The LiMo Foundation continues to make strides as it announced updates to its open platform, notched six new operators to deliver handsets and added two new directors to its board.NTT DoCoMo, Orange, SK Telecom, Telefonica, Verizon Wireless and Vodafone said they are committed to...
The following list includes venture capital and other investments into wireless companies announced during the past week. The value of the investment is included when available.--Altierre: D.E. Shaw Group and Labrador Ventures invested $8 million in a second closing of its Series C funding...
THE GROUND CONTINUED TO SHIFT in the tumultuous mobile virtual network operator space this month as one player announced plans to call it quits, another explores a potential merger and a third prepares to morph into a reseller of wireless services.Embarq Holding Co. L.L.C....
Embarq Holding Co. L.L.C.'s CFO Gene Betts confirmed the company's plans to wind down its wireless offering that currently runs on former parent Sprint Nextel Corp.'s network. Betts, speaking at a Morgan Stanley investor conference yesterday, noted the company is in the process of...
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 CDMA, GSM, VoIP/IMS, WiMAX/4G. Q: It seems the infrastructure market has experienced some turbulence...
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--Greece: L.M. Ericsson said it upgraded and expanded the GSM/CDMA...
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 likely candidate.The company's stock continued falling to record lows after it reported massive customer...
NextWave Wireless Inc. plans to introduce today broadcast technology that will give WiMAX operators the ability to deliver multimedia services like mobile TV and digital audio over their networks. NextWave's new MXtv technology is compatible with the 802.16e standard, the company said.The company said...
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 RCRWirelessNews.com to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the wrong way....
Is the mobile-phone industry's increasingly reluctant embrace of open access really a concession to consumers, or an inescapable inevitability driven in part by legal developments that have forced carriers to loosen their iron-clad grip on networks and handsets and otherwise delivered a blow to...
Editor's Note: Welcome to Yay or Nay, a feature for RCR Wireless News' new weekly e-mail service, Mobile Content and Culture. Every week we'll review a new wireless application or service from the user's point of view, with the goal of highlighting what works...
The municipal wireless market is undergoing a correction, but the re-evaluation of business models eventually will benefit the space and the emergence of WiMAX technology offers new possibilities, according to a Yankee Group webinar last week.After the now-collapsing adoption of "for-free" models that characterized...
ORLANDO-The Federal Aviation Administration could prove pivotal in bridging a compromise between conservationists and the wireless industry over how to reduce the number of migratory birds killed from nighttime collisions with communications towers.James Patterson, project manager at the FAA Technical Center, confirmed that agency...
AS AMP'D MOBILE INC. WINDS DOWN its mobile virtual network operator service, questions loom about the health of the MVNO space.Bankrupt Amp'd Mobile has halted customer service and was on the verge of cutting off network access to its customers entirely last week, before...
There's nothing like seeing your closest competitor in a marathon stumble, their footsteps fading as you alone lead with the wind at your back. That, in essence, is Nokia Corp.'s position in the handset business. Of course, if a competitor can stumble, so can...
A report from iGR Inc. released last week showed that between 50% and 70% of kids between the ages of 12 and 14 have their own cellphone and that the new battleground for carriers in attracting the youth market was shifting from those with...
NextWave Wireless Inc. announced it will purchase TD-CDMA supplier IPWireless Inc. for $25 million in cash and $75 million in stock. The ultimate purchase price could increase to $235 million by 2010 if IPWireless manages to achieve "certain revenue milestones," although NextWave did not...
NextWave Wireless Inc. announced it will purchase TD-CDMA supplier IPWireless Inc. for $25 million in cash and $75 million in stock. The ultimate purchase price could increase to $235 million by 2010 if IPWireless manages to achieve "certain revenue milestones," although NextWave did not...
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. CellularBrazil: L.M. Ericsson said it won a contract to...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our Monday 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. In the coming weeks look for columns from M:Metrics' Seamus McAteer, Ovum's Roger Entner...
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 Italy: Nokia Corp. said it signed a three-year...
STERLING, Va.-NeuStar Inc. said it acquired Followap Inc., a U.K.-based company that provides mobile instant messaging products for Europe and Asia. The deal is valued at about $139 million.Followap has a customer base of 17 mobile carriers, including Vodafone, Turkcell, 3 Group, Wind and...
WASHINGTON-Consumer groups and wireless carriers last week said AT&T Inc.'s proposed conditions to its $79 billion purchase of BellSouth Corp. are inadequate, creating uncertainty over whether the Federal Communications Commission can pull off a planned Nov. 3 vote on the deal. "AT&T's concessions are...
WASHINGTON—Consumer groups and wireless carriers said AT&T Inc.’s proposed conditions to its $79 billion purchase of BellSouth Corp. are inadequate, creating uncertainty over whether the Federal Communications Commission can pull off a planned Nov. 3 vote on the deal. "AT&T's concessions are nothing more...
