to achieve high-speed M2M communications for many...
In Hollywood, sequels sometimes do well at the box office. But the record is mixed, leading one to conclude that sequels are typically perceived as safer bets than utterly new, original material-whether or not that's true.This observation can be applied to the realm of...
Promising to "put the 'wow' back" into Motorola Inc.'s products, CEO Ed Zander announced a new Razr model that he referred to as the "Razr Two." (The handset's printed name, Razr(2), is designed to imply "Razr squared.") Zander did not announce carrier deals for...
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.WiMAX --Netherlands: Alcatel-Lucent said it completed a Universal WiMAX trial...
Qualcomm Inc. said it signed a deal to license its OFDM/OFDMA technology to Hamburg, Germany-based 4G Systems to produce modem cards and routers for wireless broadband access.The deal appears to be part of an effort on Qualcomm's part to establish a stable of vendors...
It's been about a month since wireless number portability kicked in for consumers in Canada, and in the words of analyst Lawrence Surtees, "Guess what? The sky hasn't fallen." Surtees, VP and principal analyst of communications research for IDC Canada Ltd. of Toronto, said...
