CHICAGO - Even as AT&T Mobility Inc. touted its decision to deploy Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology for its fourth-generation network, the carrier is confident it can tweak its HSPA network to increase speeds gradually, without having to rush to build out a 4G...
CHICAGO - For the past seven years, a Rhode Island company has demonstrated that WiMAX technology can succeed in the United States.In 2000, Jeff Thompson started TowerStream with money from a small group of investors and fewer than 30 employees. In 2008, the company...
The enthusiasm surrounding Sprint Nextel Corp.'s launch of its Xohm-branded mobile WiMAX service took a bit of a hit as a Washington, D.C.-based group noted the service's terms and conditions contains a clause that would allow Sprint Nextel to limit users' access to certain...
Following years of hype, mobile WiMAX from a major provider is now available commercially in the United States. Sprint Nextel Corp. announced that its Xohm service is live in the Baltimore area, and the carrier plans to expand to additional markets later this year.The...
Clearwire Corp. is prepping for its impending merger with Sprint Nextel Corp.'s Xohm WiMAX business by shuffling employees. In an 8-K filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Clearwire's CEO Ben Wolff included an e-mail dated Sept. 19 addressed to Clearwire and Xohm highlighting...
WHAT'S THAT SAYING? Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me?After their previous union was aborted last year, Sprint Nextel Corp. and Clearwire Corp. decided last week to try to merge their WiMAX businesses again, this time under the Clearwire...
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....
SPRINT NEXTEL CORP. HAS WATCHED its self-imposed deadline for a commercial WiMAX network launch slip by as backhaul and billing systems appear to be causing greater headaches than originally expected.The carrier planned to commercially launch its Xohm network in Chicago, Baltimore and Washington, D.C.,...
The market for broadband services is a large space, one that's driven steady innovation, competition and various levels of service. While wireless carriers clamor to make technology roadmap choices for fourth-generation networks that will offer entirely mobile access, plenty of companies are finding success...
By most accounts -- mine included -- this year's CTIA Wireless in Las Vegas bore a striking resemblance to February's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona (the show formerly known as 3GSM). To be sure, there were clear differences outside the convention center: cava...
LAS VEGAS-Brightpoint announced several distribution and logistics agreements last week at CTIA 2008.The company announced a distribution agreement with Cellatel L.L.C. that covers handset distribution through its North America and Latin America subsidiaries. Brightpoint Latin America will provide distribution services for Cellatel's Alcatel-branded handset...
Sprint Nextel Corp. isn't committing to any specific launch date for Xohm this time around.The carrier has pushed back rollout of its nationwide WiMAX service -- which had been slated to come online this quarter -- until "later this year," according to spokesman James...
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 full of invited press and analysts.There's no doubt the company and its new chief,...
The "old hippie" is headin' to Mars. Or, perhaps more accurately, Richard Branson - fearless leader of the ubiquitous Virgin brand - is hatching a plan with Google Inc.'s founders to send volunteers to the Red Planet to establish a city.There is a catch,...
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 overt attempt yet to dig into Apple Inc.'s iPhone.Samsung's new sleek, black Instinct device...
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--Pakistan: Warid Telecom has chosen Ericsson to expand and upgrade...
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...
Sprint Nextel Corp.'s performance is likely to get worse before it gets better, the company told agitated investors last week.The company's stock plummeted to new lows after it reported a $29.5 billion loss for the fourth quarter due to a write down of the...
Clearwire Corp. and Sprint Nextel Corp. still haven't resurrected their now-defunct plan for a collaborative nationwide mobile WiMAX buildout, Clearwire CEO Ben Wolff said in a conference call this morning. However, the two companies aren't ignoring each other, either."The companies have aligned on common...
Despite the unceremonious break-up that shattered plans for a nationwide mobile WiMAX network partnership between Sprint Nextel Corp. and Clearwire Corp., both companies insist their rollout plans for 2008 are on track. However, plans for some markets are being revisited now that both companies...
Sprint Nextel Corp. made several announcements this week that lend a sense of momentum to the carrier's plans to deploy its WiMAX service, dubbed Xohm, on schedule.Since the collapse last year of a Sprint Nextel deal with Clearwire Corp. to mesh their WiMAX efforts,...
The WiMAX Forum has opened its first, and lead, lab to formally test and evaluate mobile WiMAX products for certification. With the lab now open for submissions, certified mobile WiMAX products are projected to hit the commercial market in the coming months."This is a...
The WiMAX Forum has opened its first, and lead, lab to formally test and evaluate mobile WiMAX products for certification. With the lab now open for submissions, certified mobile WiMAX products are projected to hit the commercial market in the coming months."This is a...
SPRINT NEXTEL CORP. PLANS to turn on three WiMAX test markets within the next two weeks, meeting its self-imposed deadline to roll out the technology by the end of this year.Sprint Nextel spokesman John Polivka confirmed that "several hundred" company employees will begin participating...
