Clearwire Corp. replaced its chief financial officer and its chief strategy officer today. Erik Prusch has been named CFO, replacing David Sach, effective immediately. Teresa Elder has been appointed to a new position at the company, as president of Strategic Partnerships and Wholesale....
Mobile virtual network operator Great Call Inc. announced its Jitterbug service would now operate on Verizon Wireless' CDMA network, adding the nation's largest carrier to its list of compatible network partners. Jitterbug said the move to include Verizon Wireless' network was eased by the...
The Global mobile Suppliers Association said the number of LTE network commitments worldwide has increased 50% to 39 from an earlier report in March. The commitments have come from 19 countries, with 14 LTE networks scheduled to be operational by the end of 2010...
Alcatel-Lucent said it has received FCC certification for its LTE base stations designed to use the 700 MHz frequency band auctioned by the FCC in 2008 and expected to be the backbone for initial LTE deployments by Verizon Wireless and AT&T Mobility.The Franco-American venture...
The Federal Communications Commission is set to vote Thursday on launching an inquiry into a wide range of wireless industry business practices,including whether there is enough innovation and competition within the industry.The simple two-page press release on the FCC's Aug. 27 meeting has the...
Nokia Siemens Networks said it was establishing a "center of competence" in Dallas dedicated to developing LTE for the North American market. The center is expected to employ approximately 500 people, including current Nokia Siemens workers and new hires. To further show its support...
Motorola Inc. snared a significant LTE network contract with Japanese operator KDDI Corp. The deal calls for Motorola to supply RAN/base stations for KDDI's LTE deployment that will use the 800 MHz and 1.5 GHz spectrum bands and is expected to begin trials in...
Verizon Wireless and Qualcomm Inc. announced their joint venture company focusing on machine-to-machine (M2M) communications would be named nPhase and headed by the original company's president, Steve Pazol.Qualcomm bought nPhase three years ago and renamed it Qualcomm Global Smart Services. The 50-50 joint venture...
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The role of mobile devices is rapidly evolving - converged products like the iPhone are shaping consumer behavior and creating unprecedented expectation for video, web browsing, gaming, and GPS. As our handsets transform from primarily voice-driven devices to highly visual platforms for multimedia, the...
The European Union said it plans to invest more than $25 million beginning in 2010 into research in support of LTE-based wireless networks. LTE-based network are expected to begin launching in Europe in early 2010. In the U.S., Verizon Wireless has said it plans...
LTE is slated to become the next generation of wireless technology. The spectral efficiency alone, meaning the number of data bits supported on a given frequency, clinches the deal. The business case is compelling: with LTE you get more capacity, and therefore more revenue,...
Sprint Nextel Corp. added Las Vegas, Atlanta and Portland, Ore., to its list of WiMAX-enabled markets. The carrier offers the service as a mobile virtual network operator running on Clearwire Corp.'s network. Sprint Nextel initially launched its own WiMAX-powered network in Baltimore in Sept....
AT&T Mobility continues to ride the iPhone tide as the nation's second largest operator posted strong customer growth during the second quarter bolstered by Apple Inc.'s device.The carrier, which prior to Verizon Wireless' closing of its acquisition of Alltel was the industry's No. 1...
Verizon Wireless said it has completed the first data call using the LTE Release 8 standard at its testing facilities in Boston and Seattle. The carrier, which is planning to launch LTE trial networks in the two markets before the end of the year,...
Applicants trying to score a piece of the $4 billion available in the first round of broadband stimulus funds now face an Aug. 20 deadline for electronic filings. Paper filings are still due Aug. 14.to request funding. The majority of the $7.2 billion available...
Worldwide handset sales were down 6% in the second quarter, but smartphone sales continued to climb, according to new research from Gartner Inc. More than 268 million units sold globally in the quarter, and 40 million of those sales were smartphones, up 27% year...
Verizon Wireless posted second quarter results highlighted by strong postpaid net customer additions and growing wireless revenues. The industry's largest operator said it added 1.142 million customers during the second quarter, which was a 24% drop from the 1.5 million the carrier added during...
Clearwire Corp. added 12,000 net subscribers in its second quarter, now reaching 511,000 subscribers on its legacy and WiMAX networks. Average revenue per user was stable at $39.47, even as cost per gross addition (CPGA) increased from $449 in second-quarter 2008, to $524 in...
Computing industry giant Microsoft Corp. and the world's largest handset vendor Nokia Corp. announced a deal to deliver an "enterprise-grade solution for mobile productivity" centered on integrating Microsoft's Office Mobile software to Nokia Symbian-powered smartphones. The agreement calls for the two companies to collaborate...
In North America, the swift growth of mobile broadband has been instrumental in shoring up ARPU (average revenue per user) numbers, which were threatened by the commoditization of voice. With new applications and ideas coupled with improvements in key mobile-phone technologies, there is no...
Highlighting the increasingly competitive nature of the prepaid market, Virgin Mobile USA Inc. posted second quarter results today that showed a loss of customers during the quarter. Despite the customer losses, the carrier did manage to post surprisingly robust financial results ahead of expectations....
Midwestern Communications Workers of America ratified a three-year union contract with AT&T's wireline business, the carrier announced today. The Associated Press also is reporting that CWA union members in Nevada and California have reached a tentative deal with AT&T.AT&T's contract with four CWA regional...
Leap Wireless International Inc. lowered the number of new subscribers it expects to add this year as the carrier faces increased competition in the prepaid segment. Leap added 202,767 net subscribers in the second quarter, up 18% from the year-ago quarter, but also reported...
