The land rush is on for the new .tel domain. The question is, why?The U.K.-based firm Telnic is hoping to create a "phone book for the Internet" with the new top-level domain, providing a place where companies can join a global directory and allow...
With three of the four largest wireless providers in the United States selling femtocells to boost indoor coverage, and the fourth expected to join the party, a Massachusetts company is banking millions that the technology will take off.Verizon Wireless was the most recent to...
The highly touted LTE technology is expected to make great strides this year as wireless providers launch trials and get ready for commercial deployments in 2010.Although the standards for the technology have yet to be completed, pre-standards are in place and the infrastructure vendors...
With the economy in a recession, many Americans are trying to scale back spending. Wireless providers, however, may experience just the opposite reaction: Each carrier has a "hop to it" mantra, whether it is to upgrade the network, recruit more customers (or actively...
Fallout from Nortel Network Corp.'s financial troubles has forced the Canadian giant to end its mobile WiMAX business and sever its ties with Alvarion Ltd.Nortel officials said Thursday the decision allows the company to narrow its focus, manage investments and strengthen its long-term competitiveness...
Analyst firm Gartner has published a report highlighting eight technologies which it predicts will have a major impact on the mobile industry over the next two years. These range from new wireless standards, to user interfaces and new types of display.
Shares of Openwave Systems Inc. jumped after the struggling company posted a slight increase in quarterly revenues.The Redwood City, Calif.-based firm generated $48.1 million in revenues during the quarter ended Dec. 31, up from $47.4 million during the year-ago period. Bookings for the quarter...
The Senate Finance Committee later today is expected to make tax credits available to wireless carriers and others in the telecom industry that expand broadband networks to rural and low-income urban areas with little or no high-speed Internet access.Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.), a senior...
Texas Instruments, Inc. yesterday posted a 30% year-on-year drop in revenue and a 95% drop in operating profit. About one-quarter of T.I.'s revenue in the fourth quarter was derived from wireless work. As a result, the company announced it would cut 12% of its...
The House this week plans to vote on a massive economic stimulus bill with $1 billion earmarked for wireless broadband grants, but the smallest national wireless provider and a leading public-safety group would like to see other provisions added.T-Mobile USA Inc., among other things,...
How well the Federal Emergency Management Agency responds to disasters may depend partially on AT&T Inc.'s wireless network.FEMA has struck a deal with AT&T Inc. that could net the wireless provider up to $50 million to deliver wireless voice and data communications to thousands...
Looking to boost indoor coverage for customers, Verizon Wireless is rolling out its femtocell offering through its Network Extender base station that will be available for $250.The wireless provider unveiled its new product today. Existing customers can purchase the base stations online, by phone...
A difficult global economy is not slowing operators' LTE deployment plans.More than 18 operators worldwide have announced plans to deploy LTE networks, and Verizon Wireless has actually accelerated its LTE deployment timetable, according to a new study from ABI Research."ABI Research believes that NTT...
So there I was in the front section on the west front of the U.S. Capitol, within yelling distance of the man who would forever transform presidential campaigning and fund-raising by leveraging cellphone texting, the Internet and social networking en route to becoming the...
With just two markets launched, Clearwire Corp.'s mobile WiMAX service is already facing an identity crisis. Unveiled late last year in Baltimore by joint venture partner Sprint Nextel Corp. under the Xohm brand name, the service has since expanded to Portland, Ore., by Clearwire...
United Airlines has become the latest carrier to agree to offer Aircell L.L.C.'s Gogo in-flight Internet services to its passengers.The airline will offer the air-to-ground broadband service in the second half of this year on some transcontinental flights between New York and California, Aircell...
Airport newsstands sell porn. That's what I think of whenever I hear skeptics talk about an over-hyped market for adult mobile content. It's tough to imagine more difficult or awkward place to, um, consume the salacious stuff than an airport - or, worse, an...
Rural provider Open Range Communications can now fund its launch of WiMAX-based wireless broadband and voice, thanks to a new $100 million investment from One Equity Partners.In March of 2008, the United States Department of Agriculture's Rural Development Utilities Program approved a $267 million...
Strategic investors in Clearwire Corp. posted a flurry of bad news related to their stakes in the wireless services company on Wednesday, drawing attention to one of its other more prominent backers: Google Inc.
Elevation Partners, the VC firm that invested $325 million last year to revive Palm, left $100 million under the tree for the handset pioneer.But that tree is bedecked with candycanes in the shape of question marks. The cash infusion announced Monday comes just two...
CONFLICTING SIGNALS WERE SENT LATE LAST WEEK over whether President-elect Barack Obama is close to naming a new chairman to the Federal Communications Commission and making other tech appointments, with intensified speculation coming after key lawmakers urged outgoing FCC Chairman Kevin Martin to defer...
The popularity of 802.11n is attracting more businesses to wireless LAN equipment and helping suppliers cope with the tough economic climate, industry analysts say.
