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Public wireless access launched in San Francisco, Las Vegas

SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Wireless Internet access got a little easier in two Western U.S. cities with separate announcements this week. AnchorFree Wireless launched free Wi-Fi service in the commercial segment of San Francisco's Castro District. The hot spot, said to be one of the first such...

And the thunder rolls

Less than a month ago, I wrote a column about how the recent lull in wireless activity (mergers, etc.) was just the calm before the storm.Boom! Did you hear the thunder?What a week! Repercussions from wireless carrier consolidation reverberated throughout the industry, affecting wireless...

Weekly wireless ratings roundup

Following is a list of debt and credit upgrades and downgrades for wireless companies by financial and investment firms this week:Standard & Poor's revised its outlook on Sanmina-SCI Corp. to negative from stable following what S&P called disappointing earnings for the second quarter ended...

University conducts VoIP quality testing

LAS VEGAS-The University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory released a white paper outlining the technical results it found in a multivendor test it conducted mixing data, video and Voice over Internet Protocol in typical wired and wireless corporate wireless area networks.Companies that participated in...

Vonage touts Verizon 911 VoIP agreement

WASHINGTON-Vonage Holding Corp. Wednesday said it hopes that a 911 Voice over Internet Protocol solution announced last week by Verizon Communications Inc. can be implemented throughout Verizon's service territory within six months and allow VoIP customers to dial 911 even if they have a...

Martin aims to address VoIP 911 calling at May meeting

WASHINGTON-FCC Chairman Kevin Martin wants the agency to address how consumers will be able to access 911 when using Voice over Internet Protocol technology. As such, he told lawmakers he plans to include the item at a Federal Communications Commission meeting this month. "I...

FCC must address VoIP 911 issues, says Martin

WASHINGTON-New FCC Chairman Kevin Martin wants access to 911 when using Voice over Internet Protocol to be an agenda item at the Federal Communications Commission meeting in May, Martin told lawmakers during a budget hearing Tuesday."I immediately asked our staff to develop a plan...

Vonage solves Clearwire blocking problem, asks feds for help

WASHINGTON-Vonage Holding Co., the largest independent Voice over Internet Protocol provider, has solved the problem at least one customer was having when Clearwire Corp. blocked access to Vonage's VoIP service, said Jeffrey Citron, Vonage chief executive officer, on Capitol Hill Tuesday. Clearwire is a...

Motorola invests in Asylum Telecom

NEW YORK-Motorola Ventures acquired a stake in Asylum Telecom L.L.C., an Internet-based communications company with clients in 25 countries.The investment arm of Motorola Inc. declined to disclose terms of the investment, which was made in the form of a convertible secured note.Asylum, a 2-year-old...

CallWave makes VoIP the application layer to manage phone calls

CallWave Inc. is looking to break into the wireless market with Voice over IP technology, but not exactly in the way some would expect. CallWave is not a VoIP carrier like Vonage Holdings Corp. The company does not transmit or connect calls, nor does...

BadgerNet II brouhaha

One consequence from the intrusion of wireless, Internet and other technologies into a space Bell telephone giants have comfortably occupied for the past century or so has to do with relationships, such as those between entrenched landline carriers and state-municipal governments.I was enlightened about...

Academics develop Wi-Fi roaming software

SAN DIEGO-An engineering professor and a graduate student at the University of California at San Diego have developed software that makes Wi-Fi roaming easier by reducing the hand-off time between Wi-Fi networks.Professor Stefan Savage of the Jacobs School of Engineering and graduate student Ishwar...

VoIP providers defend 911 practices

WASHINGTON-VoIP providers claim customers are informed that when they dial 911 using a Voice over Internet Protocol service, it is different than calling 911 from traditional landline or wireless phones. "You can't call it 911 because 911 means something special," said Chris Murray, vice...

AOL begins offering VoIP, joins NENA

WASHINGTON-America Online Inc. said Thursday it will begin offering Voice over Internet Protocol telephony, and to blunt the criticism other VoIP providers have received, it joined the National Emergency Number Association and said it will offer enhanced 911 as a standard feature."We believe we...

VoIP providers defend 911 practices

WASHINGTON-VoIP providers appearing at the National Press Club Monday disputed claims that customers are not informed that when they dial 911 using a Voice over Internet Protocol service that it is not the same as 911 services from traditional landline or wireless phones."You can't...

Of POTS and plaintiffs’ lawyers

In many respects, the clunky category known as plain old telephone service is being put out to pasture.POTS, despite still being the dominant mode of phone service, is becoming passe. Throngs of new mobile-phone subscribers are being signed up daily-adding to the current 180...

Level 3 withdraws petition with intercarrier compensation implications

WASHINGTON-In a surprise move that gives new FCC Chairman Kevin Martin more time to reveal his regulatory philosophy, Level 3 Communications Inc. withdrew a forbearance petition regarding how much Voice over Internet Protocol carriers must pay to have their calls connected to the public-switched...

Xcelis sells call re-routing product directly to consumers

Xcelis Communications L.L.C. said it has revamped its call re-routing offering so that now the company will sell its Pantheon product to customers so they can re-route their own calls. The move comes after Xcelis introduced a trial service that essentially re-routed Cingular Wireless...

Nokia switches sides on 802.11n battle

DALLAS-The World Wide Spectrum Efficiency (WWiSE) consortium, one of two competing groups offering a proposal to IEEE for 802.11n technology, gained another heavy hitter Friday as Nokia Corp. switched its support to the group.Motorola Inc. joined the WWiSE group last month.Nokia previously had been...

Bell Canada partners with McCaw’s Clearwire, invests $100M

Canadian telecommunications provider Bell Canada reported an alliance with Craig McCaw's U.S.-based wireless broadband network operation Clearwire Corp. The alliance includes a $100 million investment, as well as a further investment in McCaw's NR Communications operations that currently provides wireless broadband services in parts...

Motorola joins WWiSE group for 802.11n proposal

Motorola Inc. has thrown its weight behind one of two main standard proposals being developed for 802.11n technology. The World Wide Spectrum Efficiency consortium said it has harmonized its technical proposals with Motorola, which had developed a separate one. This will result in an...

Ecuity teams with Azatel on Voice over Wi-Fi

BELLEVUE, Wash.-Voice over Internet Protocol provider Ecuity Inc. is teaming with equipment manufacturer Azatel Communications on a pilot program of a device-dependent Voice over Wi-Fi offering for business users.The service combines an Azatel Wi-Fi-enabled handset with Ecuity's VoIP platform and will be marketed to...

Institutional investors up telecom investments despite mixed outlook

NEW YORK—New research shows that large institutional investors upped their positions in the telecommunications market, which helped increase the capital inflow into the sector by 2.17 percent in the fourth quarter. The total influx of money was $3.2 billion, according to Susquehanna Financial Group...

TeleSym, Active Voice enter mobile VoIP manufacturing deal

SEATTLE-TeleSym, which provides mobile Voice over Internet Protocol solutions said it has entered a manufacturing agreement with Active Voice L.L.C. Active Voice will manufacture TeleSym's SymPhone enterprise mobile VoIP solution, including assembling and shipping SymPhone Call Registry and SymPhone Call Connector servers to TeleSym's...