DOT Counters LightSquared GPS Standards Plan

18 hours ago | News

The Transportation Department mulls regulations that would ban services that interfere with GPS - services like LightSquared's.

The Value of Independent Policy and Charging Systems

Feb 7 | Articles

The integration of the policy server (the 3GPP-defined policy and charging rules function, or PCRF) with charging and billing systems is emerging as one of the key considerations in the 3GPP Policy and Charging Control (PCC) architecture.

Addressing Mobile Data Growth & Impending Network Congestion

Feb 7 | Articles

How operators can leverage quality of service (QoS) and policy management to meet growing demands.

LightSquared Pushes FCC on GPS Standards

Feb 7 | News

LightSquared is pushing the FCC to force GPS manufacturers to comply with proposed standards that would make receivers less vulnerable to interference from signals in neighboring bands.

Canada Clears Dish, TerreStar Deal

Feb 7 | News

Industry Canada today cleared Dish Network's acquisition of TerreStar's satellite spectrum across the United States' northern border.

Harbinger Value Plummets on LightSquared Bet

Feb 7 | News

LightSquared's ongoing failure to get the green light for its LTE network has made it something of a bad luck charm for its main backer...

Alcatel-Lucent Banks on Customer Service

Feb 7 | News

Alcatel-Lucent is throwing its weight behind software that allows wireless operators to get a better understanding of what their customers are actually experiencing...

Metro DAS Is the New Cloud

Feb 6 | Articles

Why is an urban DAS like a compute cloud? Because both offer multi-tenancy with a shared set of centralized resources. In the case of the DAS, the centralized resources are signal sources from a base station hotel. This architecture provides a lot of flexibility for mobile operators to optimize the capacity...

Dish Protests AT&T Rapid LTE Buildout Plan, Affirms Retail Plans

Feb 6 | News

Dish Network wants the FCC to ignore a proposal from AT&T that it be forced to construct its LTE network faster than it had originally planned.

MetroPCS Revives $40 LTE Plan

Feb 3 | News

MetroPCS is making it cheaper for customers to sign up for its LTE service.

2012 PREDICTIONS

Dec 3 2011

Japanese Entrepreneurs Aim for Silicon Valley

Feb 3

Gadgets: New Connected Devices Put Smartphones in the Middle

Jan 30

Metro DAS Is the New Cloud

Feb 6

Don’t Cut That Fiber Just Yet

Dec 19 2011

The Good, the Bad and the Curious at CES 2012

Jan 5 | Wireless Week Blog

After perusing my schedule for the 2012 International CES, I decided it was probably time to put together a few thoughts about "the world's largest consumer technology trade show."

An Inconvenient Truth About the Real Capacity

Sep 30 2011 | Wireless Week Blog

By Vents Lacars, VP Business Development, SAF Tehnika

Carriers Have Hands Full with Isis

Nov 18 2010 | Wireless Week Blog

I'm guessing that at least a few eyebrows were raised this week when T Mobile USA, Verizon Wireless and AT&T announced the joint venture Isis, which aims to create a national mobile payments network. While I agree that it's often

A Few Days in China

Jun 1 2010 | Wireless Week Blog

A few days in China were enlightening.

T-Mobile’s Wholesale 4G Cure

May 4 2010 | Wireless Week Blog

T-Mobile takes a look at using wholesale to provide 4G.

Super Bowl Spot: Samsung Note

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Super Bowl Spot: Best Buy Mobile

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Quick Look: Huawei Ascend

Jan 23