| Battle of the Prepaid Plans
07/05/2010
It’s a jungle out there when it comes to prepaid. This week both MetroPCS (NYSE:PCS) and Leap Wireless (NASDAQ:LEAP) reported impressive earnings, as the two Tier 2 operators lured more budget-conscious subscribers to their networks, and Sprint (NYSE:S) announced a significant restructuring of its own prepaid business to address the increasing threat of Leap and Metro as well as attack the even... |
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| FCC Chairman wants broadband transmission regulated as telecom service
06/05/2010
More on this Topic Industry News Blogs Briefing Room Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski today said he would like to see the transmission portion of broadband connections classified as a Title II, or telecommunications service. ... |
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| WAC not a return to the walled garden
06/05/2010
More on this Topic Industry News Blogs Briefing Room Officials from the newly minted Wholesale Applications Community and the GSM Association this week made their first public comments since Mobile World Congress about the strategy and aims of the global operator consortium. While they... |
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| AT&T: Spectrum biggest issue in keeping public safety net costs down
05/05/2010
More on this Topic Industry News Blogs Briefing Room While FCC officials have emphasized the need for public safety to be able to construct its proposed 700 MHz broadband network in conjunction with commercial carriers’ LTE deployments to make the costs more reasonable, an AT&T official... |
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| Tekelec ‘probes’ cheaper, more ubiquitous mobile data monitoring
05/05/2010
More on this Topic Industry News Blogs Briefing Room One of the challenges in dealing with the onslaught of data usage on mobile networks is that operators need to change how they think about monitoring their networks. There’s simply no way to actively watch all that traffic – let alone the... |
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| Clearwire still focusing on smaller markets
05/05/2010
Clearwire (NASDAQ:CLWR) promised 2010 would be a year primarily devoted large-scale WiMax rollouts in the major metro markets. But -- at least for the first half of the year — it’s falling back on 2009’s strategy of launching new WiMax networks in a handful of large markets while filling its footprint with the numerous smaller markets in between. Ahead of its Q1 earnings call today,... |
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| Clearwire to release 4G handsets
05/05/2010
More on this Topic Industry News Blogs Briefing Room Sprint (NYSE:S) won’t be the only operator with a 4G handset this year. On its Q1 earnings call today, Clearwire (NASDAQ:CLWR) said it will offer new WiMax handsets to its retail mobile broadband customers in 2010. The first, built by... |
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| Ixia takes on timing, synch with backhaul test solution
04/05/2010
More on this Topic Industry News Blogs Briefing Room Test vendor Ixia today announced a solution for testing mobile backhaul networks, with a focus on dealing with the end-to-end timing issues that arise when voice services are delivered over IP/Ethernet links. ... |
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| Inside Clearwire’s data-driven customer acquisition strategy
30/04/2010
All eyes are on Clearwire – both its Clear retail brand and big-name wholesale partners – as the company spends 2010 embarking on the industry’s first large-scale effort to market 4G services to subscribers just beginning to get comfortable with smartphone devices and 3G. More on this Topic Industry News Blogs Briefing Room ... |
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| iPad could help launch mobile video conferencing
30/04/2010
The new Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPad is many things: an e-book reader, a video streaming device and an Internet tablet—it seems every day a new use for the iconic new handheld is envisioned. But Global IP Systems Solutions believes there is one other potential function of the iPad that has gone largely overlooked. The iPad could serve as an entry point for video conferencing into the mobile market. ... |
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