Editor's Note: This article is an excerpt from RCR Wireless News' May Special Edition, "Enabling the Mobile Revolution: Mobile Chips, Devices and Accessories." The 80-page special edition is available here.The fourth quarter of 2009 was ripe for a Motorola Inc. comeback. The company that...
Appalachian Wireless said it will implement 14 of Transaction Network Services' roaming, network and database solutions in an effort to strengthen its mobile roaming program.Aricent said Nepal Telecom has awarded the company a three-year systems integration contract to provide Convergent Mediation and Convergent Interconnect...
This month, NEC Electronics merged with Renesas Technology, giving birth to a brand new semiconductor manufacturer, Renesas Electronics. Showing off its wares at ESC in California, Renesas had a smart home demo set up.
This month, NEC Electronics merged with Renesas Technology, giving birth to a brand new semiconductor manufacturer, Renesas Electronics. Showing off its wares at ESC in California, Renesas had a smart home demo set up.
The demo shows how smart energy technologies and eco-friendly devices can...
As rumors go, it doesn't get more shocking than the whisperings Wednesday night, that gadget maker Apple Inc. was mulling a move to buy British chip shop ARM Ltd., the logic designer for the microprocessors and microcontrollers used in most of today's cellphones and...
Editor's Note: This article originally appeared in RCR Wireless News' January Special Edition Wireless Infrastructure: The Engine for Economic Recovery. Look for our March Special Edition, coming soon.Wireless networks are the cornerstone of the wireless industry. These capital-intensive investments are a key building...
Spanish-based telecom giant Telefonica said it reached an agreement with a half-dozen LTE equipment suppliers to launch test projects in six different countries in preparation of rolling out LTE-based networks in markets where the carrier operates. The suppliers include Alcatel-Lucent, L.M. Ericsson, Huawei Technologies...
The converging telecom and IT space is set to become a $5 trillion global business, fueled by relentless demand from individuals and businesses to be able to access information across any device at any time. The wireless/telecom/media/IT sector is growing two to five...
Nortel Networks Corp. could get bypassed by the wireless industry as officials attempt to restructure the ailing company through bankruptcy, according to officials with a firm that advises carriers.Officials with Pace Harmon said keeping business in the wireless industry will be a challenge for...
A group of PC makers and wireless industry players announced a new effort aimed at embedding HSPA modems into laptops. The initiative, organized by the Euro-focused GSM Association, aims to spend up to $1 billion promoting "ready to run" laptops that will be able...
The LiMo Foundation announced nine new members today and said that more handsets with its operating system are launching in North America and Japan. The organization is a leading proponent of an open-source, Linux OS for handsets, and said that its latest members represented...
The pace of action on the world's infrastructure stage has increased over the past several months, with a number of major carriers announcing multibillion-dollar buildout plans, intellectual property owners realigning their stances, and infrastructure vendors desperately trying to keep up with it all.The...
A sequential dip in shipments by Motorola Inc. and Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications between the fourth quarter and the first quarter spelled t-r-a-c-t-i-o-n for numerous second-tier handset makers, particularly in emerging markets. The opportunity for greater volumes among those outside the elite top tier...
Nortel Networks Corp. said today that it would charge "about" a 1% royalty rate* to handset vendors licensing Nortel's Long Term Evolution patents.(Yes, that asterisk is intentional. See below or Nortel's statement.) The infrastructure vendor said its motive was "to provide increased transparency and...
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...
The market for LTE technology took another step forward today 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 Mobile Communications...
Patricia Russo is chief executive officer of Alcatel-Lucent. Before helping to spearhead Alcatel's tie-up with Lucent, Russo was chairman and CEO of Lucent. She helped launch Lucent in 1996.Q: It seems the wireless infrastructure market has experienced some turbulence over the past several...
The notion that an ambitious Chinese handset vendor will make a bid for Motorola Inc. has received some press in the United States, perhaps aided by a touch of nationalistic horror.The Chinese government and Chinese banks already finance a big chunk of the American...
BARCELONA, Spain - The world's largest network providers are jockeying for position in the race to build out fourth-generation networks in an increasingly uneasy market affected by intense competitive price pressures and worries of an economic downturn.Nokia Siemens Network CEO Simon Beresford-Wylie reiterated earlier...
BARCELONA, Spain - With the LTE market just starting to develop, Alcatel-Lucent and NEC Corp. believe combining their resources early on will help them develop a market advantage. Alcatel-Lucent CEO Patricia Russo said the move is an offensive play, rather than a defensive one....
Alcatel-Lucent came out swinging at the Mobile World Congress event this week. The company added to the pile of news it's made by announcing a deal with AT&T Mobility to further expand the No. 1 carrier's UMTS/HSPA wireless network. Financial terms of the deal...
China Mobile said it will join Vodafone Group plc and Verizon Wireless in an ongoing trial of LTE technology.The world's largest mobile operator said the three-way operator trials will focus on LTE FDD, the Frequency Division Duplex version of the technology, for use with...
BARCELONA, Spain - In an increasingly difficult environment for network providers, Alcatel-Lucent announced it is teaming with Japan's NEC in a joint venture to focus on LTE technology.The move comes on the heels of disappointing 2007 financials for Alcatel-Lucent; the one-year-old company posted a...
The LiMo Foundation, an alliance of mobile vendors and service providers, announced its member base has grown to 25 this week with the addition of five new members.Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., Acrodea Inc., Electronics and Telecommunication Research Institute, Purple Labs and Trolltech ASA have...
