The debate whether to unleash a potentially huge amount of vacant broadcast spectrum-called white spaces-for Wi-Fi and other low-power wireless applications has reached a critical juncture, with federal regulators set to conduct another round of testing on a new group of devices to see...
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.CellularChina: China Mobile Group Beijing Ltd. chose Nokia Siemens Networks...
CompUSA, a leading consumer electronics retailer and purveyor of unlocked mobile phones, is going out of business, the company announced. The announcement did not cite a reason for CompUSA's sale. But the electronics retailer, founded in 1984 in Dallas, had announced last fall that...
T-Mobile USA Inc. continues to expand its lineup of handsets serving the carrier's HotSpot @ Home service, with the new Katalyst from Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. The quad-band, EDGE slider handset is priced at $80 with a mail-in rebate and two-year contract and includes...
Motorola Inc. CFO Tom Meredith told a Lehman Brothers investor conference this morning that the company would meet its guidance for the fourth quarter, sending the handset maker's stock up more than 3% to $16.15 per share by midday.Meredith acknowledged that the recent news...
Better late than never.Handsets that didn't arrive by "Black Friday" or "Cyber Monday"-the ultimate days for in-store and online shopping, respectively-may still make an impression on harried shoppers.Nokia Corp. and T-Mobile USA Inc. announced that Nokia's 6263 will be available online, adding a seventh...
Padmasree Warrior has been named Cisco Inc.'s CTO just a day after her departure from Motorola Inc.Cisco, based in San Jose, Calif., is one of the world's biggest networking companies. Warrior, who had been Motorola's chief technology officer since 2003, was one of the...
The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.Carrier --Standard & Poor's Ratings Services said it assigned it's A rating to AT&T Inc.'s proposed $2 billion of global notes due 2008 and $1...
The departure of Padmasree Warrior, Motorola Inc.'s CTO, effective yesterday, came on the heels of CEO Ed Zander's recent announcement that he will leave his CEO post at month's end-and caps a year in which the executive faces at Motorola have blurred. The year...
In its annual rating of wireless service, Consumer Reports christened Verizon Wireless and Alltel Corp. its top picks-and largely panned service from Sprint Nextel Corp.Based on nearly 48,000 responses from Consumer Reports' online subscribers, the magazine ranked the five largest wireless carriers' performance in...
As major media outlets deliver their take on the departure of Motorola Inc.'s CEO Ed Zander, two camps are forming. Anointed CEO-to-be Greg Brown is the right man at the right time. Or he isn't.Since joining Motorola in 2003, Brown has led the company's...
FOLLOWING VERIZON WIRELESS' ANNOUNCEMENT that it will use Long Term Evolution technology for its fourth-generation network, many who follow the industry immediately began to peg some infrastructure vendors as winners and others as losers.The bulk of the 'loser' chatter was directed at Qualcomm Inc.,...
Swapping out a chief executive sends a message of change.In the case of Ed Zander's long-anticipated departure from his CEO position at Motorola Inc., the message-new leadership-appears to require more information.Investors, analysts, employees and media will want to learn more about the company's direction....
Alltel's 'Best Holiday'Alltel is running a series of animated holiday television advertisements that feature Chad, the Alltel Wireless salesman, as he squares off against the four "Sales Guys" who are trying to ruin Christmas for good boys and girls. In one spot, the Sales...
A world of overlapping fourth-generation wireless technologies is still years in the offing even by the most optimistic observers, yet there's already a growing market for companies looking to prepare for the next frontier in mobile.Long Term Evolution, WiMAX and Ultra Mobile Broadband each...
Swapping out a chief executive sends a message of change. In the case of Motorola Inc.'s CEO Ed Zander's long-anticipated departure, announced today, the message-new leadership-will require updates. Investors and market watchers clearly want to know what's next.Motorola's core business in handsets continues to...
Verizon Wireless announced it will use Long Term Evolution technology for its fourth generation network. The carrier said that it and parent company Vodafone Group plc will begin testing LTE technology next year with equipment suppliers Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, Motorola Inc., Nokia- Siemens, and Nortel...
Verizon Wireless' declaration this morning that "any application, any device" will run on its network next year is clearly an overstatement-Verizon's CDMA network allows only CDMA-based devices, in use by 60% of subscribers in the United States market, but only 20% of the global...
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: Alcatel-Lucent won contracts with China Mobile and China Unicom...
As the wireless industry kicks into high gear for the upcoming holiday shopping season, and handset makers pull out all the stops to hype their latest offerings, now seems a good time to take a tour of some similarly much-hyped phones from the industry's...
WITH THE EMERGENCE OF NEW PLAYERS in mobile from the information technology space and the dominating importance of applications to drive revenue in wireless, the battle over who controls the customer is expected to heat up, analysts say.Reuben Chaudhury, director of Oliver Wyman's communications,...
T-Mobile USA Inc. announced it will restart sales of the Motorola Inc.-built Sidekick Slide starting next week. The carrier said Motorola will fix the glitch-which caused some of the devices to power off when the gadget's sliding door was opened or closed-that forced T-Mobile...
The following list includes venture capital and other investments into wireless companies announced during the past week. The value of the investment is included when available.--ComAbility: Stata Ventures and Vertex Venture Capital co-led a $6 million round of financing into ComAbility, which develops subscriber...
BEIJING-One of China's largest companies, Haier Group, is stepping up its efforts to build a global brand on the scale of Samsung or Sony by appointing an ex-Motorola Inc. marketer, Larry Rinaldi, to a new position, global chief brand officer.Haier already has a global...
