WiMax

Telecom policymakers and special-interest groups are fond of talking about ubiquity, making sure communications — wireless, wireline, Internet and video — are within reach of all Americans. Indeed, there are …

Richard Lowe is president of carrier networks at Nortel Networks Inc. The Carrier Networks group, which is Nortel’s largest division, includes a large portfolio of mobility and converged solutions including …

Anyone looking for more talk of interplanetary colonization during the Day Two keynote surely was disappointed. Wednesday’s speakers eschewed Richard Branson’s April Fools’ Day hijinks in favor of a more …

Yes, the mobile industry would be well-served if everyone got behind a single 4G technology. No, it’s not going to happen anytime soon. Vodafone Group CEO Arun Sarin used his …

CTIA Wireless 2008 is all about phones, but Qualcomm Inc. was busy Tuesday talking about laptops, portable multimedia players and just about anything else that can be connected to the …

During Wednesday’s keynote address, industry titans from the infrastructure side of the market debated the status of 4G in wireless. Vodafone’s CEO Arun Sarin said the wireless industry should incorporate …

Sprint Nextel Corp. said nothing substantial about its WiMAX plans yesterday and instead fell back on a new touchscreen device as the biggest news to share with a room packed …

Sprint Nextel released a slew of gadget-related news in conjunction with the CTIA Wireless show, an effort that included a Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. device that is perhaps the most …

Towerstream announced today that it launched fixed WiMAX service for businesses in the Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, area. “The Dallas-Fort Worth metro market is a significant opportunity for Towerstream to expand …

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: …

Perry LaForge is the founder, executive director and chairman of the CDMA Development Group (CDG). The CDG is a trade association comprised of more than 120 of the world’s leading …

Jim Orr is a principal network architect in the wireless market development group at Fujitsu Network Communications. Q: It seems the infrastructure market has experienced some turbulence over the past …

Daniel Moloney is executive VP of Motorola Inc. and president of the company’s Home & Networks Mobility business, which provides digital video set-tops and infrastructure, cable modems and consumer gateways, …

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 …

If you can get Dan Hesse, CEO of Sprint Nextel Corp., to extoll the virtues of your jointly developed handset during the opening day’s keynote address, you’re well-positioned to make …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to a special CTIA Show Daily edition of our weekly online feature, Analyst Angle. Every Monday at www.RCRWirelessNews.com you can find columns from the industry’s leading analysts, …

I’m no prognosticator, nor do I have any special powers that allow me to see into the future. But I am really good at guessing. After laying that all on …

With CTIA Wireless 2008 offering a predominantly consumer slant, one analyst will approach the show with a handful of issues in mind and filter accordingly. Euro-competition for American enterprise customers, …

Sprint Nextel Corp. and Clearwire Corp. are in discussions with the nation’s two largest cable providers — Comcast Corp. and Time Warner Cable Inc. — to fund a nationwide WiMAX …

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 …

At the end of the day – the verbal pause du jour – a gathering of thousands of industry people bursting with innovative products, some of them handsets, will undoubtedly …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to Reality Check, a feature for RCR Wireless News’ new weekly e-mail service, Mobile Content and Culture. We’ve gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the …

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 …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to Yay or Nay, a feature for RCR Wireless News’ weekly e-mail service, Mobile Content and Culture. Every week we’ll review a new wireless application or service …

SPRINT NEXTEL CORP. JUST CAN’T get itself out of the spotlight. And if any of the tier-one carriers needs a time out right now, Sprint Nextel is certainly the most …