Technology

Rysavy Report Counters Citi's Spectrum Claims

October 13, 2011 8:34 am | by Maisie Ramsay | News | Comments

Noted industry analyst Peter Rysavy is rebutting a Citigroup report that discredited the spectrum crunch.

RIM Says Service Fully Restored

October 13, 2011 8:31 am | by Peter Svensson, AP Technology Writer | News | Comments

NEW YORK (AP) — BlackBerry services buzzed back to life across the world today after a three-day outage that interrupted email messages and Internet services for millions of customers.

Despite Setbacks, LightSquared Bullish on LTE Prospects

October 13, 2011 8:24 am | by Maisie Ramsay | News | Comments

SAN DIEGO—LightSquared hasn't even received FCC clearance for its wholesale LTE network, but already the company is having an effect on the wireless industry.

Verizon Equips Fleet to Test More of More

October 12, 2011 9:25 am | by Monica Alleven | News | Comments

Verizon Wireless test men and women are going to be monitoring not only the carrier's own LTE network, but the high-speed data networks...

QuickPlay Stretches Its Video Wings

October 12, 2011 9:20 am | by Brad Smith | News | Comments

SAN DIEGO—On one of the hills in the northern San Diego suburbs is an anonymous-looking office park.

GSMA: Mobile Connected Devices Will Double This Decade

October 11, 2011 10:07 am | by Brad Smith | News | Comments

The wireless telecom industry has a long relationship with growth forecasts. Some have been woefully under what the future brought, while some have been overly optimistic.

Report: Smartphone Performance Continues to Improve

October 11, 2011 9:35 am | by Andrew Berg | News | Comments

Metrico today released its quarterly Mobile Device Roundup, an exclusive to Wireless Week...

Deficit Panel Pushes for Federal Spectrum Auctions

October 10, 2011 8:28 am | by Maisie Ramsay | News | Comments

Four members of the super committee charged with cutting $1.5 trillion from the federal deficit have asked President Obama to help free up federal spectrum for auction.

Sprint Plans 2012 LTE Launch

October 7, 2011 8:11 am | by Maisie Ramsay | News | Comments

The LTE deployment will bring Sprint into the technological mainstream and free itself of its dependency on Clearwire's WiMAX network.

SMS, the iPhone 4S, and the Universal Messaging Medium

October 6, 2011 12:59 pm | by William Dudley, Sybase 365 | Articles | Comments

The iPhone 4S introduction reminds us to be wary of rampant speculation with regard to what Apple will do next. Very likely, the vast majority expected introduction of the iPhone 5, which didn't happen.

FCC USF Reform Boosts Mobile Broadband

October 6, 2011 8:17 am | by Maisie Ramsay | News | Comments

FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski wants to use cash from the Universal Service Fund (USF) to expand mobile broadband service...

AT & T Ups Ante on Android Wi-Fi Offload

October 3, 2011 7:58 am | by Maisie Ramsay | News | Comments

AT&T has stepped up its efforts to offload traffic from data-hungry Android smartphones onto Wi-Fi networks.

An Inconvenient Truth About the Real Capacity

September 30, 2011 2:03 pm | by Vents Lacars, SAF Tehnika | Blogs | Comments

By Vents Lacars, VP Business Development, SAF Tehnika

LightSquared Continues PR Push

September 30, 2011 8:10 am | by Maisie Ramsay | News | Comments

LightSquared ramped up its ongoing public relations campaign yesterday when it published an open letter...

Sprint to Launch PTT Amid LTE Rumors

September 28, 2011 8:17 am | by Maisie Ramsay | News | Comments

Sprint said today it will launch its new CDMA-based push-to-talk service on Sunday as it works to phase out its iDEN network...

Isis Lists Smartphone Makers for NFC Payments Push

September 28, 2011 8:12 am | by Maisie Ramsay | News | Comments

Isis says six top smartphone manufacturers will manufacture smartphones compatible with its NFC-based mobile payments service.

Cell Service Arrives in NYC Holdout - The Subway

September 28, 2011 8:08 am | by Chris Hawley, Associated Press | News | Comments

It was the one place that New Yorkers could go to get away from singing cell phones, beeping BlackBerries and torrents of tweets. And now it's disappearing.

No Ordinary Wi-Fi: Why the Network Matters for Mobile Data Offloading

September 27, 2011 12:53 pm | by Torbjorn Ward, Aptilo Networks | Articles | Comments

Many mobile operators are currently looking to build their own Wi-Fi footprint to handle the urgent need for more mobile data capacity. Their goal is to have subscribers automatically move over from the 3G network to Wi-Fi whenever it is in range.

T-Mo Unveils First 42 Mbps HSPA+ Android Devices

September 27, 2011 8:13 am | by Andrew Berg | News | Comments

T-Mobile USA has been the epicenter of Android since HTC rolled out the T-Mobile G1...

Citigroup Report Discredits Spectrum Crunch; CTIA Fires Back

September 27, 2011 8:10 am | by Maisie Ramsay | News | Comments

Citigroup says the U.S. wireless industry isn't facing a spectrum shortage and needs to do a better job managing the bandwidth it already has.

Nokia Siemens Debuts Three TD-LTE Devices

September 27, 2011 8:08 am | by Maisie Ramsay | News | Comments

Nokia Siemens Networks is taking note of the potential growth market in TD-LTE...

Google Improves Maps, Turn-By-Turn with Inrix Data

September 27, 2011 8:01 am | by Andrew Berg | News | Comments

Google has selected Inrix, provider of real-time traffic data, to help power its navigation and mapping applications.

Broadcom Delivers 40nm NFC Chip

September 26, 2011 8:01 am | by Andrew Berg | News | Comments

Broadcom today unveiled a new family of 40nm NFC chips that the company says are more power efficient and include additional functionality.

APPS Chart New Path for Navigation Market

September 25, 2011 1:39 pm | by Andrew Berg | Articles | Comments

Apps are changing the way consumers do pretty much everything, and navigation is no exception. More than 5,000 navigation-related apps exist in Apple’s App Store alone, covering everything from pedestrian routes in theme parks to public transportation.