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@ CES 2012: Sprint Nextel adds LTE devices to network plans

LAS VEGAS – Days after announcing plans for initial market launches, Sprint Nextel added more color to its LTE plans with news on devices. The carrier said its LTE network would begin rolling out later this year in an initial 10 markets. Sprint Nextel said...

Open Range assets set for the auction block

The end of one-time mobile broadband provider Open Range Communications is at hand as the company’s assets are set to be auctioned off beginning Jan. 11. Colorado-based Open Range, which provided wireless Internet and phone services using WiMAX technology across portions of 17 states,...

Sequans unveils next-generation LTE chips

Sequans Communications, a Paris-based 4G chipmaker, introduced three new FDD and TDD LTE baseband chips, a companion RF chip and two new LTE platforms, supporting all global FDD and TDD LTE networks.

Clearwire strikes new deal with Sprint Nextel, makes interest payment

Clearwire (CLWR) avoided a potential default on an interest payment and secured its near-term future through a new agreement with parent company Sprint Nextel (S). The deal also guarantees the availability of WiMAX services through at least 2015 and ties Sprint Nextel into Clearwire’s...

NewNet picks up Nokia Siemens’ WiMAX business

A week after announcing plans to cut 17,000 jobs as part of a restructuring, Nokia Siemens Networks said today that it was selling off the WiMAX assets it acquired from Motorola Solutions to NewNet. Those WiMAX assets were acquired earlier this year for $1.2 billion...

Sprint Nextel set for LTE deployments, future with Clearwire remains uncertain

To the surprise of few, Sprint Nextel Corp. officially threw its hat into the LTE ring this morning, announcing details of its planned Network Vision upgrade that will see the carrier begin offering LTE-based services by the middle of next year.

Contracts: NTT adds Cisco; VimpelCom selects Alcatel-Lucent's femtocell; and more

Greenpacket has been awarded a 2-year contract by Wateen Telecom, WiMAX operator in Pakistan, for the supply of Greenpacket’s modem, the UH350. Wateen Telecom is a venture of the Abu Dhabi Group, which also owns Warid Telecom, Pakistan’s mobile operator. Value undisclosedDialogic announced that...

Clearwire's stock surges on new investment report

Clearwire Corp. (CLWR) witnessed a surge in its stock price this morning following another published report indicating a possible acquisition by current majority owner Sprint Nextel Corp. (S)Clearwire's stock was up more than 35% in early trading after Bloomberg released a story indicating...

Devices, enterprise drive Huawei's first-half revenues

Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. said its revenues grew 11% in the first half of the year, to $15.38 billion, while operating profit reached $1.94 billion. The privately held Chinese company released the information in a press release, but did not release overall profit figures.The...

RCR Wireless News MBB Baltimore: LTE vs. WiMAX in the shadows of Camden Yards

The Baltimore test pitted Verizon Wireless’ LTE network against Sprint Nextel Corp.’s WiMAX network and was conducted in the shadows of Baltimore’s historic Camden Yards baseball park. The tests were run over similar smartphones running Google’s Inc.’s Android OS and using the Ookla Speedtest.net application.

Report: Sprint Nextel set for further investments in Clearwire

Could Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) be readying a new infusion of cash into Clearwire Corp. (CLWR)?According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, Sprint Nextel’s board of directors expects to make a “substantial” investment in Clearwire.Clearwire reported last week that it was looking...

Nokia Siemens Networks starts cutting 1,500 jobs

Reuters | August 4, 2011 | Georgina Prodhan Nokia Siemens Networks has begun cutting 1,500 jobs from the 6,900 staff it acquired with its $1.2 billion acquisition of Motorola's telecoms network unit in April, a spokesman said on Thursday. Read the full article here via Reuters...

Sprint offers Samsung Conquer 4G for $100

Sprint Nextel Corp. has teamed up with Samsung Telecommunications America to offer consumers a sub $100 Android phone running on Sprint Nextel's WiMAX version of 4G.The Samsung Conquer 4G boasts some fairly decent specs for its price, including Android 2.3 (Gingerbread), a 1GHz processor,...

Intel aims to play in wireless, device markets

Intel Corp. aims to play in wireless and device markets, introducing digital signage and machine-to-machine solutions. “We are working with some players to validate our chips to tablets and smartphones,” said Carlos Kokron, Intel’s Latin America’s director of carriers business, in an interview with...

WiMAX should develop toward dual-mode single frequency band, says Global Mobile chairwoman

DigiTimes | August 1, 2011 | Chloe Yu, Adam Hwang Chairwoman Rosemary Ho for Global Mobile, one of the six WiMAX operators in Taiwan, has expressed her opinions about how WiMAX will develop under competition from LTE and the company's WiMAX operations in an interview...

Sprint Nextel to host LightSquared's LTE plans

After months of rumors, LightSquared’s plans to speed up its proposed network deployment seem to have found some solid ground as the company has announced a 15-year, “spectrum hosting and network sharing” agreement with Sprint Nextel Corp. (S)The deal calls for Sprint Nextel to...

Franken: Just say 'no' to AT&T buy of T-Mobile USA

Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) has asked the Federal Communications Commission and Department of Justice to reject the proposed acquisition of T-Mobile USA Inc. (DTEGY) by AT&T Inc. (T)Franken joins Sen. Herb Kohl (D-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Judiciary antitrust subcommittee, in calling for the...

A beginning guide on how to define 4G

As a member of the RCR team for eight months now, I’ve gone through a major learning curve as I came from a world of journalism outside of telecom. In this business world, I often run across the same clichés used by execs to...

Huawei to build WiMAX network in rural Canada

Chinese infrastructure vendor Huawei has announced a partnership with Canada’s Manitoba NetSet Ltd at the Global WiMAX & LTE Development Forum in San Francisco on Thursday.

Huawei to build WiMAX network in rural Canada

Chinese infrastructure vendor Huawei has announced a partnership with Canada’s Manitoba NetSet Ltd at the Global WiMAX & LTE Development Forum in San Francisco on Thursday. Manitoba NetSet - a consortium of the most prominent Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in rural Manitoba – has the...

LightSquared, AT&T, T-Mobile USA, Sprint Nextel and Motorola to headline RCR Wireless News' Baltimore MBB event July 19

RCR Wireless News is set to visit Baltimore the week of July 18 as part of our Mobile Broadband Tour and Conference series. The RCR Wireless News Mobile Broadband Baltimore tour will include several days meeting with local telecommunication leaders and associations...

AT&T Mobility unveils '4G' LTE devices ahead of network launch

Let confusion reign!AT&T Mobility (T) announced today plans to begin selling “4G” devices compatible with the carrier's soon-to-launch LTE network alongside currently available “4G” devices compatible with the carrier's HSPA+ network. Sure, those “4G” LTE devices will be backwards compatible with “4G” HSPA+ services,...

Spotlight: InterDigital

Few companies have seen as much technology change across the mobile space than InterDigital Inc., which for nearly 40 years has had a hand in developing the intellectual property for many of the advances that have propelled the industry. From its early years in...

SK Telecom launches LTE in Seoul

Korean telecommunications provider SK Telecom Co. SKM) launched the country's first LTE service on July 1, providing initial service to the Seoul market. The carrier said it expects to attract 300,000 LTE customers by the end of the year and 10 million subscribers by...