LOS ANGELES-Cingular Wireless L.L.C. is adding a Razr-esque smart phone to its device lineup, targeting business and consumer users who want access to e-mail and entertainment content, but are willing to forego a full Qwerty keyboard. RCR @ CTIAClick here for complete coverage of...
AURORA, Ill.—Lucent Technologies Inc. and Westell Technologies Inc. signed a global reseller agreement that calls for Lucent to resell Westell's TriLink IP Multimedia Subsystem gateway as part of its IMS-based solution. Lucent said it integrated Westell's converged residential gateways into its IMS service delivery...
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. said it plans to spend $18 million to acquire Qualphone Inc., a provider of IP Multimedia Subsystems software for mobile devices and interoperability testing services. Qualcomm noted the acquisition, which is expected to close this month, will help it accelerate the...
SAN DIEGO—Qualcomm Inc. will spend $18 million to acquire Qualphone Inc., a provider of IP Multimedia Subsystems (IMS) software for mobile devices and interoperability testing services. Qualcomm said the acquisition, expected to close this month, will help it accelerate the delivery of multimedia-capable, 3G...
DALLAS-The U.S. mobile video market can't support all the multimedia networks scheduled to come online in the next 18 months, according to a new report from Parks Associates. The prospects appear bright for Sprint Nextel Corp.'s planned WiMAX network and Qualcomm Inc.'s MediaFlo, according...
Hello! And welcome to our Thursday column, Worst of the Week. There's a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so this column is a chance for us at RCR Wireless News to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the...
As news of Motorola Inc.'s joint venture with Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. sinks in, analysts offered insights as to what the partnership means to the two companies as well as the wireless industry as a whole. Technology Business Research's Bill Lesieur said that the...
Marking its first commitment to Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem technology, Verizon Wireless, joined by a handful of network infrastructure heavy-hitters, unveiled Advances to IMS, or A-IMS, a concept document along with an architecture overview aimed at jump-starting standards development of IMS technology for wireless...
Nortel Networks Ltd. is making organizational changes in its GSM and UMTS access businesses, which could lead to a selling of the company's UMTS access business, according to UBS Investment Research. Nortel's heads of both its WiMAX and Converged Core Networks "have moved on."...
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. Click here for additional infrastructure awards from RCR Wireless...
BASKING RIDGE, N.J.—Verizon Wireless and a group of industry network suppliers have set out what they see as a path to advance mobile network architecture and transition networks to IMS, or Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem. The companies involved in the Advances to IMS, or...
NEW YORK—The Yankee Group once again pulled together a quality list of speakers for its Wireless Leadership Summit, including executives from Sprint Nextel Corp., Cingular Wireless L.L.C. and Verizon Wireless, as well as representatives from a handful infrastructure vendors and wireless content providers. Notable...
NEW YORK—Cingular Wireless L.L.C. is not completely opposed to its customers running Voice over Internet Protocol services over its high-speed UMTS/HSDPA wireless data network. However, the carrier would like to work out the billing and operational kinks before fully supporting such activities.The guarded comments...
CHICAGO-Lucent Technologies Inc. kicked off the Globalcomm trade show with an early morning press conference to introduce its new next-generation network architecture called "Acuity." Speaking to a group of analysts and media, Lucent Chief Marketing Officer John Giere explained that Acuity delivers high-bandwidth Internet...
At last week's Globalcomm show in Chicago, telecom vendors paraded their technological wares, giving us a peek at their network roadmaps. The future, as the vendors see it, will be dominated by mobile TV, and this phenomenon is shining a bright light on Internet...
CHICAGO-L.M. Ericsson launched a new end-to-end Internet Protocol TV offering, saying the solution is the first step in the company's long-term plans for TV services. During a press conference at the Globalcomm trade show, the company laid out its IPTV vision, explaining that it...
CHICAGO—L.M. Ericsson launched a new end-to-end Internet Protocol TV offering, saying the solution is the first step in the company’s long-term plans for TV services. During a press conference at the Globalcomm trade show, the company laid out its IPTV vision, explaining that it...
CHICAGO—Lucent Technologies Inc. kicked off the Globalcomm trade show with an early morning press conference to introduce its new next-generation network architecture called "Acuity." Speaking to a group of analysts and media, Lucent Chief Marketing Officer John Giere explained that Acuity delivers high-bandwidth Internet...
Post-CTIA Wireless 2006, the pundits and ponderers have plenty to chew on. With the conference showcasing the leading edge, the bleeding edge and the receding edges of the wireless industry and mobile technology, it offered a view of where the industry has come from...
LAS VEGAS-When asked during an interview with RCR Wireless News what drew him to take the top job at Nortel Networks, CEO Mike Zafirovski said, "I love business, and this is the closest thing to sports for me. I am very fortunate to have...
LAS VEGAS—When asked during an interview with RCR Wireless News what drew him to take the top job at Nortel Networks, CEO Mike Zafirovski said, "I love business, and this is the closest thing to sports for me. I am very fortunate to have...
Last week's TelecomNext event in Las Vegas was painful at times.Not because the event was poorly run or because of the beating I took at the tables. No, the painful part was watching wireline executives use a bevy of acronyms and catch phrases in...
Merger talks between Alcatel Inc. and Lucent Technologies Inc. could put the entire infrastructure industry in play as consolidation among telecom carriers trickles down to their suppliers. Indeed, Merrill Lynch analysts said L.M. Ericsson, Siemens AG and Motorola Inc. are likely to acquire smaller...
PARIS—Alcatel Inc. and Lucent Technologies Inc. confirmed they are in talks to create a "merger of equals," a transaction that would result in a single telecom equipment company with a total market capitalization of more than $33 billion. "We can confirm that Lucent and...
