Don Stroberg, VP of sales for Sprint Nextel Corp.'s new Xohm Business unit, sat down with RCR Wireless News to talk about how the company's WiMAX plans are shaping up. Q: How does WiMAX fit into Sprint Nextel's overall strategy? A: Generally speaking, this...
WiMAX World USA is underway this week in Chicago and, not surprisingly, vendors rushed out news of their exploits, or plans for such exploits, in the mobile broadband arena in conjunction with the show.One might require an extensive cheat-sheet to grasp the technical definitions...
A friend in need is a friend indeed. This mantra seems to ring remarkably true at Alcatel-Lucent, evident by its wide reach and the position it finds itself in the telecom industry.The telecom equipment maker fused a breadth of French and American experience together...
YOU CAN'T HAVE A HOLIDAY PARTY without a potent punch bowl for all comers.The news from last week: Some of the latest models of 3G handsets will indeed appear in the United States in time for the retail party just getting under way.Specifically, the...
Motorola Inc. is shifting its long-term, 3G-chip business away from Qualcomm Inc. in favor of Texas Instruments Inc., leading one analyst last week to downgrade his short-term rating on Qualcomm from "buy" to "neutral."A Motorola spokeswoman confirmed that the company would use Qualcomm "opportunistically"...
Welcome to our Friday feature, Week in Review. Every Friday, RCR Wireless News will run through the major events of the past week, outlining what happened and speculating on what to look for in the coming weeks. Check below for news about carriers, handset...
Motorola Inc. has shifted its 3G chip business away from Qualcomm Inc. in favor of Texas Instruments Inc. and Freescale Inc., according to analyst Mark McKechnie. "We believe Motorola's decision was purely business," McKechnie wrote in a note to investors yesterday. "Our checks reveal...
LAS VEGAS-Less than two months into a broadcast mobile TV service trial, HiWire L.L.C. has wrapped the first phase of its study and is now preparing to increase its scope by 800% before month's end.T-Mobile USA Inc., which has signed on with the Aloha...
Infineon Technologies AG will purchase LSI Corp.'s mobile products unit for $450 million in cash, the companies announced.LSI merged with Agere Systems in April and cut the deal with Infineon to focus on growth in its storage systems and networking chip business, according to...
The W-CDMA baseband chip business is morphing in real time, as various market pressures push and pull the players to partner, diversify their customer base or pursue less-demanding technologies.Data from Forward Concepts (see chart) shows that last year Texas Instruments Inc. was the global...
Qualcomm Inc. is keeping the reasons for the resignation of its general counsel, announced today, close to its vest. No reasons were given for General Counsel Lou Lupin's resignation in the terse announcement. In a press release, the San Diego-based chip vendor and IP...
It's been all quiet on the Nokia Corp.- Qualcomm Inc. front for months-only the two parties really know whether minions in suits and toting bulging briefcases are actually meeting on a cross-licensing agreement and whether either's lawyers ever actually shout in frustration.Shouting would be...
In a July earnings call, Qualcomm President Steve Altman cited a handful of cases initiated by Qualcomm against rival Nokia Corp. and said that the outcomes would guide the chip vendor's negotiations in a cross-licensing deal with the handset vendor. Those cases are summarized...
The president last week declined to veto his trade office's ban on new 3G handsets containing a patent-infringing Qualcomm Inc. chip, sending the vendor back to court to pursue new means to end the ban.Qualcomm filed a request on Aug. 8 in the Court...
WHEN A BEHEMOTH SHAKES ITS TAIL, some rise, some fall. The behemoth benefits.That appears to be the upshot of Nokia Corp.'s announcement last week that it had selected four main chipset suppliers for future business. The move boosted some fortunes and cast off others,...
Welcome to our Friday feature, Week in Review. Every Friday, RCR Wireless News will run through the major events of the past week, outlining what happened and speculating on what to look for in the coming weeks. Check below for news about carriers, handset...
Nokia Corp. is accelerating its research-and-development efforts in software to enable mobile Internet services while scaling back on research and development in chip-based radio technology. In tandem with this strategy, the Finnish company will pursue multiple sources for its chipsets, many bearing its royalty-producing,...
The president passed and Qualcomm Inc. is heading to court. A 60-day window closed yesterday for a presidential veto of the U.S. International Trade Commission's June 7 ban on the importation of new 3G handsets containing Qualcomm Inc.'s chips. Now, the company will...
Inching closer to its long-sought goal of 40% of the global market, Nokia Corp. confirmed last week that its business is firing on nearly all cylinders.The Finnish vendor notched impressive, year-on-year, double-digit gains in handset volumes in every region but North America. The company's...
When teardown firms managed to analyze the components of the iPhone, they found that Apple Inc. had taken the wireless handset industry's diversification strategy one step further.Where most handset vendors rely on one main source for certain key components-while cueing up a second source...
Great results are great, except if you can't count on repeating them.Thus when a company posts big jumps in revenue, profit and unit shipments and raises guidance for the year, but both the CEO and president preface their remarks to analysts by delivering nearly...
Qualcomm Inc. can chew gum while swatting at nemeses who hover over its business model, if yesterday's financial results are any indication. But the chip vendor acknowledged that it had won and lost in various legal matters during the quarter. For its fiscal third-quarter...
Two disparate events-the 700 MHz auction and the iPhone introduction-have the potential to alter the wireless industry's existing course. Traditional wireless players must adapt to these new forces of change-and if they respond correctly, they will remain healthy.It is ironic the two movements are...
Editor's Note: Welcome to On the Margins, a feature for RCR Wireless News' new weekly e-mail service, Mobile Content and Culture. Every week, the RCR Wireless News staff considers events in the wider business world and how they could affect the wireless industry.--Google announced...
