The Women’s Wireless Leadership Forum is now giving its fellowship and scholarship recipients and their mentors an all expenses paid trip to the annual PCIA trade show. “The opportunities, exposure, support and connections that our recipients will gain from this experience will be extremely beneficial as they continue to build their wireless careers,” said Lauren [...]

A handful of lower 700 MHz spectrum holders released a report showing that concerns regarding interference across the spectrum bands A-Block are unfounded and that current proceedings designed to preclude that spectrum block from 3GPP standards for LTE will limit roaming capabilities. The report, which was commissioned by Cavalier Wireless, C Spire Wireless, Continuum 700, [...]

Leap Wireless joined the growing number of regional operators offering Apple’s iconic iPhone device, though as has been the case for much of its history, the carrier is adding a unique twist: no contract required. Leap, which operates its flat-rate, unlimited wireless offering under the Cricket brand, said it would begin selling a pair of [...]

For 4 straight years, Apple’s Worldwide Developers’ Conference was the launchpad for the company’s newest iPhone, and this year the company may again try to change the mobile landscape with a June announcement. Last June Apple disappointed some of its loyalists by not unveiling an iPhone (the iPhone 4S launched in October), and now it [...]

Intel (INTC) and China’s Lenovo have launched an Android 2.3 smartphone powered by Intel’s Atom Z2460 processor, and next week a similar Intel-powered smartphone will go on sale in the UK. Lenovo’s LePhone K800 will retail for about $524 on Lenovo’s 360buy.com website. With a 4.5″ screen and high definition 1080p video, the smartphone targets [...]

TMForum Management World is the preeminent gathering dedicated to Service Assurance and all things OSS/BSS. With a full slate of keynote perspectives,  and service provider case studies, and the renowned Catalyst collaborative projects seeing all there is to see, let alone learning all there is to learn is a tall order. After a long week [...]

The Federal Communications Commission’s Wireless Telecommunications Bureau is set to change leadership as current chief Rick Kaplan will be replaced by former chief Ruth Milkman in mid-June. Kaplan had succeeded Milkman just one year ago. There was no word from the FCC on Kaplan’s future. “For the past three years, Rick Kaplan has been critical [...]

South Korean telecom giant SK Telecom said it has launched a multi carrier pilot service allowing the carrier to use its 800 MHz and 1.8 GHz spectrum holdings to offer LTE service. The carrier said the move will result a wider frequency bandwidth and a commercial offerings by July. By combining spectrum from its 800 [...]

Following days of reports predicting job cuts, Research In Motion said it expects to report an operating loss for its first fiscal quarter ending June 2 due to continued slow sales of its core BlackBerry products. The news follows a $125 million loss posted by the Canadian firm during its fourth fiscal quarter of 2012. [...]

Sprint Nextel’s Network Vision program added some important numbers today as the carrier announced the date it would terminate service across its iDEN network as well as a new credit facility to purchase equipment for the extensive network upgrade. Sprint Nextel said its current iDEN service would be shuttered as early as June 30, 2013, [...]