With the impending launch of mobile WiMAX service in three North Carolina cities, residents of the area will be able to contrast and compare pricing options from Time Warner Cable Inc., Sprint Nextel Corp. and Clearwire Corp. Time Warner Cable is launching its mobile...
Hello! And welcome to our Friday 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 RCRWireless.com to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the wrong way....
Patent pool administrator Sisvel Group said it is holding an open meeting Feb. 2 to gauge interest in developing a patent pool for LTE technology. Companies that think they own essential patents related to the technology should submit those patents to Sisvel by Dec....
Sprint Nextel Corp. expanded its mobile WiMAX service to San Antonio and Austin, Texas, marketed under the Sprint 4G brand. The service runs off of Clearwire Corp.’s network and provides network speeds up to 10 times faster than the carrier’s CDMA2000 1x EV-DO Revision...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this forum for those with something meaningful to say to the wireless industry. We want to keep this as open as possible,...
DUBLIN—The Irish are embracing mobile broadband services using both 3G cellular technology and mobile WiMAX, according to statistics from the government's Commission for Communications Regulation, or ComReg, the equivalent of the U.S.'s Federal Communications Commission.With a penetration rate of 117%, and nearly 79% of...
Clearwire Corp.’s third-quarter operating loss widened as the operator built out new markets and increased its cost per gross addition from $404 a year ago to $563 today. Revenues were up 13% to $68.8 million. Despite its Q3 earnings, the biggest news of the...
Clearwire Corp. confirmed it would gain another $1.564 billion in funding from its existing partners to help it continue to build its nationwide WiMAX network. Sprint Nextel Corp., which owns 51% of Clearwire and is struggling with its 3G subscriber base, will contribute the...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We've collected a group of the industry's leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry.With 150+ million wireless subscribers today, Brazil has become one of the largest wireless markets...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.Even as we stand on the cusp of the first LTE market launches in a rapidly-expanding era...
With LTE networks set for commercial launches in the coming months, Clearwire Corp. is ramping up the launches of its commercial mobile WiMAX services. Clearwire said it was set to launch its network in 11 new markets by the end of the year. The...
SP AusNet, one of Australia's largest utility companies, is deploying the world's first smart-metering solution using WiMAX technology. SP AusNet said its four-year rollout of smart-metering technology will cover 680,000 smart meters to homes and small businesses in eastern and northeastern Victoria. Of those,...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.With these five words, a revolution began. Digital home products were floundering en masse (remember the...
Verizon Communications Inc. began to offer the much-touted quadruple play of wireless, landline, TV and Internet services ahead of rival cable companies that are rolling out wireless services through their investments in Clearwire Corp.Verizon said depending on which bundle customers buy, they can save...
Sprint Nextel Corp. amputated a source of legal and operational frustration this morning announcing plans to acquire network affiliate iPCS Inc. for $831 million. The deal puts to an end a smattering of legal challenges posed by iPCS that could have forced the industry's...
Over the past year wireless operators have begun populating their retail stores and Web sites with a new niche of devices, the netbook. These devices busted onto the scene last year offering dimensions, capabilities and prices somewhere between traditional laptop computers and smartphones.The explosive...
Clearwire Corp. received a boost from Macquarie Research, which upgraded its rating on the wireless broadband provider from neutral to outperform citing greater clarity on funding possibilities as well as stronger than expected growth from its resale channels. The research firm said it...
With yet another delay confirmed by the government, it’s anyone’s guess when India will begin to hold its much-maligned auction for third-generation licenses. The 3G auction for carriers that want to deploy UMTS-based service was set to start Dec. 7, and the auction for...
Cisco said it will pay $2.9 billion to acquire Starent Networks Corp., a mobile infrastructure provider that targets wireless and converged operators.Tewksbury, Mass.-based Starent has been on a roll recently as the company was selected to build out Verizon Wireless' LTE network, has partnered...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We've collected a group of the industry's leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry.Today, while the U.S. mobile adult content market remains in a very early stage as...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Fourth-generation technology deployments might be stifled by intellectual property rights as different ecosystems collaborate to make devices for the new standards, said Yung Hahn, president of the Open Patent Alliance at a Wednesday morning keynote at PCIA's 2009 Wireless Infrastructure Show....
Wasn’t it just yesterday the wireless industry was all abuzz about third-generation networks and how they would revolutionize the way we communicate? Taking a look at the headlines today that tout the same life-altering benefits of 4G and you would almost think those 3G...
As president and CEO of PCIA – the Wireless Infrastructure Association, Michael Fitch is charged with overseeing the group's mission of supporting the infrastructure necessary to make wireless communications and information available at all times and in all places. While the task may seem...
Cable telecom giant Cox Communications Inc. is set to enter the highly competitive wireless space in a big way. The company is in the midst of building out its own CDMA wireless network to support customers as well as launch services as a mobile...
