The U.S. International Trade Commission yesterday affirmed an initial ruling from December that Nokia Corp. does not infringe on three patents claimed by Qualcomm Inc.The case, brought by Qualcomm in June 2006, related to claims by the chipmaker that the handset giant had infringed...
Don't get too excited. That's the basic message from Nokia Corp. and Qualcomm Inc. - yes, one thing they can agree on - which have famously been jousting to defend the honor of their business models, patent portfolios and the damsel in distress, the...
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....
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 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--Slovenia: T-2 Slovenia has chosen Nokia Siemens Networks to provide...
Signs are popping up that carriers are getting closer to making use of the spectrum they acquired in the advanced wireless services auction last year. T-Mobile USA Inc. confirmed that it has begun offering its first 3G handset to customers in New York, although...
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.CellularBhutan: L.M. Ericsson said it has been chosen by Bhutan...
Proxim Wireless Corp. sees opportunity in both Wi-Fi and WiMAX technologies, WiMAX due to its increasing momentum around the world and Wi-Fi due to its wide and expanding market presence.The company, headquartered in San Jose, Calif., said it has shipped more than 1.5 million...
Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Inc., held forth from London this morning to orchestrate consumer frenzy over the iPhone's arrival in the United Kingdom, the first in as many as three European markets to announce this week.One can only imagine the spectacle of a...
Andrew Corp. won a major upgrade contract to modify the Mass Transit Railway Corp.'s territorywide network in Hong Kong.As part of the project, Andrew will upgrade infrastructure in stations, tunnels, and other buildings to migrate the railway's radio system from an 80 MHz trunk...
WHEN A BEHEMOTH SHAKES ITS TAIL, some rise, some fall. The behemoth benefits.That appears to be the upshot of Nokia Corp.'s announcement last week that it had selected four main chipset suppliers for future business. The move boosted some fortunes and cast off others,...
Vodafone Group plc has made a somewhat surprising move by joining the WiMAX Forum as a principal member."For a company that has historically been perceived as hostile toward the technology, does this mean that their attitude toward WiMAX has now thawed?" IMS Research queried...
Nortel Networks Ltd. reported $2.56 billion in revenue during the second quarter of 2007, marking a $37 million loss and an 8% decrease from the year-ago period; however the financials still came in ahead of market expectations. A UBS report highlighted Nortel's gross margin...
hedge*hog*ging v. Interrupting conversations in an office environment by poking your head over the top of the cube.What the heck is up with FCC Chairman Kevin Martin's 700 MHz draft? What a headache! We thought the overarching concern was getting first responders access to...
AT&T Mobility will work with Japanese operator NTT DoCoMo Inc. to build a 3G wireless network in Hawaii, the two companies announced. DoCoMo said it will provide up to $24 million to support the network build, which AT&T plans to launch on Oahu by...
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...
The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.Carrier--Robert W. Baird upped its price target and estimates on Telephone & Data Systems after the company reported first-quarter results. The company's new price target...
Counting on "small details" to differentiate its latest product launch, Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications L.P. announced it will launch its new S500 handset in the United States. Pricing and distribution were not announced.The quad-band, EDGE-enabled handset focuses on colors, materials and finishes-CMF, in industry...
The word last week that Nokia Corp.'s new N75 device would debut soon at AT&T Mobility drew its share of attention, for good reason. Though Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, Nokia's CEO, has made a point to extol the value of the U.S. market-declaring it a hotbed...
Airvana Inc. announced it has acquired 3Way Networks, a provider of home base stations. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.Airvana said it hopes the acquisition will help expand its push into UMTS radio access networks and fixed-mobile convergence. Airvana said it is aiming...
Nokia Corp.'s clamshell-style N75 device, announced last September, has finally arrived at AT&T Mobility's online store for $200 with a two-year contract-at least it was briefly last week, before the carrier removed the offer, due to the product not arriving in its distribution center....
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...
Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications has come of age in the past year and finds itself in an enviable, if somewhat dicey, position. No resting on your laurels in a what-have-you-done-for-me-lately industry. The vendor's disciplined focus on sales and profit, while carefully growing share, has...
With their patent cross-licensing agreement scheduled to end today, Qualcomm Inc. and Nokia Corp. each fired last-ditch legal salvos last week in hopes of gaining an edge in negotiations where potentially billions of dollars hang in the balance.At the heart of the issue are...
